Myers-Briggs Psychological Types

[Dash]

For those of you who are familiar with the Myer-Briggs psychological types, here's a thread to share yours. I think it might be fun to know more about the personalities that frequent our forum, and even help us understand each other's postings and replies.

I am INFP. You may read some remarkably accurate portraits of me by following the links below:

http://www.typelogic.com/infp.html

http://www.personalitypage.com/INFP.html


For more information, I provide the following resources:

http://www.myersbriggs.org/

http://www.typelogic.com

http://www.personalitypage.com

The personality types are fascinating in themselves, and even more fascinating is what happens when our inferior personality traits surface. Here, in this sometimes emotionally-charged environment, it might help to understand those moments as well.

My source for that information is very small, easy to read book titled In the Grip: Understanding Type, Stress, and the Inferior Function (http://www.capt.org/catalog/MBTI-Book-30034.htm).

And...............GO!:love:

[Venari]

I am ENFJ ... I think this is something all of of us can agree on ... for once. :lol:

http://www.personalitypage.com/ENFJ.html

http://www.typelogic.com/enfj.html

-Venari

[schoolboi]

This is me:

ENFP - "The Champions" (http://www.personalitypage.com/ENFP.html)
When I took the test I was actually equally E & I.

I think Jerry Falwell is probably an ENFP too. Our personalities really are very alike.:rolleyes:

[Lydia]

I waver between INFP and INTP. My "I" (introvertedness) is pretty strong, the rest seem to be more balanced.

[themattperry]

Here's me:

http://www.typelogic.com/intj.html

:-)

I'm sure Venari and many others will agree ;-)

Hope everyone has a great sunday.

[Dash]

:rainbow:

See! This is fun! I love reading this kind of information about folks! I like how the Typelogic (www.typelogic.com) links each personality type to the others by the way they relate.

Plus, I'm like, "Yup!" That's the way Mr. Perry is! :cool: ; and "Hmmm...I wonder if that helps me understand Mr. Venari?"; and "Hahahah! Now everybody knows my head is full of cotton candy and marshmallow fluff!"; and "Maybe that's why I 'get' Lydia and Schoolboi so easily!".

Thanks for playin'!
:)

[Lydia]

If you like the Meyers-Brigg test, you might like the Enneagram (http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/) as well. FWIW, I've found it to be even more accurate than the Meyers-Brigg as it attempts to take into account an individuals level of good (or poor) mental health at the time when describing different personality types. Or at least that's how the book by the same name was laid out. I haven't tried their online version yet.

[Emproph]

I did that test some time ago but when I read what it said I was like OMG, that's me to a tee! :eek:

It's facinating.

[Lydia]

No wonder I like you so much, Emproph. :lol:

[schoolboi]

If you like the Meyers-Brigg test, you might like the Enneagram (http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/) as well. .

I took the free test. It says I am:
Type Seven
The Enthusiast
The busy, productive type. Sevens are extroverted, optimistic, versatile, and spontaneous.

How it could tell i am versatile I don't. I normally don't reveal that till at very least the third date! ;) :p

I also ranked high as:
Type One
The Reformer
The principled, idealistic type. Ones are conscientious and ethical, with a strong sense of right and wrong. They are teachers, crusaders, and advocates for change: always striving to improve things, but afraid of making a mistake.

Both seem accurate to me!

[Daniel]

Took the same short test as Schoolboi. I'm a Type 4:

Type Four
The Individualist
The introspective, romantic type. Fours are self-aware, sensitive, and reserved. They are emotionally honest, creative, and personal, but can also be moody and self-conscious. Withholding themselves from others due to feeling vulnerable and defective, they can also feel disdainful and exempt from ordinary ways of living. They typically have problems with melancholy, self-indulgence, and self-pity. At their Best: inspired and highly creative, they are able to renew themselves and transform their experiences.

Haven't done the Briggs-Myers yet. That should be interesting.

[Vanessa White]

I haven't done my profile since grad school, probably twelve or more years ago. Can you do the profile free on line or is there a cost? Can someone let me know? I would be curious to see how accurately it portrays me. Do those of you that find the profile to fit you so well, see it fitting you as you continue to grow and develop into adulthood? That is always a curiousity of mine when it comes to theories about personality, whether it is fixed or it changes over time. So, what I will say a little more simply is: Do you believe that your profile will change in the next five, ten, twenty years?

[Dash]

I found one free online test, but I don't know the quality:

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm

You can take the test at the following sites for a fee:

http://www.capt.org/take-mbti-assessment/mbti.htm

http://www.knowyourtype.com/order.html

I'm sure you'd get better quality results with the assistance the second two site provide....but if you've already taken the test before, the free one might serve your purposes.

