Curiously, i also score balance on left brain / right brain indicators; it's very handy, i tell you; add that to a philosophical disposition, and you can offer perfectly rational explanations for prolonged periods of physical inertia...:) But seriously...
Actually, your input processing "style" reflects right brain parity in a left brain oriented world; personally, i'm not so sure it's a limitation; what you suggest you lose in speed of "acquisition" you apparently more than make up for in storage efficiency and recall (memory). Given a choice, i think i'd rather this than the other way round. I see your big picture point regarding the frustrations of "fit" between your innate skills and social (broadly speaking) opportunities to exploit them; perhaps one needs to think creatively, rather than in a linear fashion about this, career wise; i dont really know what the solution might be at a macro level. My situation? Well, quite a while back i got out of the driving seat of a speeding car that seemed to have a guidance system all of its own. Nowadays, i'm happy to trade speed for direction, though this has it's own frustrations, make no mistake. Hope the metaphor makes sense :) On Jun 23, 3:14 am, Ash <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/22/2011 5:07 AM, paradox wrote:> Great analysis, thanks. > > > Last i checked, i was supposedly an ENTP; that was 10 years ago > > though; probably just a raving loony tune now :) > > Hah, mine was around 99 or so, similar thoughts here.> Can you expand on the > "healthy balance" thing, Ash? Sounds > > interesting. > > Well, we have innate talents and tendencies but there are common > experiences like emotions, the symbols we learn from family/society to > interpret our experiences, various forms of reasoning and logic. So I > think we are all mostly fumbling in the dark with our limitations and > aptitudes, using tools that supposedly are the one size fits all variety > (logic). Mostly it seems we are just tweaking our biases here and there > for the most part until larger pictures emerge that become a part of the > perceptual narrative. For me it can take a very long time to absorb what > others can memorize easily, like my consciousness is facing a barricate > and the best way through is to visualize or build working models, which > fade quickly if I cannot fit them into effective larger structures. > However in discussion, I remember the least when someone makes an > assertion but as the conversation goes on my pattern matching seems to > exceed most and I can pull very fine details out that they have no hope > of recalling. So 'healthy balance' for me would be turning what are > apparently very challenging/limiting traits into assets. > > Strangely I scored 50/50 on a left-right brain thinker test, what sense > that could make is beyond me, but my potential career placement > printouts made quite a huge stack of paper (whatever that means too) > with social services, public leadership/judge on through most of the > engineering careers. What good is it if it all goes to waste, noone > understanding, wrong world/time/place, etc.. It is interesting, I like > to think we can all make a contribution, just sucks that there don't > seem to be convenient solutions, this causes me to analyse the > limitations of today's society and I know things could be better. This > puzzle is for us all, here to solve IMO. Hope none of this sounds > egotistical, I wouldn't wish it on anyone- though I see elements of > myself strewn across the human experience by my fellows and this is a > source of deep compassion/conviction. > > How do you see your situation and these things? > > > > > > > On Jun 21, 10:03 pm, Ash<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Depends how you separate them, in general they seem to mean: > >> Heart - informed by your emotions and passions > >> Mind - informed by your knowledge and reasoning > > >> I'm not at all sure which would encompass instinct, and disagree that > >> heart or mind can be cleanly divided like this. Our thinking gives > >> emotion meaning and emotion plays a part in reasoning too, both inform > >> both, but one can take a dominant position in making a decision. My type > >> is INFJ, though don't think this makes it more or less difficult to come > >> to the same conclusions as other types, it seems to effect mostly my > >> dominant thinking strategy/intuitive capacities. Whether my mind is in > >> healthy balance with innate tendencies is a whole other matter however. :D > > >> On 6/21/2011 2:20 PM, paradox wrote: > > >>> Interesting...not sure; perhaps when the heart says "go" the mind says > >>> "no", and when the mind says "go" the heart says "no"...perhaps. > >>> On Jun 21, 8:42 am, "Howard Lee Mosely Jr."<[email protected]> > >>> wrote: > >>>> how do you think with your heart or mind.- Hide quoted text - > >> - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
