enlightenment

Forgive the bluntness of this short post but:

One would think that consciousness was incompatible with immaturity. You would think that, once you've gathered some experience, read, talked, thought about things a lot, that a certain wisdom would come of that. But then comes a time when you are clearly picturing yourself having the most immature set of reactions and behaviour and you feel incapable of acting any differently, no matter how wrong you know you are, no matter how much you wish you reacted distinctly but you seem to be unable to curb, ugh hate saying this, 'your nature'. So much for enlightenment...

Let's get dizzy-cal, dizzy-cal!

This is so cool!

I saw this on a blog and I had to put it here. It's from the australian newspaper Herald Sun.

If the girl isn't spinning, click on the picture.
And then observe: is she circling clockwise or counter-clockwise? Or does she spin both ways?

If you see her moving like the clock, the right-side of your brain is dominant over the other. If you see her counter-clockwise, it's the other way around. The left brain is more into logic, language and science. The right side is more into feeling, symbols and imagination. To read more about this, you can read the original article here.

Know thyself*

I remember an episode back in high school. Someone came into our classroom and asked everyone to write in a piece of paper the personal quality they found most important. I can't remember why they wanted to know.

I thought about it and I wrote: "Self-knowledge". My classmates wrote things like Trust, Sense of Humour, Honesty. When I told them what I had written, they looked at me like I was out of my mind. "Self-knowledge? What good does that do? Is that a good thing?" Oriental philosophies weren't quite as broadcast as they are now.

Today I'm happy to look back and see that I haven't changed my opinion about that. Self-knowledge is the base for the construction of the persona/personality. You can't grow into a balanced, mature individual if you don't know yourself, you don't know your history, your experiences, how you react, what makes you tick and what doesn't. And how can you love yourself when you don't know who you're dealing with? And how can you live with yourself if you have no self-love? You can't.

*(Gnothi seauton - this was already written at the entrance of the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, Ancient Greece)

Challenge

Okay, I've got a question for you.
Imagine you were reading a magazine or a newspaper. It can be a general newspaper, a woman's magazine, a scientific magazine, whatever you want. Imagine there are articles or columns written by a psychologist there. What kind of issues/themes/subjects would you like the articles to address? And I mean ...anything!
You.Tell.Me!
:)

I might as well share it

In my previous post, Stephanie asked me if I had done the Myers & Briggs test and I hadn't, so I had to find out what it was all about.
In a few words, it's a personality test that believes that human behaviour is classifiable and that people are predisposed to certain personality characteristics.
They defined four pairs of alternatives to define a personality type:
a) Extrovert vs. Introvert
b) Sensing vs. Intuitive
c) Thinking vs. Feeling
d) Judging vs. Perceiving

I did my test here because it's free, but it's not the original, I believe. My result was INFJ, meaning a conjunction of Introvert-Intuitive-Feeling-Judging. They call people like me "the Authors" and WE are only 1% of the population. They described me as complex personality (tell me something new!), a private person, easily hurt, willing to help others. "Distress within close relationships can shatter the INFJ." - that's so true.
The more I read it, the more true it sounds. This is a great test, go and do it!
And they also give you a list of jobs that are good for you - I loved that!! Mine included psychologist, librarian, poet/writer, research, translator ...