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The Wood types will often manifest anger which is not appropriate to a situation or fail to be angry when it is appropriate. This means having a keen sense of ‘social rules’ as these often dictate what is appropriate or inappropriate. For example, the following are a violation of unwritten rules:

Forgetting to phone to cancel an important meeting.

Disclosing information which is personal and is understood by both parties to be confidential.

Buying a second hand car, then bouncing the cheque.

In each of these cases, a boundary has been broken and requires some sort of response.

Wood types, however, may not be able to respond with normal assertiveness. They might, for example, fail to react when a boundary has been violated or, alternatively, will be responding with anger and assertion even when they have not been unjustifiably violated.

In the first case, we will notice a person describing an event and in the back of our minds we will be thinking, ‘I’d be angry about that!’ In the second, we may be puzzled as to why the person is so angry and noticing that the angry response seems to stop them from moving forward in the situation.

These kinds of observations and interactions help to assess the state of a person’s Wood Element. Given the negative feelings of a Wood type, what becomes important?