Ethics of Visual Reading
Feb 20, 2018 2:45:11 GMT -5 by Auburn
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Post by Auburn on Feb 20, 2018 2:45:11 GMT -5
Hello, the following is not an official guide but just a personal expression and some tips/suggestions for others.
I apologize if the tone is a bit condescending. It was written to be a little dramatic in its execution, so take it with a grain of salt.
Ethics of Visual Reading
Vultology is not a shortcut to genuine understanding of other people, it's a tool to facilitate that aim. If you're gonna try to read someone, be prepared to have it takes hours. Be prepared to have it take days. If you want to understand a person's mind, that's no easy feat. And if you don't understand where their psychology is coming from, and are just piecing the signals onto them, you're not going to genuinely get their type right. Why?
Because the most accurate type of reading there is, is from inside-out firsthand experience. Do you know an NiTe in real life? Do you know them inside and outside? If not, then you won't be able to type other NiTe in the wild. If you don't know what an NiTe is like phenomenologically, don't ever slap that label onto anyone else. Even if the signals say so? Even if the signals say so. Yes. NOT ALLOWED. You can't tell someone what they are, if you don't even know what that "something" is.
The first requirement to be a vultologist, and to even have an opinion about another person's type, is to become familiar with all the 16 types in a real world setting. Don't have 16 friends? Or one of each type? Then get friends. If you can't get friends, then spend a great deal of hours immersing yourself in the lives of a celebrity of said type. Seriously. Become obsessed with Michael Jackson, watch hours of interviews, try to get a sense of his "flow" and his "energy" and mode of being. Don't look at him as a list of signals, look at him like a human being. Use those sections of your brain which have been carefully crafted by evolution to understand human dynamics. Then you're maybe, possibly, hopefully... ready to start with step 1.
#1: Tread Carefully
Your (and my) silly theories and ideas about the mind are inferior to the complexity of the person in front of you. Don't degrade them by reducing them to your pet theory. Don't be so presumptuous to think you can decode a lifetime's worth of experience, in a few seconds, just because you think you saw a little bit of an asymmetrical snarl here or there. THINK about it, don't just apply a set of codes to people. Don't jump the gun. Don't be in a rush, or too bored to watch the whole video. If you can't truly listen to them, then you have no right to speak about them. Seriously.
Gather as much context as you have available to you. If they have a youtube channel, explore it. Get a sense for their videos and why they make them, what they're into. Ask yourself "are they like the NiFe friend I already know for certain?" If they're nothing like any of the 16~ basic samples you have, remain agnostic. That's right; if you've never come across someone like them before - just don't type them. And chances are, for the first 50+ people you'll encounter in your database, they'll all be more or less unlike anyone else you've seen. Consistent twin shades usually don't start showing up until around ~100 samples, because there really are just that many unique varieties of people. Which brings us to:
#2: Don't assume there are only 16 types
It doesn't stop at type. Even if you've identified their functions, it's not like they fit into the same category as everyone else of that type. Unless you have in your mind some 3-5 categories within each of the 16 types, chances are they'll confuse you. Think of vultology as a tool to help you identify the similarities and differences between people, but just how many categories that bifurcates into is subject to the data itself. Just remember, twin shades are the basic rule for a "shade". If someone doesn't really have a twin shade, they're kindof in their own unique shade or bubble -- even within the same type. This matters. This really matters because twin shades are what really connect two people together and allows you to say "these two are the same type." Which brings us to:
#3: Your argument is only as strong as your evidence
Ok, so you really do wanna tell someone what type they are. Lets suppose you're lucky and they're just like one of your existing FiSe samples... eerily so. You feel certain of it. Fine, tell them. But keep in mind your argument is only as strong as your evidence. What is your evidence? Be prepared to have that sample handy that is just like them (from your database). If you don't have samples like them, to confirm the similarities, your argument will crumble. If you kinda sorta have other FiSe samples that are maybe like them, but not the same shade -- then when you present your evidence to them there's a chance they'll say "he's not like me" and yknow, they'd probably be right. You've failed to find another human like them, and so your typing of them is iffy at best. Maybe if they're generous with you, they'll squint and try to see the correlations between them and other FiSe's, but it's up to their generosity at this point. You've proven nothing.
#4: The Fruits of Labor
If you do this long enough.... if you've collected 2...3...5 people of the same shade as the person standing before you, asking for a reading, then you might have the luxury to type them in 2 minutes and say "boom" this is your type, this is what it means, and here are samples just like you. But this luxury is reserved for those who have a database large enough to justify this. Vultology has the capacity to give you that level of insight, but only by helping you organize what is otherwise a very natural personal practice. Just like any psychiatrist who encounters hundreds of patients, a vultologist needs to encounter hundreds of samples before they can really tell one from the other. And it's because types are given their definition in context of one another.
How do u know if that's Fi or Fe? You'll know if you've studied dozens of Fe and Fi types in detail over the years. You'll know it if you've come closer to grasping the nature of the wider spectrum of human variability, and canvassed the perimeter long enough to know it's general shape and confines. Like a shipwrecked sailor on an island, you have to travel the whole perimeter of the island first, in order to know what the territory looks like. To be a vultologist is to be a practitioner. If visual reading still sounds exciting to you after this, then feel free to read ahead. ;p
I apologize if the tone is a bit condescending. It was written to be a little dramatic in its execution, so take it with a grain of salt.
