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I'm going to start focusing on eating iron-rich foods (Cherie mentioned black-strap molasses and beef as two such foods), and I'll continue taking my vit. C.

Ooops. I knew that Myers-Briggs paragraph was too garbled for words!

Okay. You know how each of the 16 types is dominant in one certain "function"? (This isn't covered in David Kiersey's Please Understand Me II; if you'd like a book about it, look for Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type by Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger.) The four functions are: Sensing, iNtuition, Feeling, and Thinking.

The dominant sensors are: ISFJ, ISTJ, ESFP, and ESTP.
The dominant intuitives are: INFJ, INTJ, ENFP, and ENTP.
The dominant feelers are: ISFP, INFP, ENFJ, and ESFJ.
The dominant thinkers are: ISTP, INTP, ESTJ, and ENTJ.

Before I explain the next part, it's important to know that your S or N defines the way you take in information (either you sense it or intuit it), while F and T define the way you make decisions (based on your feelings or on your thoughts).

Well. If a person is a dominant, say, N, she would naturally be dominant in taking in information. This makes her an "information-gatherer." Whereas a dominant, say, F, would be dominant in making decisions. This makes her a "decision-maker" (we refer to it alternately as "action-taker").

We've done a lot of talking about this in our house recently, because all of the rest of the family are "information-gatherers" (Rachel, Stevie, and Cherie are dominant Ns; Jimmy is a dominant S). I'm the only "decision-maker" (I'm a dominant F). Sometimes it gets very tiring for me to sit around while all my family members take their time finding out aallll the data about something before making a decision about how to act. Also, they archive things obsessively (er, it seems to me, that is) -- saving old lists, web site links, casual letters, etc. -- that I would automatically throw away.

Of course there are wonderful aspects of both information-gathering and action-taking -- and of course, everybody does both every day. I just have a bit of a chip on my shoulder these days about being the only "decision-maker" in our house.

Does that explain it?

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