I'm great at manipulating people to get what I want. This started when I was young; around 5 or so. I recognized that my sister wanted whatever I wanted. So if I wanted to sit in the front seat of the car, I said ' I want the back seat!' and she'd beat me to the back seat.
I have a great memory. The credit for this can probably be given to my spatial-sequence synesthesia.
I can see things coming; whether its going to be later that day, in a week, a month or a year. No not foresight. I watch people, incidents, emotions, etc. and by working it all out in my head, I can make a pretty educated guess on how things will play out. For example, the months leading up to review time at my company, a co-worker of mine became increasingly jealous, irritated with our boss, bitchy about projects and tasks he was assigned with. At the same time, I took my assignments and tasks with a smile and put 100 percent effort into them. My co-worker kept telling me that I shouldn't be doing any of it because its not 'part of my job description'. I told him its getting close to review time and our raises are at stake. I told him that he should just do them. It could mean the difference between a good raise and a bad raise. He blew me off and I just knew once we got our evaluations, he'd lose his mind and try to spin it as an attack against me.
Review came. I got the highest eval you can get. I got a 14.2 percent raise. He got the second highest eval. He got less than 5 percent. The rest of the week he acted like I was the bad guy. Acted like I was some arrogant prick who thinks hes better than everyone. Yup, saw that coming.
Also, I'm a quick study. I usually learn things very fast.
Log in to comment