Notes from Dr. Susan Dellinger’s video “Introducing the Psychogeometric System”

Explaining  personality in regards to shapes…

Decide which shape best describes you as a person. (This has nothing to do with body shape!)

• Do you feel like a box ?
• Triangle -If you are sitting next to a triangle, you will know it easily in a few moments.

• Circle

• Rectangle-You need this information badly
• Or squiggle ?

So, what does all this mean????

Box-Gets things done!

• Most organized and hard worker
• Loves rules and forms, worships manuals-alphabetized and lined up
• Likes calendars, schedules
• List maker
• Gets confused without p&p manuals
• Will read the instructions
• Organized
• Data Collector
• They don’t like estimates, best guesses
• Most often patriotic and religious
• Not touchy feely person
• Very loyal
• Motto “A place for everything and everything in it’s place!”

Triangle

• The Leadership Shape
• Strongest shape
• These are people that are going places!
• Have the skills to go where they want to
• Fast thinker-process info quickly
• Can’t stand wishy-washy people
• If you bring me a problem, bring me a solution-no three solutions so I can tell you which one is best
• Most politically correct
• Most Confident
• Loves recogintion
• Strategic planner
• Some things you might hear a triangle say…
• “My way or the highway!”
• “I don’t get mad I get even!”
• “When I want your opinion, I will give it to you.”
• Do not ever disagree with a triangle, especially in public-they will get even, but they’ll do it politically correct.

Rectangle

• Confused person
• State of transition
• *Person going through a period of growth
• Trying something new
• Period of Introspection
• New situation
• Adolescence or mid-life crisis
• Can be all 5 shapes at any time
• Unpredictable
• Open to new learning
• Live in a state of Stress
• Something a rectangle may be thinking is I try to live one day at a time, but lately several days have piled up on me at once.
• “Ally McBeal”

Circle

• A circle needs to feel needed
• People person-“We are a TEAM!”
• Doesn’t like to work alone
• Very sympathetic and caring person
• Nuterer
• Love to help people with problems
• Best communicator and listener
• Uses both right and left hemispheres of brain
• Loves gossip
• “Don’t worry, be happy”
• When there is conflict, a circle has the tendency to feel like it is all their fault

Squiggle- very unique person-march to a different drummer

• Truly Right-brained
• Creative and innovative
• “Idea person”
• Don’t particularly like the mundane, they’ll find something to spruce it up
• Drive boxes and triangles crazy
• Can’t stand routines
• Rules or deadlines are not the most important things
• Likes concepts and theories
• Most motivational and inspirational
• Don’t want a squiggle account
• “If it feels good, do it!”
• No way you can’t like a squiggle-they can’t tell a lie!

We do have parts of all shapes in us. But, unless we are a triangle, usually one or two shapes are predominant.