Monday, May 31, 2004
Myers-Briggs again
I find it interesting - my blog, my rules. (And incidentally, what do you think of the slightly altered decor?)
Lemmesee - stained-glass window is a good way to put it. On occasion (and with hindsight I can see what I was doing wrong) it's been more like a brick wall!
When we did some of the exercises in the HR session last week, the one for the N/S difference was the most interesting.
We were all shown a picture with quite a lot going on in it (from Kit Williams' Masquerade book). The Ns all immediately jumped in with things like "It's Snow White, happy smiley picture, reminds me of one I saw a few years ago, I've got this book" and all kinds of free-association references, whereas the Ss just stared at it and came up with "Confusing, too much going on, don't like it."
I've had quite a bit of fun in the last few days trying to work out what my friends are, and I've picked quite a few correctly (although Sarum, I still think you're a *P, not a *J!) I think the most interesting has been to see how they correspond to the circumstances and ways in which I relate to them. I'm not going to go into that though, because I'll probably offend some of them.
Lemmesee - stained-glass window is a good way to put it. On occasion (and with hindsight I can see what I was doing wrong) it's been more like a brick wall!
When we did some of the exercises in the HR session last week, the one for the N/S difference was the most interesting.
We were all shown a picture with quite a lot going on in it (from Kit Williams' Masquerade book). The Ns all immediately jumped in with things like "It's Snow White, happy smiley picture, reminds me of one I saw a few years ago, I've got this book" and all kinds of free-association references, whereas the Ss just stared at it and came up with "Confusing, too much going on, don't like it."
I've had quite a bit of fun in the last few days trying to work out what my friends are, and I've picked quite a few correctly (although Sarum, I still think you're a *P, not a *J!) I think the most interesting has been to see how they correspond to the circumstances and ways in which I relate to them. I'm not going to go into that though, because I'll probably offend some of them.
posted by Chip : 18:56
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New colours are good.
And of course, analysing and categorising all your friends (yes, I've done it too) and your own reactions and relationships with them is a strong INTP behaviour.
I'm pretty sure I'm a lot more P than J too. The error was probably caused by me picking the wrong clarification of some of the questions where I wasn't sure quite what the intention was.
I printed out the INTP essay you linked to a few posts back and gave it to my mum, she thought it was very interesting too. I think she's still of the opinion INTP types need to "fix" their behaviour to be more socially active and socially acceptable though (although, from my point of view, I think I'm acceptable and active enough - as would appear to be the norm for INTPs, I'm not prepared to change just to conform with accepted norms. I do change, and I do make an effort to socialise, but only because I want to, and not because anyone else thinks I should)
And side note: Churning the above through a spellchecker (wouldn't want my complete lack of spelling ability to show up in public) it tried to change the comment about why I came out as J initially to "I picking the wrong clarification of some of the questions I wasn’t sure quite what the intention was probably cause the error." Does that make ANY sense? (And I hadn't spelt anything wrong anyway)
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And of course, analysing and categorising all your friends (yes, I've done it too) and your own reactions and relationships with them is a strong INTP behaviour.
I'm pretty sure I'm a lot more P than J too. The error was probably caused by me picking the wrong clarification of some of the questions where I wasn't sure quite what the intention was.
I printed out the INTP essay you linked to a few posts back and gave it to my mum, she thought it was very interesting too. I think she's still of the opinion INTP types need to "fix" their behaviour to be more socially active and socially acceptable though (although, from my point of view, I think I'm acceptable and active enough - as would appear to be the norm for INTPs, I'm not prepared to change just to conform with accepted norms. I do change, and I do make an effort to socialise, but only because I want to, and not because anyone else thinks I should)
And side note: Churning the above through a spellchecker (wouldn't want my complete lack of spelling ability to show up in public) it tried to change the comment about why I came out as J initially to "I picking the wrong clarification of some of the questions I wasn’t sure quite what the intention was probably cause the error." Does that make ANY sense? (And I hadn't spelt anything wrong anyway)
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