Ethics of Visual Reading
- Typing is no picnic, and not for recreation. It's hard work and takes a serious mindset.
- If you're not interested in people's psychologies, vultology is not for you.
- If you want to learn people's types while having no interest in them as people, you'll fail as a vultologist.
- If you're not willing to genuinely "care" about the subject in question and ---yes--- even try to see the world from their vantage point, however foreign it is to yours, you'll also fail.
Vultology is not a shortcut to genuine understanding of other people, it's a tool to facilitate that aim. If you're gonna try to read someone, be prepared to have it takes hours. Be prepared to have it take days. If you want to understand a person's mind, that's no easy feat. And if you don't understand where their psychology is coming from, and are just piecing the signals onto them, you're not going to genuinely get their type right. Why?
Because the most accurate type of reading there is, is from inside-out firsthand experience. Do you know an NiTe in real life? Do you know them inside and outside? If not, then you won't be able to type other NiTe in the wild. If you don't know what an NiTe is like phenomenologically, don't ever slap that label onto anyone else. Even if the signals say so? Even if the signals say so. Yes. NOT ALLOWED. You can't tell someone what they are, if you don't even know what that "something" is.
The first requirement to be a vultologist, and to even have an opinion about another person's type, is to become familiar with all the 16 types in a real world setting. Don't have 16 friends? Or one of each type? Then get friends. If you can't get friends, then spend a great deal of hours immersing yourself in the lives of a celebrity of said type. Seriously. Become obsessed with Michael Jackson, watch hours of interviews, try to get a sense of his "flow" and his "energy" and mode of being. Don't look at him as a list of signals, look at him like a human being. Use those sections of your brain which have been carefully crafted by evolution to understand human dynamics. Then you're maybe, possibly, hopefully... ready to start with step 1.
#1: Tread Carefully
Your (and my) silly theories and ideas about the mind are inferior to the complexity of the person in front of you. Don't degrade them by reducing them to your pet theory. Don't be so presumptuous to think you can decode a lifetime's worth of experience, in a few seconds, just because you think you saw a little bit of an asymmetrical snarl here or there. THINK about it, don't just apply a set of codes to people. Don't jump the gun. Don't be in a rush, or too bored to watch the whole video. If you can't truly listen to them, then you have no right to speak about them. Seriously.
Gather as much context as you have available to you. If they have a youtube channel, explore it. Get a sense for their videos and why they make them, what they're into. Ask yourself "are they like the NiFe friend I already know for certain?" If they're nothing like any of the 16~ basic samples you have, remain agnostic. That's right; if you've never come across someone like them before - just don't type them. And chances are, for the first 50+ people you'll encounter in your database, they'll all be more or less unlike anyone else you've seen. Consistent twin shades usually don't start showing up until around ~100 samples, because there really are just that many unique varieties of people. Which brings us to:
#2: Don't assume there are only 16 types
It doesn't stop at type. Even if you've identified their functions, it's not like they fit into the same category as everyone else of that type. Unless you have in your mind some 3-5 categories within each of the 16 types, chances are they'll confuse you. Think of vultology as a tool to help you identify the similarities and differences between people, but just how many categories that bifurcates into is subject to the data itself. Just remember, twin shades are the basic rule for a "shade". If someone doesn't really have a twin shade, they're kindof in their own unique shade or bubble -- even within the same type. This matters. This really matters because twin shades are what really connect two people together and allows you to say "these two are the same type." Which brings us to:
#3: Your argument is only as strong as your evidence
Ok, so you really do wanna tell someone what type they are. Lets suppose you're lucky and they're just like one of your existing FiSe samples... eerily so. You feel certain of it. Fine, tell them. But keep in mind your argument is only as strong as your evidence. What is your evidence? Be prepared to have that sample handy that is just like them (from your database). If you don't have samples like them, to confirm the similarities, your argument will crumble. If you kinda sorta have other FiSe samples that are maybe like them, but not the same shade -- then when you present your evidence to them there's a chance they'll say "he's not like me" and yknow, they'd probably be right. You've failed to find another human like them, and so your typing of them is iffy at best. Maybe if they're generous with you, they'll squint and try to see the correlations between them and other FiSe's, but it's up to their generosity at this point. You've proven nothing.
#4: The Fruits of Labor
If you do this long enough.... if you've collected 2...3...5 people of the same shade as the person standing before you, asking for a reading, then you might have the luxury to type them in 2 minutes and say "boom" this is your type, this is what it means, and here are samples just like you. But this luxury is reserved for those who have a database large enough to justify this. Vultology has the capacity to give you that level of insight, but only by helping you organize what is otherwise a very natural personal practice. Just like any psychiatrist who encounters hundreds of patients, a vultologist needs to encounter hundreds of samples before they can really tell one from the other. And it's because types are given their definition in context of one another.
How do u know if that's Fi or Fe? You'll know if you've studied dozens of Fe and Fi types in detail over the years. You'll know it if you've come closer to grasping the nature of the wider spectrum of human variability, and canvassed the perimeter long enough to know it's general shape and confines. Like a shipwrecked sailor on an island, you have to travel the whole perimeter of the island first, in order to know what the territory looks like. To be a vultologist is to be a practitioner. If visual reading still sounds exciting to you after this, then feel free to read ahead. ;p
But that would also mean taking no personal reading requests, entertaining no celebrity typings (since the samples analyzed may be from a controlled setting), and offering no psychological insights. A community of this sort could not exist alongside the sterility of this approach.
