The figure of "Zigzag" is well remembered in the image of the scientist from the American film "Back to the Future", as well as Pierre Richard in the film "Unlucky" and all the thin, awkward, impulsive, constantly carried away boys and girls around us. For some, this condition disappears with age, while for others it remains for almost a lifetime.
In psychogeometry, this type of people is depicted by the letter "Z" laid on its side (not only is it a "zigzag", and even on its side), which reflects the exceptional non-standard behavior of people of this type. Among the "greats" such behavior can be traced among scientists: R. Descartes, A. Einstein, V. Vernadsky, N. Chizhevsky, J.-I. Cousteau, as well as film director L. Gaidai, artists: M. Boyarsky, Y. Nikulin, V. Kikabidze, singer M. Jackson and many others, who give us minutes of an amazing meeting with the new and original.
Figure: 1. Photos of the artists related to the Zigzags.
There is something magical in their appearance; they are closer to aliens than to the inhabitants of the Earth (Fig. 2). In contrast to the "too earthly" "Triangles" our "Zigzags" do not admire themselves, on the contrary, they underestimate themselves.
Figure: 2. "Zigzags" - in their appearance and behavior, there is a need for novelty and everything unusual.
And this, by the way, is a unique type of people who grab ideas out of thin air. This is how one of the country's inventors describes this ability: “When we were offered to design a new device, I had a bright idea in my brain that this could be easily done on the basis of two elementary switches. But no matter how I puzzled, I could not figure it out. Then I put this design aside, took up some trivial business and after 20 minutes it was as if someone had put a ready-made solution into my brain.
Five years later, from my diaries (and I very scrupulously kept all the notes of my ideas), I figured out that like this I “spontaneously” acquired up to 90% of my best ideas and only 10%, and the most commonplace ones, at my desk. The way we were taught this at the institute."
"Zigzags" have a unique ability to think and constantly invent new things: at the dinner table, before bed, in a dream and other most inappropriate "places". Despite their craving for knowledge, new, original, "Zigzags" in the USSR were often fired from work for their excessively freedom-loving disposition.
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The assemblage point of energies in people of this typology is the brow center (the so-called "Third Eye"). That is why they succeed in inventive activity. The "weak link" in the health of "Zigzags" is the problems of the upper respiratory tract.
Among the nations that have the largest percentage of people "Zigzags" (inventors), first of all, Russia should be attributed. But the whole trouble, according to our humorist Zadorny, is that the vector in inventions is turned in the wrong direction. Like in the film "Love and Doves" by Mityai's grandfather. Who, all his creativity and fantasies, directed to "uzigzazhit" from his wife and drink.
According to the "Ego-state" "Zigzag" is close to the "rebellious child". This is how this quality is described by a well-known inventor: "When they bring a diagram of the device and ask to do it, a little imp wakes up with the question:" Is it possible to make the device differently?"
It’s good that I’ve been working my whole life in scientific laboratories where novelty is encouraged. But with what pleasure I would be “kicked” and re-educated somewhere in a typical enterprise that has been stamping the same thing for decades”.
The most important factor required for big discoveries is a “fresh look” at familiar things. And "Zigzags" have it. Their best representatives invent something that even the erudite Squares cannot do. For example: the hairdresser invented the spinning machine; steamer - jeweler; daytime cinema - lawyer; steam engine - watchmaker; the telephone is the teacher of the deaf and dumb, and the telephone is the painter Morse …
It turns out that the ability to work, well-read and erudition is not enough to leave your name on the list of the great inventors of mankind.
Enthusiasm, impulsiveness, conflicting interests develop a very negative habit in some "Zigzags" - not to finish what was assigned to the end. This case simply becomes uninteresting to him. "Triangle" can leave what it started if it feels that it cannot achieve leadership here; “Zigzag” drops the case due to lack of interest. As in the book by A. Dumas "Twenty Years Later" D'Artagnan leaves the prestigious and highly paid service at the court and rushes to rescue his friends. And his soul just wanted to "zigzag".
In a conversation with an interlocutor, if you feel that they are not listening to you, then it means “Triangle” or “Zigzag” is nearby. "Triangle" does not listen, because he has already understood everything and considers himself smarter ("I will listen to someone else!"), And "Zigzag" is all in thoughts, ideas, inventions.
Here's how it might look from the outside: - “My friend had lunch and left the table first, and I was all thinking about the device being constructed and went a minute later. As my friend told me further, I moved along the aisle of the empty dining room, looked him straight in the face, bumped my shoulder against his shoulder and walked on. I concentrated so much on the device that I simply did not see anything ….
This ability to concentrate, to find extraordinary solutions helps very much a seemingly unassembled "Zigzag" in stressful situations. In natural disasters, revisions, time trouble, before an exam, when representatives of other types are disorganized, the Zigzag works wonders.
The "zigzag" in a child is manifested in an irresistible urge to see everything, to be everywhere (both in the attic and in the sewer hatch), in the love of fairy tales, everything unusual, and most importantly, in unrestrained imagination.
The following aphorisms and sayings are very suitable for this category of people:
• There are no talents or geniuses without clearly intensified diligence. (D. Mendeleev)
• Who can be considered smart? - The one whose plans in most cases come true.
(Abu-l-Faraj)
• Sow an act and you reap a habit, sow a habit and you reap character, sow character and you reap destiny. (W. Thackeray)
• A master at finding excuses is rarely a master at anything else. (B. Franklin)
About negative qualities. Sloppiness, lack of performance, which makes them in the army regular visitors to the army guardhouse. Impracticality, which, in turn, is very annoying in family life. Lack of coordination, absent-mindedness, injury risk, which is extremely annoying for teachers and coaches. Often they grab onto one thing or the other; psyche and mind are not stable enough; fear is often present. Sometimes they are not true.
The workplace is in disarray or demonstratively brightly decorated. In a conversation, they are often inadequate, touch on an abstract topic.
Positive traits. Generator of new ideas, constantly aimed at new; rebel against inertia and stagnation. Thinking outside the box, capable of finding the optimal solution in any situation.
The brother of the host of the television program "Obvious - Unbelievable" P. L. Kapitsa, a physicist who worked from 1922 in Cambridge under E. Rutherford, singled out this quality as one of the main for the future creative specialist and tested his applicants with unexpected tasks such as: "Could the moon be made of cast iron?"
Moreover, it was impossible to give a correct answer to such problems. Originality, the ability to think in an extraordinary and original way were appreciated. And how could it be otherwise, if the world-famous physics professor had the correct answer: "Because there was not enough cast iron for the moon …".
In the leading US firms, in order to avoid inertia of their executives, every 4-5 years they arranged a “Zigzag” in their lives - they were scheduled to move to a new place. In Japan, a specialist in similar firms was annually transferred to new positions, to new workshops, participating in advanced training, rationalization and invention for almost life.
Literature
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Author: Konstantin Tomilin