tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296207740264899642024-03-06T01:38:25.225+02:00The Non-Ex-SocionistThings related to socionics and self-development. Since 2006.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger206125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-27101481819109955432023-01-04T11:35:00.012+02:002023-01-04T12:48:17.395+02:00Zelensky and Putin. The Russo-Ukrainian War.IEE and LSI.My initial thought for Zelensky was SEE, but I've come around to IEE. See no basis for EIE whatsoever. Zelensky and Putin could not be more different in how they process information. Putin probably doesn't even know what it means to say what you think. His whole life he has been concealing what he thinks. He receives curated briefings from those further down in his chain of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-60162368943890516682021-02-16T11:13:00.341+02:002022-12-11T08:01:53.300+02:00Bitcoin and SocionicsOver the past 1–2 years I've learned a lot about Bitcoin. Here I'm going to briefly share a few typings and socionics-related observations about Bitcoin and the Bitcoin community. It's not surprising that most vocal advocates for Bitcoin are intuitive types. Bitcoin is intangible and promises to transform the world over time. There are probably more sensing types among miners; cryptocurrencyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-74698878445225023352020-01-12T15:06:00.000+02:002020-01-12T15:53:31.036+02:00How Personality Changes in SilenceIn the past year or two I have discovered the world of silence through silent retreats and meditation. Many realizations have ensued.
When people interact at length in silence, their personalities appear to change. In fact, they do change. After a couple days of silence, the brain stops bringing so much verbal thinking into conscious awareness because it is found to be irrelevant and a waste of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-48184114540807645402020-01-12T15:04:00.002+02:002020-01-12T15:23:38.919+02:00The meaning of words for rational and irrational typesRational and irrational types seem to have different relationships to words. Rational types tend to "trust" words spoken by themselves and others, while irrational types "mistrust" them.
In conversation, rational types seem to pay more attention to words and treat them as accurate indicators of what a person really thinks, feels, and experiences. Irrational types seem not to focus much on words Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-85124532797122785362019-09-02T09:46:00.001+02:002021-02-20T00:06:59.728+02:00The Paradox of Dominant Intuition"No time but now."
"There is no 'now.' More precisely, there is nothing but 'now,' so no need to divide 'now' and 'not-now.'"
"This is it. There is nothing but this. Can you prove otherwise?"
"This has no purpose, no function, no essence. It just is."
Paradoxical or not, introspection-prone dominant intuition types, especially those with extraverted intuition (damn, I miss those symbols!), oftenUnknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-11763671354018296412019-04-22T09:51:00.005+02:002019-04-22T15:44:30.672+02:00Jordan Peterson's Socionic TypeAgainst my better judgment, I'm going to do that ridiculous act where you attach a label to someone's body-mind after several hours of deliberation for no reason at all other than a kind of empty intellectual satisfaction.
Preface: I like JP and his ideas a lot. He's brilliant and riveting, even moving.
Jordan Peterson: EIE
My initial thought was IEE, but inconsistencies quickly emerged:
- Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-90787070887181800692019-03-02T13:58:00.000+02:002019-03-02T13:58:07.890+02:00It's Not Your Fault You're Unhappy (or Happy)I would like to propose a sweeping explanation for why different people's lives turn out so differently. We'll start at the level of sub-minds and end up at the societal and demographic level, then return to the hopeless predicament of the individual, possibly introducing a ray of optimism (I won't make any promises).
Let's start with the idea of internal conflict or harmony.
Internal Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-76445719990541956042019-02-27T04:37:00.001+02:002019-02-27T05:08:46.266+02:00Non-duality as an Adaptation to SeparationHuman psychology evolved for the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, but for many thousands of years most of us have not been living that life.
If you've ever been on an expedition or part of some intense team experience that lasted three days or more, you will probably have experienced a significant loss of "ego": far fewer thoughts about your "self" and your personal story and far more spontaneous Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-33322949619155957052019-02-22T07:34:00.001+02:002019-02-27T05:11:05.548+02:00All the Serotonin You Ever NeedYou can engineer your inner mental world to produce more of the neurochemicals you want. This is what enlightened people have managed to do.
What are "tranquility," "equanimity," and "mindfulness" if not a cocktail of serotonin, dopamine, noradrenaline, and other chemicals? — in combination with particular neural structures, of course. One without the other doesn't produce the whole effect.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-8785626372832415452019-02-20T17:04:00.004+02:002019-04-19T08:54:03.261+02:00Why this Blog is Now Called "The Non-Ex-Socionist"Six years ago I wrote a post called "Why this Blog is Now Called "The [Ex-]Socionist." Six months ago I wrote a post called "Ex-ex-socionist?"
From now on this blog will be called "The Non-Ex-Socionist."
The Non-Ex-Socionist Manifesto
There may be types. Actually, it seems like there are. We can pretend that there are. Sometimes it helps. Sometimes it doesn't.
