Daily Excerpt: Understanding the Analyst (Quinelle) - Who is the analyst?
Excerpt from Understanding the Analyst (Quinelle) - WHO IS THE ANALYST The Analyst is an Intuitive Thinking Introvert (TII), who is also Rational. As such, he or she is a combination of the three expressed traits and the unexpressed trait, Rationality (emphasis on the Jungian definition, not the English language lay definition). Some might say that he reminds one of Mr. Spock, of the television and movie series Star Trek . (The resemblance is clear enough that when my 10-year-old Analyst son was through-hiking the Appalachian Trail with his father, he was referred to by other through-hikers as “Spock,” though his official AT moniker was “Puff.”) Certainly, too, one would find many an Analyst in Silicon Valley; if one were to stereotype the geek world, it would contain mostly Analyst features. Filatova describes the Analyst in the following way: The most notable attributes of Analysts are a lanky body and a hollow cheeked face, often with an elon...