Vacillating in No Man's Land

 My uncle paid me the big compliment of reading my first few posts and running off to investigate socionics. He told me about the International Institute of Socionics, which I know I came across at some point in the last few years.

I find myself saying, up into the sky, "This means so much to me! There must be a way to convey it to others!" I go to the website of this institute, directed by A. V. Bukalov, and there doesn't seem to be anything to grab a hold of. Why is this? It is because I came to socionics from the MBTI. I fitted concepts I learned from Wikisocion into the personal story of self- and other-interpretation that started with Myers Briggs.

It is a community of individuals who have been working for more than 30 years on socionics as a science. You can't get directly from here to training American coaches and O.D. consultants.

So I have to stop trying to bridge the gap-- I need to find people near me. Near me physically and near me in their sense of mission. It's not about translating stuff from Russian-- not yet.

In my next post I'm going to make a list of the top hits in an Amazon book search on "socionics", and I'm going to pick one to read. And then I'll post a bit each day on what I find in it.

I'll get there-- I'm trying to do so much at once. There is no rush, there is nothing to accomplish, I'm not working for anyone. Eventually it will make sense to anyone who's reading this, when I say that as long as I live I will be resisting the urge to make an idol of Te (Extraverted Thinking / Extraverted Logic).

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