Personality profiling

Today I completed some personality profiles. They both said stuff that made sense. Eysenck's test was nicer to do - yes no answers which aren't always possible but not too bad, rather than the "which 2 statements do you agree with more" type which is always guaranteed to irritate - lots of "hmm neither or both" gently getting more irate as the questionnaire proceeds (compounded by the irritation of poor photocopying so the beginning of every line of text on the left hand pages was missing for the whole workbook. ARRRGH so very slack). It was the potted Myers Briggs one (if only I could find my Myers Briggs stuff from the day I went to 5 years ago to compare) The outcome was fine - in a "you can see how this fits like you can see how your sun star horoscope fits" kind of a way. All very nice about your personality so you are happy... The first one had one of those grids where you mark how far along the scale you fall that I have yet to work out how to interpret, but perhaps someone will tell me on Tuesday. That kind of grid that you are generally too embarrassed to tell the teacher you don't understand... Perhaps it's time to get over that.

Anyway personality profiling - very interesting tool, always better to do when you need a bit of positive reinforcement I feel (like reading self help books) than when you are "hey lifes looking good " zone which having found a car to buy without the trauma of lots of garages is the place I'm in right now, might be a little less willing to find fault with the resources and test and more committed to why this is good. Also I fear that peoples lack of willingness to open themselves up for investigation makes it very hard to use them as a management of others building tool - very much a personal thing. Finally I feel I need to work out how to make use of the knowledge I gain from these. Now I know I'm an Extrovert whatever how will this help me? (like I didn't know I was an extrovert before? Dorothy Lowe helped me find out my external reality was more real long time ago, gave me an excuse for lots of failings!).

Also Personality profiling combined with parental intervention - great tools to avoid the reading to make sense of the lectures required for the last marketing lecture and the prep I meant to do for the next Data handling one. So words of the week are "continue to stop and think" and "make more time for study, stop giving in to the tendency to seek external social stimuli and ignore the books, you know it will get out of hand, those foundations are beginning to rock already...."