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She believed children were innately curious and that education should foster their natural instinct to learn. After a brief and unsatisfying encounter with traditional schooling, she brought Isabel home to educate her daughter herself, and encouraged her to spend long hours reading and writing on whatever topics interested her. Katharine was also an aspiring fiction writer, and this is where her interest in personality types was born.

She wanted to discover the fundamentals of personality and behavior, so that she might create better characters for her stories. Katharine felt that Chief was different from the rest of the family, and turned to her study of personality types in an attempt to quantify what that difference might be.

This was a crucial endeavor for Katharine, as she sensed that her ability to appreciate Chief was essential to her continued closeness with her daughter. Rather than judge or reject Chief, she set out to understand him.

She found no unifying theory of type in her studies, and eventually she began to formulate her own. However, in , she read C. Katharine contacted Dr. Jung personally, corresponding with him over several years and even meeting him when he visited the United States.

He provided her with additional notes on his work in the field, and she consulted with him in the application of his theories. She composed a novel incorporating the concepts of personality type, and wrote an article for the New Republic magazine which explained to readers how they might attempt to classify themselves and the people around them. While Katharine pursued her studies, Isabel was keeping busy as a wife and mother. She and her husband Chief had two children, and Isabel plunged herself enthusiastically into the task of raising them well.

What time she had left over was occupied with her own interest in writing. After winning a mystery-novel contest, Isabel enjoyed some success as a writer of novels, short stories, and plays. During these years, Katharine tried to interest Isabel in type theory, without much success.

She felt compelled to help with the war effort, but the usual volunteer activities did not challenge her intellect. Audible 0 editions. CD Audiobook 0 editions. Project Gutenberg 0 editions. Google Books — Loading Genres Nonfiction. Rating Average: 2. Is this you? Become a LibraryThing Author. She presents you with her education and work history, and an outline of her career objectives. Specifically, she says that she would like to find an entry-level position where she can help people, and is interested in a career in the social services.

Save to Library Save. Create Alert Alert. Share This Paper. Background Citations. Methods Citations. Results Citations. Citation Type. Has PDF. Publication Type. The MBTI instrument has been officially translated into thirty languages. Since type describes differences in how people approach the world, take in information, and make decisions, it relates to situations people encounter every day. Articles and books have been written about how to use type in education, careers, management, leadership, intimate relationships, counseling, parenting, children, teamwork, spirituality, lifelong development, and other areas of interest for people using type.

Development and applications of psychological type are founded on the idea that understanding your type can help you a appreciate your own strengths, gifts, and potential developmental needs, and b help you understand and appreciate how other people may differ from you. Isabel Briggs Myers. Box , Gainesville, FL