[Magdalen] What Each Myers-Briggs Type Does In A Rut (The Rise Of The Inferior Function) | Thought Catalog

[Lynn Ronkainen]

https://www.opp.com/en/tools/MBTI/Myers-Briggs-history

(snipped)The MBTI questionnaire, first published in 1943, was originally 
developed in the United States by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter 
Isabel Briggs Myers. Katharine Briggs was inspired to start researching 
personality type theory when she first met Isabel’s future husband, Clarence 
Myers. Whilst Clarence was a very eligible match for her daughter, Katharine 
noticed that he had a different way of seeing the world to her and her 
family, and was intrigued enough to start an extensive literature review 
based on understanding different temperaments. It was shortly after Carl 
Jung’s publication of Psychological Types (1921; 1923 in English) that 
Katharine realised how closely his theories resembled hers, and how much 
more developed they were.

Lynn

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When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "Jon Egger" <revegger at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 3:17 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] What Each Myers-Briggs Type Does In A Rut (The Rise 
Of The Inferior Function) | Thought Catalog

> Agreeing with Eleanor, I have a question for Sally.  This is part of your
> response to this interesting tool:
>
> "For example, the idea of "introversion" (not unique to MBTI) is of
> tremendous help to people who prefer a quieter, less socially engaged way
> of life and work, in a culture that tends to value (and promote) the
> opposite."
>
> This leaves me a tad confused.  I was taught that within the MBPI, the I/E
> are not about how we relate to others, rather I/E are about how we 
> *process*
> information.  To me, this is critical.  For example, if Dawn and I were in
> a group of 5 people working on something and our group came up with three
> ideas, Dawn would talk with the others to problem solve, but I am the one
> who would leave and take a walk in the woods to ponder things.
>
> Or I have missed something completely.
>
> Grace and peace,
> jon
>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Marion Thompson 
> <marionwhitevale at gmail.com
>> wrote:
>
>> No.   Possible insights into oneself or  the other can be interesting. 
>> At
>> a trivial, even humorous, level perhaps as you say, but not really
>> seriously to the thinking person.  And knowledge is power, as in knowing
>> what makes oneself or the other tick.
>>
>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>
>>
>> On 7/15/2015 10:18 AM, Jim Guthrie wrote:
>>
>>> Is looking for quantification of one' own behavior a way of 
>>> rationalizing
>>> away certain outré personal habits?
>>>
>>> "I'm an ABCD and she's a WXYZ and that explains everything." I suspect
>>> all this is an intellectual version of "What sign are you?" "Oh, I could
>>> never get along with a Gemini because I;m a Capricorn. Good Bye!"
>>>
>>> But it's the age we live in, I suppose.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jim
>>> .
>>>
>>>
>>