The idea of this article started when I having a shit.
I was using the Coursera iPad app and attending lectures on Digital Marketing by the University of Illinois and wondering to myself what excuses other 40-somethings have when it comes to reskilling and Skills Future when you can actually attend university lectures and even complete some quizzes which taking a crap in the toilet. This led to other crazier ideas, like whether someone can actually debug a computer program or compose legal documents while making some brownies in the outhouse.
The book Surrounded by Idiots by Thomas Erikson added an extra dimension to my thought experiments. For years, I have heard of a personality profiling system called DISC but no literature was accessible in the bookstores. This book was the first one that brought this simple personality profiling system into popular business non-fiction medium.
I suppose from the DISC personality profile,...