New Daily Blog
I have started daily blogging, two days after I "launched my book project". Virat in Delhi was witness to this event during our Focusmate session together (my morning, his late afternoon) on Friday the 13th. I'll be watching for his article in Photonics Focus in one of the upcoming issues.
I dream of co-authoring a best-selling book about personality type and world peace, and my commitment to the blog will ensure that I write every day. I also think it will help gather around me the community that I need, to make the fulfillment of the dream possible.
A topic for a future post will be the possibility of a translation into English of the entire article by Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, titled "The Dual Nature of Man". It was published in Russian in the journal "Socionics, Mentology and Personality Psychology" in 1996. There is only a machine translation of the full article into English, as far as I am aware, and I have searched a decent bit. Here is a human translation of the first part of it. So what this means is that relatively few native English speakers have read what she put in the Afterword, which I have shown in the top of this blog, abridged so it would fit in 500 characters. (I apologize in advance to everyone: part of that quote is me taking the liberty of putting into English what I think was her intent, while keeping as much of the original sentence structure as possible.)
Why bother with a full translation now, more than 26 years later? I can't elaborate too much on this now. Suffice it to say that who "A. Augusta" was, matters, just as it matters who Carl Jung, Katharine Cook Briggs, Isabel Briggs Myers were, as well as the last person who got certified by the Myers & Briggs Foundation, and the last person who posted their opinion as to what Bill Clinton's type is, in some obscure corner of the internet. As well as Todd Essig who wrote "The Mysterious Popularity Of The Meaningless Myers-Briggs (MBTI)".
With a shout out to my early-morning Focusmate buddy Kyle, who launched Curiosity Equation in January, I will mention a theme that will be important in the book: Introverted Sensing (aka Si). I mention this because mindfulness is one of three focuses Kyle lists on his blog, and if any of the 8 "information elements" of Socionics maps to mindfulness, it is Si.
My commitment to myself is to write one post every day here. I want to become a professional writer, and that term is defined as "someone who writes and gets paid for it". Before you can become a professional writer, you have to become a writer. "Writer" is defined as "someone who writes". And so I will write!
See you tomorrow!
I dream of co-authoring a best-selling book about personality type and world peace, and my commitment to the blog will ensure that I write every day. I also think it will help gather around me the community that I need, to make the fulfillment of the dream possible.
A topic for a future post will be the possibility of a translation into English of the entire article by Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, titled "The Dual Nature of Man". It was published in Russian in the journal "Socionics, Mentology and Personality Psychology" in 1996. There is only a machine translation of the full article into English, as far as I am aware, and I have searched a decent bit. Here is a human translation of the first part of it. So what this means is that relatively few native English speakers have read what she put in the Afterword, which I have shown in the top of this blog, abridged so it would fit in 500 characters. (I apologize in advance to everyone: part of that quote is me taking the liberty of putting into English what I think was her intent, while keeping as much of the original sentence structure as possible.)
Why bother with a full translation now, more than 26 years later? I can't elaborate too much on this now. Suffice it to say that who "A. Augusta" was, matters, just as it matters who Carl Jung, Katharine Cook Briggs, Isabel Briggs Myers were, as well as the last person who got certified by the Myers & Briggs Foundation, and the last person who posted their opinion as to what Bill Clinton's type is, in some obscure corner of the internet. As well as Todd Essig who wrote "The Mysterious Popularity Of The Meaningless Myers-Briggs (MBTI)".
With a shout out to my early-morning Focusmate buddy Kyle, who launched Curiosity Equation in January, I will mention a theme that will be important in the book: Introverted Sensing (aka Si). I mention this because mindfulness is one of three focuses Kyle lists on his blog, and if any of the 8 "information elements" of Socionics maps to mindfulness, it is Si.
My commitment to myself is to write one post every day here. I want to become a professional writer, and that term is defined as "someone who writes and gets paid for it". Before you can become a professional writer, you have to become a writer. "Writer" is defined as "someone who writes". And so I will write!
See you tomorrow!
This is good. Education speak, where objectives, goals and other stuff are important, could have an analog for people trying to live life thoughtfully and successfully. Stating your intentions requires knowing your intentions, just as stating goals and objectives for teaching requires knowing them. We could all use a little structure to point us in the right direction for achieving what we actually want to achieve.
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