Inventive Personality Type. The interests of the Inventive Personality Type include (Donaldson, pg. x): attracting the attention and admiration of others pleasing others, especially wealthy and prominent people proving your worth by exercising your charm gaining social security being approved of by the opposite sex, which means being loved and adored attaining social superiority, or status gaining social recognition and prestige Main Interests of the Inventive Personality Type Characteristic Traits and Behaviors The basic trait of the Inventive personality type is the seeking of social status through achievements of the intellect and imagination. The following ten traits and characteristics are typical. Status. Individuals of the Inventive personality type are highly competitive in pursuit of success and prestige.
Sources: Glad, Betty. Keirsey, David, and Marilyn Bates. McCrae, R. Oldham, John M., and Lois B. Reich, Annie. Riso, Don Richard. Inventiveness 1. 1. Synonyms: "contrive, devise, frame, concoct" (MW, 464) 2. How to Do What You Love. January 2006 To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel.
We've got it down to four words: "Do what you love. " But it's not enough just to tell people that. The very idea is foreign to what most of us learn as kids. And it did not seem to be an accident. The world then was divided into two groups, grownups and kids. Teachers in particular all seemed to believe implicitly that work was not fun.
I'm not saying we should let little kids do whatever they want. Once, when I was about 9 or 10, my father told me I could be whatever I wanted when I grew up, so long as I enjoyed it. Jobs By high school, the prospect of an actual job was on the horizon. The main reason they all acted as if they enjoyed their work was presumably the upper-middle class convention that you're supposed to. Why is it conventional to pretend to like what you do? What a recipe for alienation. The most dangerous liars can be the kids' own parents. Bounds Unproductive pleasures pall eventually. The Disciplined Pursuit Of Less. Is success a catalyst for failure? It sounds irrational, but as Greg McKeown explains, the constant drive to achieve may actually be working against us. Why don’t successful people and organisations automatically become very successful?
One important explanation is due to what I call “the clarity paradox,” which can be summed up in four predictable phases: Phase 1: When we really have clarity of purpose, it leads to success. Phase 2: When we have success, it leads to more options and opportunities. Phase 3: When we have increased options and opportunities, it leads to diffused efforts. Phase 4: Diffused efforts undermine the very clarity that led to our success in the first place. Curiously, and overstating the point in order to make it, success is a catalyst for failure. We can see this in companies that were once darlings of Wall Street, but later collapsed.
What can we do to avoid the clarity paradox and continue our upward momentum? First, use more extreme criteria. 1. 2. Do You Suffer From Answer Syndrome? I sleep soundly at night knowing that I know more about some (few, but some) things than 99% of the people I meet in meatspace, let alone those people I interact with on the internet. It's incredibly frustrating when I'm asked to offer facts and *seriously* informed opinions in those areas of expertise only to get bamboozled by someone else who "read in a book" that nuh-uh, I must be wrong. Yeah, I could be wrong. I admit that. I *like* learning new stuff, so I accept being wrong as the price of admission. But COME ON. Alas, the anonymity of the internet precludes informed discussion. And still there will come someone marching along who read Wikipedia last night... It's exhausting, which is why I don't just fight "Answer Syndrome"— I fight "Correct Answer Syndrome," too.
Thus, we surrender the argument to the ignorant, firing nary a shot...