Personality

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My Types

One great thing about having more than one favorite system of personality typology is that it helps me avoid believing that people `are' their types. In general, I find such systems of great value, both in self-understanding and in appreciating the truly alien mind-sets that other people can have and in not taking a lot of things so personally.

I'm hoping to look into the types of traditional Chinese medicine soon.

You can find online tests for both these in the tests directory.

MBTI: XNTX

I've found my E/I and J/P to be rather unstable over the years. This fits in well with David Keirsey's abstraction of four temperaments over the 16 MBTI types. NT is the `Promethean' temperament.

Enneagram: 4

I used to think I was a 1 (with 4 as the runner up), perhaps in part because the person who introduced me to the Enneagram suggested that I might be. My self-identification as a 4 coincided with my becoming an active raver. It also coincided with my moving out of the secure situations that typified my earlier life (4s are supposed to tend toward 1 under conditions of security).

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