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The Instinctive Drive to Verify™ - natural talents, needs and vulnerabilities.

If you're driven by the Instinctive Drive to Verify™, you…

…will need

…have the talent to

To know why - there must be a purpose for everything.

Feedback and reassurance including the opportunity for clarification.

A fair reward according to a cost / benefit analysis.

To evaluate problems and determine solutions / strategies.

To determine the priorities and work accordingly.

Evidence to understand, accept and / or agree.

Specific information in writing so that it can be studied and digested.

To be working with or working towards "the best". This includes comparing options to find the right / best one.

To develop and share expertise.

Naturally quantify, compare and prioritise, then work through the top priorities with precision.

Strive to develop a genuine sense of expertise and share it.

See both sides of a situation and the relevant "middle ground".

Investigate thoroughly and persevere with problems until they are resolved.

Check and make sure.

See ways to continuously refine and improve things.

Justify your opinions or decisions with evidence.

Function with fairness.

…are vulnerable to

…have stress triggered by

Thinking in terms of either/or rather than "both".

Being naturally sceptical and critical (seeing the "wrongs" before the "rights").

Having firm opinions and can be confrontational which, although often right, when the other party "loses", both lose.

Getting blocked by past experience, keeping scorecards and needing them to be balanced.

Being seldom satisfied because of your thirst for continuous improvement.

Freely giving advice even when not actually required.

Needing valid reasons for everything.

Feeling out of control of yourself within a given situation.

A perceived injustice or unfairness.

Not having a clear reason why you need to do something - the purpose.

Having your version of right not align with another's version of right or the companies version of right.

If you're driven by the Instinctive Drive to Verify you may recognize this…

You've got an appointment with a new client. You've parked across the road, checking at least twice that you have the right address; you're bang on time. You press the elevator button twice even though it was already illuminated in your direction. You get in the lift and as you wait to be taken to level 5 you check your diary again to make sure you have the right time and you know the client's name. You know you're right but you're just checking. Your compulsion to check everything can be excruciating for others. Your partner it seems doesn't appreciate being asked three times a day if they remembered to pick up the dry cleaning. You are always looking for a way to be better; to do things faster or more efficiently - the Olympic slogan was probably invented by a Verify… Higher, faster, stronger!

Every day you stretch the bonds of friendship because of your need to "get it right." Even a friendly game of golf can be fraught with peril. You can see their shoulders stiffen as you offer just one more comment on the way they putt. You're simply offering sound advice based on the extensive Greg Norman and Arnold Palmer videos you've studied. You think that you are just trying to help them improve - they think you are a pain in the neck! You're a natural problem solver - everything is a problem just busting to be fixed - and that includes your mate's golf swing! If you child came home from school with a 95% in maths it would take every ounce of self-control not to ask them about the 5% they didn't get right! What people don't realise however is that you're not doing it out of malice or negativity but you don't realise just how demoralising it can be for others.