Why Should Anyone Get Into Socionics?
Few know much, if anything, about Socionics, and if you are a particularly busy or distracted, or just practically and commercially-minded person, you may be wondering why you should bother to read any further. The fact is that Socionics has an incredibly broad and potentially game-changing set of applications to both your personal life and your business.
Application 1 - Understanding People Better
Getting to know people is difficult, and can take years of interaction before a person can reliably predict a person's actions. With over 7 billion people in the world, gaining such knowledge of even a fraction of them is near-impossible, and you may often encounter individuals who confuse or surprise you with their very different approaches to life. This can be inconvenient when meeting strangers, but far more debilitating when you have to share a workplace, or even a family, with people so different to you.
People with the experience of life can gradually build templates to sort new people in their heads, which can facilitate more harmonious and beneficial interactions. Even so, it is limited to a particular range of experiences, and one's personal perspective. It is near impossible to transfer to others and cannot replace understanding the world through the priorities of another.
With Socionics, we have similar templates ready for anyone to understand and use, only these are built on a system that understands each and every kind of person on their own terms. This can be used to work out deep and often profound insights about a person's strengths and motivations, from relatively little information. With such a skillset, Socionics can make you a better communicator and mediator, allowing you to navigate all sorts of people, framing your point of view in a way they can relate to, whilst understanding both sides and helping to resolve others' disputes.
Eight Elements:
Pragmatism (Te), Emotions (Fe).
Eight Functions:
Leading (1), Creative (2),
Vulnerable (4), Role (3)
Mobilising (6), Suggestive (5),
Ignoring (7), Demonstrative (8).
Sixteen Types:
Application 2 - Understanding Yourself Better
We often like to think that we know ourselves better than others, but psychological research suggests the opposite: that your imagination frequently fill gaps in your memory, and a range of biases distort your perceptions. This is not to mention the social pressures that can interfere with your self-perception, telling you what we really want and making you feel guilty when you do not comply.
The great benefit of Socionics to self-knowledge is that it provides so many layers to understanding one-self. It sets out the most obvious aspect of you, what you bring to the world, describing the distinct benefits you bring to wider society. It then goes deeper, into your needs, fears and aspirations, articulating not only what can bring a sense of fulfilment and happiness, but also advising on which things you can work on yourself, and which areas you will need a bit of help with from others. From there, it turns outward towards the expectations and pressures from other people and their impact on you, allowing an insight into not only what can help you to flourish, but also your blind spots, and what paths of self-compromise could lead you astray. Rather than present a static snapshot, Socionics presents a dynamic view of how you can adapt your behaviour, grow in confidence, react to experiences of failure, and balance the key aspects that bring you success in life.
Such knowledge will give you a distinct advantage in deciding your direction in life, so that you bring out the best of yourself, play to your strengths, and avoid your own pitfalls and Achilles' heel, all without the sacrifices of having to learn the hard way.
Application 3 - Elevating Your Career
With the improved understanding of yourself and others comes far greater opportunity for career success. With Socionics, you will know what motivates you in a career, and also what specific roles will capitalise on your main selling points, rather than putting pressure on your weak spots. This will help you sustain your enthusiasm at work, and make success in your work the norm rather than the exception. Not only this, but it will help you assess new opportunities, not just taking a promotion into a dead end, but selecting those avenues that challenge and build the skillsets you find most rewarding.
Similarly, you will be able to understand your clients and co-workers, adapting your approach to avoid unnecessary fall-outs. More than this, when given the responsibility of building your own teams, you will be able to select those people whose values align with yours and whose strengths cover those areas you have the least confidence doing yourself. Not only this, but you will be equipped with the insights to bring out their best performance and develop them for the future. These skills result in cohesive, highly successful teams, giving you credentials as an effective leader and manager.
Application 4 - Elevating Your Relationships
Applying a similar understanding to your friendships and romantic connections can help you to build a more rewarding personal life. If you have yet to find your partner, having a blueprint for the right sort of person can revolutionise how you approach dating. By doing this, you will soon find someone who shares your values and humour, respects your needs and boundaries, and yet, can easily accomplish things that have always been a mystery to you, and in turn, be greatly appreciative of things you identify with as being the best of yourself. Finding that person who complements and completes you is not only possible in Socionics, but the key reason the theory was created in the first place.
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