Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: MBTI personality type

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On 3 Oct 2010, at 8:40 PM, Elizabeth Magill wrote:

> However, I'd strongly recommend starting with some strong explanation  
> that people don't have to share what they don't want to, and also  
> that some people might choose to use an "x" in categories they don't  
> agree with the test, or don't feel the test is definitive.

And that they can just listen if they want to. I loath the exercises trainers 
love in which you bounce balloons in the air or introduce your neighbor or say 
what kind of tree are you. I just want to bang my head on the wall. Before a 
proposed all day workshop here, I was faced with a choice between "don't 
participate in your community with these people whom you are trying to develop 
a relationship" or "participate and hate it and do it badly and ruin everyone's 
day".

I was greatly relieved when the trainer said the audience is as important as 
the play. And in the end, because I was watching, I had observations to offer 
that I wouldn't have had if I had spent the day trying to remember the name of 
a tree or to laugh in the right places.

I've taked the MeyersBriggs/Keirsey test many times and found it to be accurate 
and if you do it fast, not so gut wrenching to decide if you would read a book 
or go to a movie with friends. The best thing is that I learned that I was not 
just a strange person, I was an introvert. I'm also strange but knowing that 
I'm an introvert has helped enormously in coping with all the strange people 
out there who are extroverts.

\Sharon
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Sharon Villines
"Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can 
have some conversation." Judith Martin