Re: I need a little advice here

Posted by dolittle (209.217.123.172) on February 08, 2003 at 08:39:02:

In Reply to: Re: I need a little advice here posted by Ryan (129.237.110.207) on December 06, 2002 at 17:35:37:

> It's a testament to the power of modern pharmaceuticals that a drug can have such an effect on personality as to completely alter it. My advice is to stay a 7, get bad grades, drop out of college and start your own business in some kind of hobby you are interested in. Hire some 1 or 5 accountant to do the thinking for you. You'll be rich in no time.

> Ryan

> > Lets say you were a definate 7 when you were younger, like up until around 14 or 15, and you had every characteristic of a 7, being really really hyper and somewhat a 9 in being a happy person overall, then realized how your grades were suffering due to your lack of attention span, and eventually ended up being "diagnosed" with A.D.D. and started taking medication for it. After about a few months your personality shifts 100% from a happy and hyper 7 to a sedated and isolated 5 who starts to get a 4.0 gpa and all good marks in school. Although your normally friendly and happy personatily is almost gone, you realize how easily it is for you to get good grades and stay focused on just about anything. You also start acting completely as a 5 while on the medicine, until the weekend when you don't take it, and become a 7 again. Although it seems like the medication wouldn't change personalities so drastically, in this case it makes you feel like Jekyll and Hyde, with a split personality.
> > Now for the actual help here. With all those conditions and knowing you feel like 2 different people in one, what do you do later on in life? College is coming up, and there is such a difference in what each "personality" wants, so how would I decide what to do? Its either take the medicine and become a fairly unhappy person who constantly wants to be alone, but will maintain a quality job quite easily and be much more understanding and under control as a 5... or, stop taking it, become a text-book 7, never get any good grades, probably not do well at all in college, probably barely maintain a good career, but be happy, my natural self, and much more social. And also that there really isn't a gray area, just black and white, and it's one or the other. I need some advice here, or what you would do in the situation. gracias.

Personality types have a path of growth and a path of decay. The five grows towards the best of the type 8 and decays towards the worst of the type 7. If you are a five but not very focused you could seem like a type 7. Take a test or two and see the results. Why do fives grow in the direction of 8?....because we (i'm a 5w4) have a nasty little habit of not doing anything practical. We need to pick something and do it long enough to actually get good at it so we feel our self-esteem grow. Knowing a little about many subjects....well that is what the encyclopedia is for (i once desired to read the whole thing):). Anyway it is quite likely that you are a five.
Allan

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