Who are you? How do you interact with others and process information? The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator categorizes people into 16 discrete groups based on four pairs of attriubutes. For a lengthy description, see Wikipedia's page. I won't bother to quote it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator This test will demonstrate that you are NOT crazy, that you just think and act according to your natural preferences. Knowing what you are can help focus you on a career. Knowing what OTHER people are can help you interact with them better. Anyway, here are some tests to figure out what your type is. http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp http://www.41q.com/ http://spt.skeletus.com/eng/ You will probably get the same results with each test. Once you learn what you are, here are a couple of sites with more detailed explanations of what it all means: http://www.typelogic.com/fa.html http://www.personalitypage.com/portraits.html Enjoy! For the record, I am a proud INTP. Approximately 3% of the population are INTPs. [there are three other types that are rarer--maybe you're one of them!]
I'm an INTP. Pretty accurate description below. Drives my wife nuts that I look at every side of every possibility about a hundred times before doing anything. Kind of a Hamlet-type. Haven't done one of these in a while. I'm always amazed that everybody isn't exactly like me. There are just so many possibilities to consider....
I was forced to take a class on this bullshit years ago. I didn't pay attention. When I was forced to take another class by the same company, we were required to write the four letters that explained our personality on a piece of heavy paper that was folded in the middle. This way the people in that class would know your personality so they could "communicate better" with you. Well, every other lemming in the class did as they were told. I wrote ETME on my paper with a tiny little a between the E and T. They tried to use this shit to force me to take morons seriously.
INFJ Again I see another xNxJ in here. Very few people are these types. Is there something about this personality type that causes us to enjoy sports and internet message boards?
I am, as well. In my circle of friends, there are three more guys who are INTJ. My ex wife is INTJ. We flock to one another, for some reason, even though I've read we're only 1 to 2% of the population. We are special. Ed O.
You can believe what you want, but refusing to learn about the value of a pretty widely accepted emotional intelligence technique doesn't give your name-calling much credence. Ed O.
Interesting question. I would say that there is. Intuition (the "N") deals with abstract and theoretical thought, rather than just the five senses. It makes sense that a lot of people here would be N... even though glancing at some type distribution percentages, N is much less common: Introversion, I would guess, is pretty highly correlated with computer use for pleasure. Judgment... hmm... I guess it means that we like to come to a solution, right? Maybe that drives us to discuss sports... rather than just to shrug and not care about why a game turned out as it did or wonder about the upcoming game or season (Perception types seem to prefer to leave things ambiguous). Of course, that leaves T/F... from Wiki: That is SO what (at least the Blazers community) has experienced over time... some fans seem like robots to other fans in the way we stay detached and analytical, while others seem to be over-emotional and concerned with things like "chemistry". Ed O.
We are indeed. The INTJ Blazer Mod team. The name's Mod. INTJ Blazer Mod. (blows smoke from barrel of gun, orders martini) barfo
I just wish I knew about all this stuff when I was a teenager, and then I'm be more self-aware of my own strengths and weaknesses, and understand that I'm not crazy. I am extreme on three of the attributes and "moderate" to "clear" on one, which makes me nearly the INTP archetype. The "I" will tend to post on internet discussion boards more than the "E", so it isn't surprising that we are all or mostly "I"s. An I prefers to think out his answers and responses to the end before articulating them, and you can do that through the internet. I wouldn't be at all surprised if most of you go back and read your posts carefully before you hit the "submit" button, like I do. An E, on the other hand, opens his or her mouth to talk before they have fully thought out what they want to say; they develop their thoughts aloud. They also tend to articulate every thought and idea they have. Biden is obviously a pretty extreme E, that's why he says things and then stops in horror when he realises what he has said. He can't help it; that's the way he is wired. Men tend to be a "T" more than an "F." More women are "F"s than "Ts." So, again, it isn;t surprising that most of us are IxTx, with the "x" standing for either of the two options. It is an SJ world. If you are an SJ, you have an advantage and it is easier for you to get ahead than an NP. OUr SJs are our leaders, and they are revered and respected for their decisiveness. One example of why this is so has to do with the way our educational system is structured. It is based on a model developed in Germany in the mid-19th century, with the goal of developing the better soldier. The model is listen-memorize-repeat, which is vital in a structured environment where everyone has to remember and implement oral orders. Our educational system--the way kids are tested--is based on that model. SJs can flourish in that environment; NPs cannot, because they learn through concepts and overarching principles, and have trouble memorizing detail. Anyway, I have the official Myers-Briggs printouts for the INTP, which goes into great depth, and is probably about 15 pages long. It's proprietary, which is why you can't find it on the internet. Maybe I'll write bits and pieces for the other INTPs. It talks about all sorts of great stuff like parenting skills, what jobs are best for us, what sork of work environment we prefer, problems we may face in personal relationships, etc. As an INTP archetype, I can say that it is roughly 99% accurate for me.
Hmm, I do that as an E. Of course, I've tested as an I every time I've done it before. The last time a few years ago. So perhaps I am more out-going now, but retain elements of introversion. Or, more likely, I've always had significant amounts of both...thinking back through my life, it's been a duality....very extroverted in class, for example, and then very introverted outside of class.
Hey, you are a fancy green guy, not one of us lowly reds. But we will let you join our club, you just need to become more introverted. And more J instead of P, forgot what that axis is. barfo
I've done the test before, have the results on paper somewhere at home.. can't recall what they were though... was that concise enough for y'all
but remember, these words are being used differently than their common usage. It has nothing to do with how outgoing you are and whether you raise your hand in class. When you get worn down at the end of the day, do you "recharge," by slinking away and spending time alone, maybe reading a book, surfing the internet, or just thinking about things? Or do you seek out other people--such as an "after dinner coffee" with friends and family around the dinner table--to reenergize you? Do you start to talk before you know how your sentence will end? Or do you pause upon hearing a question, consider your answer fully, and then answer only when you have it all figured out? That, essentially, is the primary difference betwen and I and an E.
"I was forced to take a class on this bullshit years ago." Somehow I doubt you were forced to do anything. "I didn't pay attention." Obviously. I recommend The Portable Jung to anyone interested in the study of psychological types. Myers and Briggs fine-tuned Jung's groundbreaking work on the subject. I must say, however; that it's actually quite easy to taint the outcome of these tests with biased responses and the outcomes may vary based on how one feels in a given day. That said, I tend to fall in line with either the INFP type or the INTP type.
