capricorn dave,
My old friend Steve really loved that meyers briggs thing. He is an engineer and has an engineer's soul. Loved to be able to see the fix and how to apply it. Everything's fixable, right? I took it once and learned things about myself that I already knew. I recommend introspection before quantified social criteria, any day of the week. Just good ol' 'know thyself" There's that Hannibal Lecter quote from the book, I don't remember if it was in the movie _"the last man who tried to quantify me, I had his liver with fava beans." or something to the effect. I sympathize with the sentiment. As I understand Jung, the whole point of identifying your personality is to > find out what aspects of the self are relatively undeveloped. Sadly, the > Meyer-Briggs test is usually used to pigeonhole you at work. And most people > treat it like astrology, as if it supplied some magical insight into your > essence. They hang their hats on it as if it were a fixed point. This stuff > would make Jung spin in his grave. > > The point of using getting your "score" to is not to gloat about your > strengths but to identify your weaknesses, to discover what areas need work > and attention. Usually, this will be the very opposite of your dominant > personality. This will be your shadow. And that's what you will tend to > dislike in others, what you will tend to project upon others because that's > you don't like to see it in yourself. That's why I hated Forest Gump. > Now see, I really liked Forest Gump. But then, I had a lot of "southern mouther" background and could relate to things other cultures might not get. However I also get an oogey feeling whenever anybody thinks they got me pegged in some regularized fashion. I understand there is a lot of standardization lately, with humans being socialized and acculturated to industrial rhythms using scientific methodology with bells and training and all. I've undergone my fair share, but feel sorta insulted to be "lumped in" with everyone else. Like everyone, I just wanna be recognized as an individual. > Not to get too personal, but judging by the form and content of your posts, > I'd say Krimel needs to develop his romantic side and Marsha needs to > develop her intellectual side. In both cases these undeveloped shadows have > become demonized little monsters with tangible negative effects. > Well, as far as that goes, I'd be all "physician heal thyself" and "remove the log outta yer own eye" about you giving advice on projecting and "undeveloped shadows" to others. And besides that, I disagree completely. I think Marsha tries too hard sometimes to intellectualize with the boys, misconstruing the boys, and Krimel... well I think Krimel's a damn fine writer and thinker. I think he's got the rhetorical flourish, the poetic point and the romantic appeal down to near-perfection. I think he needs to get a little deeper into his assumptions. I think he needs more intellect, not less. > Not that I'm an Analytic Psychologist or anything. But I am a Capricorn. > > I hear ya. I'm a libra myself. We like to look at the other side of the argument :-) This year my birthday falls on 10/10/10. Whaddya gettin' me dave? John Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
