Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Carl Jung’s book Personality Types contains all the basic concepts that underlie the personality classifications for introverts and extroverts. Jung gives new and old examples from many fields to support his theory that every person tends towards either extroversion or introversion and that these two types perceive the world in radically different ways. The extrovert experiences themselves through the objects in the world while the introvert experience themselves through their own inner life.
I have a clear picture in my mind of these types after reading this book and recently I find evidence everywhere bearing witness to their existence. For instance I just read an essay by Hans Richter where he describes a form of documentary film he tends towards - Film Essays. Describing them, he says:
"In its effort to make visible the the invisible world of imaginations, thoughts, and ideas the essayistic film can tap into an incomparably larger reservoir of expressive means than the pure documentary film. One is not bound in the film essay to the representation of external appearances or to a chronological sequence. On the contrary, one must pull together the material for view from everywhere and for this reason one can jump throughout space and time: for example from the objective representation to the fantastic allegory and from here to an acted out scene."
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
"If you are cold; Move! Run! Jump! Do something. But don’t just sit there and let the cold become stronger than you are."
Rachel Pludermacher, OSE Educator in the film Children of Chilbannes
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Everyone must have two pockets, so that he can reach into the one or the other, according to his needs. In his right pocket are to be the words: “for my sake was the world created,” and in his left: ” I am dust and ashes.”
From Ten Rungs, Hasidic Sayings Collected and Edited by Martin Buber
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
I find this quote from Buber interesting. It’s compelling in its immediacy and seems to me despairing but true. Of course it all depends on who you think God is and whether you ignore (or take issue with) the masculine pronouns used for God.
Let Everyone Cry Out to God
“Let everyone cry out to God and lift his heart up to him, as if he were hanging by a hair, and a tempest were raging to the very heart of heaven, and he were at a loss for what to do, and there were hardly time to cry out. It is a time when no counsel, indeed, can help a man and he has no refuge save to remain in his loneliness and lift his eyes and his heart up to God, and cry out to him. And this should be done at all times, for in the world a man is in great danger.”
From Ten Rungs, Hasidic Sayings Collected and Edited by Martin Buber
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
“In every man there is something precious, which is in no one else. And so we should honor each for what is hidden within him, for what only he has, and none of his comrades.”
Ten Rungs, Hasidic Sayings - Collected and Edited by Martin Buber
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Resemble again the tree which you love, the broad-branched one — silently and attentively it hangs over the sea.
from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
What does how you choose color swatches have to do with who you are?
I’m not sure but both my partner and I found the results from taking The Color Quiz accurate and thought provoking.
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
The Kiersey Temperament and Meyers & Briggs Type test are based on Jungian psychology. They both use the same 16 basic personality designations. Each offers a slightly different interpretation of the personality type so both tests are worth doing and reading up on.
Take the test here: Kiersey Temperament Sorter
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
The Kiersey Temperament and Meyers & Briggs Type test are based on Jungian psychology. They both use the same 16 basic personality designations. Each offers a slightly different interpretation of the personality type so both tests are worth doing and reading up on.
Take the test here: Meyers & Briggs Type Indicator
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
I know some people feel insulted by personality tests. After all we’re all unique and shouldn’t be pegged. True? True. But while I agree I also know that there are radically different but predictable personality types that people fall into in a general sort of way. For instance in the Meyers & Brigg system people are in varying degrees Introverts or Extroverts (only one of many criteria). Some are about 50-50 while others are extremely introverted or on the other hand extroverted. Being or relating to an extremely extroverted person is radically different than being or relating to an introverted one. Understanding other types - especially the types NOT like you - can really untie knots that arise in communication and understanding when we deal with someone very different from ourselves. Recognizing our own type can help us come to terms with what we’re inherently better or worse at handling in the day to day world.
I argue these tools help us understand our individuality far more than they "peg" us so maybe the tests are worth trying even if you are skeptical. The worse that could happen is that you’d say the tests are all wrong but my experience is most people find the results insightful and worthwhile.
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