When I found out I have genes associated with the "low reward dependence" personality trait, I wasn't the least surprised because I'm like a lot of introverts -- rarely motivated to do something based on the archetypal dangling carrot. What's most interesting is the fact that researchers believe people who are more responsive to rewards […]
Today I'm sharing my thoughts about hipster (millennial) dating coaches from an INFJ & Gen-X perspective. I find the dating coaches on You Tube quite intriguing. For starters, the hipster guy I watch wears his hair in a pompadour like I've only heard about in the “Keeping the Faith” song by Billy Joel -- which […]
As a typical Gen-X connoisseur of diets, I've been on weight loss shakes in the past. Yesterday, I was in the mood to re-visit the Almased Diet for my diet-for-a-day series because it always works for breaking a weight loss plateau. And, I want to lose one pound real bad. Almost as much as I […]
As a male INTJ, I need to have complete autonomy in my work life -- but what if you aren't in a position yet to free yourself from a toxic boss? While it's not ideal to keep working under the authority of difficult boss, it helps to practice what I call mental health self-defense. I […]
A lot of DNA testing sites offer insights into your personality. How accurate are the results? What's the scientific reliability of the findings? To find out, I provided my raw DNA to a company that essentially guessed whether I am more likely to test high or low on the dimensions of personality: conscientiousness, agreeableness, openness, […]
My never-married INTJ guy friend wanted me to interpret a dream he had that left him mystified. He dreamt about a married friend that he perceives as being with an overbearing and controlling wife who sucked the life out of him and forced him to live an empty shell of a life as a bureaucrat. […]
For my "diet for a day" series (because I get bored easily) I spent 24 hours on the Blood Type Diet. Full disclosure, I have been on this diet in the past -- but I never knew whether I was a "secretor" or a "non-secretor" until I had my DNA tested. I used to carry […]
For my "diet for a day" series -- the perfect experiment for a person with a short attention span -- I decided to immerse myself in fitness trainer Jillian Michaels' books and videos. According to most people in the MBTI community, Michaels is an ESTJ -- which means she is Te (extroverted thinking) dominate with […]
Every woman has her "Mr. Big" as described by Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City. He was the Alpha man with whom she had off-the-charts chemistry and felt sexual magnetism. For one of my female colleagues, the pheromone factor first rocked her world when she met up with a love interest at his office. […]
Researchers often use the 'Reading of the Mind in the Eyes' test or (RMET) to measure empathy accuracy in subjects. Certain versions of the OXTR gene on Chromosome 3 correlate with possible low empathy and a low score on RMET, according to some studies. If you or a dating partner test low on this particular […]
