hey

in lab now, seeding cells for tomorrow's experiment. last week astar asked the returning and departing people to attend a 3 day course- summer odyssey. actually quite interesting, and i did my MBTI personality type. E/I extrovertedness and introvertedness; S/N sensing and intuition; T/F thinking and feeling; and J/P judging and perceiving. The way the instructor placed it is actually quite interesting because she focused on the different working styles of people with different personality types and how to adapt to another personality type..I am ENTP.. E/I is pretty obvious. extroverted people tend to feel energetised in a group, introverted people prefer to be alone and to think before they speak. S/N. S people appear to be more detail orientated, and they notice the specifics, rather than the big picture. If they are asked to describe "ocean", they tend to give descriptives like fish, waves, doplhins, salty, seaweed, beach etc. But the N people tend to give descriptives like water, blue, grey, vast, they tend not to focus on the specifics.
T/F thinking and feeling... F people are more people orientated. although both might arrive at the same decision, the basis upon which they come to the decision is different. If T thinks that something is right, he/she will do it even if others are upset with it. F people are more senstive towards other people's needs and feelings. The instructor posed the following problem. You are part of a team of 6 people that won a prize. The prize allows you to go travelling as a group and claim up to $50000. but the only weekend that you guys are all free to go, one of the group memeber's grandmother fell very sick, and he has to take care of her. Will you fly without him. 3/4 groups say that they will fly without him. Most of the T people think that it is a waste of money not to fly and that they will compensate for him through other means. One of the F group actually said something that it quite interesting. they claim that he will be upset if the group stays back because of him, hence to make him feel better, they will fly. hmm. errr.
J/P is also interesting, because although all will plan when needed, the question is whether you will choose to plan when you don;t really need to. J people like to plan, and they prefer to plan, but P people try not to plan, as long as they don't have to. P people like to have options open, and they change their minds quite often, whereas J people are normally quite orderly. =p For those with very high P score right, when they change clothes, where their pants drop is where it will stay. they won't bother to pick it up and put back to the right place.=p
sigh.
it is quite interesting not because MBTI classifies people into 16 groups, but rather because people are actually so different. There is a score range between the 2 extremes in each case, and supposedly, if you are experiencing changes, like entering a lab that requires you to be very careful, you may shift from N to S...
=p
okay, enough rubbish for now. take care.





～～haiyoh.. how come you sigh in the middle of nowhere one?
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