okay all you Meyers-Briggs brigands....

[bronzeage]

How do you take the test? Is there a website? I guess you need to pay to take the test, right?

It's free and you will get your money's worth.

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

 

[serpentwrap]

Thank you bronzeage. Appreciate it.

 

[serpentwrap]

I came out as INFJ, whatever it means...

 

[butters]

I came out as INFJ, whatever it means...

it means that you're in good company

 

[UnderYourSpell]

I'm a ESFJ is that bad?

 

[UnderYourSpell]

it says I run an orderly home lolol you have to be joking ! I've never met anyone more untidy than me!

 

[butters]

I'm a ESFJ is that bad?

lol, none of it's bad. it's just about understanding personality traits we all share, as far as i see - indentifying which are stronger in our own specific characters. greenmountaineer knows about this stuff. i just think that's what it's about

 

[UnderYourSpell]

trouble is on loads of the questions I wanted to quantify the answer with 'it all depends what mood I'm in'

 

[vrosej10]

I'm a ESFJ is that bad?

Yay! I'm ISFJ. We're the same except you like to party and I'd prefer to stay at home!!

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Yay! I'm ISFJ. We're the same except you like to party and I'd prefer to stay at home!!

I wouldn't say I go out of my way to party but when I do, I make sure I am the centre of attention when at all possible, but it doesn't allow for that in the question!

 

[vrosej10]

I wouldn't say I go out of my way to party but when I do, I make sure I am the centre of attention when at all possible, but it doesn't allow for that in the question!

See I am fine in crowds but it exhausts me and I'd rather be at home with a book. I am told my personality type is a little unusual. I am what's called a bubbly introvert. I think it is a confused nature due to the super social tendencies brought on by the hypomanic phase of the bipolar (which feeds on itself; I get exhausted from the social stuff, become more manic from the exhaustion and then launch into more social stuff...its endless).

 

[UnderYourSpell]

See I am fine in crowds but it exhausts me and I'd rather be at home with a book. I am told my personality type is a little unusual. I am what's called a bubbly introvert. I think it is a confused nature due to the super social tendencies brought on by the hypomanic phase of the bipolar (which feeds on itself; I get exhausted from the social stuff, become more manic from the exhaustion and then launch into more social stuff...its endless).

after going from being a mouse and a doormat to suddenly find that I was beautiful in more than one persons eye, it went to my head when I found I could command a whole rooms attention just by being me. Very heady stuff after years of repression and very good for a badly battered ego! I don't do it so much these days I'm just as happy letting someone else hold the floor, I don't have to prove myself anymore but I know I can still turn heads when I walk into a room and if that sounds big headed then so be it. After all I've been through I deserve it!

 

[vrosej10]

after going from being a mouse and a doormat to suddenly find that I was beautiful in more than one persons eye, it went to my head when I found I could command a whole rooms attention just by being me. Very heady stuff after years of repression and very good for a badly battered ego! I don't do it so much these days I'm just as happy letting someone else hold the floor, I don't have to prove myself anymore but I know I can still turn heads when I walk into a room and if that sounds big headed then so be it. After all I've been through I deserve it!

I did that in my mid teens. I lost forty kilos and discovered that I was actually very pretty as a thin girl and suddenly I had boys falling at my feet (I'd always had stacks of straight male friends, so I knew how to speak guy and I was brought up with very liberal ideas about sex). But after a while I realised that too much social engagement was very bad for my mental state.

 

[greenmountaineer]

trouble is on loads of the questions I wanted to quantify the answer with 'it all depends what mood I'm in'

I used to administer the MBTI mostly in group settings and would suggest that participants visualize sitting in a relaxed setting (perhaps even with a glass of wine before a fireplace. LOL)

The problem I have with these on-line sites is they do tend to pigeon-hole people into categories, in this case 1 of 16 personality types. Jung's Psychology Type has dynamic components to it, and the MBTI can be an effective way to get at a greater degree of self-understanding about personality preferences and apply that self-understanding to a variety of situations.

There's a process of validation that takes usually about 3 hours in a group setting (less if it's done with an individual) and includes several exercises to validate the results of the instrument and usually succeeds in going beyond "it all depends what mood I'm in."

 

[UnderYourSpell]

I did that in my mid teens. I lost forty kilos and discovered that I was actually very pretty as a thin girl and suddenly I had boys falling at my feet (I'd always had stacks of straight male friends, so I knew how to speak guy and I was brought up with very liberal ideas about sex). But after a while I realised that too much social engagement was very bad for my mental state.

I wish I had known in my teens all those wasted years! When I was in the WRAF they elected a Carnival queen every year to ride on a float in a local carnival and it was done by everyone voting for who they thought should be the queen, then those with the most votes had to give a speech at the yearly ball as to why they should be the queen. I was chosen one year and immediately thought everyone was taking the piss and refused to enter as I was far too ugly! When you've had it drummed into you from when you were old enough to understand that you are ugly and no man will ever want you that's what you believe and it's what the mirror tells you too as if you see a different person from everybody else. I've looked back at pictures of myself in my 20s and think my god I was beautiful and I never knew! It's too late now I'm losing it fast and I do wonder what my life might have been like if I had realised then.

