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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 balanced 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 while you are not shy in a reserved sense you probably prefer to get to know new people slowly.
It is a mistake to regard introverts as necessarily shy and reserved.
In your case there is a good balance between your relationship with the outside world and your reflective and thoughtful nature.
If you felt that you need to become more assertive then a self assertion course could help.
Your sensing/intuitive relationship
You are a dominant intuitive who tends 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 always the danger that you tend to neglect the concrete real situation.
In your desire to search for meaning there can be danger that you will want to move onto the next idea once you tire of the previous break through. You can also be dismissive of the sensing type who is concerned with the here and now.
While intuitives are more comfortable in times of rapid and unexpected change it would be to your advantage to strengthen the undeveloped sensing function within your temperament.
Intuitives are often seen as ideas people, but lacking in the capacity to see things through.
Your thinking/feeling relationship
You are a balanced thinker. You prefer to make decisions that make logical sense. You pride yourself on being objective and analytical in the decision making process.
Your practice is to make decisions by analyzing and weighing the evidence, even if that
means coming to unpleasant conclusions.
The polar opposite of thinking is feeling where feeling people make their decisions on the basis of how much they care about an issue or what they feel is right.
This does not mean that you lack feelings and emotions, it is just that you come down on the thinking side of the divide.
In your case the preference could not be described as a dominant one, and you are reasonably well balanced in these two functions.
You need to take this into account when you decide how you want to orient your career towards people.
You are likely to adopt an impersonal style towards other persons, but this can be an advantage as you are not likely to be drawn into the 'emotion' of a situation and remain detached.
Equally, there are many situations where this can be a disadvantage.
Your structured/unstructured relationship
You are a balanced structured type.
This means that you tend to live and organize your life in an orderly way and you function best when your life is structured and matters are settled.
It means that you like to have things settled and resolved. You tend to experience a tension until closure on issues is reached and you are constantly drawn to want to make decisions.
However, in your case it must be acknowledged that this is a tendency that is not overly dominant. This means that you can be decisive and well organized, but it can also mean that you can regret making hasty decisions.
Unsurprisingly the opposite of a structured orientation is an unstructured one.
People of this orientation experience tensions about making decisions.
They like to keep their options open and hesitate about making decisions.
These people become indecisive and always want to seek further clarification or understanding.
You can sometimes become impatient with those who, for whatever reason, are not prepared to make a decision.
For this reason it is important to seek a balanced orientation. In your case there is reasonable balance with a tendency to the judging orientation."
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