Eric B
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Temperament Part 2: The MBTI's 16 types and Cognitive Functions
This was the second part of my series on temperament. Part 1 dealt with the APS system, and then, part 2 was how it fit with MBTI. Yet I had kept adding more and more advanced info to it, as I myself learned more about the theory, and stuff like the archetypes; and basically got carried away with it. Jennifer and others showed some interest last year, and said they printed it out, and I remember it was like 100 pages (sorry guys!) I then came out with a shorter version, but it seems like people had seen enough. More recently, I realized that my whole premise was "for dummies", but it was too much advanced stuff, and mostly my own brainstorms about the theories and recounting how I learned them and discovered my correlation between them.
In finally grasping Beebe's model, and thinking of new ways to offer more concise descriptions of things, I decided just over a day (yesterday) to redo the page, and split off all the other stuff onto a separate page called "Evolving the MBTI-APS Correlation", which has now moved to "temperament2a.html".
So in this new essay, I start with the "input/output" analogy as the basic descriptions of the four functions. Then, starting with Personality Page's suggestion that the first and last letters are the first to develop in a young child, I build up the type code and function from scratch, showing how it eventually "fans out" into the eight function attitudes, with the archetype complexes. Trying to make it a smoothly flowing progression. I also cite short descriptors of the 8 functions (hope this doesn;t interrupt the flow), and finish with the temperament and Interaction Styles. All at only 58 KB now, down from over 300 in the old page!
So I just wanted to know if others thought this was a more clear and understandable way to introduce type theory. For those who are familiar with it, is it followable, and for those who are not, does it help you understand it all?
This was the second part of my series on temperament. Part 1 dealt with the APS system, and then, part 2 was how it fit with MBTI. Yet I had kept adding more and more advanced info to it, as I myself learned more about the theory, and stuff like the archetypes; and basically got carried away with it. Jennifer and others showed some interest last year, and said they printed it out, and I remember it was like 100 pages (sorry guys!) I then came out with a shorter version, but it seems like people had seen enough. More recently, I realized that my whole premise was "for dummies", but it was too much advanced stuff, and mostly my own brainstorms about the theories and recounting how I learned them and discovered my correlation between them.
In finally grasping Beebe's model, and thinking of new ways to offer more concise descriptions of things, I decided just over a day (yesterday) to redo the page, and split off all the other stuff onto a separate page called "Evolving the MBTI-APS Correlation", which has now moved to "temperament2a.html".
So in this new essay, I start with the "input/output" analogy as the basic descriptions of the four functions. Then, starting with Personality Page's suggestion that the first and last letters are the first to develop in a young child, I build up the type code and function from scratch, showing how it eventually "fans out" into the eight function attitudes, with the archetype complexes. Trying to make it a smoothly flowing progression. I also cite short descriptors of the 8 functions (hope this doesn;t interrupt the flow), and finish with the temperament and Interaction Styles. All at only 58 KB now, down from over 300 in the old page!
So I just wanted to know if others thought this was a more clear and understandable way to introduce type theory. For those who are familiar with it, is it followable, and for those who are not, does it help you understand it all?