{"id":12247,"date":"2009-07-15T02:44:46","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T09:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/07\/15\/12247.html"},"modified":"2009-07-15T02:44:46","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T09:44:46","slug":"color-coded-personality-types","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/07\/15\/color-coded-personality-types\/","title":{"rendered":"Color-coded personality types"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today at work, we did various exercises relating to the \"True Colors<\/a>\" personality categorization system. I gather it's sort of loosely derived from Keirsey, Myers-Briggs, and Jung.<\/p>\n

In this system (as I understand it, which is extremely imperfectly) there are four colors\/personality types (these are my simplified paraphrases from memory; please don't criticize the original theory based on these descriptions):<\/p>\n

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Orange<\/dt>\n
Impulsive, quick to get started on things, quick to get bored and move on.<\/dd>\n
Blue<\/dt>\n
Interested in people and how they feel about things; social; takes things personally.<\/dd>\n
Gold<\/dt>\n
Organized, methodical, rules-bound, likes process and structure.<\/dd>\n
Green<\/dt>\n
Analytical, unconcerned with feelings, likes to be left alone to do their work, likes to create frameworks.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

I found two things particularly interesting about this system:<\/p>\n

First: they said everyone has some of each, but asked us to pick which one or two colors were our main approach(es) to work, life, etc. I picked blue and green because picking three seemed to be against the spirit of what they were going for, but honestly, by the criteria they listed, I'm blue\/green\/gold. About 3\/4 of the blue characteristics they listed applied to me, and at least half of the green and gold ones.<\/p>\n

To me, that suggests that this system as a whole is not a good match for me. I tend to judge this sort of system by (a) what percentage of the types seem like they match me, and (b) what percentage seem like they don't. This is one reason I don't believe in astrology; I have yet to see a description of the personality types allegedly belonging to birth signs in which I strongly match my sign but strongly don't match all the others. Conversely, one reason that I do take Myers-Briggs semi-seriously is that the descriptions of the two types that I come up as in online versions of the test\/sorter are pretty good matches for me, and the descriptions of the other types are not.<\/p>\n

Second: In many of the discussions we had today, there was an implicit assumption that greens are introverts and blues are extroverts. That's an easy shorthand, but in fact I think introvert\/extrovert is a separate axis from color; for example, the extrovert aspects of blue are the aspects that don't match me, and if I had to pick only one of the four colors, I'd say I'm an introvert blue.<\/p>\n

There's lots more to be said about this stuff, but I'm barely keeping my eyes open, so off to bed go I.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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