We’re All Different

I think of myself as someone who can live with uncertainty fairly well. I don’t panic straight away if something’s not exactly as I want it to be. However, I’ve learned that it’s not the case with everyone. 

We have the tendency to assume that everyone sees the world in the exact way as we do. We know that people are different, however, we don’t consciously understand it when we go about our days. Traveling is one of those places where our biases are slightly dimmed.

Multiple Natures is a philosophy that helps understand the underlying differences between individuals. The philosophy goes deep, but let’s just look at the basics. 

Each person has 9 natures (Protective, Educative, Administrative, Creative, Healing, Entertaining, Providing, Entrepreneurial, Adventurous) and 10 intelligences (Bodily Fine, Bodily Gross, Interpersonal, Logical, Linguistic, Visual Graphic, Visual Spatial, Musical, Intrapersonal, Naturalistic). They’re pronounced differently in different people. The intelligences help you explain what type of skills you’re good at, while the natures show you where you’re likely to use these skills. Or rather where you’d like to use them. 

Here’s an example of someone with a high adventurous nature (John) vs someone with a low one (Lucy). John loves to go on adventures, going on the unbeaten paths, taking a lot of risks, everywhere. While Lucy will take the safe path, she doesn’t want to experience stress, she’d like to keep things calm around her. John would love to go skydiving, but Lucy isn’t too keen. John would love a job where he has to take risks, but Lucy would prefer a stable one. This is a crude example, but it helps drive the point home. 

This is just one way how you can look at the natures. Viewing the world through this lens makes you better aware of how different each of us is. Furthermore, by discovering your natures and intelligences you become even more aware of yourself and why you act the way you act.