You said...
>Where do planning and bricoleur fit into Gregorc's paradigm? Is it in the
>random/sequential components, or in the concrete/abstract, or something else?
>
I haven't used Gregorc's style delineator for a few years, but I attended
a few of his 2-3 day seminars several years ago and used his ideas for
quite a while. I enjoyed his work very much but lost interest when I
discovered the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, (which I suspect was the
inspiration for his work.) It was Tony Gregorc (a strong abstract ramdom,
by the way) who helped me learn to enjoy being an abstract ramdom. Like
him I grew up thinking that the concrete sequentials were superior in some
way. (WEll... they were SO organized... weren't they? But so inflexible
at times! )
I don't think it's the random/sequential components, _or_ the
concrete/abstract. It's the combination rather than the "either-or"
question. The Conctete sequential is the planner/organizer and the
Abstract-Random the theorist or lover of abstract ideas. (Sorry for the
over simplification here.) His work has many similarities to the Myers
Briggs approach but he does rather over simplify things.
Personally I prefer the MBTI . It has 16 types rather than 4 and so it
gives room for a less simplistic characterization of people's
personalities. There is no way all people fall mainly into 4 categories.
The MBTI, has four sets of two opposite characteristics:
Extravert-Introvert; Sensing-Intuitive; Thinking-Feeling; and Perceiving
Judging. It is understood that everyone has strengths from each of the 8
characteristics, but that we tend to develop a strength (or preference
for) one or other of each pair of opposing characteristics. Of the 16
personality types the Sensing Judgers tend to be the most organized
planners (similar the the Concrete sequential), while the Intuitive
Perceivers are the idealists and lovers of abstraction (Abstract
Ramdom). SJ's love planning and need closure, while NPs like
open-endenness and inspriation and love to play with abstract reasoning
and posibilities.
Sorry for going on and on. You just tapped into one of my other
interests. (Yes, I'm an INTP or Abstract Random if you prefer. I know
I'm in good company. I suspect there are many other NTs here. )
... Ug but I hate the word Random. I've never been particularly
sequential but the word random sounds so "off-the-wall" flakey! Random is
not unplanned, however. The random person just plans in a non-linear way
which is often misunderstood by others. I always prefered to call it
simultaneous processing, rather than ramdom.
OK... off the band wagon now!
Priscilla
PS
If anyone is interested in the MBTI, you can just do a netsearch for Myers
Briggs or MBTI.
There are many discussion groups for it. Or let me know if you want some URLs.
ptheroux@spots.ab.ca
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen
and thinking what nobody has thought."
Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi:
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