The world-renowned Myers-Briggs personality assessment has helped millions of people across the world gain a deeper understanding of themselves and how they interact with others. Learning about your personality type preferences using the Myers-Briggs framework provides a common language for talking about your choices and an ability to work more effectively together within a relationship.
You gain invaluable insight with objectivity into your strengths and blind spots, as well as seeing how you differ from others in your work, life, and relationships. You will gain increased understanding and expanded self-awareness for life choices.
Many people assume that all human beings are ruled by the same basic desires, motivations, or instincts, yet that assumption leads to considerable misunderstanding between people. In reality, we see both similarities and differences that exist among people’s actions and desires, and we see ourselves as more like some people than others. Since we must frequently deal with others who are quite different, how do we find a practical way to understand these basic differences so that we can work together and remain comfortable with ourselves?
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an extremely useful and practical tool for achieving that understanding of the differences of others. It was designed to implement the theories of C.G. Jung, a Swiss physician and psychologist who developed one of the most comprehensive theories explaining human personality.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is an easy to use questionnaire for identifying our natural preferences, strengths and temperaments. Through short questions and word pair combinations, the MBTI identifies differing styles of perception, judgment, energy, direction and lifestyle. There are no “rights or wrongs” in the answers to the questions. The Indicator simply identifies different kinds of people who like different things, who are good at different things, and who may find it difficult to understand one another. The Indicator is concerned with useful and valuable differences in people, not with psychopathology, and it does not measure intelligence. The results of the questionnaire are received via individual Report Forms from which we gain an understanding of how we live to gather information and how we make decisions, how we derive and direct our energy, and how we deal with our environment.
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Data-Collecting and Decision- Making
The MBTI differentiates between two basically different ways of perceiving and collecting information or data-gathering modes: Sensing (S) and iNtuition (N). “Sensing types” rely on information gathered through their five senses. They have keen observation powers, prefer to deal with factual information, and see themselves as practical and realistic. INtuitive types see possibilities, meanings, and relationships of data and events. They value that which is possible, imaginative, and innovative, and are interested in the theoretical.
After we have taken in our information via our favored data-gathering – mode, we must process it and make decisions about it. Here, too, the MBTI identifies two basically different decision-making modes: Thinking (T) and Feeling (F).
Thinking types prefer to make decisions based on objective analysis of data, evaluating cause and effect, and coming to their decisions based on impartial judgments. A preference for Thinking based decisions results in a trust in the mind’s abilities.
Feeling types prefer to make decisions based on more subjective, interpersonal criteria. A preference for Feeling based decisions resulted in a greater trust in interpersonal and social relationships. Both processes are considered equally rational, but the two decision-making processes can lead to very different answers!
The Attitudes
People are energized differently, with preferences for either Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I). Extraverts find their energies externalized, flowing outward to people and the environment, and, in return, they are “charged up” by people and external events. Introverts find their energies focused internally in the pursuit of concepts and ideas; pursuing solitary activities intensively and with concentration “revs up” the Introvert. Both the Introvert and the Extravert relate to others, but the source and flow of energy for the Introvert comes from within and flows outward towards others, while for the Extravert the source and flow of energy comes from outward sources and flows inward.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator also identifies the style in which we live our lives. Those who prefer to use the Judging (J) mode prefer to live in an orderly and planned manner, taking control of their own lives and time; they are systematic and decisive. Those who prefer to use the Perceiving (P) mode prefer to live in a spontaneous and flexible manner, allowing for impulse and response to any given moment. They prefer to remain open and adaptive to life’s events, thus; they constantly “hold out” for further data and options.
The procedure for determining auf preferences is analogous to that of catching a baseball. More often that not, you will catch the ball with the same hand time after time, but you could use the other hand when needed. So it is with these preferences. You have preferred ways for collecting data, making decisions, directing your energy, and living your life. You can, however, use opposite or less favored functions, but not with the same liking or skill. You grow to rely on a favorite function.
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“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” –
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” –