Old Man Cat

Key traits — Old before your time · Firm views · Gives advice · Hard to shift

What you are like — You are an authority type. While your peers are still weighing it, you already have the answer. Your judgement is genuinely good, because you settled this category of thing a while ago and what is in front of you reads as another instance. You talk as though the whole thing has already happened and you came back to report the result.

Your strengths

· Accurate: you see further out than the people around you

· You hold your own view and do not get talked out of it

· You take responsibility for what you decide

· You have experience worth having, and people do come to consult you

Your weaknesses

· You reach a verdict before they have finished the sentence

· You give advice when what they wanted was to be heard

· Hard to shift, so people stop bothering to argue with you

· Nobody corrects you when you are wrong, because going around you is cheaper

In love — You are the one who decides, and that makes you reassuring to be with. But when your partner is venting, your first move is to solve it rather than hear it out. What they want is usually not a plan, it is somebody staying while they finish. The sooner you take that on, the better.

At work — You suit roles that need somebody to decide and own it: management, advisory, leadership. You are wrong in a role built on long listening and accompaniment, where you lose patience.

Best match — Huh Cat and Deadpan Cat. neither rushes to finish your sentence for you

Hardest work — Study Cry Cat and Alien Cat. they do not want your verdict, they want to finish talking

One line for you — Next time somebody brings you a problem, ask what they have already tried. Then let them finish, and wait three seconds.