my careless contagion

While this blog may be dead, as I lost my biggest drive for writing here last year, there are still things I ponder and wish to share (even if no one reads them). I believe people can change, but our personalities are mostly set by the age of 8 (and perhaps even as early as age 5). I recently retook a personality test I took years ago. I believe I posted the results here, as well. Today, bored out of my gourd, I took it again to see if anything changed. I know my behaviors and much inside changed over the last four years but was curious if there was an effect on personality, as well. The answer is no. My personality remains the same. However, the percentages used to calculate it changed. No, there probably isn't a way to quantify the amount of internal change I experienced in four years. It's up to me to keep track of what God did. As the test results point out, it's important for me to keep striving for improvement. It's eerie how many things the results get right. It...

Socrates and Plato talked about the importance of knowing yourself. It's a worldly doctrine, sure, but I think it's wise to start where you are and understand yourself before seeking to understand more difficult things.  Along that line of thinking, I decided to take a personality test. It's been a while since I took one and couldn't remember the outcome anyway. There are free online personality tests, so that wasn't the difficult part. The difficult part is deciphering the outcome. Below is the first site I used and the next link has the results. https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test   https://www.16personalities.com/infj-personality The first test results I took with a grain of salt. The result is INFJ-T, with the T standing for "turbulent," which is a measure of how confident I am in my decisions. With my obvious list of regrets, I can see how I got the T. I really don't think I live my life with my feelings as my guide, ...