Thalassa
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So I recently decided to actually read Please Understand Me II and I found that Keirsey's work, as a whole, makes more sense in the context of the actual book rather than the shitty on-line summaries and interpretations.
However, I found his division of the temperaments far too extreme, he made NFs all sound like a bunch of social workers nervously avoiding confrontation, and while I relate to the NF Idealist temperament more than the other three, SP Artisan was a surprisingly close second...I mean really close...I related more to their need for audacity, valuing of generosity, and other things.
The reason why I find this annoying is because Keirsey acts like the NF Idealist temperament opposes the SP Artisan temperament, and that they're more like NTs and SJs. In my individual case, that's the furthest from the truth...I'm much more like an SP than NT or SJ.
I posted this on another forum as well, but I wanted to also read responses here, because while Keirsey has some decent basic ideas, his theory seems wildly flawed to me because he makes the temperaments so extremely divided that they're caricatures...and while some people might be *very* NF or *very* SJ, I'm suspecting that most people might be more of a blend of at least two of the four temperaments.
However, I found his division of the temperaments far too extreme, he made NFs all sound like a bunch of social workers nervously avoiding confrontation, and while I relate to the NF Idealist temperament more than the other three, SP Artisan was a surprisingly close second...I mean really close...I related more to their need for audacity, valuing of generosity, and other things.
The reason why I find this annoying is because Keirsey acts like the NF Idealist temperament opposes the SP Artisan temperament, and that they're more like NTs and SJs. In my individual case, that's the furthest from the truth...I'm much more like an SP than NT or SJ.
I posted this on another forum as well, but I wanted to also read responses here, because while Keirsey has some decent basic ideas, his theory seems wildly flawed to me because he makes the temperaments so extremely divided that they're caricatures...and while some people might be *very* NF or *very* SJ, I'm suspecting that most people might be more of a blend of at least two of the four temperaments.