MBTI Trial Week 4: Judging
October 28th, 2008
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In the fourth and final week of my Myers-Briggs trials, I’ll be focusing on judging.
Judging and perceiving are kind of hard to explain, and they can be looked at in a few different ways, but one way is that judgers are more like type A personalities, while perceivers are more like type B. The type A/B theory has been heavily criticized and is considered obsolete, but at least you have an idea of what I mean. As with all the other preferences, neither judging nor perceiving is better than the other. (The words unfortunately sound like judgmental and perceptive, but that’s not what they’re about.)
I expect this to be the easiest one because I’m a “split P.” I didn’t get numerical results when I took the MBTI, but they underlined my P to indicate a not-so-clear preference. I was also the only one in the P group at the workshop who insisted on using the right color M&Ms when making a blueprint of a house (like using brown for a table, instead of mixed random colors). Apparently, judgers always pay attention to M&M color, while perceivers usually don’t.
I also got a head start on this because I’ve been trying to make better use of my time in my mini-retirement. I find that even though I’m not working, I don’t have that much more free time. For one thing, I’m now getting 8 hours of sleep a night instead of 4.
So I’ve been trying to be more careful with managing my time instead of just doing whatever. I thought I had unsubscribed from a bunch of blogs, but I just checked and I’m still subscribed to 92, so I don’t know what happened. While reading blogs is fun, it’s easy to spend more time online than you’d like to.
I figure now is a great time for me to read Dave Navarro’s What’s Holding You Back? Beat The Seven Success Killers That Everyone Struggles With. I bought it in June but haven’t read it yet, which I think is pretty ironic considering the subject matter.
Productivity is not strictly a hallmark of judgers, and in fact someone with a sensing/perceiving combination is usually very action-oriented (though perhaps not that organized). But for me, an intuitive/perceiving thinker and daydreamer, I think paying attention to productivity is bound to make me use my judging side. At the very least, putting this ebook in my schedule is showing judging already.
Looking forward to a week of organization, structure, and responsibility. Go judgers!
October 28th, 2008 at 9:26 am
judging.. oh yes.. I believe the biggest barrier is judging people. We all like to believe that we judge people fairly. However, color of skin, what they wear, weight, age etc form a “opinion” in our mind.
October 28th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Hi Hunter – What an interesting experiment you’re doing. I had to laugh at the part when you insisted on using the right color of M&Ms for your project.
BTW: How’s your mini-retirement coming along?
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October 28th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
I love the thought of the color choice of my M & M’s “meaning” something!!! (I love the thought of “secret meaning” behind EVERYTHING!)
Does that make me judging?
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October 29th, 2008 at 1:58 am
@ Shamelle, in the MBTI, judging is more about making decisions in general, as opposed to making judgments in a negative way. I agree though, that most people aren’t as fair with their judgments as they think.
@ Barbara, I just couldn’t believe that people thought it was perfectly OK to make trees blue. I had to take a stand! The mini-retirement is coming along well, and I’m sure I’ll write a post about it at some point.
@ Kathy, they put a bunch of M&Ms in front of us, and said to use them to make a blueprint of a house. So it was kind of like a kid drawing something: everything is supposed to have a certain color.
As for finding secret meaning in everything, I guess that would be a sign of intuition. I think you decided before that you were a sensor overall, but everyone uses a mix of both.
October 29th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Hi Hunter. How are you feeling after trying on all these new “themes”? I’ve been thinking about your personal study and how we all have a default personality that we naturally sit with. It is a good exercise to step into other shoes. Gives you more choices on how you may want to respond to your life.
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October 30th, 2008 at 2:39 am
@ Davina, I think our default personality is set very early in life. I think it’s a good idea to not be afraid to branch out and try different things, but I’m seeing that certain elements of our personality are not easily changed. It’s interesting to see the other side, but I think it’s better to go with the flow in terms of MBTI type.
October 31st, 2008 at 2:09 am
Ya I hear you… go with the flow!
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