{"id":42,"date":"2010-10-31T10:59:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T14:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/typetemperament.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2011-09-06T09:44:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T13:44:20","slug":"what-is-this-thing-called-psychological-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.typetemperament.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"What is This Thing Called Psychological Type?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>If you don\u2019t know, start here.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>We call it \u201cPersonality Style.\u201d all people are different, but some  are more different than others (from each other). And some have a lot in  common. You know that. Type is a way of understanding the patterns of  out personal makeup. Jung\u2019s theory saya that apparently random human  differences are in fact the logical result of our (probably inborn)  preferences on a few observable dimensions, such as how we prefer to  focus our energy (Extraversion or Introversion); how we prefer to get  our information (with our 5 Senses, or our 6th sense, iNtuition); and  how we prefer to make our decisions (objectively, with logic as the  criterion (\u201cThinking\u201d), or subjectively, using our personal values as  the criteria (\u201cFeeling\u201d); and whether we more often relate to the world  by getting more information\u2014postponing decisions (Perceiving), or by a  desire for getting decisions made\u2014cutting off information flow  (Judging). The fourth pair was added by Isabel Briggs Myers, who  developed the MBTI\u00ae (Myers-Briggs type Indicator\u00ae), a well-validated  pencil questionnaire to help determine people\u2019s preferences on these 4  pairs of parameters).<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAny education can change your life; but learning this much about yourself can empower you to change your own life.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>William D. G. Murray<\/p>\n<div id=\"st0000000001\" class=\"st-taf\"><script src=\"http:\/\/taf.socialtwist.com:80\/taf\/js\/shoppr.core.js?id=0000000001\"><\/script><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:0;margin:0;padding:0;\" src=\"http:\/\/tellafriend.socialtwist.com:80\/wizard\/images\/tafbutton_blue16.png\" onmouseout=\"hideHoverMap(this)\" onmouseover=\"showHoverMap(this, '0000000001', 'https%3A%2F%2Fwww.typetemperament.com%2F%3Fp%3D42', 'What+is+This+Thing+Called+Psychological+Type%3F')\" onclick=\"cw(this, {id:'0000000001',link: 'https%3A%2F%2Fwww.typetemperament.com%2F%3Fp%3D42', title: '+What+is+This+Thing+Called+Psychological+Type%3F+' })\"\/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don\u2019t know, start here. We call it \u201cPersonality Style.\u201d all people are different, but some are more different than others (from each other). And some have a lot in common. You know that. Type is a way of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.typetemperament.com\/?p=42\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-type-temperament","tag-personality-style"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.typetemperament.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.typetemperament.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.typetemperament.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.typetemperament.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.typetemperament.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.typetemperament.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.typetemperament.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.typetemperament.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.typetemperament.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}