The recognition that there Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-62647022205708725512018-08-22T17:46:00.000+02:002018-08-22T20:41:39.851+02:00Ex-ex-socionist?A recent conversation with a Russian girl who's into socionics (the first such conversation in several years) made me aware of the possibility that I may have gone too far in my rejection of socionics. Since then I have been thinking about types a lot and trying to find the baby in all the bathwater I'd thrown out. It seems to make sense at this point in time to identify the subjectivity in my Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-76268174321579066472017-08-26T11:35:00.000+02:002017-08-26T15:24:32.478+02:00Socionists Discover New Function
Socionists Sulimenko and Gornobakhov from the Novopetrovskiy Institute of Applied Socionics Studies have discovered a new element of information metabolism missing from the original Model A. The function is denoted as a black (extraverted) or white (introverted) pentagon and is claimed to resolve difficulties of type identification and inconsistencies in the expression of Intertype Relations Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-8654919090214535122017-01-09T13:59:00.002+02:002017-01-09T13:59:46.386+02:00Trying to decide what to do with Socionics.usOne of the best resources on socionics in English, Socionics.us is about to change location yet again. I have just sold the site that it is currently being hosted on, TryUkraine.com. I have one other traditional hosted site left that I can attach it to...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-79072289834942812962017-01-04T17:06:00.000+02:002017-01-04T17:20:56.215+02:004 Clues that Socionics Theory Is at Least Partly False
Major Theoretical Fallacy #1: According to Model A, information is conveyed from person to person via matching functions. In other words, an ESI conveys information about introverted ethics to an SLI via the 1st function of first and the 6th function of the second. It is this information that determines the nature of the relationship between them.
No, that's just not how things work. If the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-33310752681835673252016-12-06T16:29:00.004+02:002017-01-04T17:12:38.826+02:00How to Forget about, or Unlearn Socionics
Either find a convincing intellectual explanation for why part or all of it is false. (e.g. this post)
Or find a system of ideas to replace it which explains the same domains of personality and relationships.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-43454476850059694032016-12-06T16:24:00.000+02:002017-01-04T17:13:02.536+02:00Why Socionics is a Recipe for Strife
Socionics causes people to infringe upon each other's boundaries by inappropriately discussing the qualities of the other person (inappropriately from the perspective of normal etiquette). Once this behavior has begun, it permanently affects a relationship. It may never be the same as when there was a "safe" distance between the people.
If two people become close friends or lovers, this Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-34174513220049987862016-02-18T13:29:00.001+02:002016-12-06T16:17:51.601+02:00My First BookThe site is not yet 100% finished, and the book and instruction manual have not yet hit the press, but check it all out at www.FrictionlessMastery.com. You can sign up to receive notification when the products come out by entering your email here.
UPDATE: DEC. 2016
My instruction manual is now for sale on Amazon.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-9674213603911763122016-02-16T08:20:00.002+02:002016-02-16T08:21:06.366+02:00Socionics ResidueIt's been three years since I officially renounced socionics. I still subscribe to everything I wrote at the time. I no longer place any importance on socionics types — particularly my own. I disagree with the theory and believe it is fundamentally, hopelessly flawed.
At yet I find myself passively typing people on some subconscious level, even though I don't even care. I've had a number of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-87781342903458025662016-02-10T11:18:00.000+02:002016-02-10T11:40:09.347+02:00Socionics.us moved to a new address againI no longer write on socionics, at least for the time being. At first I preserved my defunct site Socionics.us by putting it into a sub-folder of my personal site, rickdelong.com. Now I am in the [slow] process of moving my personal site onto the Blogger platform, so the socionics section has disappeared again. Here is the new address at which you can find everything:
http://www.tryukraine.com/Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-33348070683757610062015-08-10T18:53:00.000+02:002015-08-10T18:55:23.264+02:00Braverman Test and CompatibilityI came across the Braverman test (Edge Effect Quiz) recently and would like to recommend it to readers. You can easily find it online. Here are my results:
Strengths
Acetylocholine — 40
Dopamine — 29
GABA — 22
Serotonin — 20
Deficiencies
Dopamine — 2
Acetylocholine — 6
Serotonin — 6
GABA — 12
I interpret this to mean that I am a highly creative individual with plenty of motivation to get Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-66937610903654263272015-08-10T18:33:00.001+02:002015-08-10T18:33:45.675+02:00Why I don't Write Much Online AnymoreI haven't posted much here or on any other of my websites for quite a while, and I wanted to explain why. Back in 2002 when I began writing online, there was a dearth of information and the Internet was still fairly new. Over the next 7 years I produced hundreds of articles on different subjects and designed and maintained several different websites.
As a dearth of information turned into a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-17846703454276017552014-12-15T19:43:00.000+02:002015-04-13T17:20:01.228+02:00My New Book: Frictionless Foreign Language MasteryYes, I'm coming out with my first book in a matter of weeks or months! The subject is not socionics, but I think many readers of my blog will find it interesting.
My book is about foreign language mastery — how to gain the most skills in the least time with the least effort and develop a sustainable long-term language mastery practice. As some readers may know, I have been speaking foreign Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-3491501751764657892014-09-08T20:31:00.002+03:002014-09-08T20:31:49.454+03:00Committing to Lifelong Work ActivitiesI want to share with readers a thought process that I have found to be very productive when considering long-term professional and personal goals. Recently this helped me to formulate with near-perfect clarity what I consider to be my "work" and how each of my four main branches of activities should be developed over the next N years.
The most important part was to identify activities that I am Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-39358991690071311122014-07-01T21:01:00.003+02:002014-07-01T21:01:39.486+02:00A Constructive Approach to Strength and WeaknessesAt certain times in life, for many people, I think it can be very constructive to view strengths and weaknesses as integral parts of one's personality. Socionics can help with this. It can be useful to stop trying to identify with or overcome one's weak areas and focus instead on strengths. I think this is especially important during the active formation of one's self-identify, typically during Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-329620774026489964.post-64112945162908737792014-06-29T21:15:00.003+02:002014-06-29T21:15:32.825+02:00Rick's Self-Improvement Cheat SheetJust some notes...
Have trouble focusing on one task, following through on plans, and reaching goals?
You probably need to work on developing your brain's executive functions.
How?
Mindfulness meditation (at least 5-10 minutes every day); going for walks; aerobic exercise; positive social interactions; reading; intellectual skill development; dealing with temptations and addictions; improve Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2