THE AGENCY FOR CHANGE

UNRAVELING THE MYSTERIES OF PERSONALITY

FOR GROWING PEOPLE

ABOUT THE THINKING AND FEELING FUNCTIONS

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Thinking has an "I - It" Stance.   Feeling has an "I - Thou" Stance

Thinking is about The Ten Commandments.    Feeling is about The Sermon on the Sermon 

The focus is on the Letter of the Law.The focus is on the Spirit of the law.

Thinking is tough-minded.Feeling is tender-minded.

Thinking is a line.Feeling is a circle

Thinking is a particle.Feeling is a wave

Thinking fathered "The Enlightenment."  Feeling inspired "The Renaissance."

Thinking is about objectivity and the outside.   Feeling is about subjectivity and the

inside.

Thinking is about science. Feeling is about art.

Thinking names.  Feeling experiences

Thinking is about parts.   Feeling is about wholes.

Thinking uses cause and effect.  Feeling uses story, and myth.

Thinking uses analysis.Feeling uses understanding.

Thinking is about reason.  Feeling is about humanism.

Thinking is about facts.  Feeling is about meaning.

Thinking solves problems. Feeling creates art and meaning.

Thinking is hierarchal.Feeling is egalitarian.

Thinking is about argument.   Feeling is about dialogue.

Thinking is about the individual   Feeling is about the individual in society.

Thinking is detached and impersonal. Feeling is empathic. 

Thinking knows by explaining.     Feeling knows by understanding.

Thinking is about prose.  Feeling is about poetry.

Thinking is about the notes.  Feeling is about the music.

(c) January 2006

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