Carol Shumate
36 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: archetypal possession, authenticity, auxiliary function, Bruce Willis, collective, complex, Die Hard, Donald Trump, election, ESFP, ESTP, extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Hamlet, Han Solo, Hillary Clinton, individuation, inferior function, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted thinking (Ti), ISFP, ISTP, Jax Heller, Johnny Depp, judging function, judgment, leaders, leadership, Mafia, mob, perception, persona, persuasiveness, Pirates of the Caribbean, Polonius, presidency, president, projection, Robert Boozer, Sons of Anarchy, spontaneity, Star Wars, The Godfather, The Matrix, The Sopranos, Tony Soprano, type bias
October 4, 2018

Often extraverted sensing leaders are considered more authentic than other types. Trump’s supporters viewed him as trustworthy (“honest,” “outside of the political corruption,” and “not a liar”) while they viewed Clinton as untrustworthy (“belongs behind bars,” “cannot be trusted,” and “nothing but lies”). Even Clinton’s own supporters expressed concern about her trustworthiness.
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Carol Shumate
34 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: anima/animus, bipolar disorder, Carol Shumate, Cervantes, conscious competence ladder, Don Quixote, eight-function/eight-archetype model, enantiodromia, ENFP, Eternal Child, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Gargantua and Pantagruel, Hero, inferior function, inferiority, introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), judgment, perception, possession, Rabelais, Sancho Panza, Trickster, Ulrich K. Goldschmidt
April 4, 2018

To have to spend a year in one’s inferior function is like a yearlong time-out for a toddler. I got so bored and desperate with my inferior introverted sensing (Si) function, required to gather and document the data, that I spent many hours asleep in the library. I could have asked Dr. Goldsmith for help, or maybe a mercy killing, but I was too proud to admit difficulty.
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Kiley Laughlin
33 / Organizations, Teams, and Career Development
Tags: Carol Dweck, CIA, cognitive bias, confirmation bias, Department of Defense (DoD), extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted thinking (Te), force multiplier, growth mindset, intelligence analysis, interpretation, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), ISFJ, judging functions, judgment, KFOR, Kiley Laughlin, Kosovo, leadership, military intelligence, NATO, operational environment, Richard Heuer, type bias
January 10, 2018

Military intelligence is a personality-centric career field because of its reliance on the subjective factor, which tends to creep into every intelligence assessment regardless of how analytically rigorous it attempts to be. To help reduce bias, intelligence professionals have developed brainstorming analytic techniques so that an analytical cell can offset individual biases.
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the Editors, Mark & Carol
09 / Professional Development for Type-Practitioners
Tags: auxiliary function, Carol Shumate, dominant function, INFJ, INFP, INTJ, INTP, Introverts, Isabel Myers, ISFJ, ISFP, ISTJ, ISTP, Judging types, judgment, Mark Hunziker, Perceiving types, perception
February 1, 2012

Jung considered all of the types that the MBTI® code identifies as I—J to be Perceiving types, and all I—Ps to be Judging types, because his use of the terms focuses on the dominant. Myers, however, focused on the extraverted function. So, are I—Js really ‘organized, scheduled, and decisive’ and I—Ps ‘spontaneous, casual, and flexible?’
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