I had a wonderful "paid professional friend" for a while who commented that my mind was like a Calder mobile, its drifting elements being my various passions and interests. The interest-du-jour was whichever element had drifted to the foreground.
I found this metaphor enormously reassuring, because up to that point I'd just called myself flakey.
In sharing this insight with friends, I've concluded that Calder-Mobile-Mind is a trait I have in common with everyong I find interesting, and it's a source of intermittent despair to all of us.
INTP, by most versions of the test I've taken. I seem to come up 51/49 on the T-F axis, though.
Almost all my friends are introverts (all three of them--hee!), but there are a couple of notably extraverted exceptions with whom I share the drifty-brain, an enthusiastic pouncing on some new idea or interest, and the inevitable fade.
I don't have a strong theoretical grasp on the MBTI, but I wonder if the Calder-mobile-mind isn't generally a trait of Intuitives.
Yeah, I'm not surprised. American gas-guzzling bad taste would come up first via the algorithm--whcih I suspect is uses Google Images, which, in turn, is a sort of popularity contest, isn't it?
I actually cheated and changed some of my interest listings to get better pictures.
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Date: 2007-07-27 01:29 am (UTC)I can see that I need to list a few more interests!
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Date: 2007-07-27 05:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-27 04:19 pm (UTC)I found this metaphor enormously reassuring, because up to that point I'd just called myself flakey.
In sharing this insight with friends, I've concluded that Calder-Mobile-Mind is a trait I have in common with everyong I find interesting, and it's a source of intermittent despair to all of us.
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Date: 2007-07-27 04:44 pm (UTC)Are you INFJ?
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Date: 2007-07-27 05:23 pm (UTC)Almost all my friends are introverts (all three of them--hee!), but there are a couple of notably extraverted exceptions with whom I share the drifty-brain, an enthusiastic pouncing on some new idea or interest, and the inevitable fade.
I don't have a strong theoretical grasp on the MBTI, but I wonder if the Calder-mobile-mind isn't generally a trait of Intuitives.
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Date: 2007-07-27 11:29 am (UTC)Me too. And NONE of the pictures offered for "classic cars" was any good - they're all yank-tanks.
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Date: 2007-07-27 12:29 pm (UTC)Gah! You'd think at least a Ford Capri would have turned up.
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Date: 2007-07-27 03:57 pm (UTC)I actually cheated and changed some of my interest listings to get better pictures.