Personality

Posted on October 5th, 2004 in Insight.

This evening while cleaning junk email out of my inbox, I stumbled upon a message containing little more than a few unrecognized acronyms within virtually no context. Well, leaving a mystery unexplored just isn’t my style so to the borg (google) I went. Tangents spawned tangents, and hours later I found myself reading about pyschological profiles and personality tests. After much introspection, consideration, and deliberation I can now feel content knowing that I am an INTP (a wizard - take that all you muggles!). What great relief! Now that I’ve officially put my personality in a labeled box, I can live with free abandon! Join me in my enlightenment and explore your personality!

Note to self: sarcasm and skepticism may not always be apparent in your written words

 

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4 responses

  1. Lady Claudia says:

    Added on October 5th, 2004 at 5:33 pm

    Mr. McCammon, your photography is always a source of delight; I am filled with admiration and envy. Could these emotions possibly betray my personality type? Ms. Manor, Ms. Marks and I explored our personality categories last winter over the course of two months of weekly meetings. We took several tests including the enneagrams and a simplified Myers-Briggs. My enneagram results I almost could have predicted from the beginning (anal-retentive!) but I’m disappointed in the M-B test because after taking it several times over the course of twelve years, I keep flip-flopping between INTJ and ISTJ. Perhaps I should just spend the money to take the official test and put at rest my obsessive-compulsive need to organize. Even though we should all know that any bozo could produce this so-called official test to label us all - let’s make our own! What fun it would be to create our own categories of neurotic lunacy! Think of the politically incorrect word fun we could have! I will add this to the credit of the current test makers: these personality descriptions have proven to be frightfully correct in most of my results. Had I been aware of the wizard years ago, it should have been of no surprise to hear a particular one say,”Krieg ist gut; der reguliert die Bevoelkerung der Welt,” forcing himself to break his silence for the sake of academic credit during required German class discussion. Wow.

  2. Scott says:

    Added on October 5th, 2004 at 6:40 pm

    Wow. Sie haben eine gute Erinnerung! That certainly is something that would have come out of my mouth. Fundamentally I still agree with the idea, but in reality war is a very complicated phenomenon with far reaching consequences. Born an idealist, I fear I’ve been conditioned to reality. Today I would hold my tongue on such ideas simply for fear of being associated with the right. I could probably flip-flop between Sensing and iNtuition myself.

    I like your idea of designing a personality test. I would probably start simple with say only two categories: non-whacko and me. Or lets create a ‘wipe-the-earth-clean-of-all-people-that-dont-agree-with-my-ideals’ personality type. Hmm, so very agressive of me. Is it obvious that I had a long day?

  3. L. Claude says:

    Added on October 5th, 2004 at 8:48 pm

    Thanks a lot, Mr. McCammon! This topic has lured me into wasting hours on the internet which have only left me more confused; I could be an ISTP according to someone else’s sources! I have also discovered info which suggests that testing has only low to moderate accuracy. What I really need is an experienced little type watcher to identify what is going on in my head. Now I can’t even rely on blowing my cash for an online test to tell my own neurosis where to file itself! So, whenever you develop your own system, perhaps you could tell me whether I qualify for the “non-whacko” or the “Scott” category. Or perhaps I should just consult the all-knowing eight ball…

  4. Scott says:

    Added on October 5th, 2004 at 9:31 pm

    Well, I just scored high marks in the Enneagram category 9. That makes me calm, laid-back, and optimistic. Since I now have a natural desire for peace and a fear of conflict, I should apparently quit my day job and become a mediator (of what?!). Just be careful not to take advantage of me since I supposedly can be overly accomodating. Now if only there were some 1’s around here…

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