I mentioned in the forums that I'd found some techniques involving eye movement that are helpful in terms of reading social situations. I figured I would post a summary of what I've found and see if people wanted to take the basic concepts and push it forward on their own. The inspiration came from my studies of Logic -- a discipline which has a great deal of material to learn in terms of helping to improve the Thinking function. It has bugged me for some time that there seems to be no …

You'll have to bear with me on this one, because it isn't as directly related to temperament theory. I've been studying psychology for some time. (Not in classes, but I have psychologist friends, lots of books, and I'm good at internet research.) When I first got to looking at the field, I had something specific in mind -- but I didn't know exactly what it was that I was looking for. At the same time, I knew that I'd be certain what it was if I ran across it. I still ha…

Of all the disciplines which have developed over the years, it strikes me that they can be divided into the temporal and the eternal. Languages rise and fall; technologies are invented and become obsolete; but certain disciplines (like mathematics) seem to be constant wherever you go. Child prodigies in mathematics may, for example, spontaneously discover Euclidean geometry; but no child suddenly invents the Latin language in a thrill of inspiration. Philosophy occupies an unusual posit…

Seeing as how this is my first blog post, I figured I'd start out with fundamentals. To the question of "why study temperament?" we must supply a compelling answer -- otherwise there is little reason to turn our intellectual energy in that direction as opposed to, say, juggling. It would be easy to say that you must have a reason for studying temperament, or else you wouldn't be reading these very words; but even if our collective reasons were sufficient to get us in the door, so to…