39 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Demonic/ Daimonic, distorted types, ENFJ, ESTJ, Extraversion, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Good Parent, Hero, INFJ, Introversion, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), judging functions, Khrystine Kelsey, love, Trickster
October 16, 2019

Being married is easily the hardest thing I have ever done. Marriage is an all-consuming project that requires energy, commitment, and sustained effort. Unlike my other projects, I can’t just ignore my marriage until inspiration strikes. Mostly, there’s no faking it. As an introvert in an extraverted world, faking it is a lot of how I survive.
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Elizabeth Martin
30 / Archetypes / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: American culture, Anima, Beebe, Daimon, Demon, differentiation, Elizabeth Martin, ESTJ, Extraversion, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Good Parent, Hero, Heroine, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensing (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Opposing Personality, paradox, presidents, Senex, Texas, the Alamo, Trickster
April 5, 2017

With his unique thundering velvet hand approach, a Texan rarely says, “Shut up!” or “Don’t do that!” Instead, we hear, “Hush,” or “That would be ill-advised,” with a long drawl and a grin. The result is effective and charming, binding the man to his community. He easily compensates in robust, creative, and powerful ways to ensure full balance in his personality expression.
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Carol Shumate
24 / Professional Development for Type-Practitioners
Tags: Adam Grant, ambiversion, ambivert, Carol Shumate, confirmation bias, Daniel Pink, differentiation, Extraversion, individuation, Introversion, Jung & Adler & Freud, normal vs. pathological, Sonu Shamdasani, the personal equation, type bias, type development
July 1, 2015

“Ambiversion”—the equal development of extraversion and introversion in an individual—has become a popular notion of late but it has led to some misinterpretations of Jung’s typology—specifically, to an idealization of this in-between state …
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Kiley Laughlin
19 / Organizations, Teams, and Career Development
Tags: archetypal leader, Army officers, ESTJ, Extraversion, Green Berets, INTJ, Introversion, introverted intuition (Ni), ISTJ, Kiley Laughlin, leadership, mentorship, military, objective, persona, subjective, U.S. Army
April 16, 2014

I concluded that I simply did not have the requisite attributes to lead. I now realize that a number of other members of my section were also introverted, and that the majority of people in the unit, Green Berets or otherwise, were not necessarily extraverted; but the organization itself wore a collective persona that was extraverted in appearance.
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Mary Anne Sutherland
19 / Teaching and Learning Styles
Tags: ADD, ADHD, Asperger’s Syndrome, attention deficit, dropouts, education, ENFP, ESTJ, ESTP, Extraversion, Extraverted Intuition, Introversion, introverted feeling, Intuitive, ISFP, ISTJ, learning disability, Mary Anne Sutherland, memory, misdiagnosis, NVLD, pseudo-ADD, Sensing, underachievement
April 16, 2014

Delivering education that gets today’s students ready for the modern world must incorporate flexibility, diversification, and individualization. Students have moved past the structure of traditional classrooms. They have different problems, different gifts, and dramatically different brains. Educators need to refocus their efforts on teaching individuals.
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Maryann Barone-Chapman
13 / Archetypes / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy
Tags: Anima, Animus, Beebe, complex, demonic, dreams, ego-dystonic, ego-syntonic, Eight-Function Model, ENTP, Extraversion, extraverted feeling, extraverted sensing, extraverted thinking, Father, Fe, Fi, Good Parent, Hero, Heroine, inferior function, inferiority, Introversion, introverted feeling, introverted intuiting, introverted thinking, ISTP, John Beebe, Maryann Barone-Chapman, Mother, Ni, Opposing Personality, Puella, Puer, Se, Senex, shadow, Te, Ti, Trickster, type falsification, Witch
January 8, 2013

In a dream she showed up as twins. One who was quiet and could play by herself (like her father, Ti) and the other who was very precocious as she hung upside down from a tree (like her mother, Te), reflecting the inherent nature of the Opposing Personality. From the outset of our work her battle seemed to reflect inferiority about not being an extravert.
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The Editors
12 / Professional Development for Type-Practitioners
Tags: behavior patterns, Carol Shumate, ENTJ, Extraversion, INFP, introspection, Introversion, Mark Hunziker, observation, perceiving process
November 1, 2012

Which do you trust more to give you reliable information about type: observation or introspection? And what is your type preference? Of course, all type users rely upon both the observation of others and internal self-reflection to expand and confirm their understanding of personality type. But it seems as though we differ in which we prefer.
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Adam Frey
12 / Professional Development for Type-Practitioners / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: Adam Frey, attitudes, Barack Obama, Extraversion, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensing (Se), inner, Introversion, introverted thinking (Ti), Mitt Romney, object, Other, outer, personal, presidential debate, public, Self, subject
November 1, 2012

Introverted thinking is more concerned with satisfying a subtle, personally perceived standard of truth—like Barack Obama in his first debate with Mitt Romney. People saw Obama hesitating and looking away from his opponent. I read that as him double-checking to make sure that what he was about to say would meet a benchmark of critical thinking.
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Sophia Dunn
11 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy
Tags: amygdala, Anxiety, cognitive therapy, decision-making, ENTJ, Extraversion, extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), fear, fight/flight/freeze response, frontal cortex, INTP, Introversion, introverted intuition (Ni), neurobiology, panic attacks, scarcity, Sophia Dunn
September 5, 2012

I went back to the thing that seemed to make no sense. I asked Matt why he thought he became anxious coming home from work but did not experience this fear on his way into work? I had spent the hour prior to my session with Matt going through notes of other therapies with other ENTJs, but nothing in this other work had seemed particularly germane.
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the Editors, Mark & Carol
10 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: aberrant types, Carol Shumate, Extraversion, Introversion, Mark Hunziker, MBTI, type dynamics
May 2, 2012

In Douglass Wilde’s article about his method of calculating the function-attitudes from MBTI® scores (right), he adds his voice to the persistent minority who challenge the conventional wisdom about the sequence of function-attitude preferences. … By downloading the Wilde Worksheet for Computing Function-Attitudes, you can test these formulations for yourself.
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Liana Lianov
07 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: behavior change, Brue, cognitive behavioral therapy, energy balance, ENFP, Extraversion, Extraverted Intuition, Feeling, Fi, fitness, health, health coach, healthy habits, Introversion, introverted feeling, introverted sensing, introverted thinking, Intuition, judging, Liana Lianov, lifestyle medicine, Ne, perceiving, positive psychology, Rollnick, Sensing, Si, stage of change theory, stress, thinking, Ti, trans-theoretical model, type
October 4, 2011

Type enthusiasts may wonder whether we can purposely apply our personality preferences—which are comfortable ‘tools’ to make habit change a little easier. Speaking as a lifestyle medicine physician, as well as a type enthusiast for the past two decades, I believe we can. . . . Type affects what motivates us and how we learn new skills . . .
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Walter Smith
03 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Bernard Sartorius, Extraversion, Feeling, Fi, Introversion, Intuition, NF, schizoid, STJ, Temperament, thinking, Walter Smith, western civilization
January 5, 2011

The schizoid nature of western civilization gives credence to our emphasis on the necessity of using all of the functions (S, N, T, F), in both attitudes of Introversion (I) and Extraversion (E) . . . . When civilizations emphasize only one part of psychological type, they diminish themselves and set themselves up to see the world through distorted lenses.
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