Getting Things Done and Myers-Briggs Types

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This is going to be a bit controversial, but I wanted the opinions of experienced GTD users about this:

Do you think GTD is the best overall organizational system for everyone? If you are familiar with the Myers-Briggs types, the last letter in the personality type system is J (Judging) or P (Perceiving). I believe Judgers will do very well with GTD, while Preceivers will have a hard time and may be better suited to some other type of system.

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P (Perceiving). I believe Judgers will do very well with GTD, while Preceivers will have a hard time and may be better suited to some other type of system.

On the other hand, Perceivers have this nice open-ended list of Next Actions for as many projects as they like, instead of a confining prioritized To-Do List. It has a minimalist priority scheme to keep them at least in Earth orbit (Hard landscape/scheduled, Next Action, Someday/Maybe). They are encouraged to capture everything that comes into their heads. What system could be better for a Perceiver?
 
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TheRazor said:
This is going to be a bit controversial, but I wanted the opinions of experienced GTD users about this:

Do you think GTD is the best overall organizational system for everyone?
Thoughts?
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I don't think there is any one system that is best for everyone. Different people respond to different things. I think GTD is very good and I've seen it work very well for a lot of people, but I don't think it will necessarily work for everybody.
 
I'm a strong perceiver and I love GTD because I don't have to structure my life - I can do as I want in the moment and know that I am making choices from a complete list of things to do. That's the difficulty I've always encountered with other time management paths. This gives me as base from which to operate without being too concrete.
 
]On the other hand, Perceivers have this nice open-ended list of Next Actions for as many projects as they like, instead of a confining prioritized To-Do List. It has a minimalist priority scheme to keep them at least in Earth orbit (Hard landscape/scheduled, Next Action, Someday/Maybe). They are encouraged to capture everything that comes into their heads. What system could be better for a Perceiver?
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I agree... while I do have to be somewhat rigorous in collecting and processing, the actual *doing* can be very intuitive and flowing.
 
pageta said:
I'm a strong perceiver and I love GTD because I don't have to structure my life - I can do as I want in the moment and know that I am making choices from a complete list of things to do. That's the difficulty I've always encountered with other time management paths. This gives me as base from which to operate without being too concrete.
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I agree, I am the same. I am a strong perceiver as well and GTD has been changing my life ever since I started implementing.
 
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