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" Knowing a Problem is Harder Than Solving It "

Posted by Penelope Trunk: "Self-knowledge can solve all your problems. Because it's more difficult to understand what your problem is than to know how to solve it. 

Most of the time we actually have the knowledge we need to solve a problem, but we don't like reality, so we pretend to not have the knowledge.

This reminds me of the bazillion times I've told someone to take the Myers Briggs test. I think everyone should take it so you know your natural strengths and weaknesses. But most people already have an idea of who they want to be based on what their parents have told them about who they should be. And so almost most people are shocked and a little disappointed when they get their Myers Briggs score. Reality is almost never what we think it is when it comes to assessing ourselves.

So most people live in denial about their personality profile. I did that. I thought I was a writer even when I kept scoring as an ENTJ. But if you are an ENTJ, you need to do something much bigger than writing a book all by yourself, because you need some people to boss around. Or at least some people to leverage to get a bigger book written, like maybe the encyclopedia. So I pretended to not be an ENTJ by pretending that I was really one of those super creative people trapped in corporate America. But you know what? I love corporate America. I love the game part of it...

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Source: Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist, 9 September 2009

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on September 10, 2009 (boomark / email).