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Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Sunday night I took Seth to Lurdyház, and we joined 30 other children and their parents from our neighborhood for a winter birthday party. It was so fun. Seth has been talking for two days about it. Here’s a few pictures from the party.

Laura and I enjoy living in our neighborhood. The families are wonderful, and there is a great feeling of community. If you’d like to see a slideshow of some of our winter pictures click here.

Lurdyház is an awesome indoor play-land. There are a lot of these kinds of indoor play areas in Budapest (which is really great for a cold winter), but Lurdyház is probably the best I’ve seen. I really wanted to climb up the ladder and jump down the huge inflatable slide.

observing people

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Coaching and counseling university students over the years, we’ve really enjoyed helping them think about their strengths, talents, and styles of leading and communicating. Every person is infinitely unique. Even still, there are some intriguing similarities among our personality types. Over the past 3000 years, significant thinkers have all independently observed and identified four primary categories of personality. In case you’re interested, here’s a brief list of some pre-20th century thinkers and their observations.

Galen, a doctor during the Roman empire, identified four humors: Sanguine (optimistic), Melancholic (doleful), Choleric (passionate), Phlegmatic (calm).

Around 400 B.C., in his book entitled The Republic, Plato wrote about the four temperaments (in terms of virtue) attributed to Hippocrates: Iconic (artistic), Pistic (caretaker), Noetic (idealist), Dianoetic (rationale).

Aristotle observed four types and defined his in terms of happiness: Hedone (sensual), Propraietari (asset gathering), Ethikos (moral) and Dialogike (investigatory).

Paracelsus, a Viennese doctor in the 1500’s, observed four spirits similar to what Galen and Plato offered: Salamanders (impulsive and changeable), Gnomes (industrious and guarded), Nymphs (inspired and passionate), Sylphs (curious and calm).

Interesting huh?

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