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Cognition – The Super Simple Series! | Part 4: Function-Combinations

August 31, 2016 / Calise Sellers

Hey! Welcome back! How was your between-posts intermission? Did you get everything you need? Hydration? Nourishment? Bladder relief? Well then, let’s move on. 🙂

Oh and of course, if you haven’t read Parts 1, 2 and 3 yet, then I love you but you really shouldn’t be here yet. Go read those first and then come back. Don’t worry, I’m patient. 😉

Alrighty, I’m really excited for this part too because there’s a lot about why Functions function the way that they do that I really haven’t gotten the opportunity to explain to the whole class, and they are really pretty frickn’ awesome!
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Cognition – The Super Simple Series! | Part 3: Cognition Steps and the Anatomy of the Cognition Process

May 31, 2016 / Calise Sellers

Yay! We’ve made it to what might be my favorite part of all cognition: the anatomy of the cognition process itself! Well, my favorite until we get into what makes every cognition special, and the inner hidden sides of ourselves and… okay I have a lot of favorite parts of cognition. But this post really centers on the core of it all: demonstrating that the paths our minds take make sense, how no thought just appears out of thin air, and how perfectly and elegantly balanced each and every type of thought process is, no matter how diverse. It gives me happy tingles! 😀

I’ve explained the ins and outs of cognition order in a much more complicated way in the past, but today I really want to break it down into simple reasons *why* cognition does what it does. Because the mind doesn’t do anything without a reason.

Cognition – The Super Simple Series! | Part 2: The Four Functions

May 12, 2016 / Calise Sellers

Hello again! Welcome back to Cognition – The Super Simple Series! If you missed Part 1: Cognition and the Four Types of Information, go check it out now. 🙂 Otherwise you’re going to be super lost instead and no one likes that!

I’m very excited for this post as there is sooo much confusion and stereotyping about what functions really are. In this post we’re looking at just how simple and straightforward cognitive functions are, and yet how they’re complex in application and, when understood correctly, should help us understand our complexity as humans more, not limit us into boxes. But I’m getting ahead of myself, as usual. 😉

If we define “Cognition,” as we did in Part 1, as the action of your mind acquiring and processing information, “Functions” are the tools our minds use to acquire and process that information.

Elsa and Aladdin Give Each Other Advice – Belated January Thank You Video

March 16, 2016 / Calise Sellers

In typical aLBoP fashion, this video turned out much later, much longer and much sillier than anticipated. The requested video was Queen Elsa from Frozen and Aladdin giving each other advice… and well, you can see the rest.

Click here to learn more about becoming an aLBoP Patron. Click here for more on Anakin Angst. And don’t forget to give us more video suggestions and desktop wallpaper suggestions!!!

Much love,

<3 Calise and Justin

December Thank You Video – “My Eyes” Duet

January 1, 2016 / Calise Sellers

Happy New Years everybody!!! We thought we’d squeeze in the December Patreon “Thank You!” Video… an hour before the new year hits here. lol

Love this song from Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, plus some updates and bloopers! Thank you guys for *everything* and an amazing year!! We love you so much!!!

And don’t forget to leave us suggestions for future videos and desktop wallpapers! If you’d like to support A Little Bit of Personality on Patreon (or just look at how our group rewards are coming along), click here. Every little bit helps and we have almost reached the “Guaranteed Major Post” monthly tier (for Super Simple Series, Type Heroes, etc.)! Seriously amazing, guys! <3 <3 Thank you, times a billion!

Happy 2016 guys!! <3

aLBoP Phase 2 Launch!!

September 16, 2015 / Calise Sellers

{Update 1/6/17: We’ve now moved Phase 2 to WordPress and you can sign up for a self-invite right on the Phase 2 Intro site!!}

You guys! It’s here!! Ohmygosh, we’re so excited!!

We’ve been teasing it since February, writing the intro since last August, and eagerly waiting to share the content since 2009! That’s right, we’ve been dying to share this stuff with you since long before aLBoP was even a little personality dream <3 And now, it’s ready! It’s really ready!!

Ahem. Yeah, you can tell we’re kinda excited 😉

What is Phase 2 and why has it taken so much of our time, energy, and gallons and gallons of love?

Since the day we started aLBoP, it’s been our mission to help you understand yourself and those around you, so that you can feel safe and free seeing how awesome people can be. Through swatting stereotypes and showing how you can be a hero in your own unique way, we’ve worked to raise your expectations of yourself and everyone in a way that gives you hope that people can be more than culture tells us, and that science is just a matter of letting rock-awesome reality speak for itself!

aLBoP Phase 2 takes all that a great leap further, giving you a whole new arsenal of tools to be the person *you* want to be, not someone else, to pursue *your* dreams and ideals and make them happen, and to make your life what you’ve always known it can be.

And on top of all that, there’s the forum! The Official aLBoP Forum, where you guys can all meet each other, share stuff, discuss anything and everything, and plot world domination together! There are so many of you who feel alone, like it’s hard to find other cool people in the world. But since there are so many of you, we’re so excited to see you finally get to know each other!

(Update: Hotmail users seem to be having trouble signing into the forum without creating a gmail account, but one of you mentioned a workaround, so if you need help, let us know!)

To make Phase 2 a safer place where you can freely talk about anything you want, we’re using a self-invite system. This is to prevent people from ruining your discussions by wandering in, skimming a little, and leaving unhelpful comments. This way, you know that everyone else on Phase 2 cares about this stuff, at least enough to fill out a form and see what it’s about!

