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In 1942, a mother-daughter duo named Katherine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers developed a questionnaire that classified people’s personalities into 16 types. Called the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, or MBTI, it would go on to become one of the world’s most widely-used personality tests. But do these tests actually reveal truths about personality? Merve Emre examines their design flaws.
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What's Your Type? By Jean Kummerow (Full Transcript) – The Singju Post
Jean Kummerow at TEDxGrinnellCollegeHere is the full text of MBTI expert | Jean Kummerow’s talk titled “What’s Your Type?” at TEDxGrinnellCollege conference. In this talk, she walks the audience through the different personality types with humor and personal experience.
Jean Kummerow – TEDx Talk TRANSCRIPT
I’m going to talk to you today about something every one of us does. We categorize everything that crosses our path, including people, and sometimes we do this in not a very flattering way.
My favorite quote about categorizing people comes from the comedian George Carlin. He said there are three kinds of people: those who can count and those who cannot.
I’m glad you got that.
Well, I want to talk about a positive way of categorizing people. It’s called personality type, and it’s based on something called the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, or MBTI Assessment.
I’m just going to be able to give you a little bit of that framework. There’s a lot more to it than I’m going to get to today.
So, what this is about is it’s about how you prefer to gain energy, gather information, make decisions
and live your life.
Now, this word “preference” is a really important thing in this system. So I just want to do a quick demonstration of what preference happens to be.
So, let’s say you’re really skeptical about personality type and you cross your arms and maybe you even tap your foot. Just try that with me, if you would, okay?
Now, you probably didn’t even think, “Which arm do I put on top?” You have a natural preference for how you cross your arms.
So, try crossing them in the other way. You can do it, easily. It doesn’t feel quite as natural. And we’re going to be talking about personality preferences within ourselves. And they’re really natural habits, natural mental habits that you have, for the ways you might like to think, or do, or act.
Now, I think it’s helpful to know about personality type for two reasons. One is, it can help you understand that that other person is not really trying to drive you crazy on purpose. They just see the world in a different way than you do.
And the second reason is it can help you understand more about yourself, about things that come more easily for you, things that might take a little bit more time, that might be a little bit more difficult, so that you can forgive yourself when you’re not perfect.
But that doesn’t excuse yourself from trying. So, let’s start in on this framework.
When I was growing up, I thought family togetherness was everyone in the same room reading a book. I’m an extrovert, I grew up in a family of introverts. My mother thought that my siblings needed to go to nursery school and I didn’t. It probably should have been reverse.
They needed their quiet time and I would have had fun with those other kids. I can assure you we’re all just fine today.
So, this is the first what we call preference pair, and it has to do with where we direct and receive our energy. There’s an extroverted way and an introverted way.
Now, these are not social skills. You can have people who prefer extroversion and people who prefer introversion who are shy.
This is about energy.
So, extroverts want their energy to go out and, when it goes out, they’re with people, they’re doing things, it comes bouncing back to them.
And introverts want their energy to go in. By looking at ideas, impressions, facts inside their head, they create more energy.
Now, I need to do a quick aside on this idea of preference pairs. We believe that you have both within you. It’s just that you prefer one over the other. It really does not guarantee just because you prefer something that you’re good at it.
You might need to develop skills with it and, while you’re at it, develop skills with the other preference. That’s going to be helpful because there are times when you need to flex and act in a different way.
If you just do everything according to your preferences, it’s not going to always work.
So, when we look at extroversion and introversion and how it appears in meetings, it’s kind of interesting. So, extroverts in a meeting are more likely to be talking their ideas out.
If I bring it out, it becomes real, and I may start over here and end up over here, because I’ve made it real as I’m talking it out.
Now, the introvert listening to that extrovert may be thinking, “If they just shut up, we would get somewhere.” Well, they don’t understand extroversion is about bringing it out.
So, our introverts are taking things in during that meeting, they’re mulling it through, and our extrovert looking at them is probably going, “Are they awake? Are they listening to me?”
And we assume that they are because they’re working it out inside. Silences for extroverts are space to be filled. Silences for introverts are space to be cherished.
When we think about interruptions, there’s also a different way that people may look at that. Interruptions for extroverts actually may be compliments: “Gee, someone’s listened to what I’ve said! They want to jump right in, you know, build on my idea.” It’s a compliment.
But, for an introvert, that same interruption may be rude: “I’ve thought about it inside, I’m bringing up my ideas, you’re interrupting me.
