But if we stand back from the details it is easy to see that
there are types of human beings making different types of mental noise. Male and
female, old and young, haves and have-nots. Those who are loud and forever
active in groups, (the extraverts) and those quiet ones who prefer their own
company (the intraverts).
In recent times Carl Jung (1875 – 1961) mapped the notion of
introverts and extraverts. The typology was refined and developed by Isabel Myers
(1897 – 1980) and her mother Katharine Briggs (1875 - 1968) – and is known as the Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator - MBTI.
“The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator is an introspective
self-report questionnaire designed to indicate psychological preferences in how
people perceive the world and make decisions … The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator
is an introspective self-report questionnaire designed to indicate
psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.”
David Keirsey (1921-2013) was an American psychologist and the author of several books. In his most
popular publications, Please Understand Me (1978, co-authored by
Marilyn Bates) and the revised and expanded second volume Please Understand
Me II (1998), he laid out a self-assessed personality questionnaire, known
as the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, which links
human behavioral patterns to four temperaments and sixteen character types.
Both volumes of Please Understand Me contain the questionnaire for type
evaluation with detailed portraits and a systematic treatment of descriptions
of temperament traits and personality characteristics. I am an INFP.
Susan Cain (1968 –
xxxx) is a recent champion of the quiet intravert. She writes and speaks (twice
in TED) in a user friendly way.
This topic often
adds to my mental noise. The following list points to some of my earlier coffee
fueled attempts to map the field.
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