I often have trouble attending to the details in life. I’d definitely consider myself a big picture kind of guy. It’s on odd sort of hyperopia. It certainly has its benefits. One of the reasons people think I’m so smart is that I see connections and patterns that other people miss. I see them, because I’m always focusing on them. But it also has its downsides. Leaving aside the prozaic difficulties of my oft missing keys, glasses, and wallet, there are the larger concerns. “I’m going away in 3 weeks, why should I go out and have fun? In the long run, it’s not like I’ll be seeing much of these people, cool though they are.” Then there’s the shit I give myself for not going to the gym, given its clear long run payoff for short term discomfort, boredom, and sacrificed time.
Sometimes it helps to take my eyes off the prize. Every once in awhile. It’s just that, when I do, I have trouble focusing.
have you ever done…
Myers-Briggs testing..
It’s a personality type testing thing… that is based on Jungian pscyhological theories… There are a number of lj communities that are about it.. and some really interesting discussions go on there..
in any case.. if you haven’t done it already.. you can always go to:
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm
to take a test… (it will also give you relative numbers to give you an idea of how strong you are along 4 different axes)
or you can just go to
http://www.personalitypage.com/home.html
and take a test there and read about the different types..
Now.. I’m not saying that this kind of test tells everything about a person–I don’t believe that you could possibly describe a person by taking multiple choice tests… humans are so much richer than that…
but it does provide some useful insights into yourself and other people..
Re: have you ever done…
Oh, absolutely. =)
I’m an INFP, borderline on the I and F, but there you have it. I also know I seem to have a special compatability with INTJ’s. Riddle me that.
yeh it’s all about the Balance – but i also tend to be geared toward The Larger Picture. it’s prob’ly fair to say that i really suck at the short term issues, at times. Still, i do believe you and i are better men than the boys who don’t look much beyond the boundary as close as their own hard-on length ;-0
hyperopia
that’s a new word for me – i like it!