By Sigurd Arild and Eva Gregersen In a quote that is popularly misattributed to Joseph Goebbels, it is said that “if you repeat a lie often enough, it eventually becomes the truth.” Since Adam Grant kicked off his sensationalist critique of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) last year, there has been no shortage of uninformed[…] Continue Reading
Year: 2014
Raja Burrows is a contributing guest writer for CelebrityTypes. As with other guest writers on the site (such as Malin Gustavsson, Michael Pierce, and Jesse Gerroir), the views expressed in this article are not necessarily completely overlapping with our own. By Raja Burrows Extraverted Thinking (Te) and Extraverted Feeling (Fe) have much in common. They are both[…] Continue Reading
Interview by Ryan Smith Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University and Chair of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary. Dr. Pinker has been named as one of the world’s most influential intellectuals and his work has won numerous awards. He is the author of 10 books, including his[…] Continue Reading
By Ryan Smith The Indian philosopher Shankara’s (788 – 820 CE) criticism of Yogacara, the ‘mind only’ school of idealist Buddhism, may warrant closer attention. Yogacara as Ni As we have previously covered on the site, the third phase of Buddhist philosophy, the idealist Yogacara school, posited that only consciousness is real. What appears to us as objects[…] Continue Reading
“What is decisive [in] me is that I dream about physics as [others] think about physics. … I simply cannot evade it!” – Pauli: Personal Letter to Fierz, 26 November 1949 By Ryan Smith We have managed to stitch together most (possibly all) of the eminent physicist Wolfgang Pauli’s type assessments and have added them to the site.[…] Continue Reading
Malin Gustavsson is a contributing guest writer for CelebrityTypes. In this article, Gustavsson draws on her personal experience as a therapist to share some tips on how to be an effective counselor. As with other guest writers on the site (such as Michael Pierce and Jesse Gerroir) we do not necessarily agree with Gustavsson on every point.[…] Continue Reading
By Ryan Smith The spiritual history of India can be divided into two main strands: The Atman (self) and the Anatman (no-self) traditions. The self-doctrine draws its inspiration from the spiritual visions of the Vedic seers, as these were handed down to us in the Upanishads (ca. 1000 – 500 BCE) while the no-self doctrine[…] Continue Reading
By Eva Gregersen People often ask if it’s possible to change one’s type. The answer to this question is not as straightforward as it would appear. First, a lot of people are introduced to type by a psychologist or coach who tells them that type is inborn and cannot be changed. This is also what[…] Continue Reading
In his early work, Jung spent a great deal of energy exploring the nature of introversion and extroversion “in themselves,” i.e. as pure E and I. Ironically, though, most contemporary psychodynamic interpretations of Jung’s typology *do not* focus on E and I in this manner, but regard them as properties of the cognitive functions. In[…] Continue Reading