On a similar note

[luolian]

Now that I am thinking about it (actually, after reading this again), I had a painful mid-semester review last spring that can be summarized by saying that I was too much iNtuition and not enough Sensing. My prof said that I needed to learn more from experience- actually doing and trying and experimenting, instead of conceptualizing everything before I produce it. Otherwise I would be limiting myself to the inside of my own brain and could never come up with anything that I couldn't visualize mentally. I still think that it makes sense and keep it in mind constantly. Still though, it was a rough thing to hear at the time. I realized even as I was sitting on that couch hearing it that it meant that my ability to grasp things/intelligence, while responsible for everything I did in that class and pulled me through everything, was actually getting to be a crutch and was holding me back in some ways. And I had no idea how to turn it off.

Anyway, looking at it from the perspective of these tests, he was criticizing my personality, telling me to act and think in a different way, so differently that I would become (at least on these tests) a different kind of person.

Thinking at it that way, I think I'm going to take the stand that these tests are fun, but ultimately kind of bogus. I just am not convinced that the different dynamics of personality that they judge are set for each person. Using myself as a case study, I know that my answers differ greatly depending on context (though mood is a factor as well, but obviously in any kind of predictable way).