I need to stop and think, ‘Is that new information or is it a pure dribble?’ and then I’m going to continue with my talk.”
Introverts, by the way, once they know people and topics well, will act like extroverts because they’ve done their inside work. We say that, if you want to know what an extrovert is thinking, you haven’t been listening.
If you want to know what an introvert is thinking, you haven’t asked. So, now I want to go on to the next one, which is how we gather data and the kind of information we like and trust.
The preference pairs here are sensing and intuition. Now, I happen to prefer sensing. I like things to be practical, actual, real. I just really want to get down to the here and now of what’s going on.
Now, by contrast, intuitive types like possibilities, meanings, the big picture, and I want to show you a picture that gets at some of these differences.
So, if we look at this particular picture with a sensing lens, we may see pillars, trees, yellow flowers, there’s an umbrella in there, and so forth.
If we look at this picture from an intuitive point of view, we might see an ancient lost civilization, where the wild things are, or a ballet of dancing trees.
Now, we both looked at the same picture. So, I use this in a community leadership program and we get people into sensing groups and intuitive groups and have them look at this picture and talk about it.
We had a civil engineer once who pointed over to — he was in the sensing group — he pointed to the intuitive group and he said, “Hum, I always thought they were liars. I would go to a community meeting and present my facts. I would see them a couple of days later and they said I said things I know I didn’t say. Our memories are just fine. So, now I know I need to sit down with them and find out how they got from my facts to what they’re interpreting.”
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Is "I" an illusion, a stream or a pivot? We publish TED lectures with Russian subtitles, in which psychologists, neuroscientists and philosophers are trying to figure out what consciousness is, how it appears and forms our sense of “self”, what enriches us with awareness of ourselves as a process, and not as an entity, and in general - what does us as we are.
What is consciousness? How does it appear and give us a sense of "self"? How is our idea of self formed? In general, what makes us who we are?
"Monocler" chose TED lectures with Russian subtitles, in which psychologists, neuroscientists and philosophers understand the problem "Who are we?".
Is there a single "I" or is it an illusion? What misconceptions about human nature prevent us from progressing? What can give us awareness of ourselves as a process, and not as an entity? How do visualization technologies and mental interaction with a computer help us understand ourselves? All this is in a selection of TED lectures on the Monoclere.
Julian Baggini: "Does your real self exist?"
What makes you who you are? Your own opinion about yourself, the opinion of others, or something completely different? In his presentation, Julian Baggini gives an unexpected answer to this question, calling on the help of philosophy and neuroscience.
Who are you really? A very strange question, as it may seem. After all, you may ask: how to find the real you? How to find out who you really are? Well, and so on. But the very idea that your real self exists is quite obvious. If there is anything real in this world, it is you. Well, I wouldn't be so sure. At the very least, we need to understand what it means. Many things in our culture reinforce us in the idea that every person has some inner essence. There is something that makes you you, defines your personality, which is constant and unchanging. The most primitive example of this is all kinds of horoscopes. People with them have somehow grown together. They list their zodiac signs on Facebook* like they mean something. You even know who you are according to the Chinese horoscope. There are also more scientific versions - various tests for determining the type of personality, such as, for example, the Myers-Briggs typology. You may have gone through them. Companies use them for recruitment.
You answer a lot of questions, and this should reveal your inner being. Of course, everyone is incredibly passionate about it. In almost any issue of a magazine, like the one you see in the bottom corner, you can find some material about the personality. Picking up a magazine like this, it's hard to resist, isn't it? You are taking a test to find out your learning style, your relationship style, your work style. Are you this type or another? We have a generally accepted idea that there is some essence of man that needs to be discovered. This is a certain given in people, which does not change during life. I want to challenge this idea.
Going deeper The problem of consciousness in psychology and philosophy: who controls our thoughts?
Dan Gilbert: "The Psychology of Your Self in the Future"
"People are creatures that are in constant development and mistakenly believe that their formation has already been completed.
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Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert shares with us a recent study on what he calls "the end of the story of delusion," according to which most people believe that we will remain the same as we are now throughout our lives. Dan Gilbert popularly explains why this is not the case.
At every stage of our life we make decisions that affect our future development. And when we achieve what we want, we are not always happy with our choice. Young people spend a lot of money on tattoo removal, for which teenagers also paid a lot. People in maturity divorce those with whom they were in a hurry to marry at a very young age. The elderly try to get rid of what they got with difficulty in adulthood. And so on. The question that interests me is this: why do we make decisions that we often regret later? I think that one of the reasons is - I will try to convince you of this - that we all completely underestimate the power of time. We all know that the rate of change over the course of a lifetime decreases so much that children seem to change every minute, while parents notice changes over the years.
