Actually, other than all the standard social media crap, this is the only online "community" I am a part of. Which is fine, just a point of note. Anyway, very recently I have picked back up on an accelerated interest again in personality theory and the like. I had done all this work a couple decades ago by now with myself, in conjunction with other things like the Enneagram and Gardner's Frames of Mind and EQ Golem material, wisdom theory stuff etc. etc. More from a view point of comparing my lock on the subject matter, to what was actually "out there" regarding these considerations. I wanted to know, to what degree had "others" come to know some of these kinds of things that I knew, so I could in turn learn more about myself. Because for me, as with I suspect most of you, I did all this stuff innately, therefore it wasn't easy to assume that what I was seeing was not seen by everyone. Example, for a very long time, in the spirit of "fair thinking for all", I had to give everyone their due, with regard to the accuracy bit, until they proved me wrong. An innocent until guilty approach. Which naturally they did. But it is no easy pill to swallow that you are bound and dedicated to a path of isolation that few know. Now as a sidebar, I was perfectly convinced in 4th grade that my teacher was a moron and that I was the smartest person in the room, and that has never changed (I do know there are other smart people, and I am aware of manners of intelligence where I am the moron, still I am not referring to any of that. I'm not proud of that fact, (I'm not saying I never was proud of that fact, I like to think that I am reformed in some ways, which is a conversation for another day, just that I'm not presently proud of that fact). Did he once bathe in a bed of narcissism? Hello?! I find it disturbing to be honest, these days. Anyway, people grasp clarity in strange doses, I find...everyone a bit different from anyone else. And, of course, I wanted to understand myself better so that I could see where I should be going, right? No mystery there. Still, at the risk of appearing vague, the convergence of many items in life have presently pushed me back to take another hard look at these concepts, to once again chart a course forward in some capacity. To that end, I say hello to all of you. And to that end, I suspect there may be a few people here that I want to chat with so that WE might forge a path fraught with mutual benefit...Just saying..