I tend to reject external authority as well... or at least, I don't accept any sort of authority unquestioningly
So people like Dr. Sears who basically said, "Trust your instincts" and then gave me facts to make my own decisions with were the ones I listened to. Anyone who said, "THIS is the ONLY RIGHT WAY" pretty much lost me right then.
I wonder...
I've also moved around a lot (oh so very much...) during my life. Maybe seeing that there are many different sub-cultures in the USA and many different ways of raising children (as well as doing pretty much everything else under the sun) also helped me to be more immune to the "MINE IS THE ONLY RIGHT WAY" types of gurus.
I'm not terribly versed in the different personality types so I'm not sure about that aspect of it, but I think the above is why I personally was able to avoid being taken in by those sorts of teachings. I also research everything to death - especially if I think it sounds like a crazy idea. Elimination Communication? Yeah, I thought it was insane when I first heard of a friend doing that so I had to go and research everything about it and I ended up EC'ing all three of my girls. That's more how I work - I don't usually just take someone's word for something.
I'm an INTj/p.
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