A couple of weeks ago I took the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test as a part of an assignment in my communication class, and today we got the results back. For those of you have never heard about the MBTI it is basically a personality test, used by everyone from the American military to head hunter companies to determine what personality type group you belong to (usually to determine what kind of worker you are, a leader or follower, practical or creative, etc). Wikipedia explains it as: “a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.“
My result placed me in the category known as ENTP, also known as Extraverted Intuition with Thinking. While the MBTI is not something that will dramatically change your view of life in any way (well, at least not for most people) it is designed to make people aware of what kind of preferences they have life and hopefully adjust life accordingly.
After reading through the two-page description of the different traits of ENTP, I got that feeling you get when a horoscope turns out to be so precise down to the very last detail that you feel something strange, unnatural and magical is going on. Then again, just like horoscopes and fortunetellers, it is really easy to be general (but “specific”) when it comes to how people perceive their own ideas of self so I am not putting all my bucks on this horse, even if it seems like a good one.
It was however interesting to hear that I am an “ingenious innovator in the field of action,” and that I am “stimulated by difficulties and most ingenious in solving them.” I also learned that the most difficult part of being a ENTP-type is that people like me “hate uninspired routine and find it remarkably hard to apply themselves to humdrum detail unconnected with any major interest.”
That last one is my excuse for why my speech on cyberbullying went as bad as it did (it was horrible, I was horrible, I hated the entire speech). It always feels good to have science on your side.
Have you ever taken the Myers-Briggs test?
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Hei!
(Jeg tillater meg å svare på norsk, hvis det er greit ;-))
Ja, jeg har tatt MBTI-testen, og opplevde nok mye av den smme følelsen som du beskriver; det stemte så innmari skummelt mye! Derfor er det jo lett å bli littebitt skeptisk; det må jo være for “godt til å være sant”..?
Når den initielle skepsisen hadde lagt seg tenkte jeg imidlertid etterhvert som så: vel, hvis dette stemmer så bra, så er det vel kanskje noe jeg burde sjekke litt nærmere..?
Jeg satt meg derfor ganske godt inn i det (mye hjulpet av min venninne som er ekspert på området) og fant ut at denne “typologien” faktisk kunne være nyttig i dagliglivet..Det høres kanskje pompøst ut (spesielt for en “Tenker” som meg ;-)) men den har faktisk hjulpet meg til å prøve å forstå andre som ofte nærmest “uforståelige” ved første inntrykk. Du vet, de folka du møter på som du ikke skjønner kan bo på samme planet som en selv! Da har jeg prøvd å tenke følgende: “Hm…montro hvilke hovedpreferanser for tenking, følelse etc denne personen har..?” Ofte kommer jeg da etterhvert frem til at de nok mest sannsynlig er av en “nesten motsatt” type av meg selv, derav skal det nok også litt til for meg å forstå meg på dem sånn med en gang…
NB! Disse tankene holder jeg seff for meg selv, ønsker for all del å ikke psykoanalysere folk in their face! ;-)
Jeg kunne sikkert skrevet masse mer om dette, men jeg tror det holder for nå…jeg mener bare MBTI kan være veldig fint å sjekke nærmere ut…
Mvh
Kristin
*ENTJ*
ENFP og stolt av det!
Jeg har tatt testen for noen år siden og er INFP.
Husker at jeg syntes det var interessant. Nå måtte jeg lese om personlighetstypen min på nytt, og det er sykt hvor nøyaktig det stemmer. Ganske spennende det der altså!
I have been involved in conducting trainings with The PEOPLE Process which are personality type training materials based on the work of Dr. Carl Jung and the Myers Briggs Type Indicator.
Understanding my own type explained so many things to me about decisions I’d made in my younger years and I truly believe that had I known about my own type in my early 20′s, I would have made far wiser choices.
For one thing, my type – INTJ – Introvert Intuitive Thinking Judging – was only .07% of the U.S. population in the late 1980′s and now is only 1.50% of the U.S. population. So I rarely come in contact with someone that reacts and thinks the way I do. Just knowing that fact, helped me a lot.