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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Cute Cartoon - "Between Friends"

Let's see if you can use the information I posted last time (so far, one characteristic of each preference) and apply it to the following cartoon I saw in the Seattle Times last Sunday. The cartoon is "Between Friends" by Sandra Bell Lundy.

As a lady is ordering lunch, she gives her order to the waitress as follows:
"I'll have the bacon cheeseburger without the bacon, the cheese or the bun."
" - and a chocolate shake, skip the ice cream and no chocolate."

The waitress reconfirms with the customer what she's heard as the order:
"Got it - one plain hamburger patty and a glass of milk."

The customer says to her friend:
"Some people just insist on sucking all the little joys out of life."

Okay, now tell me what personality preferences the customer probably has or is using. How about the waitress? You'll have to wait until my next post since I don't want to take the fun out of your guessing by giving you the answer right now.

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