Somotype X

ectomorphy, mesomorphy, endomorphy and equimorphy?? Somotypes and your MTBI index

I shit you not! There are studies being done to know what MTBI type you are by your body type. Trouble is....knowing your body type.
I was so sure I was a plain old ectomorph....apparently not!! I have been surmised as 6.5 ectomorph 3.5 endomorph and 1.5 mesomorph and 3.0 equimorph. This puts me in the healthy range of INTJ? Yes I did say I was bored with finding out about my serial killer personality. I have however been looking for others to find if there is any who share my sense of humour....it's so hard to tell by print if they have a wry smile while typing or whether they are just being blunt. A lot of us seem to have a vivid imagination for cruelty yet don't act on it. NOT ALONE...wooo!!

There are people out there studying for sports psychology....that's where all the money is, right? The science of putting right body types to right personality types to predict how that particular person will cope and adapt in the world of sport. Gattaca is a movie which comes to mind when thinking about the probability of a time when only a BMI index along with height weight ratio and an MBTI will be used to choose teams for events. I suppose if you were to look at it that way any person can do a sport which is particular to their body type....but how does personality fit in?

I am yet to find an INTJ interested in sport....it seems we are all too busy devising plans, living in our heads, perfecting the most appropriate system to save effort so we may move onto the next thing. A bit like Mr Bean really....


Anyway.....I do wonder whether it is altogether useful to try to perfect the "science" of psychology at all. It for the most part isn't science but theory. The theory is explained by scientific methods but with so many extraneous variables that can be accounted for by...you guessed it, theory. The data evidence can be interpreted, aligned and fudged by statistics and accounted for by...hrrrm...theory. Neuroscience however is another story....I was lucky enough to accidentally cut a perfectly undamaged olfactory bulb out of a sheeps brain in search for the amygdala. Which is near enough to how much anyone can get to building a robotic brain, yet. It is again theorised that not only do we use the 100% of the brain but know only 10% of it's capabilities.

Personality theory is interesting as is searching for any answers in the new "science" of psychology. However there is always a tale of caution when it comes to individuality: enter------> we can't be beaten, rose tattoo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZZnhBQXRaI

A man suffering a rare disease which effectively eliminated his ability to walk by an infected butchers knife cut which killed a single set of cells in his neurons to send messages to tell him to move AT ALL.....ordinarily one would think this man is totally fucked....and be right in that assumption. This man however learned how to bypass those message in his brain by telling his body with his visual cortex and taught himself how to walk again. It was a feat that could not be achieved in the dark. He had to be actually looking at his limbs to move. No-one has done it since. He teaches classes but even his most successful clients have only learned how to crawl.

Now the peculiarity of this man is he was told to be an absolute prick to be around whilst he was perfecting his amazing feat. Which gives us insight into personality. Very determined and stubborn enough to carry through. Not so good for people around but fantastic for him.

Although I don't liken myself to this man in any sense...I do make the suggestion that even if someone was not to fit the bill on their MBTI/Somotype....whatever scale....is to never give up. You may be a prick in getting where you want but you can acheive greatness against any odds. Even more so...you can achieve for yourself and help a few people to crawl along the way while you are teaching yourself to walk. Maybe we will have determined waifs throwing hammers and giant endomorphic wrestler types on the uneven bars. Maybe even one day our brains will be so filled with plasticity with emergence of stem cell research we may be able to grow ourselves another buttock when the two simply just won't do if we wanted to around on our arses watching others play sport?