Just pleasantly floundering around.....

What a lie. O.K. I know people.... hate to be pigeon holed - (especially Fs) or things that pry into their psyche (especially Is) or they consider psychology too woolly to be a proper science (espcially Ts) or they cannot see its applications (especially Ss) or dislike the idea that there are so few ways to categories a person (especially Ps) but I think any tool that helps with self-awareness can only deliver a dollop of helpful learning if we are prepared to receive it. All that unconscious stuff we project into the world is one thing but Myers Briggs is a simple starting place to work out what makes a person tick. FREE ONLINE DIAGNOSIS!!!! http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp There are four spectra and every individual sits somewhere on it - by preference. We struggle if we find ourselves in a situation (in a job, socially, through our parents' style of parenting)that forces us to exist outside our preference. We can doubt our strengths and fail to understand why oth...

It's contradictions having a frenzied battle in your head for 2-3 years..... Finding some meaning in the context of realising that it is all actually meaningless Developing apathy at the same time as panicking because you can see/feel life is finite Questioning how to cut out inane stuff but being drawn to it at times Debating a complete change in direction but nothing appealing very much A feeling no amount of articulation depletes Hoping that it is a storm that just needs to be ridden and that one day, one will wake up and just feel settled inside!!! Looking for an answers that probably doesn't exist I am guessing it amounts to finding pleasures in small things, making people happy, using creativity, learning and teaching...but not feeling it ...yet! xxxxx

One thought.... If you take Maslow's hierarchy of needs....most of us in the western world have easily got the basics covered (food,shelter, safety). Over a hundred years ago, many people worked to provide for these basic needs. This is no longer true because of mechanisation etc. this would imply that the 'jobs' out there need to start providing for the higher orders of the hierarchy...which they kind of do in places...but not enough because the nation does not appear to be full of people engaged in self actualisation. It puzzles me.

I'm not really - tortured that is. Naming a blog didn't grab my enthusiasm enough for me to donate a large dollop of my creativity. Plus titles are not really my thing. I'm more of a concept girl. I am creative though. I'm pretty sure of that although I only really discovered this in 2006. I had a classic 1970s upbringing - you see - that wasn't about helping your child to shine, to understand they have strengths and weaknesses and are unconditionally lovable for both. (Of course that was in vogue then - we couldn't have children getting too big for their boots - and parents did the best with what they knew.) Still this delayed my discovery that my head was wired up in a way that made it exceptionally good at forming original ideas. How dim not to have realised this until the age of 37, not to have noticed that any opening for ideas was irritatingly filled up abundantly and enthusiastically by me. I am not sure what I will do with this space yet. Extravert my i...

Well, where to begin.