Nope, I don’t even know what Myers and Briggs is. My wife said that feeling are not “right” or Wrong". I disagree with this. Feelings can be right or wrong.
There is a place for feelings aka emotions, however they must be tempered by the mind in my book.
Well, I’d say feelings can be positive or negative, but right & wrong is a bit tricky given that it always takes a choice to sin.
The Myers-Briggs system divides human personalities into 16 categories. First is Extrovert/Introvert, then Sensing/Intuitive, then Thinking/Feeling, then Judging/Perceiving. Personality types are rendered as INTJ, ENFP etc. In that system, Thinking/Feeling seems to correspond to head/heart in normal life. Then there are dominant functions, supporting functions and so on. Some traits are common to combinations based on two traits, for instance, and a common example is IN’s or NT’s. There’s a whole table for how people form relationships with others of different types and those relationships are categorised as e.g. companion, cohort, pedagogue, tribesman… etc etc, on the basis of the affinity the people share with each other.
There’s another system, developed by Miller,
Brain Styles (yeah, a commercial site, basically, so it’s business). It classifies people on the basis of how they think. Men are more likely to be in the left-brained divisions (Deliberators and Knowers), while Conciliators tend to be a more female group. They’re primarily right-brained, they value emotions much and they’re more home among people than among ideas, concepts, numbers. They operate through social networks. Feelings are very important to them. There’s also a right-brained style dominated by males (2 to 1), the Conceptor, and it tends to be considered different, annoying etc by many people of other styles, but it doesn’t rely on emotions so heavily. It’s more about weaving ideas. People of different brain styles think in very different ways. They won’t always understand each other or follow each other’s train of thought. They will have different natural skills and affinities. The key is cooperating. What we don’t have, other people can give us. For example, in a company, you’d want the Deliberators in the engineering dept. or as analysts, the Knowers would sit in the accountancy dept. or the law dept., Conceptors would brainstorm ideas that would be refined and executed by a whole different set of people, Conciliators would handle people work and communication between the previous three types. Some people can do much, but no person can do all and people generally don’t feel good when they have to keep working in an area not fitting their brain style, which is supposed to be a natural way of thinking and not a learnt reaction (it exhibits when you face a new problem and the way you attempt to solve it is the clue).
Many, many clashes between people originate in how they do things. They collect data in different ways, they process it in different ways as well. Sometimes they mind the way more, sometimes the outcome. Without reflection on our differences, stronger and weaker points etc, we often end up disdaining the way other people think, holding it less valuable than our own. Slow, jumping to conclusions, not having a strong opinion, dissecting things… these aren’t necessarily traits coming from certain mental or intellectual or personality deficiencies. That may just be a person’s unique way of thinking.
