Challenge 1: Flare/Cook/Korean/Pic

The dude says to keep it simple, or else you are less likely to succeed.  Pfff.  I’m going to do 4 at once. 

Flare:  I will practice this 15 mins a day, and film the progression.

Cook:  I will prepare one meal or snack a day, and take a picture.

Korean:  I will study Korean for 1 hour a day in order to prepare for my trip.

Pic:  I will snap 1 picture a day of my mom’s new kitten and chart his growth.

I will post the culmination on August 16, 2011.  Stay tuned!

30 days till Korea.  I think I will try this.

“Man is a creature of circumstances.” -Robert Owen

“Man is a creature of circumstances. And who makes the circumstances but man himself?  The world is not inevitably good or bad but to the extent that we make is so.” -Robert Heilbroner

A flag I made for my friend who is rooting for both Mexico and Brazil football

Current Summer Book List

The Art of Warfare - Sun Tzu CURRENTLY READING

On War - Karl von Clausewitz CURRENTLY READING

The Constitution of the United States

The Declaration of Independence

Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts

30 Day Challenge - List of Things I Have Always Wanted To Do

I will add to this list as something old/new comes up:

1.  Dance (breakdance —> do a flare)

2.  Learn Korean

3.  Learn Spanish

4.  Cook

5.  Take a picture a day

Current Book List

Code Name Ginger: The Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen’s Quest to Invent a New World

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

The Worldly Philosophers

SHOUT!  The Beatles in Their Generation

Jung Typology Test - ENTJ

I took the Jung personality test today in order to test the validity of it for my friend who is currently searching for the answer to the question, “What is my passion,” a question that, those who know me well, I’ve battled for the greater portion of my life.   Now the first time I took this test, I wasn’t so sure the answers reflected who I was, who I wanted to be, or some combination of the two.  Fast forward 5 years, and the answers, I feel, are a little closer to the truth.  Or so I think….

Strength of the preferences:

Extraverted-11%

Intuitive-75%

Thinking-1%

Judging-56%

“I don’t care to sit by the window on an airplane. If I can’t control it, why look?”

ENTJs have a natural tendency to marshall and direct. This may be expressed with the charm and finesse of a world leader or with the insensitivity of a cult leader. The ENTJ requires little encouragement to make a plan. One ENTJ put it this way… “I make these little plans that really don’t have any importance to anyone else, and then feel compelled to carry them out.” While “compelled” may not describe ENTJs as a group, nevertheless the bent to plan creatively and to make those plans reality is a common theme for NJ types.

ENTJs are often “larger than life” in describing their projects or proposals. This ability may be expressed as salesmanship, story-telling facility or stand-up comedy. In combination with the natural propensity for filibuster, our hero can make it very difficult for the customer to decline.

TRADEMARK: — “I’m really sorry you have to die.” (I realize this is an overstatement. However, most Fs and other gentle souls usually chuckle knowingly at this description.)

ENTJs are decisive. They see what needs to be done, and frequently assign roles to their fellows. Few other types can equal their ability to remain resolute in conflict, sending the valiant (and often leading the charge) into the mouth of hell. When challenged, the ENTJ may by reflex become argumentative. Alternatively (s)he may unleash an icy gaze that serves notice: the ENTJ is not one to be trifled with.

Functional Analysis

Extraverted Thinking

“Unequivocating” expresses the resoluteness of the ENTJ’s dominant function. Clarity of convictions endows these Thinkers with a knack for debate, or wanting knack, a penchant for argument. The light and heat generated by Thinking at the helm can be impressive; perhaps even overwhelming. Experience teaches many ENTJs that restraint may often be the better part of valor, lest one find oneself victorious but alone.

Introverted iNtuition

The auxiliary function explores the blueprints of archetypal patterns and equips Thinking with a fresh, dynamic sense of how things work. Improvising on the fly is something many ENTJs do very well. As Thinking’s subordinate, insights are of value only insofar as they further the Right, True Cause celebre. [n.b.: ENTJs are capable of living on a higher plane, if you will, and learning to value individuals even above their principles. The above dynamic suggests less individuation.]

