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  Excerpt from Understanding the Seeker   (Quinelle) -  The Seeker at Work Many people end up in jobs and even careers that are not well matched with their personality profile. Around the turn of this century, some businesses typed themselves—what kinds of characteristics they needed in their employees and their leaders—and set about hiring employees in accordance with those characteristics. This practice is waning as we enter the second decade  of the 21 st century. It could be that businesses have found that matching company needs and personality traits is a much more complex endeavor than originally thought, one that includes the needs of the business in terms of kinds of products, the job and career choices for the future employee, and the needs and personality types of co-workers and clients.* Job and Career Choices If a high school or college guidance counselor were to suggest appropriate jobs for young Seekers, chances are the suggestions would likely be in the fields of natura

  The Quinelle series of books, based on  Understanding the People around You , focuses on individual personality types. The excerpt below is from  Understanding the Seeker: Socionics in Everday Life . Want more information? Read the books! Start with Filatova's book, then turn to Quinelle's books that break out the individual styles: Understanding the Analyst Understanding the Critic Understanding the Entrepreneur Understanding the Seeker ---- at least three more coming in 2022 (Romantic, Performer, Professional) Understanding the Seeker’s Approach to Life What is the Seeker? The Seeker is an Intuitive Thinking Extrovert (ITE). As such, he or she is a combination of the three expressed traits and the unexpressed trait, Irrationality (emphasis on the Jungian definition, not the English-language lay definition). Filatova describes the Seeker in the following way: The most attractive feature of Seekers (ITEs) is their enthusiastic look, as if they are oversized children a

  excerpt from How to Live from Your Heart by Nanette Hucknall - Introduction Buddha said: The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. Living from your heart is a way of life. It means to listen with your heart, to relate to others with your heart, to receive and give to others with your heart, to access knowledge with your heart, to inspire and be inspired, and to learn discrimination, trusting in your heart’s ability to recognize right from wrong. It means being open to any possibility and any creative thought. The heart is the way to higher wisdom and the spirit within. Using your heart as an instrument brings an acceptance of nature’s beauty, the containment of opposites and a way for healing energies to flow. But what is the heart? The physical heart, of course, is an organ that keeps us alive, but the physical heart is very different from the heart this book is referring to. Where does one feel love or pain? It always comes not from the physical heart but from a place in

  Excerpt from  Understanding the Critic  (Quinelle) -  Introduction Do you ever think you were born into the wrong family? Ever wonder what on earth your gifts are? This book is the second in a series of 16 books based on Dr. Ekaterina Filatova’s work, which was first made available to an English-speaking population through her opus , Understanding the People around You: An Introduction to Socionics (2009). Each of the 16 volumes is dedicated to a different socion or sociotype (a personality type within the framework of a society—or in more familiar Western parlance, a psychological type, or psychotype); these terms are used interchangeably in this book. This particular book, the one you are holding in your hands, is dedicated to the Critic personality type, the Introverted, Intuitive, Thinker, Irrational psychological type. This book will help you understand the Critic personality around you—and if you are a Critic, it may help you understand yourself better. It begins where Dr. Fi