Broad branched tree
February 26, 2008 – 3:09 pmResemble 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
Color Quiz
February 26, 2008 – 3:04 pmWhat 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.
Kiersey Temperament Sorter
February 26, 2008 – 3:01 pmThe 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
Meyers & Briggs Personality Test
February 26, 2008 – 3:00 pmThe 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
Why take a personality test?
February 26, 2008 – 2:59 pmI 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.
Meyers Briggs Breakout of Types in the U.S.
February 26, 2008 – 2:53 pmThis 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
Nietzsche on Values
February 26, 2008 – 2:52 pm
From Thus Spake Zarathustra
“Around the devisers of new values revolves to world: - - invisible it revolves. But around the actors revolve the people and the glory; such is the course of things.”
“Valuing is creating: hear it you creating ones! Valuation itself is the treasure and jewel of the valued things. Through valuation only is there value; and without valuation the nut of existence would
Henry David Thoreau on Individuality / Conformity
February 26, 2008 – 2:51 pm
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
Henry David Thoreau
Rudolf Steiner on Art
February 26, 2008 – 2:50 pm
“To paint a tree green is not true painting for the reason that however well one imitates her, nature is still the essential thing; nature is still more beautiful, more vital; it needs no copy. A real painter never imitates. He uses an object as a recipient or focus of the sun, or to observe a color reflex in that object’s surroundings, or to catch, above it, an interweaving of light and darkness. In other words, the thing painted is merely an inducement. For example, we never paint a flower standing in front of a window; we paint the light which, shining in at the window, is seen through the flower. We paint the sun’s colored light; catch the sun.”
“The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and lives throughout the world. All genuine art seeks the spirit. Even when art wishes to represent the ugly, the disagreeable, it is concerned, not with the sensory-disagreeable as such, but with the spiritual which proclaims its nature in the midst of unpleasantness.”
Rudolf Steiner
The Arts and Their Mission Chpr 6
First Goetheanum, designed by Steiner
The “NF” Personality In Meyers and Briggs
February 26, 2008 – 2:48 pmIn 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.”