As far as personality changing...I've changed definitely. When I first took the test, I was pushing the outer limits of Introversion, but I'm sure I've moved toward the middle a good bit. Maturing as an individual partly involves developing our weaker traits. You can also test differently from day to day depending on your mood. In fact, when I took the test years ago, the lady who worked with me had me come back and take it again because she thought my Perceiving/Judging results showed some possible error.

[BillPLed]

I have taken the Myers-Briggs many times. I always score the same way, as an INFP. However, my P and J are very close. I am highly introverted but have been "coming out" more over the years. It is amazing that my clients tend to see me as an extravert. I seem to have gotten pretty good at "playing the part." You almost have to if you want to be a success in most fields. By the way, I am a social worker and am a primary counselor for a men's group in an in-patient substance abuse clinic.

[Zerbie]

The trouble with tests like these, they are by nature overly simplistic. It doesn't diminish the fun of taking them (unless like me you get frustrated with personality quizes because sometimes NONE and other times ALL of the options fit you but you are supposed to choose one!) but it doesn't mean they don't get a fair bit correct. But we are always apt to test differently - not only do my feelings and expressions vary day to day (try hour to hour), but even my recollection of how I was in the past varies with the current state of mind and what I chose to focus on in hindsight.

I do lousy on personality quizes. In high school they gave us a 200 question test to tell us what career would suit us. The test also asked what career you thought you wanted. I answered "singer" (which is what I am). The stupid test told me I was best suited to the career military (I can't even imagine lasting 5 minutes in the military!) or insurance sales (I wouldn't even TRY to last 5 whole minutes selling anything, let alone insurance) and the same test told me I should not be a singer because I am too fond of detail, and singers don't need to pay heed to detail. (Obviously written by no one who has ever had to sing in an opera by Richard Strauss.):rolleyes:

As for Myers-Briggs I would have to say I am an EINFP with a great deal of the other traits too. Seriously. And that's without taking into account all the changes in my style over the years, along the lines of what Vanessa discusses.

Every time I say okay Zerbie, just PICK ONE and say you're that, I read the description and think, "Yes, yes, okay yes this is right, yeah that too, yes, wait - oh my God, I NEVER FEEL THAT WAY!! This is totally wrong!" Every time I think I'm a "type" there is some monumental trait that I have the opposite.

So, kinda sorta INFP and ENFP, but absolutely neither and completely both, and omigosh - this is the same way I talk about my sexual orientation - with a personality like this, how could I *not* be bi?!?! :lol:

[Lydia]

Just realized that I forgot to include my enneagram results in a previous post. I'm either a 4* or a 5**. My scores were identical for both.

*The Individualist: The Sensitive, Withdrawn Type.
Expressive, Dramatic, Self-Absorbed, and Temperamental.
Basic Fear: That they have no identity or personal significance.
Basic Desire: To find themselves and their significance (to create an identity.)

**The Investigator: Intense, Cerebral Type: Perceptive, Innovative, Secretive, and Isolated.
Basic Fear: Being useless, helpless, or incapable
Basic Desire: To be capable and competent.

[schoolboi]

A couple of years ago at the annual Soulforce staff retreat we all took the Myers-Briggs test. (No I'm not actually one staff, just constant a groupie) If I remember correctly

Jake is a: ENTJ (http://www.typelogic.com/entj.html)
Gary is a: ESFJ (http://www.typelogic.com/esfj.html)
Mel is in an oddity go figure! His I and E are at equal levels as his J and P are also equal. So he is a I/ENFJ/P
This is kinda fussy, but I think Bill is and INFP.

Jamie I'm not sure if you were on staff yet when we took the test.

[Daniel]

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm


I'm planning on taking the full Briggs-Myers test, but the one above (thank you Dash) gave the following result:

ENFJ- Idealist Teacher

I find this description to be cannily accurate- nonwithstanding the brevity of the test itself.

[Vanessa White]

I will check it out, Thanks for the info, all.

[keltic63]

ENFP Champion Idealist (http://keirsey.com/personality/nfep.html)

[Dash]

Interesting to me to note the high number of "NF" personality types here. If I remember my notes (geez...that's like 13...14 years ago) it was called the "Apollonian" temperament.

Now I'm gonna have to go digging through some old boxes...:rolleyes:

[schoolboi]

[QUOTE=Dash]Interesting to me to note the high number of "NF" personality types here. [QUOTE]

I noticed that too. Very interesting. Is it a Gay thing? Is it an activist thing? Is it a message board user thing? Who knows?

[Dash]

Interesting to me to note the high number of "NF" personality types here.

I noticed that too. Very interesting. Is it a Gay thing? Is it an activist thing? Is it a message board user thing? Who knows?

