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General Discussion / Re: My Michael Chart
« on: May 05, 2011, 07:35:29 PM »
Thanks, Jana! You also covered the other side, what it can be like for others with regard to expressiveness, and you’re right, it’s not only a Sage quality. Finding my best gift in order to help others is the main reason I requested a chart. After receiving the chart, in hindsight it’s now clear that I live to sort out ideas for myself and share them with people when I think it might help them with their lives, plus I love to help people have fun and make them laugh. New ideas and insights give me a high, as does helping others gain insights about themselves and their lives.
My husband and I are so different when it comes to communication needs and I was curious as to what other people, and Sages in particular, experience inwardly when it comes to understanding and expression. My husband has said talking doesn’t usually help him much, that he needs to mull things over. My guess is that it does help him more than he realizes, but I’m not positive. I seem to be at the opposite end, where I need to talk over the majority of what I’ve experienced in order to sort it out.
Until about 3 years ago I hadn’t spent much time looking at my own or others’ personalities and more or less divided the inward state of people into spiritual and earthly. When I came across personality typing, it was like a miracle, finally understanding others’ needs and how they view and thus interact with the world. I still have a fascination with people’s inward differences. When I first came across Myers-Briggs on the Internet and read that extroverts sometimes need to talk out loud in order to understand what they’re thinking, I thought I was an introvert and that it was kind of strange to have to talk to understand. A couple months down the road and with more study, I realized I'm an extrovert, which I hadn’t seen at first because of lifelong habits of viewing myself in certain ways, and I was shocked to realize I also needed to talk in order to understand. My husband still teases me about it.
Since, according to Myers-Briggs, not all extroverts need to talk in order to know what they’re thinking, I was curious as to whether it was mainly a Sage phenomenon, if other roles experience the same need on a regular basis, or if it’s not divided by role.
This is one of the definitions I came across for “audience”: “opportunity to be heard; chance to speak to or before a person or group.” So when you're speaking and other developers are listening, they could be considered your audience. My husband is a system architect/developer and I’ve heard so much about it over the years that I consider myself an honorary IT person.
My husband and I are so different when it comes to communication needs and I was curious as to what other people, and Sages in particular, experience inwardly when it comes to understanding and expression. My husband has said talking doesn’t usually help him much, that he needs to mull things over. My guess is that it does help him more than he realizes, but I’m not positive. I seem to be at the opposite end, where I need to talk over the majority of what I’ve experienced in order to sort it out.
Until about 3 years ago I hadn’t spent much time looking at my own or others’ personalities and more or less divided the inward state of people into spiritual and earthly. When I came across personality typing, it was like a miracle, finally understanding others’ needs and how they view and thus interact with the world. I still have a fascination with people’s inward differences. When I first came across Myers-Briggs on the Internet and read that extroverts sometimes need to talk out loud in order to understand what they’re thinking, I thought I was an introvert and that it was kind of strange to have to talk to understand. A couple months down the road and with more study, I realized I'm an extrovert, which I hadn’t seen at first because of lifelong habits of viewing myself in certain ways, and I was shocked to realize I also needed to talk in order to understand. My husband still teases me about it.
Since, according to Myers-Briggs, not all extroverts need to talk in order to know what they’re thinking, I was curious as to whether it was mainly a Sage phenomenon, if other roles experience the same need on a regular basis, or if it’s not divided by role.This is one of the definitions I came across for “audience”: “opportunity to be heard; chance to speak to or before a person or group.” So when you're speaking and other developers are listening, they could be considered your audience. My husband is a system architect/developer and I’ve heard so much about it over the years that I consider myself an honorary IT person.
I realized a while back that unless I've talked over with someone an idea I've had or what I've physically experienced or emotionally felt, the experience or thought isn't as real as it could be, and definitely isn't complete. My husband jokingly complained that I can't just tell him while he's sleeping, he has to be awake so it can be put into his brain and he's acknowledged it. I’ve found that most of my important insights come when I’m talking things over with someone. My thoughts can be a tangled mess, but when I discuss them with someone else it’s as if once they get communicated, either spoken or written, they straighten themselves out and it becomes easier to see the heart of the matter.