Explanation of Peircean personality types
Yet another personality type thread! This one is actually very cool. The system is based off of the philosophy of Charles Peirce. He separates natural processes into Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. It especially relates to human thought and action. Firstness expresses itself in new ideas and creative processes. Secondness is all about action. Thirdness is the recognition and creation of patterns. The first link summarizes these as "feel-act-think". There are 6 (seven, actually) personality types that mix different levels of that process. The system arranges the types in a triangle, though it's useful to think of it as a color wheel.
Okay, take the test! http://humanities.byu.edu/linguistics/ppt/v3/test.php
[edit] This stuff can also be used in analyzing literary characters (In Winnie the Pooh: Rabbit is Purple, Tigger is Orange...) or why certain groups (of friends, of workers) fail. For example, two yellows working together would probably have great ideas but never get anything done.
Also, this isn't really hard and fast. Your type can change depending on what group you're in. For example, I'm usually Green, but when I'm in new group situations I sometimes switch to Orange and end up unhappy because I'm not a natural Orange.
(You might want to take the test twice, especially if you get White the first time)
Yet another personality type thread! This one is actually very cool. The system is based off of the philosophy of Charles Peirce. He separates natural processes into Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. It especially relates to human thought and action. Firstness expresses itself in new ideas and creative processes. Secondness is all about action. Thirdness is the recognition and creation of patterns. The first link summarizes these as "feel-act-think". There are 6 (seven, actually) personality types that mix different levels of that process. The system arranges the types in a triangle, though it's useful to think of it as a color wheel.
Okay, take the test! http://humanities.byu.edu/linguistics/ppt/v3/test.php
[edit] This stuff can also be used in analyzing literary characters (In Winnie the Pooh: Rabbit is Purple, Tigger is Orange...) or why certain groups (of friends, of workers) fail. For example, two yellows working together would probably have great ideas but never get anything done.
Also, this isn't really hard and fast. Your type can change depending on what group you're in. For example, I'm usually Green, but when I'm in new group situations I sometimes switch to Orange and end up unhappy because I'm not a natural Orange.
(You might want to take the test twice, especially if you get White the first time)
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