The basic pattern, the dominant quadrant of your behavior, is your way of interacting with the rest of the world. And the reason there's a pattern to it is that we are designed to be creatures of habit. Habit's a good thing because it gives us a way to simplify our life. If we have to stop and think about how we're going to react to everything in great detail every single time, it wastes an awful lot of energy. So what we need is a comfortable pattern of doing things in a natural style that feels right to us.
Irritations Let's look at each one in a little more detail.
Imagine that we take the thinker and just ask a few basic questions. A thinker is indirect and self-contained. Perhaps too much openness would be irritating to them. Another irritant for them is disorganization. They are thorough and methodical and expect others to be the same.