So yay! Forum and a boatload of all-new Phase 2 content, with even more on the way! So go ahead, fill out the form below with the email you want to use on Phase 2 (for customizing your forum avatar and all that), and we’ll send you your invite! You’ll get two invitation emails, one for Phase 2, and one to participate in the forum there. Got that? Two emails. Good?

~~Once you get the invites, you can see the forum and all the Phase 2 content at albopphase2.blogspot.com.~~

(Update again! So…because we hit the limit on the number of people who can privately view a blogger site, we’ve temporarily created a clone site for all new invitees: albopphase2a.blogspot.com. The clone site lets you view everything the same, and you’ll have access to the same forum with everyone else, you’ll just use a different url)

So go ahead and submit that form! We can’t wait to see you there!! <3

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Cognition – The Super Simple Series! | Part 1: Cognition and the Four Types of Information

September 8, 2015 / Calise Sellers

Hi! If this is your first time visiting A Little Bit of Personality (aLBoP as we like to call it in endearing tones), welcome!! I’m Calise and I’m *sooo* super excited to share this introductory, condensed, no-frills version of how people think and how to use that information to understand yourself and everyone around you!

The purpose of this series is to explain as crash-course-ly as possible the basic building blocks that form the 16 types of cognition. No prior understanding of cognition, psychology or personality types required (though a basic understanding of people, decent reading comprehension and a certain level of human decency are all requested). There will of course be many pictures. 😀

Typing Tutorial (plus Character Spotlight!)

August 23, 2015 / Calise Sellers

Hey! This is Justin! Since I’m gonna be doing a lot of Phase 2, it’s probably good for me to say hi. It’s been awesome getting to talk to you guys over chats and emails, and I’m excited to finally get to do some character spotlights!

For this first one, we’re going to be focusing especially on how to type people. A lot of you have asked for help with typing people yourselves, so let’s walk through the process!

We’ve also convinced a couple of stick people, Gwen and Phil, to sacrifice their dignity and show us how *not* to type. They’re going to do their best to type correctly, using oversimplified, stereotypical methods and definitions, and we’ll see how they do.

For this tutorial, we wanted to type a cool, engaging character who’s also kinda obscure. That way, we shouldn’t have to worry much about preconceptions of the character’s type. We wouldn’t want to start out with Darth Vader, say. (We’ve seen Lord Vader typed as pretty much every single type :P)

That’s exactly the sort of subjectivity that we’re excited to get past here! Regardless of whether we’re typing someone’s behavior or their cognition, if it all ends up coming down to subjective arguments over what type they are, then there’s something wrong with our methodology. A reliable, repeatable, useful science needs to be objective, no matter who’s looking at it.

This kind of independent objectivity isn’t something a lot of people would associate with personality typing. All too often, personality typing gets misused as a vague, horoscope-ish way of boiling people down to a simplistic little list of traits that could really be true of almost anyone. Gwen and Phil are gonna demonstrate how this vagueness doesn’t work. Aren’t you, guys?

We, on the other hand, are all going to show these two the consistent roots of cognitive typing. We’re going to walk through how the cognitive definitions of the letters leave no wiggle room for subjective fudging; once we know how the letters work at their root, then every typing becomes clear.

So who’s our lucky, obscure victim for this demonstration? Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I give you…

…a peacock.

But not just any peacock. This is the nefarious Lord Shen, the brilliant and, in my estimation, very charming villain of Kung Fu Panda 2. Yes, there really is a movie called Kung Fu Panda, if you didn’t know. Two of them, actually, with a third on the way. And they’re really fantastic, with excellent themes told in a skillful way, and very good plot structure, and also very pretty. Continue reading

Support aLBoP for More Posts!!

August 12, 2015 / Calise Sellers

Hey guys! I’m super excited to share with you that aLBoP’s Patreon Page is live!! This is a way for readers to support aLBoP and be rewarded as a group with guaranteed major monthly posts (like Type Heroes and Facial Typing!!), Q&As, Character Spotlights and more!

Even $1 a month helps contribute to the bigger picture of aLBoP and shows us you care! <3 <3 And even if it’s not a good time for you to be an aLBoP Patron at all right now, if you encourage your friends to support aLBoP, you still get the posts and content! Win-win!

We love you guys!! Thank you for all that you do! We can’t wait to bring you all the things you love about aLBoP… faster, stronger, better! Yay technology!!!

Much love,
<3 Calise

We’re Listening: Audience Feedback and Patreon

July 24, 2015 / Calise Sellers

Hello there! Hmm…trying to decide how to start this post. Lol

I’m feeling very happy 🙂 and sometimes I feel like I’m always starting posts by rolling my eyes or saying something to the effect of “how many times do I have to say this?”, but today I feel contented and like everything is going in a good direction. Did I mention that we’ve had lots of great emails and conversations with you guys lately? That may be a super-large contributing factor! 😉 Also my birthday is on Sunday (Golden birthday! 26 on the 26^th!) and everyone was super sweet when I updated my profile picture on Facebook. It’s been a good week. 😀

And so this post isn’t about telling you guys you’re doing something wrong or about trying to ask you to do more; it’s about saying “Thank You” for the things you’ve already done and asking you for feedback so that we can give you more content, get more of your questions answered and help you further on your way to being the most *you* version of you ever! Basically, we want to get feedback from you on how to give you more of everything that drew you to aLBoP in the first place. 😉
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