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June 7, 2008
Having my brain picked....
I recently received the following email about my previous review of Gary Null's book "Who Are You, Really?"
I am a psychology graduate who has read Gary Null's Natural Life Energy book, noticed your review, and I have the following thoughts:
1. There may be some rare cases of people like tadpoles who turn into butterflies or people evolving from one life energy into another. Even if most people remain in one life energy, it is theroretically possible that some people may change.
2. You mentioned that you scored high on both Dynamic Supportive and Dynamic Assertive. I have noticed the following:
Some people are pure textbook cases of a particular life energy. For instance, there is an dancer friend I have who is a pure creative assertive and two activists I know who are pure Dynamic assertives. Donald Trump has to be a pure Dynamic Agressive. However, there are some people who seem to be hybrids of more than one life energy:
Bill Gates seems to be a Dynamic Aggressive tycoon who also has a genuine Dynamic Assertive Scientist vissionary side to him. Some people who know him, can find him to be like a sincere caring scientist at times. I also know a Dynamic Aggressive tycoon who can be with friends like a caring Dynamic Supportive counselor. The most interesting hybrid I know is a woman who is a status hungry adaptive aggressive who also works as a sensitive therapist with yuppies. She is a genuine Dynamic Supportive/Adaptive Aggressive hybrid. She has enough genuine Dynamic Supportiveness to be a great caring therapist, but is status hungry enough to be better able to relate to Adaptive Agressives than some pure Dynamic Supportives would.
3. While Gary Null is usually right in saying that people should chose careers that suit their NLE,. there have been some "fish out of water" success stories where someone who is not the usual NLE of the people in a particular field, ads new perspective.
For instance:
A Dynamic Supportive in Congress might be able to bring waring factions together.
Someone who had some genuine Adaptive Supportive traits who had a high position in business or government might bring a needed "regular Joe" perspective
Someone who is a Dynamic Assertive factory worker might unionize the plant.
Here are my questions:
1. Have you yourself ever seen any people who seemed to be genuine hybrids of two life energies? Any famous examples.
2. What life energy do you think the following TV/movie characters are:
Michael Schoofield from Prison Break
Forrest Gump
Rose from Titanic
Yours Truly,
J.M.
Here is my reply:
Dear J.M.,Thanks for your comments, I find your insights most interesting, I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to reciprocate with your questions, however. I am terribly bored with the public face of "famous people", and probably couldn't identify most of them in a line up. I do own a television, but have no reception where I live, and aside from watching an occasional movie it stays off. I have not watched any of the shows/movies you reference.
I am intensely interested in understanding people I know personally though, and especially in trying to figure out what makes each of them "tick". I have found that I am better able to work with others when I have first identified their personality traits. For example, my sister-in-law is a dyed in the wool Creative Assertive, her oldest child is definitely a Dynamic Assertive, and will most likely rule the world when she is old enough. Speculating on the life energy of the mysterious person who mowed my yard while I was off at work two nights ago would fascinate me to no end.
You made one observation which hit very close to home for me, and I wanted to comment specifically on it. You said "Someone who is a Dynamic Assertive factory worker might unionize the plant." In the 1930's, this may have been a good use of life energy, but recall Dr. Null's observation that the Dynamic Assertives are the first to be assasinated following a coup. In today's global economy the Dynamic Assertive factory worker would be much better off developing the persona of a primadonna and devoting her energy to lobbying for equipment and process improvements which save the company thousands of dollars.
Thanks for reading,
Anna
Dynamic Assertive/Dynamic Supportive Factory Worker
Posted by Anna at June 7, 2008 11:12 PM