116: Personality Test, Productivity

Questions about the Video File:

1. What is the learning style of extroverts?
2. Which side of introverts help them learning?
3. What’s the difference between sensing type of character and intuitive?
4. What determines your interaction with people?
5. What are perceivers good at?

General Questions:

1. Which part of social life do you find more difficult, meeting new people or interacting with them for longer periods?
2. To what extent does your current lifestyle match your character type?
3. What changes do you need to make in your personal life to make it better-suited for your character?
4. What’s your learning style?
5. Are you more interested in whats or whys? Think of examples in various situations? Do you think one is better than the other?
6. Are you good at setting goals? What’s your personal technique for meeting your goals? If not, what’s your problem?

Related Quotes:

“The best-adjusted people are the ‘psychologically patriotic,’ who are glad to be what they are.”  Isabel Briggs Myers
“No type has everything. The introverts and thinkers, though likely to arrive at the most profound decisions, may have the most difficulty in getting their conclusions accepted. The opposite types are best at communicating, but not as adept at determining the truths to be communicated.” Isabel Briggs Myers

Related Idioms and Expressions:

1. At each other’s throats: if you are at each other’s throat, you are arguing angrily  

• When I arrived they were at each other’s throats. They were speaking so loudly that I couldn’t even understand what they were saying.

1. Think outside the box: to think creatively.

• To solve the problem of pollution we need to think outside the box, because no traditional solution has been effective so far.

1. In the long run: at a time which is far in future

• Study 15 minutes everyday, it will be effective in the long run.

Related Words and Phrases:

Sensing (n): paying attention to data from five senses and direct experiences.

• If you have a sensing type of character you focus of real and practical aspect of life.

Proactive (adj): to initiate an act rather than showing reaction

• If you want to be a leader you need to be proactive

Break down (phv): to divide something into smaller parts in order to make it easier to handle

• When you set a big goal, you need to break it down first and plan it step by step.

Parse (v): analyze especially a sentence by breaking it into its components

• Students are usually good at parsing sentences in modern languages

Analytical (adj) looking into something carefully.

• You can’t just memorize the answers, you need to take an analytical approach to physics.

Inclined (adj): possible or willing to do something

• She’s more inclined to eat when she’s with the other kids.

Go over (phv) to study and revise

• Go over the notes you have taken in class to see if you find the answer to your question.

Formulate (v) to come up with a system or method for something

• You need to formulate the needs of the class into clear categories.

Weigh (v) consider something carefully

• Weigh all the facts before you make a decision.

Objectively (adv) based on facts rather than personal ideas

• It’s hard to talk about your friends objectively, because you love them and are emotionally involved.

Collaborative (adj) including two or more people that work together to gain a single goal

• I enjoy collaborative projects with big companies, you get to learn a great deal.

Goal-oriented (adj): focusing on goals and results

• In many organizations being goal-oriented is of high importance because it’s the final result that counts.

Stick to something (phv) to restrict yourself to doing something particular and not changing your focus to something else

• Can you stick to the fact that we have lost precious time and now we need to find a solution to compensate it?

Adaptable (adj) able to change to fit into a new situation; flexible

• If you immigrate, you need to be more adaptable.

Rigid (adj): fixed, not easy to change

• You are too rigid to change your ideas about family traditions.

Hold somebody/oneself to (phv): to force yourself or someone to do what they have promised to do.

• Hold yourself to your plans and surely you can meet the deadlines.

Related Collocations

Learning style: the method you feel comfortable with to learn something

• What is your personal learning style? Do you need to see things to learn or to hear them?

Study group (n) a group of students who get together to study as a team

• Joining a study group is not really for me, I can’t work or study with people around me.

Fall into categories (v) categorize; divide into some groups based on similarities

• Depending on the main instruments and major beats, metal music falls into several categories.

Think through a problem (v): consider all aspects of a problem carefully

• You need to calm down and think through your problem.

 Rigid schedule: a schedule which is fixed and hard to change

• She is really organized. She has a rigid schedule for everything and never goes off them.

Please leave a response to the following question as a comment: 

What practical changes can you think of to balance your character and your lifestyle?