Well... I have an idea that I've been thinking about for awhile.
It seems to me that there's a fair amount of INTP-related difficulties in life. Difficulty meshing with society, feeling different and not understanding why, depression, etc. I'd like to see some kind of INTP outreach, to undiscovered INTPs.
When I was presented with the MBTI in high school it was explained incredibly poorly. (I was also being stubborn, it seemed extremely silly that there were only 16 types, and that there was no shading between the binary options. This could have been fixed by explaining the cognitive functions better. Infact, how about an explaination of MBTI that starts with the cognitive functions?)
I feel like it wouldn't be that hard to create an "education package" for teaching the MBTI that would explain the concepts will, no matter if you're N or S.
High school and college is when people's personalities have really formed, and it's already a time of uncertainty. It's always a good time to discover what MBTI type you are, but I think that earlier would be better.
As long as we're on the subject... I've uploaded a little excel chart I made the other night. You put in your MBTI type and it shows what your cognitive functions are.
http://www.2shared.com/file/4154974/1484b9e7/MBTIcognitivefunction.html
Well... I have an idea that I've been thinking about for awhile.
It seems to me that there's a fair amount of INTP-related difficulties in life. Difficulty meshing with society, feeling different and not understanding why, depression, etc. I'd like to see some kind of INTP outreach, to undiscovered INTPs.
When I was presented with the MBTI in high school it was explained incredibly poorly. (I was also being stubborn, it seemed extremely silly that there were only 16 types, and that there was no shading between the binary options. This could have been fixed by explaining the cognitive functions better. Infact, how about an explaination of MBTI that starts with the cognitive functions?)
I feel like it wouldn't be that hard to create an "education package" for teaching the MBTI that would explain the concepts will, no matter if you're N or S.
High school and college is when people's personalities have really formed, and it's already a time of uncertainty. It's always a good time to discover what MBTI type you are, but I think that earlier would be better.
(There will be probably be a double-post here. I added a download link which got caught by the moderator software. I'm now editing this post to include it.)
While we're on the subject, I made an excel chart that figures out cognitive functions from the MBTI type.
http://www.2shared.com/file/4154974/1484b9e7/MBTIcognitivefunction.html
So, what kind of effort would that involve?
Creating the teaching guide:
-Writing a teaching plan
-Modify the teaching plan for different classes (high school vs. college; different subjects like english, history, psychology).
-Get in touch with MBTI, personalitypage, and other mbti resources to see if there's already something like this around that could use extra people pushing for it.
Distribution:
-Getting in touch with high school and college professors, or administrators who are in power to change curriculum.
-Learn about how H.S. curriculums are changed. Sometimes it's a long process.
-Have a simple website to reference to people.
What really has to be different in effort (as oppose to the multitudes of MBTI information sources) is the quality of the information and the understandability.
From there, once people know their types, hopefully we could re-route the different types to different resources. Like profile pages, the Paul James profile, etc.
