Friendship is Magic: the Gathering

[Albertosaurus Rex]

I so do love those models of personality / thinking, although I hadn't heard of the de Bono hats before. Used right, these kind of systems can really help us understand we why people act in certain ways. I do remember another system that I learned in high school, but it basically revolved around each person having three parts (child, adult, parent), which were themselves made up of different parts and persons could so interact on various levels.

As for Rarity, I couldn't at first figure out what drives her. I have now come to the conclusion that she's a very ambitious businesswoman who has a tendency to be self centered. Those are very black qualities (and black in MtG is not synonymous with evil), yet her stated element of harmony is generosity - which doesn't fit in black at all.

An article by another fan that I found basically made the same analysis of Rarity. Yeah, we Friendship is Magic fans spend waaaaaay too much time on these things... maybe it's to justify watching a childrens' cartoon.