An ‘Army’ Personality

Left, Right, Left, Right, Left … (this is also how I play golf!)

In the last week or so, I’ve been thinking a lot about MBTI and the seemingly contradictory nature of my own personality type.

My type (INTJ) are usually, inciteful, creative sysnethizers and conceptual long-range thinkers. Yet, on the other hand we use thinking to make logical decisions. We tend to be clear and concise, rational, detatched and objectively critical. These observations of type are amazingly close.

The contradiction I see in this is the polarity between the left-brain and right-brain functions. On this, I recently came across a Tom Peters interview with Dan Pink, author of ‘A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age’ . Dan believes that …

We’re moving into a world where the scales are tilting away from left-brain thinking and more toward right-brain thinking. Away from pure logic and deductive reasoning, toward artistry and empathy.

… then, low and behold, I just read Johnnie’s latest post and
he coincidentally refers to Tom Guarriell’s exploration of the same topic. He even references an article written by the same author. Talk about the twighlight zone! The article is a thought provoking piece. I’m definitely going to grab the book for a more detailed read when I get an opportunity.

The prospect of further developing my “right-brain” functions isn’t going to be all that easy, given my propensity towards the logical (I’m off the scale on the MBTI scoring!), but then again I do have a very creative side, and I should shift the empahsis to, as Dan puts it…

supplement well-developed high tech abilities with aptitudes that are “high concept” and “high touch”

I’m turning right … (not Pink)!

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