So while I was down in MD for Thanksgiving, my Mom had us all take a Myers-Briggs (or Jungian) Personality Test. I came out as ENTP. Mom’s book called the ENTP profile the ‘Inventor’ profile. A brief summary of my type:
Creative, resourceful, and intellectually quick. Good at a broad range of things. Enjoy debating issues, and may be into “one-up-manship”. They get very excited about new ideas and projects, but may neglect the more routine aspects of life. Generally outspoken and assertive. They enjoy people and are stimulating company. Excellent ability to understand concepts and apply logic to find solutions.
A detailed description of ENTP.
If you’d like to determine your own personality profile, I found what looks like a pretty good test. Let me know what you come out with! You can get your own short summary at this site.
Published on November 22, 2006
in TKD.
So, last Friday, I had my third Tae Kwon Do Belt Test. I was testing for Green Belt, which is the 5th level at my school. The test involved marching (responding quickly to commands given in mixed Korean/English), Forms (Through Do-San / Tosan for me), One Steps (I know through #14), Board Breaking (4 12″ x 12″ x 1″ #2 pine boards), and Sparring. Additionally there was some general fitness stuff like push-ups and the like.
Everything went well! The hardest part for me was one of the breaks - I had to try and break a board using a hammer-fist technique (your fist comes around behind you, up, and down like a hammer). I hit the board very hard, but the thing wouldn’t break! Later I heard that if you snap it more the board will break. I went first on breaking so I didn’t hear that advice, ah well. I broke that board with a spinning back kick instead (which is a somewhat more advanced technique). I ended up breaking with a front kick, a skip side kick, and a spinning back kick.
I think I most enjoyed the sparring, it’s very improvisational. I got to spar Max, a young red belt. I have a pretty strong advantage size-wise, but he certainly outranks me by a fair margin. I did pretty well though, or at least everyone said I did ;).
All in all, I’m really glad to be studying TKD. It’s awakened something in me that I never knew I had before, and has made me a much stronger person. I really like my school, too–they push me to give my all.
Saw Jesus Camp tonight at Images Cinema. It basically documented my experiences growing up in the Assemblies of God churches and the camp I went to. It made me very angry to see these children so indoctrinated. I wish someone would have stood up for me and allowed me to not go to these camps. The amount of blatant brainwashing in them is simply abhorrent.
The rest of the audience’s reaction was very much calmer, perhaps more scientific, but also less realistic. When the after-show speaker talked about how there is a culture war, many people in the audience were offended by the use of the word. I say they need to wake up and stop being so wishy washy. A war has been declared, and in order to fight it we have to acknowledge it. Trying to ignore it by calling it something else does no good.
