Rachel,
You wrote, "At some level of detail, of course, we are all different. But how
do you work with 5.5 billion personality types in a useful mental model?"
That's not a model that I know how to use all the time, or even most of the
time. Of course, I have my generalizations, just like everyone else (see? I'm
doing it again! <g>). I too have lots of different categories that I put people
in to help me deal with the complexity of personalities. But I remember my "5.5
billion personality types" model now and then when one of my other mental models
has gotten me stuck. And once in a blue moon I remember it in time to keep me
from getting in trouble in the first place.
You said, "The crucial thing to me is, how fluid can we be about accepting new
data, correcting the model in real time as we are making it?"
I agree. Not only is this crucial, it's also very hard.
Dale
--Dale Emery <72704.1550@CompuServe.COM>
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