Meyers Briggs personality type

[jay santos]

http://typelogic.com/intj.html

I think this is a pretty accurate summary of my personality type.

I think this MBTI type is actually pretty legit, and it's helped me become a bit more self aware and also helped in understanding other personality types and how I relate to them, namely my wife who's nearly opposite as I am on this spectrum.

[beefytee]

http://typelogic.com/entj.html

I don't know if this describes me very well.

I think I might be intj.

[jay santos]

http://typelogic.com/entj.html

I don't know if this describes me very well.

I think I might be intj.

The big difference between E and I whether you thrive on social interaction. I'm introverted, but I'm socially competent, can lead a group, feel comfortable in social settings, hang out with friends, etc. But it's not energizing. It's generally energy draining. If you can do those things but then feel like you need to recharge your batteries with alone time then you're likely introverted.

[I.J. Reilly]

They tell me I'm an INTJ.

Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
22 38 88 78

I am:
slightly expressed introvert
moderately expressed intuitive personality
very expressed thinking personality
very expressed judging personality




Edit: It bothers me that v-bulletin has to mess with my perfectly spaced and centered numbers under the INTJ description. Grr.

[Surfah]

I think this MBTI type is actually pretty legit, and it's helped me become a bit more self aware and also helped in understanding other personality types and how I relate to them, namely my wife who's nearly opposite as I am on this spectrum.

I have been taking a project management class for work and we had an entire section on Maslow, Herzberg, McClelland, McGregor, etc. Someone in the class brought up MBTI as a tool they use in their work to help them put together project teams and such. And the professor railed on MBTI. I'd be interested in hearing someone like OhioBlue's thoughts on it.

[jay santos]

I have been taking a project management class for work and we had an entire section on Maslow, Herzberg, McClelland, McGregor, etc. Someone in the class brought up MBTI as a tool they use in their work to help them put together project teams and such. And the professor railed on MBTI. I'd be interested in hearing someone like OhioBlue's thoughts on it.

What were the professor's criticisms? I may have read some of those name's material, but I don't remember them specifically.

[Surfah]

What were the professor's criticisms? I may have read some of those name's material, but I don't remember them specifically.

To be perfectly honest, I don't recall. It was a 3.5 hour class. My eyes glossed over after about 30 minutes. I do remember him talking about the binary questions which have already been pointed out in this thread.

[SoCalCoug]

INFPs never seem to lose their sense of wonder. One might say they see life through rose-colored glasses. It's as though they live at the edge of a looking-glass world where mundane objects come to life, where flora and fauna take on near-human qualities.

You know, that might explain the cockroach that said "Hello" to me the other day.

[OhioBlue]

I have been taking a project management class for work and we had an entire section on Maslow, Herzberg, McClelland, McGregor, etc. Someone in the class brought up MBTI as a tool they use in their work to help them put together project teams and such. And the professor railed on MBTI. I'd be interested in hearing someone like OhioBlue's thoughts on it.

This can be quite a complicated critical examination, and I'm not sure how accurately I can represent all the viewpoints out there, but I'll summarize what I'm aware of.

The MBTI does indeed get ripped on a lot. It is not terribly sophisticated (though it does have quite an impressive body of research dedicated to it) as psychometric instruments go, nor are its results universally regarded as all that useful. For example, some argue that the very notion of personality 'types' is hogwash. That extraversion is a behavior as much as it is a personality characteristic, for example. Some clinicians I know kind of pooh-pooh the MBTI as a play tool but not something they put a whole lot of stock into. I've also heard (but have not personally experienced) that the MBTI can be waaaay overused in some corporate settings.

On the other hand, I personally think the MBTI--and the idea of identifying somebody's preferred tendencies--can have some practical value. For example, I use it in career counseling to help people think critically about what kind of work environment and job type they might feel a good fit with. A strong I and P just isn't likely to fit in well in a career that's more E and J. If that makes sense. I caution using it as information and not pigeon-holing oneself.

I've also heard people using the Meyers-Briggs with success in couples counseling. Again, as a tool to catalyze a conversation, more so than a result that explains everything about a person. Person A might be able to see where Person B has preferred tendencies that differ, and then talk about how these might contribute to conflict and work at understanding and acknowledging differences rather than blindly fighting constantly against them.

Basically I think with tests like the MBTI, or any psychological test, you run into trouble the moment you start reifying the results and treating them like capital T Truth. Or the moment you start making all kinds of decisions and conclusions based on the result of answering a few multiple choice questions. Everyone knows people are infinitely more complex than that.

[Parrot Head]

ENTJ

Like Surfah, I was recently in a PMP course but our instructor was very much pro-MBTI. We took the test and I'm ENTJ, though my S and N were tied so I could go either way but I think the NT fits.

It was interesting, though, as she explained that it's what drives you and not necessarily how you act towards others and that's important to understand on the E vs. I component because it says that your fulfillment is influenced by the outside or the inside, not that you're a wallflower or overly gregarious.