World Socionics

The 8 Information Metabolism Elements, often shortened to 'IM' Elements or even 'IMEs', are the building blocks of the Socionics theory. They represent the processes by which a person approaches one of the 8 'Aspects' of reality, presented as information from the external world, as well as our internal thoughts and feelings, before metabolising it into our cognitions and behaviours, essentially personality. In this Two-Part series, I will go over comprehensive definitions of these IM Elements, covering 1) the Aspect of information, i.e. the kind of information we interact with; 2) the process by which we metabolise this information into the output of our personality; 3) a description of how a 'Strong' , capable usage of this IM Element manifests; and 4) a description of how one would 'Value' this IM Element, appreciating its presence and use. M Elements can be most broadly split into   the more observational  Perceptions  (i.e. what X ...

Napoléon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821) , otherwise known by the regnal name Napoleon I , was a French general, politician, and emperor, who thanks to circumstances provided by the French Revolution, rose from mild Corsican nobility through the ranks to lead Revolutionary France through wars against 5 coalitions, expanding its borders to cover most of Western Europe and parts of Eastern Europe. Widely considered to be one of the greatest military generals in history, he is also remembered for his many domestic reforms within France, his most notable being the standardization of France’s different regional legal systems into a single 'Napoleonic Code' which would go on to form the basis of most Western European legal systems. Following his defeat in the war of the 6th coalition, Napoleon was exiled to the small island of Elba, which he had been promised for him to rule as a sort of mini-emperor. However, after less than a year, with the deal not being upheld, he snuck back to France to...

Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (born 1978) is a Ukrainian comedian, actor, film producer, and the current President of Ukraine. Zelenskyy began his career in entertainment doing comedy skits, eventually moving on to starring in movies, as well as funding movies and shows himself. In 2015, Zelenskyy began starring in a comedy/satire TV show called Servant of the People in which he played a school teacher who is suddenly and unexpectedly elevated to the Presidency of Ukraine after his rant against widespread government corruption in Ukraine went viral. In 2018, Zelenskyy ran for President under his newly formed political party named after the TV show he starred in, ‘Servant of the People’ , as a political outsider (as expected of someone who spent their life in entertainment instead of politics) on a populist, anti-corruption platform which frequently referenced the TV show and, according to some, seemed to blur the lines between fiction and reality. Another of Zelenskyy’s campaign ...