Learning to understand how I process information has become increasingly important to my ability to manage my career. My early, haphazard career steps were very lucky. Now that I’m older, I have the opportunity to be more deliberate — if I understand how to navigate.
The more I study the Myers-Briggs, the more incredibly valuable information I find. Some of it is very comforting (“I knew I couldn’t be the only one who did that!”) and some of it is very frustrating (“If that’s why I tend to do that, then how do I change this habit?”), but all of it’s useful. Yet one more MBTI nugget made its way my direction recently, and it’s clarified another trend in my life that I didn’t previously recognize.
After 130 years, Ursuline High School in Santa Rosa, my alma matter, is closing. Given my loathing of high school, my general predisposition against sentimentality and my staunch atheism, I am quite shocked to discover that I am tremendously saddened by this news.