Tag Archives: personality

White Paper: The Flight, Fight, or Freeze Instinct — Manifestations and Methods of Calming

Posted on October 25, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary The flight-fight-freeze instinct is a divinely built mechanism within the human nervous system, designed to protect life in moments of danger. It activates when a person perceives threat, mobilizing body and mind for immediate response. Although originally meant … Continue reading →

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White Paper: A Typology of Musicians by Approach to Playing and Making Music

Posted on August 26, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Musicians can be categorized not only by genre, instrument, or technical skill, but also by their approach to playing and making music. This white paper presents a typology of musician archetypes, examining the motivations, methods, and cultural roles … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Tension Between Decisiveness and Letting Things Play Out

Posted on July 23, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary In personal, organizational, and social contexts, the push to “decide” versus the freedom to “let things play out” reflects two fundamentally different orientations toward uncertainty, risk, control, and trust. This paper examines why some individuals and groups habitually … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Reading People

Posted on December 28, 2020 by nathanalbright

Reading People: Ho Seeing The World Through The Lens Of Personality Changes Everything, by Anne Bogel I must admit that, if it is not obvious to others, that I greatly enjoy looking at other people (and myself) through the lens … Continue reading →

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A Course In You: A Missed Opportunity

Posted on September 27, 2020 by nathanalbright

Between two and three weeks ago I received an e-mail from someone who was launching a website to encourage people to educate themselves about themselves called “The School Of You,” which offers a variety of courses related to personality theory … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Copycats & Contrarians

Posted on August 3, 2019 by nathanalbright

Copycats & Contrarians:  Why We Follow Others…And When We Don’t, by Michelle Baddeley It must be said that this book has an interesting idea behind it, even if that idea is cloaked in bogus evolutionary thinking.  Even with this, though, … Continue reading →

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The Talmud And The Porcupine

Posted on June 6, 2019 by nathanalbright

As I have commented before, I can often tend to be a prickly person when it comes to my discourse with other people.  Today a conversation I had on my goodreads page where I had a testy conversation with a … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The People Code

Posted on May 1, 2018 by nathanalbright

The People Code:  It’s All About Your Innate Motive, by Dr. Taylor Hartman This book reminds me of one of those sketchy late-night infomercials where an orange fake-tanned spokesman with an equally fake smile attempts to oversell a product that … Continue reading →

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On Drawing Intricate Characters

Posted on December 10, 2017 by nathanalbright

Those who are well-attuned to the sort of books I read will likely find a great deal of evidence that I am greatly fond of intricate characters.  Perhaps, in many ways, that is because I am a particularly intricate character … Continue reading →

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Laughing Matters

Posted on December 8, 2017 by nathanalbright

What we choose to laugh about tells us a lot about the sort of people that we are.  Abraham Lincoln was a president known greatly for his sense of humor–but his sense of humor was not natural, rather it was … Continue reading →

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