A fundamental clash I just received an urgent question from a client whose been working from home--in close quarters with her family--for over three months now. I would hate to see all the pain, anxiety, and tumult that we are collectively experiencing reduced to the E/I lens alone, but it is an
Introversion Is Not a Shield
Type as an excuse I have been a passionate user of psychological type (with the MBTI and more recently the Pearman assessments) for more than half my life now, and a growing concern of mine is people’s masking—consciously or not—troubled or dysfunctional behavior with type terms. Bad decisions or
Hillary Clinton: the stranger we’ve known for 25 years
There are many things in this hyper-partisan time that contribute to the extreme opinions we Americans have for Hillary Clinton. Supporters revel in her long life of public service and the glaring fact that nearly 100 years after women got the vote, a woman has finally earned the place at the top of
Knowing Your MBTI Type Might Not Matter
Could it be that knowing your MBTI Type might not matter? Invariably, every MBTI/Type training includes some folks who can’t and/or don’t want to choose a preference on any given dichotomy. Perhaps they feel equally engaged by both options, or they feel that one represents a best fit Type at work
Her – A Uniquely INFJ Love Story
I found myself puzzling over the content, presentation and underlying suggestions of Spike Jonze’s Oscar-nominated movie “Her.” It is clever, subtly deep, in equal measures sweet and off-putting and emotionally complicated. The movie, set in the not-too-distant future, centers around Theodore