But what is the name of the magical moment in life when change suddenly changes its pace from a gallop to a crawl? In adolescence? At maturity? In old age? For most people, it turns out that this moment is right now, no matter what period of time it falls on. I want to prove to you today that we all live with the illusion that our personal history has come to an end, that we have just become what we were meant to be and will remain so throughout our lives.
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Antonio Damasio: "In an attempt to understand consciousness"
Every morning we wake up and consciousness returns to us. this is certainly a miracle, but what exactly do we gain again and again? Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, answering this simple question, introduces us to how the brain creates our sense of self.
I want to talk to you about the wonders and mysteries of the conscious mind.
The miracle is that we all woke up this morning and at the same moment, in an amazing way, our consciousness returned to us. We again became fully aware of ourselves and fully aware of our existence, but we did not even think about this miracle. Although, in fact, it would be worth it, because, without being able to think consciously, we would not know anything about our human nature; the world around us would be closed to us. We would not experience pain, but there would be no joy in life either. We would not know the love and happiness of creation. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote: "The one who invented consciousness committed a great sin" . However, he forgot that if we did not have consciousness, we would not find the path to true happiness and would lose the opportunity to even come close to it. But enough about miracles - let's move on to riddles. This is one of those mysteries that is very difficult to shed light on. Since the dawn of philosophy, and certainly throughout the history of neuroscience, this mystery has remained unsolved and has caused a lot of discussion.
And, in fact, there are many people around who believe that it is not worth even trying to solve this riddle, that it is worth leaving it alone, it is not for the human mind. I do not think so and I think that the situation has moved off the ground. It would be foolish to claim that we know how consciousness arises in our brain. However, we can certainly begin to address this issue and thereby move closer to a solution.
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Brian Little: “Who are you really? Mystery of Personality»
What makes you exactly who you are? Psychologists love to talk about the characteristics that define our personality. But Brian Little finds it more interesting when we go beyond these traits, because it is required of us by the culture or by ourselves. In his presentation, the speaker explores the amazing differences between introverts and extroverts and explains why our personalities can be more flexible than we think.
What are these free features? They show up when we run a script to achieve success in our life project. These are the traits that matter. Don't ask people to describe themselves, ask them, "What are the main projects in your life?" We use these free features. I am an introvert, but my main project is teaching. I am a professor. I love my students and I love my job. I look forward to telling them something new and exciting that I can't wait to tell them. And I act like an extrovert, because at eight in the morning students need a little humor, a little teamwork to help them get through this busy day of school.
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Ariel Garten: "Know thyself with the brain scanner"
Imagine that you are playing a mentally controlled computer game. Imagine now that the game also reveals to you how you experience stress, relax and concentrate.
At TEDxToronto, Ariel Garten demonstrates how looking at our brain activity gives new meaning to the ancient adage "Know thyself."
Do you know what makes you tired or what turns on your active self? What drives you into a state of depression or what joys can drive away your fears? Imagine that you have access to data that allows you to measure the overall happiness of all the people in your life or activities that bring you joy. Will you devote more time to these people? Do you prioritize? File for divorce? Mental interaction with a computer can create a series of vivid pictures of our lives. With the help of this, we can get a relief of our psycho-physiological happiness and build a plot of actions over time. We can begin to see the subconscious tendencies that move us forward and explain to ourselves what is happening to us. Based on this, we can learn to change the plot, the outcome and the nature of our lives.
Daniel Kahneman: "The riddle of the experience-memory dichotomy"
Using examples ranging from vacations to a colonoscopy situation, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman demonstrates how differently our “experiencing self” and our “remembering self” perceive happiness.
This new approach has profound implications for economics, politics and our own identity.
Now everyone is talking about happiness. I once asked one person to count all the books with the word "happiness" in the title published in the last 5 years, and he gave up after the 40th, but of course there were even more. The rise in interest in happiness is huge among researchers. There are many tutorials on this subject. Everyone wants to make people happier. But despite such an abundance of literature, there are some cognitive traps that practically do not allow you to think correctly about happiness. And my talk today will be mainly about these cognitive traps. This applies to ordinary people who think about their happiness, and to the same extent scientists who think about happiness, since it turns out that we are all equally confused. The first of these pitfalls is an unwillingness to admit how complex the concept is. It turns out that the word "happiness" is no longer such a useful word, because we apply it to too many different things.
