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Personality

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MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR

This personality-assessment tool was developed by Isabel Myers and her mother, Katharine Briggs, more than 60 years ago.  It is based on the theories of Carl Jung and rates people’s preferred ways of dealing with the world on four scales. Another way to look at this is which side of each scale energizes someone:

EXTROVERT - INTROVERT(drawing energy from outside or within)

INTUITIVE - SENSING (drawing energy from a “sixth sense” or from the five other senses)

FEELING - THINKING (basing decisions on personal information or on logic/rules)

PERCEIVING - JUDGING (prefering spontaneity or organization)

Below is a chart showing the 16 personality types and some famous people who had them. Much of this information came from the web site for the Kiersey Temperament Sorter.  There is an abundance of information on the web.  See the right side of this page for links to sites that offer free personality tests.

Myers Briggs Chart Medium

OTHER LINKS:

Personality Tests
www.humanmetrics.com

More Personality Tests
similarminds.com/

Color test (very accurate)
www.ColorQuiz.com

Myers-Briggs Personality Test Information
www.mbtitoday.org/

Personality type websites
www.personality-type.com/

More about Myers-Briggs
www.personalitypathways.com/

The Celestine Prophecy, by James Redfield

My friend Maria gave me a wonderful book, The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield.  I was fascinated by the description of four “control dramas”, ways that different people try to control situations in their lives.  The superior person doesn’t need control dramas to gain fulfillment or influence his or her environment.  The rest of us may enter into one or more dramas at different times.  Do you recognize your preferred drama from among “intimidator”, “poor me”, “interrogator” and “aloof”?

Certain dramas have a cause and effect relationship with others.  For example Intimidator breeds Poor Me and Interrogator breeds Aloof.  I’ve found that since I read this book, I can recognize when I encounter, or cause, a particular drama and, if I’m lucky, break the pattern or break away.

 

Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis, by Eric Berne, M.D.

I’ve always become flummoxed when I encounter games that other people play in the office and in relationships.  I find myself not understanding them, not knowing the rules, and resisting the idea that I’m expected to play too.  At one particularly frustrating point in my life, my friend, Joan, mentioned that she recognized the game I was confronting and referred me to a wonderful book: Games People Play, The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis by Eric Berne, M.D.  His book explores more than 30 games that he names and analyzes.  My favorites (as long as I don’t encounter them) are “Kick Me”, “Now I’ve Got You, You Son of a Bitch”, “See What You Made Me Do”, “Let’s You and Him Fight”, “Uproar”, “I’m Only Trying to Help You”.  You get the picture.

 

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