myers briggs - what are you ?
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Vintage Paw
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Of all of them, I find the Thinking/Feeling one to be the most troubling. There are several contradictions in that spectrum. I think it's possible to be empathic and competitive, for example. And I don't see empathy and the desire for harmony as being at all at odds with the drive for organisation or a focus on logic. The suggestion is that caring isn't logical, but that doesn't make sense to me. Frankly, every single one of the thinking and feeling buzzword concepts work perfectly together. T/F is always the one I get angry about.
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Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Frankly, reading through them all again, the only two I'm happy with in terms of them being opposites of each other is E/I and A/T. The rest are big old muddled bags of crossover all over the shop.
That test can fuck off.
That test can fuck off.
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
But even with the qualities which make sense as being on a spectrum, there's no evidence for a bimodal distribution.
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
MBTI is Jung based. More here: The Myers & Briggs Foundation - Understanding MBTI® Type Dynamics
Supine
Newt Member
Your a boring git 100% of the time
Fez909
toilet expert
It's worth reading the explanations for the different preference axes, as they're not exactly what you'd assume just by reading the title:
http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/thinking-or-feeling.htm said:
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
I just did that test - not as much fun as the ones they used to do in the 'Jackie'.
It may be slightly more accurate than a horoscope but cant believe employers take this mumbo jumbo seriously! very american conclusions. I've only heard of one of the famous people it lists. Aparently I'm like Bill Clinton - but honestly I've never had sex with that woman.
Famous ESFJs
Bill Clinton
William McKinley
Jennifer Garner
Tyra Banks
Danny Glover
Nancy Kerrigan
Sally Field
“Dean Winchester” from Supernatural
“Monica” from Friends
but according to numerology I'm like Hilter and Mussolini.
It may be slightly more accurate than a horoscope but cant believe employers take this mumbo jumbo seriously! very american conclusions. I've only heard of one of the famous people it lists. Aparently I'm like Bill Clinton - but honestly I've never had sex with that woman.
Famous ESFJs
Bill Clinton
William McKinley
Jennifer Garner
Tyra Banks
Danny Glover
Nancy Kerrigan
Sally Field
“Dean Winchester” from Supernatural
“Monica” from Friends
but according to numerology I'm like Hilter and Mussolini.
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
they spell it 'extraverted' when you get to results. So possibly its just a typo, but then again they are american. shrug.I've always wondered about the "extroversion" vs "extraversion" thing. The former is consistent with "introversion", so is probably more "correct", but most people seem to use the -a- variant. *shrug*
Just don't get me started on "empathetic"
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
INFJ -"the advocate"
this part rings to close for comfort...
"Really though, it is most important for INFJs to remember to take care of themselves. The passion of their convictions is perfectly capable of carrying them past their breaking point and if their zeal gets out of hand, they can find themselves exhausted, unhealthy and stressed. This becomes especially apparent when INFJs find themselves up against conflict and criticism – their sensitivity forces them to do everything they can to evade these seemingly personal attacks, but when the circumstances are unavoidable, they can fight back in highly irrational, unhelpful ways."
this part rings to close for comfort...
"Really though, it is most important for INFJs to remember to take care of themselves. The passion of their convictions is perfectly capable of carrying them past their breaking point and if their zeal gets out of hand, they can find themselves exhausted, unhealthy and stressed. This becomes especially apparent when INFJs find themselves up against conflict and criticism – their sensitivity forces them to do everything they can to evade these seemingly personal attacks, but when the circumstances are unavoidable, they can fight back in highly irrational, unhelpful ways."
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
I'm an S.
ESFP-T The Entertainer. Which I have always come out as. It's quite accurate - though keeps banging on about energy in the analysis... I have no bloody energy, but it seems my personality does.
ESFP-T The Entertainer. Which I have always come out as. It's quite accurate - though keeps banging on about energy in the analysis... I have no bloody energy, but it seems my personality does.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
cesare posting the tests jungian links confirmed my archetypal fear that these tests are infact a big steaming pile of bollocks mounted on a silver platter.
INFP - the introverted wannabe healer. I am a real textbook INFP too, I've done the test many times and always score same one. To be honest, the character profile of INFP is almost exactly like me, pretty bang on.
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I was an ENTP when I did it a couple of years ago as part of a training course at work. Part of me thinks that these things do work like horoscopes - you recognise yourself in every thing but I did find it useful as a way of establishing a good working relationship with one of my colleagues. Initially we didn't get on at all, I got really annoyed at her attitude to various things and found subsequently it was mutual. Once we'd both been Myers-briggsed and our results established how different we were, we were able to discuss our (very) different ways of working objectively without either of us taking it personally. It made a massive difference to the way we worked together because we could play to each other's strengths rather than feeling tacitly judged and criticised.
The best bit though was the fact that I was practically the only ENTP in the organisation, and only one of a handful of Ts - I felt like a unicorn.
The best bit though was the fact that I was practically the only ENTP in the organisation, and only one of a handful of Ts - I felt like a unicorn.
You'd be INTP, i think. You use logic over emotion but have your own internal value system not determined by outside influences, also crave solitude. INFPs like me, bond with the INTPs - actually quite similar but less emotional - INTP is the brainiest of the scale.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
INTJ - I think I did a fairly lengthy on-line test twice some years ago.
"The Vulcan" - super self-critical, expect everyone else to be rational in all things etc ...
"The Vulcan" - super self-critical, expect everyone else to be rational in all things etc ...
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wobbly
INTP - i'm the logician.
had these tests done as part of a grad training course a few years back and they used it to help us understand how we repeated to different people. and how we reacted differed to how we thought we reacted. i was a lot less sceptical when we worked through them as a group than I had been when we first got the tests and results.
had these tests done as part of a grad training course a few years back and they used it to help us understand how we repeated to different people. and how we reacted differed to how we thought we reacted. i was a lot less sceptical when we worked through them as a group than I had been when we first got the tests and results.
Not true of all who score 'introvert' on Meyers Briggs. Many introverted types i know are fantastic company and highly intuitive with people (extroverts love them too cos they are so funny).
Being introverted doesn't mean you are completely unsociable, but that you form your views based on an internal value system which is self-made and unaffected by outside influences (unlike the extroverted view which is more aware of the outside world and the opinions in it). Extraverted and introverted thinking are concerned with how you inform your ideas (not whether you like being at a party or not). Its more like whether you are better connected to your inner world or outer world (and whether you care what others think of that).
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kalidarkone
Bringing YOU round.....
ENFJ
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
It says I'm Elvis reborn, which I already knew.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
just looked at the first questions - they're not fixed answers, are they? they are all answerable with 'it depends', so in certain situations the answer could be 'very yes' and in others it could be 'very no'. we can't be pinned down like this.
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