I think that there is one specific meaning that we should limit ourselves to, but, in general, this is something that we will have to forget about and develop a more comprehensive view of what well-being is. The second trap is the confusion of experience and memory: that is, between being happy in life and feeling happy about your life or feeling that life suits you. These are two completely different concepts, but both of them are usually combined into one concept of happiness. And the third is the illusion of focus, and it's a sad fact that we can't think of any circumstance that affects our well-being without distorting its significance. This is the real cognitive trap. And there is simply no way to get it all right.
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- Daniel Kahneman on cognitive distortions, intuition and happiness
- "Happiness is the moment when you need more happiness": understanding the tricks of humanity's most illusory idea
- "Happiness? No thanks”: Slavoj Žižek on why we should not pursue well-being
Talitha Williams: Own Your Body Data
It seems that a new generation of high-tech devices that monitor the state of the body, measuring heart rate, sleep phases, the number of steps taken per day, are invented for professional athletes.
But statistician Talita Williams argues persuasively that each of us should measure and record simple data about our body daily, because it can reveal much more than doctors can know.
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https://www.ted.com/talks/ramsey_musallam_3_rules_to_spark_learning?language=ru
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Lecture 3: The Four Pillars of Success in College and Science
https://www.ted.com/talks/freeman_hrabowski_4_pillars_of_college_success_in_science?language=en
Presented by University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) President Freeman Grabowski.
He has an interesting biography: at the age of 12 he happened to walk alongside Martin Luther King. Today, he leads people by creating an environment that helps people from minority groups - Africans, Hispanics, the underprivileged, etc. - excel in science or mathematics. His methodology is based on 4 principles, which he openly shares.
Lecture 4: The economic case for preschool education
https://www.ted.com/talks/timothy_bartik_the_economic_case_for_preschool?language=en
Timothy Bartik is speaking on such an interesting and timely topic: he argues why to invest in early childhood education is beneficial. Even if you do not have children or they have already stepped over this age! The speaker clearly demonstrates how the positive impact of quality preschool education moves from the sphere of altruism and charity to economics and numbers.
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Andreas Schleicher offers his own method for assessing the effectiveness of the education system.
The speaker talks about the PISA test, which is an international analysis system. Testing analyzes countries in relation to each other, and then uses the obtained data to improve the educational system. At the lecture, you will see where our country is located, and you will be able to understand why some countries have a more efficient education system than others.
Lecture 6: What online education teaches us
https://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education?language=en
A burning topic - and a radical proposal on it from speaker Daphne Koller. She seriously suggests that universities make the best courses and programs open and free. For this, she has a strong argument: all actions that are carried out in the Internet environment reflect the unique data on the processing and development of information by a modern user.
Lecture 7: Advice for young scientists
https://www.ted.com/talks/e_o_wilson_advice_to_a_young_scientist?language=en
famous biologist E.
O. Wilson. He begins his speech with optimistic words of an appeal to the future luminaries of science: "The world needs you very much." Actually, this is already motivating enough to stop watching and take on your unique project! However, we still recommend listening to the lecture - the most persistent will have a review of Wilson's book and a number of valuable tips on the implementation of scientific activities from a person who at one time himself faced the difficulties of conducting research. Imagination and interest are the main fuel for life in science.
Lecture 8: What we learn before birth
https://www.ted.com/talks/annie_murphy_paul_what_we_learn_before_we_re_born?language=en
Author Annie Murphy Paul literally changes our understanding of the basics of the universe, telling that the unborn child begins to shape his life and explore the world already in the womb. The fetus hears the voices of parents and songs in the language that will become native to him.
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Lecture 9: What is the best way to learn? On Mistakes
https://www.ted.com/talks/diana_laufenberg_how_to_learn_from_mistakes?language=en
The hackneyed phrase of motivational coaches about the benefits of learning from your own mistakes is not taken from anywhere - Diana Laufenberg will talk about this in more detail. In the course of her training, she unexpectedly realized 3 things that make the stepping on the rake method so effective. Don't believe? Look and think about this topic together with the meeting participants.
Lecture 10: Who are you really
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEx4iA5-7Xc
Our super useful selection ends with a speech with a philosophical title. In the video, TED education host John Legend performs a lyrical acoustic version of "Who Are You Really" for children and teachers.
