{"id":170,"date":"2013-09-25T07:01:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T15:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writinghope.com\/?p=170"},"modified":"2018-09-26T08:31:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T16:31:54","slug":"understanding-humans-the-s-types","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/untanglingtales.com\/WritingHope\/understanding-humans-the-s-types\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Humans, the S-types"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image courtesy of Emma Charles via stock.xchng<\/p><\/div>\n

The first half of the M-B quadrants focus on those who pay the most attention to the physical world and its details.<\/p>\n

They are distinguished from one another, you might say, by what they do with that awareness.<\/p>\n

Stabilizers<\/strong> (SJs) have a very pronounced \u201cJ\u201d pattern (in all its organizational glory). Due to its combination with the physical-world centered, detail-oriented S in their type, they tend to be those who get things done<\/em>, or get anxious when they don\u2019t. Stabilizers have a strong sense of duty motivating them in much of what they do; they derive a good deal of their personal satisfaction from knowing they\u2019ve done the right thing.<\/em><\/p>\n

They\u2019re the ones I think of when I read this poem:<\/p>\n

To Be of Use<\/strong>
\nMarge Piercy<\/p>\n

The people I love the best
\njump into work head first
\nwithout dallying in the shallows
\nand swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
\nThey seem to become natives of that element,
\nthe black sleek heads of seals
\nbouncing like half-submerged balls.<\/p>\n

I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,
\nwho pull like water buffalo, with massive patience,
\nwho strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,
\nwho do what has to be done, again and again.<\/p>\n

I want to be with people who submerge
\nin the task, who go into the fields to harvest
\nand work in a row and pass the bags along,
\nwho are not parlor generals and field deserters
\nbut move in a common rhythm
\nwhen the food must come in or the fire be put out.<\/p>\n

The work of the world is as common as mud.
\nBotched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
\nBut the thing worth doing well done
\nhas a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
\nGreek amphoras for wine or oil,
\nHopi vases that held corn, are put in museum
\nbut you know they were meant to be used.
\nThe pitcher cries for water to carry
\nand a person for work that is real.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0~<\/p>\n

The Innovators<\/strong> (SPs) are the figure-it-out-for-myself types.<\/p>\n

I like to say \u201cExperience is the best teacher, if you can learn second-hand, the tuition\u2019s cheaper.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

That is, I\u2019ll learn from anybody\u2019s experience, primarily to avoid making mistakes that have already been made.<\/em><\/p>\n

And it really is something I don\u2019t understand that there are people who aren\u2019t interested in what I consider caution.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d rather pay tuition,\u201d one mom my age told me after I inserted my line into our conversation. I was speechless. What could I say?<\/p>\n

She\u2019s not the first person I\u2019ve known who really meant it.<\/p>\n

The positive things people see when they look at Innovators are flexibility and creative energy.\u00a0 Innovators are frequently very good at what they do, and involved in projects where improvising is part of the structure and fabric of the task.<\/p>\n

In contrast to the Stabilizers, Innovators don\u2019t need to have everything \u201cnailed down\u201d to do their most effective work.\u00a0 Therefore, considering the general nature of reality, having a population of Innovators roughly equal to that of Stabilizers is a good thing.<\/p>\n

Marriages pairing a Stabilizer and an Innovator are common, but there are built-in conflicts the couple will have to learn to navigate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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