Here's a page on the "NF" type. (http://keirsey.com/personality/nf.html)

I have excerpts in my notes at home from the book Please Understand Me that discuss NFs in some detail. Alas...I won't be home till 10-ish tonight. (Wednesday's kinda suck...:( )

[revtj]

...INTJ enneagram 4...my worst conflicts in life have been with ENFPs --and enneagram 1s and 2s...

I had an ENFP friend and I asked her to tell me how to get to a well-known local spot, driving, of course...she said she had no idea what the directions were, she could just get in the car & "feel" how to get there...we had a hard time maintaining a friendship :lol:

I have found that both instruments (MB & Enneagram) are a tremendous help in learining how to get along with people (esp. colleagues) and how to help people from a pastoral care perspective.

Self-knowledge is the key to being authentic. Being authentic is the key to exercising the gifts of the Spirit! :love:

[keltic63]

I had an ENFP friend and I asked her to tell me how to get to a well-known local spot, driving, of course...she said she had no idea what the directions were, she could just get in the car & "feel" how to get there...we had a hard time maintaining a friendship :lol:




that's it! I can't talk to you anymore! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :p




:lol:

[revtj]

:'( No, you can't do that keltic, because INTJs think ENFPs have major boundary issues...I guess you feel like you're going to beg me to be friends with you again-- well, I don't know, I'll have to THINK about it! :lol:

[keltic63]

:'( No, you can't do that keltic, because INTJs think ENFPs have major boundary issues...I guess you feel like you're going to beg me to be friends with you again-- well, I don't know, I'll have to THINK about it! :lol:

i have to beg you, I have issues with fear of rejection! :'(

[revtj]

It's the noble thing to do...I accept your begging and you can now be my friend again. Now let's sing together: Feelings! Whoa, oh, oh Feelings...trying to forget my, feelings of love for you... :lol:

[tdogg]

TJ, You sing so well!!! ;)

Ok, this is intriguing, I'll have to check out the links.....

But, I'm so glad you and Keltic are friends again! :love:

[Daniel]

Here's a page on the "NF" type. (http://keirsey.com/personality/nf.html)


The page has Gandhi on it!

That's what us NF types have in common: Idealist Teacher.

Isn't that interesting?

Reminds me of the saying (yeah...I'm slipping into classic NF mode I suppose): we teach what we need to learn.

[Emproph]

I waver between INFP and INTP....I did that test some time ago but when I read what it said I was like OMG, that's me to a tee! :eek:No wonder I like you so much, Emproph. :lol:
Aw shucks, aren’t you sweet, thanks Lydia. As meaningless coincidence would have it, I too tend to waver. Somewhere in between INFP and NSOB. :lol:

[revtj]

Somewhere in between INFP and NSOB

Em, we know! :D :D :D Take heart. Jesus was somewhere between those 2 from what I understand!!!! :D :p

[Daniel]

I am highly introverted but have been "coming out" more over the years. It is amazing that my clients tend to see me as an extravert. I seem to have gotten pretty good at "playing the part." You almost have to if you want to be a success in most fields. By the way, I am a social worker and am a primary counselor for a men's group in an in-patient substance abuse clinic.

This to be a curious thing you touch on. Like you, I am highly introverted. But I've been working in the arts for 17 years now and see a progression towards being more and more extroverted. Those who rise to the top are quite extroverted from the get-go it seems. So I would agree: this is a feature of being successful within one's field is as much as the field demands it.

My partner is introverted as well and has amazing 'people' skills: he's starting his MSW this Fall. I bet you have a lot in common with him.

[Zerbie]

Hubby & I just talked about this same stuff last night. I had just gotten home from George Takei's appearance on my campus where I tabled for a coalition I volunteer for. I was telling DH how extroverted Takei seems, and we speculated as to whether the trait was inherent, or whether it was acquired through skill at Star Trek conventions, etc.

Point being, you can develop skills that are no inherent, and develop them to a point where others won't know if they are natural or acquired. Add me to the list of natural introverts who can be extroverted when she has to. It still fails me at times.

[Dan]

I think I am an INTJ.
Sometimes I wish I was something else.
"He who began a good work in you, will be faithful to complete it in you" - from a contemporary worship song, can't remember the author.
Dan

[awediot]

okay...I'm between a GNUS and MRON, feeling left out, my friend has my sister's copy of the B.&M. book, and that won't change before this thread fades away... What does that say about me?:confused: Oh, forgot... and a capricorn...

How can there be self help groups?

[Lydia]

I have found that both instruments (MB & Enneagram) are a tremendous help in learining how to get along with people (esp. colleagues) and how to help people from a pastoral care perspective.



This needed to be repeated.:tup:

And I'm glad I'm not the only one who relies on "feelings" to get around town. ;)

[schoolboi]

http://similarminds.com/personality_tests.html

Found this great test site. All kinds of fun tests!

[Lydia]

Thanks, Schoolboi. I think I'm going to like that site.