How a CIA Spy Uses Myers-Briggs (MBTI)
The CIA has been using MBTI since the 1930's when it was the OSS (as I wrote about here), so it was fun to hear ex-CIA spy Andrew Bustamante talk in this video about how he used MBTI when he…
The CIA has been using MBTI since the 1930's when it was the OSS (as I wrote about here), so it was fun to hear ex-CIA spy Andrew Bustamante talk in this video about how he used MBTI when he…
We suffer more in imagination than we do in reality, the Stoic philosopher Seneca said. For all the talk out there about how sensation types and intuitive types differ, I think they both struggle equally with suffering in imagination. By…
I love the term "centroversion," which I discovered when reading Steve Myers' book: Another associate of Jung, Erich Neumann, describes this new attitude as the personality embarking on a third direction, which is neither extraversion nor introversion but 'centroversion.' This…
An important way that Jungian typology differs from Myers-Briggs is that Jung believed that personality types aren't static: In Jungian individuation, type can change - for example, 'the function-type is subject to all manner of changes in the course of…
Jung said that "if you identify with [a type] you identify with a corpse." That sounds harsh, but Jung believed readers missed the point of his book Psychological Types, which admittedly is a difficult book to read. His book was…