Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Comments to Taking It Personally

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It started out as a whim, but turned into an eye-opener. In May 2003, I asked my Newsletter readers to take an online Myers-Briggs personality test and email the results, along with their diagnosis. Although this was strictly a readers' poll and not a scientific study, and bearing in mind the risks inherent in pigeonholing personalities, the findings were striking enough to indicate I might be on to something.

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1 comments:

angelatrentham said...

It appears to me that the conclusion here takes unsupported leaps in logic. The quote about positive results from maintaining outside-of-self relationships/habits is made by an E___. I would put forward that we Introvert Types would be better energized by regularly devoting time to inside-of-self pursuits -- but only if those pursuits were "politically correct" according to whatever surrounding network of people is available in our lives. Unfortunately, interior pursuits are too often snubbed as frivolous, self-patronizing, egotistical, worthless fluff... and incorrectly so.

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