Archive for the ‘Personality Tests’ Category
Friday, January 9th, 2009
I love this essay/poem by David Keirsey & Marilyn Bates found in Kiersey’s Temperament Book called Please Understand Me
What a place the world would be if everyone felt this way!
If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.
Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view.
Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly.
Or yet if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be. I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me.
That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you. I may be your spouse, your parent, your offsping, your friend, or your colleague.
If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself, so that some day these ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear to you as right — for me.
To put up with me is the first step to understanding me.
Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness. And in understanding me you might come to prize my differences from you, and, far from seeking to change me, preserve and even nurture those differences.
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Take the Enneagram test to learn your personality type, and enhance your emotional well-being with the energy healing recommendations for each Enneagram type.
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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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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
This table shows U.S. population breakouts of Extroverts and Introverts, Intuitives and Sensates, Thinkers and Feelers, Judgers and Perceivers.
This information was compiled from the data at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
In the Meyers and Briggs Personality system “NF”s are Idealists.
David Kiersey, creator of the Kiersey Temperament Sorter says:
“Idealists talk little of what they ovserve ‘of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings.’ They talk instead of what can only be seen with the mind’s eye: love, tragedy, heart and soul, tales and legends, eras and epochs, beliefs, fantasies, possibilities, symbols, selves and yes, temperament, character and personality.”
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Which way is the figure rotating? It’s up to you. Some people see her spinning to the right, others to the left, a small group of people can see her rotating one way and then the other.
An article in the Australian Sunday Times about this animation states ” If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa. Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.” The article also includes a list of right brain and left brain activities:
LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe |
RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
“big picture” oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can “get it” (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking |
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