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The INFJ Personality Guide: Understand yourself, reach your potential, and live a life of purpose.
Bo Miller - 2017
You long to be appreciated for who you are, but most people just don't get you because you have the rarest personality type on the planet.
But that can all change when you understand yourself better!
In this book, you'll discover...
Your greatest strengths
Your weaknesses
Why the rest of the world thinks differently than you
Why you're so good at discerning people's thoughts, motivations, and feelings
How to set better boundaries
How to cultivate healthy relationships
What to do when you get down or depressed
Career advice
How to manage your thoughts
How to make your creative ideas, insights, and visions a reality
How to communicate more effectively with other personality types
How to handle criticism without getting your feelings hurt
This book is divided into three sections:
INFJ preferences
INFJ functions
How to develop your personality and reach your potential
About the Author
Bo Miller is an INFJ and a certified Myers-Briggs practitioner who's passionate about understanding the sixteen personality types - especially the INFJ. He knows what it's like to feel misunderstood and has personally experienced the life-changing benefits of understanding his personality type and "getting himself."
Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation
David Huron - 2006
These efforts evolved into a general theory of expectation that will prove informative to readers interested in cognitive science and evolutionary psychology as well as those interested in music. The book describes a set of psychological mechanisms and illustrates how these mechanisms work in the case of music. All examples of notated music can be heard on the Web.Huron proposes that emotions evoked by expectation involve five functionally distinct response systems: reaction responses (which engage defensive reflexes); tension responses (where uncertainty leads to stress); prediction responses (which reward accurate prediction); imagination responses (which facilitate deferred gratification); and appraisal responses (which occur after conscious thought is engaged). For real-world events, these five response systems typically produce a complex mixture of feelings. The book identifies some of the aesthetic possibilities afforded by expectation, and shows how common musical devices (such as syncopation, cadence, meter, tonality, and climax) exploit the psychological opportunities. The theory also provides new insights into the physiological psychology of awe, laughter, and spine-tingling chills. Huron traces the psychology of expectations from the patterns of the physical/cultural world through imperfectly learned heuristics used to predict that world to the phenomenal qualia we experienced as we apprehend the world.
Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion Can Lead to a Lifetime of Success
James Marcus Bach - 2009
In today's volatile job market, ideas are more important than training, innovation is more important than credentials; traditional schooling may no longer be necessary or even useful. The ability to educate oneself 'to learn how to learn' is crucial. In Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar James Bach demonstrates how to nurture one's natural curiosities and passions through the whimsical learning process he calls 'buccaneering' demonstrating that those who understand this fundamental principle will come to dominate this new world.