Weakend: Personality Tests

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I’m sure you’ve had a personality test before. Most of us are familiar with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. It’s a series of questions that seek to identify who you are. There are hundreds of such tests, and if you ever want to know how effective one is over the other be sure to ask an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist. I just so happen to have access to one, and the MBTI is pretty good for a number of things, the only exception being in predicting job performance, where it’s useless.

But MBTI can be used to learn more about yourself. Specifically, how other people might even see you. It’s a great way to get instant feedback about yourself. I recently had a disagreement with The Sheconomist and one of the primary sources of the disagreement are based on her perceptions of my feelings, and my need to trust facts over feeling. We’re a good team though, and work through these things together.I decided it might benefit both myself and The Sheconomist to take a personality test. Since I like facts and independent perspectives, the results of an unbiased test are about perfect for me. You don’t need to know exactly how the scores work, but the test spits out a 4 letter description of you. My personality type is ENTJ. This stand s for extravert, intuitive, thinking, judging. Specifically, my results are as follows:

moderately expressed extrovert
distinctively expressed intuitive personality
moderately expressed thinking personality
very expressed judging personality

I went to Wikipedia to learn a little bit more about it.

E – Extraversion preferred to Introversion: ENTJs often feel motivated by their interaction with people. They tend to enjoy a wide circle of acquaintances, and they gain energy in social situations (whereas introverts expend energy).

N – iNtuition preferred to Sensing: ENTJs tend to be more abstract than concrete. They focus their attention on the big picture rather than the details, and on future possibilities rather than immediate realities.

T – Thinking preferred to Feeling: ENTJs tend to value objective criteria above personal preference. When making decisions, they generally give more weight to logic than to social considerations.

J – Judgment preferred to Perception: ENTJs tend to plan their activities and make decisions early. They derive a sense of control through predictability, which to perceptive types may seem limiting

The results of my test indicate I lean more towards some qualities than others, but that isn’t very important. There is much more to learn about being an ENTJ and I intend to learn more about it and take more personality tests. Knowing more about myself will help me communicate with The Sheconomist and others better. If people are open to learning about my personality type, it will help them communicate with me better.

Go take a personality test, and post your results in the comments.

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