I used to administer the MBTI mostly in group settings and would suggest that participants visualize sitting in a relaxed setting (perhaps even with a glass of wine before a fireplace. LOL)

The problem I have with these on-line sites is they do tend to pigeon-hole people into categories, in this case 1 of 16 personality types. Jung's Psychology Type has dynamic components to it, and the MBTI can be an effective way to get at a greater degree of self-understanding about personality preferences and apply that self-understanding to a variety of situations.

There's a process of validation that takes usually about 3 hours in a group setting (less if it's done with an individual) and includes several exercises to validate the results of the instrument and usually succeeds in going beyond "it all depends what mood I'm in."

I don't know what your occupation is but do you ever look at our outpourings and apply this training to them?

 

[hmmnmm]

I got hooked on this stuff a few years ago because I find it all really fascinating, like the what makes people tick. At first it seemed to answer a bevy of lifelong questions, but of course I couldn't leave well enough alone, and wound up practically paralyzed because of all the new questions that were born and pestered day and night. Like UYS, I could see the questions were often situation-dependent. I'd go back through the years and realize it could all apply. Then I'd try to remember how I might've answered the questions 10 years ago, 20, 25... which only exacerbated everything because of wondering about where things changed and if they were authentic or cosmetic. Then I realized that time I could be doing A was being eaten by wondering about this personality stuff. So I had to quit. It wasn't easy, and sometimes if I do or say something I'll remember what some site said about the type who'd say or do something that way.

I would suggest the tests include a cautionary note. Something like, if you are not relatively secure about yourself and who you are and your place in the world and the universe, you may want to think twice before taking this test, as you run a fairly high risk of becoming even more confused and lost. Your type is likely one who is better off not knowing.

 

[EroticOrogeny]

I used to administer the MBTI mostly in group settings and would suggest that participants visualize sitting in a relaxed setting (perhaps even with a glass of wine before a fireplace. LOL)

The problem I have with these on-line sites is they do tend to pigeon-hole people into categories, in this case 1 of 16 personality types. Jung's Psychology Type has dynamic components to it, and the MBTI can be an effective way to get at a greater degree of self-understanding about personality preferences and apply that self-understanding to a variety of situations.

There's a process of validation that takes usually about 3 hours in a group setting (less if it's done with an individual) and includes several exercises to validate the results of the instrument and usually succeeds in going beyond "it all depends what mood I'm in."

I was thinking that yes/no is often too simple.
But on the other hand picking one of several values on a series of questions can be tedious. I often tend to end up with a run of the same values.

 

[vrosej10]

I got hooked on this stuff a few years ago because I find it all really fascinating, like the what makes people tick. At first it seemed to answer a bevy of lifelong questions, but of course I couldn't leave well enough alone, and wound up practically paralyzed because of all the new questions that were born and pestered day and night. Like UYS, I could see the questions were often situation-dependent. I'd go back through the years and realize it could all apply. Then I'd try to remember how I might've answered the questions 10 years ago, 20, 25... which only exacerbated everything because of wondering about where things changed and if they were authentic or cosmetic. Then I realized that time I could be doing A was being eaten by wondering about this personality stuff. So I had to quit. It wasn't easy, and sometimes if I do or say something I'll remember what some site said about the type who'd say or do something that way.

I would suggest the tests include a cautionary note. Something like, if you are not relatively secure about yourself and who you are and your place in the world and the universe, you may want to think twice before taking this test, as you run a fairly high risk of becoming even more confused and lost. Your type is likely one who is better off not knowing.

I have been blessed with a good deal of personal insight thankfully and have always known exactly who I am for the most part. The test just confirmed already held beliefs.

 

[hmmnmm]

I have been blessed with a good deal of personal insight thankfully and have always known exactly who I am for the most part. The test just confirmed already held beliefs.

Good way to say it. Consolidates down to a workable term what you already know?

Someone less certain but nagged by wonder might be attracted to it, if just for a rough draft to start with, but that combination of approach and motive might turn out more toxic than helpful?

 

[Sonchyenne]

I usually score INFJ, which seems about right.

 

[twelveoone]

For the record, MBTI is based on Jung's Theory of Psychological Type.

Then again, he could have been star gazing when he thought of it.

you might be interested in this if you haven't read it

 

[twelveoone]

or maybe this

 

[butters]

i say bolides to his 'haiku'




and which one am i in the av? i really hope you mean the female

 

[Maria2394]

I took one of the tests and it came up as IXTJ and then I couldn't find an explanation for that type. It figgers, lol

 

[butters]

I took one of the tests and it came up as IXTJ and then I couldn't find an explanation for that type. It figgers, lol

http://personalitycafe.com/whats-my-personality-type/45499-ixtj-stuck-between-istj-intj.html

this is a link to a group of others discussing it - seems you get the X when there's no clear definition between N and S, though another poster thinks you have to look further and then you'd find no such contradictory placement.