[siteorigin_widget class=”malihuPageScroll2idWidget”][/siteorigin_widget] {Dunda dun da… Babum babum bababum bumbabumba bababumbaba bumbum} The music starts and red lights appear in darkness, angles slowly revealing flickering words, and my heart grows fluttery. This is my best description of an intro that I refuse to skip unless under duress. Because it gives me a sense of the rideContinue reading “The People of Stranger Things”
Category Archives: ESTP
Elsa and Aladdin Give Each Other Advice – Belated January Thank You Video
In typical aLBoP fashion, this video turned out much later, much longer and much sillier than anticipated. The requested video was Queen Elsa from Frozen and Aladdin giving each other advice… and well, you can see the rest. Click here to learn more about becoming an aLBoP Patron. Click here for more onContinue reading “Elsa and Aladdin Give Each Other Advice – Belated January Thank You Video”
Give a Little Personality: A Gift Guide by Type
Give a Little Personality A Gift Guide by Type Merry Christmas everyone! Or whatever you celebrate 😉 Better late than never and as requested, we have a handy little guide for giving gifts according to personality! Rather than a specific list of individual items, we thought it would be of more value to shareContinue reading “Give a Little Personality: A Gift Guide by Type”
ESTP Jayne Justification – definition
[To Dr. Simon Tam] “Tell me, Lil’ Miss Big Words, you see a pyramid sittin’ out there? Neither do I. So here, let me pour you a big frosty mug of ‘shut-the-h*ll-up’.” Jayne Cobb, Firefly “Jayne Justification” is the familiar ESTP tactic of trying to imply both that it’s stupid to be smart, and thatContinue reading “ESTP Jayne Justification – definition”
Type Specializations: What Makes *My* Type Special?
There’s an age-old outlook, put blatantly by Syndrome of The Incredibles in his Moriarty Fear, that if everyone is special, then *no one* will be. To this longstanding catch-22, I offer the following rebuttal: What if everyone is special in a way that is both utterly unique and utterly essential? What if, like colors, gendersContinue reading “Type Specializations: What Makes *My* Type Special?”
What Do All These Letters Mean Anyway?
So, once upon a time, you stumbled upon a really cool website. It had interesting pictures combining all your favorite characters in ways you weren’t sure made sense, but it was also pretty cool to read, even if the girl who wrote it liked to use lame phrases like “Rock-awesome,” used too many ellipses andContinue reading “What Do All These Letters Mean Anyway?”
The Cognition Process in Stick Figures
Though I write often about cognition patterns and how thought processes differ between each of the sixteen types, I feel like I haven’t really gotten across in full what I mean. And is there any way better to get across concepts simply and efficiently than pictures? I think there is not. Now, I can’t makeContinue reading “The Cognition Process in Stick Figures”
aLBoP Personality Tips #6-8: Extraverts
Extraverts, whether Extraverted Perceivers or Extraverted Judgers, naturally excel at the parts of the cognitive process that require them to be outside themselves and gathering information from the world around them. Whether this is EP’s Observation of people as whole entities, understanding whether or not they can be trusted as sources, using either their intuitionContinue reading “aLBoP Personality Tips #6-8: Extraverts”
How to Make Good Decisions While Still Being You: Part 1 – Optimism, Pessimism and What We Do About It
(Miss the Intro? Here’s why not everyone makes decisions in the same way.) In order to understand how people make good decisions, we need to explore *why* they make the decisions they do. Namely, *why* do the different types have the specializations and focuses they do; how do each of us see the world andContinue reading “How to Make Good Decisions While Still Being You: Part 1 – Optimism, Pessimism and What We Do About It”
Costuming with Personality
{Update 5-29-14: I mentioned in the first Q&A that this post had incorrect typings that I needed to fix (though none of the ones that had been questioned thus far). I was really rushed last Semptember to get this post out, so I messed up a handful of typings. Mostly one-offs. Well, I finally wentContinue reading “Costuming with Personality”