From: Wim Nusselder (wim.nusselder@antenna.nl)
Date: Fri Apr 08 2005 - 21:52:38 BST
Dear Steve M.,
You wrote 3 Apr 2005 09:05:08 -0700:
> I like your comment on 'personal preference'. This points to the value of
> different personality types. However, maybe habitual thinking / behavior
> (the basis of the personality 'type'), even if that 'habit' is
spontaneity,
> results in a 'stuckness' for the individual. This is a bone of contention
> that has cost me a friendship it looks like, and is the primary motivation
> for joining MD right now, even though I've considered it for a long while.
Yes, I prefer to characterize 3rd level patterns of value as 'habitual'
rather than 'social'. 'Personality' is for me is indeed a summary of the 3rd
level patterns of value identified with a person. If the 3rd level is
understood as containing individual and collective habits, individual habits
maintain 'personalities' and collective habits maintain 'societies'.
'Habits' represent static quality from all perspectives except from a lower
level perspective. (Collective habits enabled homo sapiens to adapt to new
environments, survive adverse ecological conditions and so to outcompete
other hominids in biological evolution.)
So-called 'spontaneity' can indeed be a habit if it is merely
being-unconventional-for-the-sake-of-not-following-conventions, a habit of
not participating in all recognized collective habits. One can be stuck in
being a contrarian.
I doubt whether that is true spontaneity though. I would call behaviour
'spontaneous' only if it is fully independent of collective habits. That
doesn't exclude the possibility of it being part of an individual habit. It
can be part of one's personality to simply ignore conventions, to act on
intuition. One can be stuck in intuition if that results in neglect of the
other potential elements of one's personality: reason (clear judgment),
emotion (empathy) and sensitivity (clear perception).
It intrigues me how spontaneity being potentially static can have cost you a
friendship and can have motivated your joining us. Can you tell me more?
With friendly greetings,
Wim
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