What is a people person?

[Lat-Literal]

Are you one - and if so in what way?

[vinteuil]

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... good lord no. "Hell is other people... "


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[Lat-Literal]

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... good lord no. "Hell is other people... "


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You remind me so much of someone I once knew - as a matter of interest are your initials DA?

[teamsaint]

Tom, Reggie Perrin's son in law.

[vinteuil]

You remind me so much of someone I once knew - as a matter of interest are your initials DA?

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... no such initials here. The quote is, of course, from Sartre's 'Huis Clos' - « l'enfer, c'est les autres »


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[Lat-Literal]

That's what they say too, I expect......

Well, this has got off to a splendiferously highbrow start.

(This, if you will, seeing that you mentioned sitcom - the British stuff used to represent our lives and now it doesn't - meanwhile, the Americans are becoming as batty as any nation of people can be and yet their sitcoms during the past twenty years have often had a real emotional resonance on this side of the pond that defies logic - but another thread maybe)

[teamsaint]

Well, this has got off to a splendiferously highbrow start.

(This, if you will, seeing that you mentioned sitcom - the British stuff used to represent our lives and now it doesn't - meanwhile, the Americans are becoming as batty as any nation of people can be and yet their sitcoms during the past twenty years have often had an emotional resonance on this side of the pond that defies logic - but another thread maybe)

Sorry Lat. I thought better of that post and deleted it. Trying to be a good boy...

Have a good thread.

[Lat-Literal]

Sorry Lat. I thought better of that post and deleted it. Trying to be a good boy...

Have a good thread.

Oh no, that's sad, I didn't mean it badly.

That is the problem with not being able to see facial expressions.

(Think an unintelligent version of Sheldon Cooper and nicer versions of the parents in Everyone Loves Raymond and you have the residents of at least two houses in my road)

[teamsaint]

Oh no, that's sad, I didn't mean it badly.

That is the problem with not being able to see facial expressions.

(Think an unintelligent version of Sheldon Cooper and nicer versions of the parents in Everyone Loves Raymond and you have the residents of at least two houses in my road)

Oh I know you didn't, so no problem.

Not so sure about seeing facial expressions on internet forums though.......

[french frank]

Dictionary

people person
nouninformal

noun: people person; plural noun: people persons

a person who enjoys or is particularly good at interacting with others.
"she's an extrovert, a real people person"

[Lat-Literal]

Dictionary

people person
nouninformal

noun: people person; plural noun: people persons

a person who enjoys or is particularly good at interacting with others.
"she's an extrovert, a real people person"

Yes, you see this is a battle all of the time in outlook if not in actual interaction. I have been subjected throughout my life to "you have to see the good in people......because people are mainly good". This was thrashed out a bit when a neighbour who is viewed as wholly for the good confessed that she wasn't a people person. "But you have been married since your teens, you unusually go out of the way to be helpful to others and very obviously enjoy their company and you also volunteer for St John Ambulance in every free moment at the Derby, music festivals, places you would not like ordinarily, being principally interested in books", I said. "That's all different" she said to all of us. This was the only thing that she ever said that was instantaneously dismissed by the people people who think she is a great person. On the plus side, I was also expected to be a sea and a sky and a stars a trees person and that has stuck. I'm very pleased not to have been someone (and there are many) who says "well, when you have seen one bit of blue, green and silver, you've seen it all".

There is that thing where you get on well with people, like each other, yet reckon not without humour that people are not that great - but I don't understand that contradiction.

[Richard Barrett]

As a committed socialist I'm more of a the people person.

[Lat-Literal]

As a committed socialist I'm more of a the people person.

Good stuff - but what about top down vs grass roots? I was an only child. I am aware that the community insistence in my own life and which at least in my single figures, 20s and 30s served me well though not in adolescence or later than 40 emanates from parents from large families, shop keeping (renting), marginally a council estate upbringing (although I haven't ever really seen the evidence for big love there) and notionally a war with an obvious enemy and hence we are all great. Only one of these four things was superimposed.

I am especially taken currently with the puppets and cartoons for the under fives. There was one show about bed wetting yesterday which was written and designed by adults and really wonderful in its positive messages of child supporting child. I am extremely keen on the eyes and smiles in such puppets and cartoons but that is mainly the great Jim Henson enterprise for you. The commercials in between, also from adults, are about selling monopoly cards via phone and characters called snot. It's adult childishness which is endemic in the structures that surely brings everyone down. Kids themselves are merely adults in waiting because they are required to be. Puppets and cartoons are better. I do believe that.

[Richard Tarleton]

Dictionary

people person
nouninformal

noun: people person; plural noun: people persons

a person who enjoys or is particularly good at interacting with others.
"she's an extrovert, a real people person"

I'm most definitely not. I took one of those Myers Briggs personality tests (administered by a qualified psychologist) on the last management course I attended at work, and came out as a pronounced INTJ, which explained a lot - I also discovered that the entire promotion and advancement structure was aimed at promoting extroverts, of various kinds, to the top as managers. Another classificaton system allocated people to colours, but it was the same thing. I was always happiest working with ideas, planning, analysis, that kind of thing. One small detail: my type (INTJs) are supposed to find role play difficult if not impossible. Every management course I ever went on, and I went on several, included role play. At last I had a perfect excuse for saying "I don't do role play". But at this stage it scarcely mattered.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Depends on which people.