Guest post by Lindsey Webster - The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is psychometric questionnaire designed to measure how people perceive the world and make decisions.
It is often used in the areas of career counseling, team building, group dynamics, professional development, marketing, leadership training, executive coaching, life coaching, personal development, and workers’ compensation claims.
The test uses four indicators that, when viewed together, create 16 different personality types. It is said that individual personality types prefer or exceed at specific careers. For this reason, the Myers-Briggs Test is often used in career counseling as a way to narrow down what type of work or career a person may find interesting or fulfilling.
Just like any other test, there are a few tips for taking the Myers-Briggs test. Although there are no “wrong answers” on this test, there is a “right” and a “wrong” way to approach it. Listed below are five tips for taking the Myers-Briggs Test.
Guest post by Melanie Slaugh - Confidence is important in business and in life. But what is it? What does it do? How do you get it? Is it something that you’re born with, or do you learn confidence?
Confidence is trust or faith in something or someone. Confidence is knowing that you’ve made the right choice, or at least the best possible choice. Confidence is security.
As Donna Flagg says,
In the absence of confidence (and I mean real, true, authentic confidence, not ego-induced bravado and swagger) we have deep-seated insecurity driving people to find ways they can convince themselves they are not exactly what they fear. Weak.Powerless.Vulnerable.In a word, insecure. In the workplace we see insecurity take the form of defensiveness, irresponsibility and deception. In personal relationships it rears its ugly head through paranoia, distortion and fear.
The term “multitasking” is not very old, it originated in the computer engineering industry. It refers to the ability of a microprocessor to apparently process several tasks simultaneously. Computer multitasking in single core microprocessors actually involves time-sharing the processor; only one task can actually be active at a time, but tasks are rotated through many times a second. With multi-core computers, each core can perform a separate task simultaneously. This is real multitasking.
Humans only have one microprocessor, so multitasking per se is impossible. So how do we do it when our job requires it?
by Ioana on August 22, 2011
Our job, occupation or profession is an area of our lives where we can feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment and purpose. However, as stress and dissatisfaction creeps in, it sheds away the positive out-view and replaces it with lingering symptoms – mental health symptoms.
Mental health “off-spells” or breakdowns are common ...
When I was 7 my second grade class was given the mission of playing “The Discovery of America”. We had to dress like aborigines, Spaniards and the main character, Christopher Columbus. I remember energetically refusing to participate in the play firstly because I did not like to disguise -which could be very well related to my former fear of clowns- and secondly because I would’ve had to step up to the stage and play a character in front of hundreds of people, including my parents.
I ended up being the narrator of the story, from a very convenient position below the stage and away from all those “menacing” gazes.
For a long time I thought that what made me reject a role in the play was the feeling that it was embarrassing to be in a costume. Today I know that it was just the opposite: I was afraid to be embarrassed in front of the crowd.
Is your boss stressing you out? Don’t you get along with your co-workers? Is your desk overflowing with stacked paperwork? Do you hate your job? Recognizing if what’s stressing you out is transitory or permanent is the first step to cope with stress. The second one, is reading what comes next.
Guest post by Katrina Robinson- We all deal with stress in our work lives. Maybe your boss has been a little tough on you lately or you’re struggling to get a grasp on some new responsibilities that have come your way. Or perhaps you’re unhappy with the people you work with or the role that you’re assumed with the company. Whatever the reason for your stress, there are many ways to help to deal with it. Here are our top five:
A protein was found, that just as a pencil eraser, is able to forever delete traumatic events from our minds. It was discovered by scientists from John Hopkins University through experiments with rats. The results promise to one day fight PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) caused by war, rape and other traumatic events.
The study was published by Science Express, which publishes brealthroughs before they reach their print version in Science Magazine.
In order to verify the validity of the discovery, researchers scared rats with a loud noise and after eliminating the afforementioned protein the rats no longer associated the noise to fear. The rats had forgotten the terror that the sound initially generated.
The protein is located in the amygdala -a group of neural nuclei located in the depth of the temporal lobes of the brain-, an area responsible, among other things, for conditioning to fear both in humans and animals. The study proved that these proteins can be removed from the nerve cells.
The idea is to delete this proteins and weaken the connections with the trauma, erasing the memory itself. This study opens the possiblility of one day manipulating memories with drugs destined to improve cognitive therapies for these type of ailments.
This discovery opens more than a few interrogants and concerns.
There’s something special about doing what you like most. Energy never fades away when you enjoy what you are doing while you experience a limitless desire to constantly know and learn more. Freddie Mercury and Jimmy Hendrix were bonded to music; Einstein was devoted to physics and cosmology; Hemingway to ...
Shy people perceive the world in a different manner and display a more intense cerebral activity when faced to certain stimuli. It appears that this lets them analyze information in a more profound way. Introvert individuals are also more attentive to detail, which differentiates them from extroverts.
Scientists from Stony Brook ...
by rcain on April 19, 2010
By Robin Cain – Depression and anxiety are personal things, yet the medical community often treats them with a “one size fits all” approach. Those suffering often learn the hard way that there are different approaches and different schools of thought regarding same. I’m sharing my story in an attempt ...
People with Alzheimer’s disease often have trouble remembering recent events but are able to recall distant memories. This is due to the damage produced to the hippocampus, a seahorse shaped structure located in the core of the brain. This area is usually the first to be affected by Alzheimer, which ...
I was listening to NPR (National Public Radio) on my way to work yesterday and heard a story that caught my attention. Did you ever think that magnets and morality could be related? According to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences a person’s moral ...
While for many of us driving and talking on a cell phone may seem second nature and appear not to carry any associated effort or loss of concentration, research from psychologists of the University of Utah has concluded that 97.5% of us are wrong.
From Physorg.com – Almost everyone has nightmares at some time in their lives, while a few have nightmares almost every night, but no one is quite certain what they mean. Now scientists in Germany carrying out one of the largest ever studies on nightmares have found there are clear differences ...
Every teenager will become oppositional from time to time. It’s normal; and particularly when they feel upset or stressed. Oppositional behaviors can become a matter of concern if they start interfering with their social, academic or family life.
The article goal is to give some basic bearings to parents, coaches, educators ...
A study from the University of Miami suggests that maternal sensitivity, understood as a combo of affection, responsiveness to the child’s needs, structuring support and education, and the ability to manage presence-absence to foster independency; may influence the development and acquisition of language among children with autism or potentially at ...
