Personality Typing and Cake

You must be wondering what does personality typing and cake have to do with each other. I'm going to share a scenario with you and would like you to think about how you would handle this situation. We're dealing with the Thinking and Feeling preferences here. If you're new to type, visit my website at www.advantagediets.com and click on the link "About personality typing."

Scenario: A friend of yours has made you a cake for your birthday. You're trying to lose weight and have tried to stay clear of sweets and extra calories. Do you eat the cake?

If your strong preference is Feeling, you probably will eat the cake. You wouldn't want to hurt your friend's feelings, even if it meant sabotaging your diet. This is a subjective call where you bring to bear your opinions about how you should treat your friends. In this case, you're more worried with how your friend will feel if you don't eat her cake than what effect it will have on you. As you can see, someone with a strong Feeling preference really runs the risk of letting others and situations determine their decisions. This is especially true if someone with a strong Feeling preference also has a strong Extraverting preference.

If your strong preference is Thinking, you probably won't eat the cake. If you have decided that this diet you're going on won't allow you the extra calories of a piece of cake, you'll probably tell your friend how nice it was of her to make it for you, but to please understand that it doesn't fit into your weight-loss efforts. You'd be taking an objective point-of-view with the situation, analyzing what effect it would have on your day's caloric intake. Now, had you known your friend was going to make you a cake and you have iNtuition as your strong preference, you could have planned the day so that the other foods you ate were less caloric to allow room for these extra calories.

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MBTI and cartoon, "Between Friends"

In my last posting, I shared with you a cartoon from "Between Friends". I asked you if you could figure out what personality type the restaurant customer has and what type the waitress has. Any thoughts? The following is one way to look at the cartoon through type:

The customer is exhibiting the Feeling and Judging preferences. First, the Feeling preference is stating what she'd really like to have - Bacon Cheeseburger and a Chocolate Shake. The Feeling preference reveals a subjective decision-making process (this is what "I" want). Compare that to the Thinking preference that makes decisions more from an objective point-of-view (this is what "society, my boss, the rules, etc." require).

Then there's the Judging preference that is trying to adhere to a set of guidelines that she has either been told to follow or that she believes must be the right approach to eating healthy (even though she isn't behind it willingly).

It's her end comment "Some people just insist on sucking all the joys out of live" that reconfirm her strong preference is Feeling. I also would say that it shows she favors Extraversion since Extraverts look outside of themselves for their energy. That's what she'd like to do - experience the "little joys of life" which come from outside of herself.

If you have a story you'd like to share and have me see if I can figure out what preferences are being used, please do submit them but clicking on "Comments".

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