Socionics

8.2. Dynamic and static elements

When we look at the surrounding reality or the world around us, we can see something thanks to our looking. Seeing something is actually getting some information.

The information that we obtained through our seeing or observation, focus, attention, etc., can be, for example, mentioned above:
— dynamic information elements, or
— static information elements.

What are these information items?

• Dynamic information elements are created thanks to changes. So, thanks to this, what is dynamic. In other words, dynamic elements can be related to the changes we perceive and our responses to those changes.
• Static information elements are created by what is constant. So, thanks to this, what is static. Static, for example, in some situation, task, job, problem, issue, etc.

We can ask here, when do we pay our attention to dynamic and when to static elements?

• We can direct our attention to dynamic information elements then:
  — when we react vividly to any changes,
  — when we are subject to some changes,
  — when we need to make some changes,
  — etc.
• we can direct our attention to static information elements:
  — when some elements of our life do not change, that is, when nothing interesting for us happens, there are no changes, etc.,
  — when some elements in our environment are stable and do not change or change very slowly,
  — when, thanks to static elements in our life, we can have a sense of stability, we can base our opinions, points of view, our worldviews,
  — etc.

Generally speaking:

• static information elements concern “constancy” in our life, and
• dynamic information elements concern “variability” in our life.

I think it is worth pointing out that static and dynamic information elements can complement each other. This is so, for example, in our lives:
— we can evaluate something constant, based on changes,
— or we can evaluate something changeable based on this, what is constant.

So, “variability” helps us to pay attention to “constancy”, and “constancy” helps us to pay attention to “variability”.

Thus, how static and dynamic information elements may look like? Then, I will move on to their graphical presentation.

The division into static and dynamic elements in Socionics is represented by diagrams similar to the diagram below.

In order to adjust the above dynamic and static elements to the Mandala of Characters, I rearrange the above information elements.

Now, I am going to add dynamic and static elements to the Mandala of Characters.

In the diagram above, we can see where are the static elements and dynamic elements? Besides, I have also distinguished:

• pole of static elements, and
• pole of dynamic elements.

In this way, I indicate the places where there are the most static elements, and where there are the most dynamic elements. These elements are, in a way, most oriented in these directions.

Now, we can see, that the division into static and dynamic elements resembles the division into Perceiving and Judging in the Mandala of Characters. (The terms “Perceiving” and “Judging” we can find in the rounded frames around the Mandala).

The fact, where poles of static and dynamic elements are located, we can treat as a complement to the Mandala, because:

• dynamic information elements will mainly concern the types of Moist Air and Wet Water in the Mandala of Characters.
• static information elements will mainly concern the types of Dry Earth and Dry Fire in the Mandala of Characters.

Besides, based on the Mandala, we can see that:

• Dynamic information elements coincide with the phrase placed in this place of the Mandala, that is, “time and space”. And if we put them together, we can say that dynamic information elements mainly concern “time and space”.
• in turn, the static dynamic elements coincide with the phrase on the other side of Mandala, which is “here and now”. If we combine them together, we can say that static information elements are mainly concern “here and now”.

And in this way, thanks to Socionics, other valuable associations have come to the Mandala of Characters.