🟢 Know you and the other

🔷 Why is it easy to get along with some people than others?

Everything you say to a person is filtered through his frames of reference, biases, and preconceived ideas. What remains is ultimately the message that he understands. For many different reasons, he can interpret what you want to convey in a totally different way than you intended.

Surrounded by idiots

As in "Surrounded by idiots book", we can categorize the people into four colors,

Four colours

With some of your behaviors, you can choose what color are you.

All these people can't stay together, because of their behaviors. The following structure shows what person's colors can identify each other and stay together with fewer conflicts.

 

Blue and Green could be a good combination. Similarly Red and Yellow work smoothly together. Blue and Red or else Green and Yellow also can work together in some aspects. But the diagonal combinations can have a bit of trouble when communicating and contributing together. 

 

If there is a team with all the personality colors that would be easy to do their task. The Yellow comes up with a new idea, the Red makes the decision, the Green has to do all the work, and the Blue evaluates and makes sure that the results are excellent.

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👥 Group Work

👉 Discuss current tax policies in Sri Lanka

Our team consists of seven members. First we identified the color categories that our team members belong to. There, 

🔹I am Green

🔹Charuni - Blue

🔹Naduni - Blue

🔹Navindya - Green

🔹Nipuni - Blue

🔹Vishath - Red

identified as and there was no yellow member in our group, we later realized that it was extremely important to reach an agreement through negotiation.

The tax policies imposed by the Sri Lankan government began to be discussed. After a good discussion our team comes to a conclusion. That is, the government should always be transparent about its spending and the public should know what is happening to their tax money. Also, they should get a good return compared to the tax they pay. Similarly, financial corruption and fraud should be prevented. The government should be trusted by the public.

👉 Learnings from activities

It was very important for us to identify our personal colors when discussing the topic. Some of my buddies got into heated arguments with one another. They might be diagonal hues. Others debated and agreed with the justifications. They may have same colors.