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strategy and some forms of science. People such as automotive pathfinder
Lee Iacocca or British wartime military leader Bernard Montgomery.
The introverted thinkers, often
interested in ideas for their own sake: philosophers such as Charles Darwin, Rene
Descartes and Jung himself.
The extroverted feeling types, interested
deeply in other people - the Mother Teresas of the world.
The introverted feeling types, including
those who agonize over the world's problems but internalize them and assume them as a
burden.
The extroverted sensation types, the
sports-loving, thrill-seeking, pleasure-seekers.
The introverted sensation types "who
find the outer world uninteresting and unsatisfying and turn inwardly to seek
fulfilment" - including some of the great mystics.
The extroverted intuitive people
"who enter new relationships with great gusto but do not always prove dependable.
They can move quickly from one new interest to another, especially if it is not
immediately fruitful. They have visions of new worlds to conquer or to build. They are
promoters of new causes. We may name as examples Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar,
Napoleon, Hitler, Henry Ford and builders of today's economic empires."
The introverted intuitive people, including the
visionaries and dreamers who draw from their own hidden resources.
And Geering says "the acknowledgment of
psychological types is an essential first step if we are to appreciate Jung's concept of
individuation, the process by which each of us becomes the one unique and whole human
person we have the potential to become".
Many educators have now built on these concepts.
Rudolph Steiner schools, for instance, place great emphasis on identifying and catering to
individual temperaments.
Determining your learning style
There are currently about 20 different methods of
identifying learning styles. And research by Professors Ken and Rita Dunn, from St. Johns
University, New York, provides one of the most comprehensive models. But overall your
learning style is a combination of three factors:
 How you perceive information most easily - whether you are
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