Meri's Musings

I'm a mild introvert, which means that I prefer to process my thoughts before I speak them aloud and that I recharge my emotional batteries by spending time alone. (In fact, if you're familiar with Myers-Briggs  Type Indicators, I'm an INFP: Introverted (mild) Intuitive (extreme) Feeling (barely a preference) and a Perceiver (meaning I am more enthralled with process than concerned about closure, though I have learned to function like a "J" when it's expedient).  In new situations,  I have a tendency to hang back and observe until I get the lay of the land and figure out the dynamics of the situation. By contrast, extroverts process their thoughts by verbalizing and in group situations, they jump right in. Speak right up. And get energized by crowds. As an introvert, I have to push myself to be bold. . . to express myself and my position calmly and with precision and to not be overrun by those E...

I don't know if you've ever completed a  Myers-Briggs Type Indicator  to determine your personality type. From your answers,  you are given scores on four scales:  Extroversion - Introversion Sensate - Intuitive  Thinking - Feeling Judging - Perceiving That brings me to apples. (I know, it's a leap. Bear with me.)  So yesterday, I was in the grocery store and saw these delectable-looking apples all nicely arranged. And it reminded me of a continuing legal education seminar  I once took that was an introduction for lawyers to Myers-Briggs Type Indicators and Neuro-linguistic Programming. In the MBTI portion of the workshop, each lawyer was given  an inventory and then some of us were called  from the audience to participate in an exercise to show the difference between those who go through life as "sensates" and those who are "intuitives." Here was the mission: each group was given an apple, a magic marker,  and a big disp...