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FROM CHAPTER THREE:"WHAT MAKES YOU TICK?"
(Note: this excerpt is taken from someone's personalized ebook. The content of your book would be personalized from your own responses to the FPYC questionnaire which you can begin at the top of this page.)
"...It’s all a question of balance
According to Jung, who pioneered the theory of the temperament type, the fully mature individual was one who achieved balance in the variables that make up the various types.
In other words, if your sensing tendencies are equally as well developed as your intuitive tendencies, then you have achieved balance of your sensing and intuitive functions.
We now look at how close you are to this ideal. We do this by taking each of the four variables – introvert/extrovert, sensing/intuitive, thinking/feeling and structured/
unstructured – and looking at how strongly you are one way or another.
Your introvert/extrovert relationship
You are a dominant introvert. This means that your interaction with the outside world is reflective and thoughtful, rather than direct or spontaneous.
You are content with your own company and you seldom experience loneliness.
You appreciate time on your own to recharge your batteries after periods of intense activity. It is important for you to try and understand situations before charging into things.
Your preference is for social interaction on a small scale - one on one or small groups. It is your nature to avoid the spotlight and you are generally a reserved person who prefers to get to know new people slowly.
Your tendency to being reserved can be coupled with a tendency to withdraw from the world in some circumstances.
This can have an adverse effect upon your career and you would probably benefit from developing a more outgoing orientation. Look for opportunities to put yourself in social situations that will help you achieve a better balance in this area.
Your sensing/intuitive relationship
You are a balanced intuitive but you tend to see all sorts of possibilities and potential in all the situations you meet. You are able to read between the lines, you focus on the future and you like to search for meaning and relationships between events and things.
You value the imagination and you trust your inspiration and your hunches.
You can be good at anticipating events and you generally try to make things different rather than maintaining the status quo. You prefer to look at situations and want to decide what is exactly going on rather than what appears to be going on.
In your desire to see all the possibilities there is some balance between your intuitive nature and the willingness to rely upon evidence facts and documentation.
However, there is always the potential that you might overlook the value and importance of the data. In your desire to search for meaning there can be danger that you will want to move onto the next idea once you tirer of the previous break through.
While intuitives are more comfortable in times of rapid and unexpected change it would be to your advantage to recognize the potential limitations of the intuitive to not follow through.
Intuitives are often seen as ideas people, but lacking in the capacity to see things through.
Your thinking/feeling relationship
You are a dominant feeling type. You are more likely to make your decisions on the basis of your inner values and how your decisions will affect others, rather than in terms of rational logical principles.
The feeling dimensions is quite dominant in your case.
It does not mean that you are illogical in making your decisions, it is just that you swing to a different tune where your values and beliefs outweigh logic.
However, in your case the feeling function is dominant and you run the danger of allowing feelings, values and beliefs to over rule common sense, and what might in fact be in your best interests.
Sometimes it is important to be hard nosed about making decisions, particularly where your career, or other important life decisions, are at stake.
Some people find it difficult to distinguish whether they are thinking or feeling types because of the gender and sex role biases in our culture.
Very often women who are naturally thinkers are socialized as feelers and men who are feelers are socialized as thinkers.
It is important to recognize your true preference as this can be a liberating experience.
Your structured/unstructured relationship
You are a balanced unstructured type indicating that you can find routine and established procedures and rules irksome.
You prefer spontaneity to order and predictability. In your case you experience a tension about having to make a decision or to tie things down. You are inclined to want to seek more clarification or always examine more possibilities.
You are impatient with those who want to make decisions and then regret having done so.
You like your world to be flexible, allowing for many possibilities and opportunities. You feel constrained by structure and prefer things to be free flowing.
You enjoy adapting to new and changing situations and you tend to delay making decisions.
You want to leave things open ended and suspend judgment as long as possible. You tend to see shades of gray rather than distinct black and white. You enjoy the unexpected in nearly all areas of life.
These admirable qualities can be both advantages and disadvantages in the new economy.
When things are changing rapidly and in unexpected ways the capacity to adjust quickly to changing circumstances can be helpful.
However, the desire to keep your options open can lead to indecisiveness and procrastination.
In your case there is a balance between perceiving and judging so that with a little care and management you should be able to achieve a good balance in this area."
Reference: Assessment career job test
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