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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Christine Drucker
28 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: archetype, Christine Drucker, Christopher Booker, differentiation, ESTJ, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensing (Se), fairytale, Hans Christian Anderson, individuation, INFJ, introverted intuition (Ni), Self, Ugly Duckling
September 8, 2016

The image of the ugly duckling growing into a beautiful swan is a powerful and transformative symbol of hope and fulfillment for INFJs. As a metaphor for differentiation and the individuation process, the Ugly Duckling tale illuminates the struggle to separate from the demands of others in order to recognize the value and beauty of one’s essential self.
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Ashley Crawford
26 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: Ashley Crawford, ESTJ, extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Good Parent, Hero, inferior function, INFP, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted sensing (Si), John Giannini, Lois Lowry, Puer/Puella, The Giver, Trickster, Witch/Senex
January 14, 2016

Jonas’ position as Receiver of Memory provides us with a vivid way to understand what is meant by introverted sensing per se as it draws out the sensory aspect of memory. It is in the way the community has found it necessary to contain these memories in an individual that we can begin to see how the archetypal role of Si plays out for the community as a whole.
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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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Robert McAlpine
11 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: archetype, auxiliary, C. G. Jung, Critical Parent, dominant, ENFJ, ESTJ, extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), function-attitudes, inferior, introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Isabel Myers, ISTJ, ISTP, John Beebe, MBTI, mental processes, Opposing Personality, preferences, Robert McAlpine, Sensing, tertiary, thinking
September 5, 2012

The type code had another unintended effect, which was to elevate the E-I and the J-P dichotomies to the same level as the functions. I had always thought of myself as an Introvert and nothing else. I had also been taught that I was a Judging type and I had been told that “J’s decide quickly,” but that was not true for me. So there were holes in my preference framework where my experience did not fit what I was taught.
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Stephanie Puentes
10 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Cassandra, ENFJ, ESTJ, extraverted feeling, Fe, Introverted Intuition, Latina, Ni, Stephanie Puentes
May 2, 2012

“What do you want?” asked one of the boys, his crossed arms over his chest authoritatively. “I want a drink of water,” I told him, but as I made a move to go around him, he stepped in front of me again. Before I could say anything or react in any way, he told me, “You can’t drink here. This fountain is for people. No monkeys allowed.”
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Lisa Schuetz
05 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: Ania Teillard, Bismarck, ENFP, ESFJ, ESFP, ESTJ, extraverted feeling, Extraverted Intuition, extraverted sensing, extraverted thinking, Fe, Fi, Gordon Allport, Graphology, Handwriting, INFP, INTJ, INTP, introverted feeling, Introverted Intuition, introverted sensing, introverted thinking, ISTJ, Lisa Schuetz, Ne, Ni, Se, Si, Te, Ti
May 2, 2011

The blank piece of paper symbolically represents our universe. How we put writing on the paper—how the pen moves across the paper—represents how we see ourselves fitting into life and how we navigate through it. Extraversion is characterized by a tendency toward expansion. There is an emphasis on centrifugal movement (movement away from the body).
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John Beebe
05 / Archetypes / Organizations, Teams, and Career Development / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, auxiliary, dominant, Doris Day, ESTJ, extraverted feeling, Extraverted Intuition, extraverted sensation, extraverted thinking, Fe, Fi, Frank Sinatra, George Patton, Good Parent, Hero, Heroine, introverted feeling, introverted sensation, ISTJ, John Beebe, Ne, Puella, Puer, San Francisco Giants, Se, Si, Te, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Tim Lincecum, UConn, University of Connecticut
May 2, 2011

You can assert yourself … with an introverted function. You can take care of others … with an introverted function. You’re just not likely to do both these things with an introverted function, any more than one would do both with an extraverted function; our alternation of attitudes between the dominant and auxiliary takes care of that.
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Do you agree with Jungian analyst John Giannini (and others) that ESTJ is “the dominant typology of western culture?” Do you think this may be changing? Do you see major, typologically distinct subcultures? What do you see as the dominant typology of other cultures or countries?
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Laura M. Simon, JD, MBA (ENFJ)
01 / Organizations, Teams, and Career Development
Tags: Beebe, conflict, daemon, daemonic, Daimon, Daimonic, Demon, demonic, ENFJ, ESTJ, extraverted feeling, extraverted thinking, Fe, Fi, introverted feeling, Laura Simon, Te, workplace
October 7, 2010

In the business world I have the privilege and challenge of leading a group of people where our typology is diverse. Sometimes, when we need each other most, we let each other down as the stress ignites the respective shadow functions within each of us. In the scenarios described herein, the ESTJs may have expected me, their ENFJ leader, to respond in crisis with warmth and sensitivity; but the stress of crisis became a game changer . . .
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