I don't mean to brag--honestly, I don't. Before I tell you my small story, you need a bit of background about me.
When my husband and I planned a church retreat some years ago, we settled on an introduction to Myers-Briggs personality typing. It was fascinating.
I have previously written about my personality type--here--which turned out to be INTJ. Now, I will spare you the arcane aspects of personality typing right now, BUT...you should know that the slogan for my personality type is--INTJs can improve anything; just ask.
So, I am constantly thinking about how things can be nudged into being just a bit better. Our friends (and maybe even our children) recognize this trait in me. More than a decade ago, one of our friends gave me a button that read "I Thought I Was Wrong Once...But I Was Mistaken."
That about sums it up. (And I hate to be wrong...ahem...but I'm working on that.)
Anyhow--now for the little story. I was looking on Google Maps the other day--looking for a store name. We have a cute little shopping center nearby us, called Shoppes at Susquehanna. When I got to the coordinates on Google Maps--nothing. No mention of that shopping center. What? It's been there at least 5 years. Then, I noticed--Google Maps lets you send them a message if they got something wrong.
Heh heh heh. So, off I sent a message. Then a couple of days ago, I got an answer.
TADA! "Your Google Maps report has been reviewed, and you were right!" So, it's official.
Even Google Maps acknowledges that I am right. Now, back to being humble.
7 comments:
So they actually pay attention and adjust. I've seen other errors but never bothered to report them.
Way to go! I also hate to be wrong and have been known to delete a comment made on someone's blog because of a typo.
We never doubted...!
*sigh*
I knew it all the time!! :-)
I used to be just like you describe in your blog entry; but, as you intimate at the end, humble I was not !
Now I try to temper it a bit ... my kids have let me know, in no uncertain terms, that, although my ideas might be right that they can do it just fine on their own.
Card carrying INTJ, here, saying, Good on ya!
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