Tag Archives: personality

Famous personality, Guardian, Leadership

As a Father

September 16, 2012 David Keirsey 11 Comments

“over his children”

That’s how he was going to treat everybody under his command.

MAKE NO MISTAKE, by God he meant it.

“A tough, sturdy, valiant, weather-beaten, mettlesome, obstinate, leathern-sided, lion-hearted, generous-spirited old governor” was his description.

And they, “his children,” wouldn’t lift a hand in the end. No appreciation for his service — yeah, he wasn’t the nicest stern taskmaster around. He had made too many enemies. Ok, he was a downright Serious Jerk — but who doesn’t have some kind of fault.

Even though he essentially SINGLE-HANDILY had turned the colony around from a backwater, third rate fur trading post to a thriving jewel of a port, rich from the slave trade, such that the British couldn’t resist — they had to have that colony: New Amsterdam.

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Artisan, Famous personality, Leadership

It’s been a long time coming

September 13, 2012 David Keirsey 11 Comments

It’s been a long time coming
It’s going to be a long time gone
And it appears to be a long
Appears to be a long
Appears to be a long time
It’s a long, long, long, long time
Before the dawn
–Crosby, Stills, and Nash

What if you had a rock star run a country?

It would be a disaster.

Unless —

Unless — maybe —

IT WAS AN UNMITIGATED DISASTER BEFORE….

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Famous personality, In Memoriam, Leadership, Rational

No Hero, just an engineer.

September 4, 2012 David Keirsey 9 Comments

It was seconds to running out of fuel.

But, he had an outward calm about him.

Yes, the Eagle has landed.

No doubt, the Crafter Artisan, Chuck Yeager, another test pilot, the first to break sound barrier, might have been impressed, although Yeager being very competitive in nature, he might not have openly expressed it. Why give that “engineer,” any credit?
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Artisan, Dyads, Idealist

Misery Acquaints

August 31, 2012 David Keirsey 3 Comments

…there is no other shelter hereabout:
misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
I will here shroud till the
dregs of the storm be past.
— Shakespeare

They couldn’t be stranger bedfellows.

They couldn’t be more different — in Temperament and upbringing.

But there they were. Bound together in tragedy and purpose, at this point in time.

They needed each other, and they wanted each other’s help.

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out of the box, Personality

Children are your most important Customer…

August 28, 2012 David Keirsey Leave a comment

One Pill makes you larger, One Pill makes you small, the Pills that your mother give you… ?

This is an important blog regarding your children, your grandchildren, or your Children’s Children Children Children.

Artisan, Entertainment, Famous personality, In Memoriam

You Bet Your Life

August 25, 2012 David Keirsey 2 Comments

I still remember it.

You bet your life, I do.

diller_and_groucho — Groucho Marx’s You Bet Your Life

All though it might have been a rerun couple of years later, it was — that long ago, and I was definitely young at the time (sigh).

I remember it, even though, she didn’t have the crazy hair.

But you could see Groucho was impressed. He even said so at the time.

It takes talent to know talent. Natural talent, that is — it’s called Temperament

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Artisan, Entertainment, Famous personality, In Memoriam, Leadership

The Single Girl

August 17, 2012 David Keirsey 2 Comments

She attempted to have the book censored or banned in the United States.

No, she wasn’t your socially conservative female.

Yes, in 1962 it was viewed as a scandalous book: Sex and the Single Girl advocated having sex before marriage, and gave advice on how to have an affair.

And she was married.

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Dyads, Leadership, out of the box, Personality, Rational

Conversations

August 15, 2012 David Keirsey 2 Comments

With the eyes of a child
You must come out and see
That your world’s spinning ’round
— Moody Blues

She wrote it in plain and clear language, so, even a child understand.

However, I doubt many adults could understand it, even now: most adults are too stupid to understand.

No, not ignorant, just stupid. Adults: too naturally not interested, too busy, too lazy, too “know it all,” too impatient to really see — and to learn.