Extraverted Sensing

Sensing reaches out to embrace that which physically touches it. ENTJs have an awareness of the real; of that which exists. By stilling the engines of Thinking and iNtuition, this type may experience the Here and Now, and know things not dreamt of nor even postulated in iNtuition’s philosophy. Sensing’s minor role, however, puts it at risk for distortion or extreme weakness beneath the hustle and bustle of the giants N and T.

Introverted Feeling

Feeling is romantic, as the ethereal as the inner world from whence it doth emerge. When it be awake, feeling evokes great passion that knows not nuance of proportion nor context. Perhaps these lesser functions inspire glorious recreational quests in worlds that never were, or may only ever be in fantasy. When overdone or taken too seriously, Fi turned outward often becomes maudlin or melodramatic. Feeling in this type appears most authentic when implied or expressed covertly in a firm handshake, accepting demeanor, or act of sacrifice thinly covered by excuses of lack of any personal interest in the relinquished item.

Of the four aspects of strategic analysis and definition it is marshaling or situational organizing role that reaches the highest development in the Fieldmarshal. As this kind of role is practiced some contingency organizing is necessary, so that the second suit of the Fieldmarshal’s intellect is devising contingency plans. Structural and functional engineering, though practiced in some degree in the course of organizational operations, tend to be not nearly as well developed and are soon outstripped by the rapidly growing skills in organizing. But it must be said that any kind of strategic exercise tends to bring added strength to engineering as well as organizing skills.

Hardly more than two percent of the total population, Fieldmarshals are bound to lead others, and from an early age they can be observed taking command of groups. In some cases, they simply find themselves in charge of groups, and are mystified as to how this happened. But the reason is that they have a strong natural urge to give structure and direction wherever they are - to harness people in the field and to direct them to achieve distant goals. They resemble Supervisors in their tendency to establish plans for a task, enterprise, or organization, but Fieldmarshals search more for policy and goals than for regulations and procedures.

They cannot not build organizations, and cannot not push to implement their goals. When in charge of an organization, whether in the military, business, education, or government, Fieldmarshals more than any other type desire (and generally have the ability) to visualize where the organization is going, and they seem able to communicate that vision to others. Their organizational and coordinating skills tends to be highly developed, which means that they are likely to be good at systematizing, ordering priorities, generalizing, summarizing, at marshaling evidence, and at demonstrating their ideas. Their ability to organize, however, may be more highly developed than their ability to analyze, and the Fieldmarshal leader may need to turn to an Inventor or Architect to provide this kind of input.

Fieldmarshals will usually rise to positions of responsibility and enjoy being executives. They are tireless in their devotion to their jobs and can easily block out other areas of life for the sake of their work. Superb administrators in any field - medicine, law, business, education, government, the military - Fieldmarshals organize their units into smooth-functioning systems, planning in advance, keeping both short-term and long-range objectives well in mind. For the Fieldmarshal, there must always be a goal-directed reason for doing anything, and people’s feelings usually are not sufficient reason. They prefer decisions to be based on impersonal data, want to work from well thought-out plans, like to use engineered operations - and they expect others to follow suit. They are ever intent on reducing bureaucratic red tape, task redundancy, and aimless confusion in the workplace, and they are willing to dismiss employees who cannot get with the program and increase their efficiency. Although Fieldmarshals are tolerant of established procedures, they can and will abandon any procedure when it can be shown to be ineffective in accomplishing its goal. Fieldmarshals root out and reject ineffectiveness and inefficiency, and are impatient with repetition of error.

Haha I guess we will see if the scale ever increases to the level of executive!

The Irie Project Presents: First Post

So the slice of bread turns to the slice to his left and says: 

Realist: “Ok, tell me if I’m wrong.  You’re the type of guy that is interested in everything in the world, wants to know everything, wants to change everything, but has so much that he must know, so much that he must change … that it incapacitates you.”

Idealist:  “Yeah!  But see here’s the problem.  It’s the people!  The people don’t care!  The people are so caught up in their lust for material objects that don’t even matter in the lives of the universe who has 7 lifetimes and 100 years of knowledge that it can’t draw upon and be reborn. Ya know whad I mean, man?”

Realist:  “I know.  You need to do something about it now, or else we’re toast.”