I did this recently at uni, i came out as a mastermind! lol
Part of the personality description sounded like me but others didn't, I saw it as this could be my personality type if i was more confident in myself.
I'm still a little skeptical about it though.
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myers briggs
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INTJ apparently but I'll have to consider it a bit longer
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ENFP - The Inspirer
I have done Myres Briggs a few times with work and normally come out as ENTP (Visionary) so just wondering what has changed this time. However doing a test in a social situation rather than a work situation, and your present feelings can have a dramatic impact on your answers.
Umm, really got me thinking now
I have done Myres Briggs a few times with work and normally come out as ENTP (Visionary) so just wondering what has changed this time. However doing a test in a social situation rather than a work situation, and your present feelings can have a dramatic impact on your answers.
Umm, really got me thinking now
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Yep - I'm always an ENFJ - an Idealist Teacher I think - and all round Fabulous Human Being...
Occasionally a DFJP but that's some other measure ...
I was going to say Im more of a BJDP but .... :twisted:
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I'm ESFP (The performer) ... how spooky is that, its like they wrote that especially for me!!!!
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Personally I think it is due to the neuro pathways formed in our early years which are indicative to our thought process and are intrinsically linked to our personality. These can then be categorised into sub categories and labelled by people who have many letters after their names and nothing better to do!!!
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But can any one explain how/why it works?
It cause you have just answered loads of questions around your preferences and is purely based on your answers. Myres Briggs is one of the most popular Physcometric testing methods and at one point, a number of employers were asking people to actually take the test before they offered a post. We use it during team building events and when we set up a new project team, to help understand how each person works (or identify their preferred style of working).
Remember though, the results are only based on the answers you give and if you decide to answer in work mode, or in real life mode, because often people act differently in the different parts of their lives, and it is only an indication of your type.
I've also done this a few times in the past, although it seems to have fallen out of vogue in recent years. The best thing they told us to do with it was to find out what type your boss is, and then "manage" them accordingly! That's actually stood me in good stead a few times over the years! 
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"a bit of a cunt"
... is that right?
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Yep, you're the flappy, smelly bit of an old bag ladies :haha:
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I've seen this used really effectively on training course not just working out where you sit yourself but where colleagues and customers sit so that you understand their motivation and actions better. As NWC said it depends whether you have your 'work' or 'social' head on as that can effect on the outcome but altogether it's a useful tool.
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ISTJ - sensing
You are:
slightly expressed introvert
moderately expressed sensing personality
slightly expressed thinking personality
slightly expressed judging personality
You are:
slightly expressed introvert
moderately expressed sensing personality
slightly expressed thinking personality
slightly expressed judging personality
Warming the Bed
ISFJ - Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging - The Nurturer
I did something similar on a 'workshop' I had to go on for work a year ago and that too came out as Nurterer. It did make me realise that it's ok to say no sometimes (I am talking workwise here)
I did something similar on a 'workshop' I had to go on for work a year ago and that too came out as Nurterer. It did make me realise that it's ok to say no sometimes (I am talking workwise here)
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I'm ENTP like Corrie, so is MrsLilly (she's also certified to do the evaluation)
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I've also done this a few times in the past, although it seems to have fallen out of vogue in recent years. The best thing they told us to do with it was to find out what type your boss is, and then "manage" them accordingly! That's actually stood me in good stead a few times over the years!
I actually thought that was the real reason for doing it as a team
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ISTJ
You are:
* slightly expressed introvert
* moderately expressed sensing personality
* moderately expressed thinking personality
* slightly expressed judging personality
Whatever that lot means :lol2:
You are:
* slightly expressed introvert
* moderately expressed sensing personality
* moderately expressed thinking personality
* slightly expressed judging personality
Whatever that lot means :lol2:
Of course if I was a really clever psychologist I would design a personality test that asks questions that find out what people want to hear about themselves and then tell them exactly that. I would then have a very plausible popular and obviously accurate test that I could sell to mugs in personnel and project management departments at big organisations that have more money than sense. I could even sleep at night in the sure knowledge that if I didn't sell them my bullshit snake oil they would probably buy hand writing analysis. Funnily enough none of the descriptions include the phrase "cynical". I think mine should have done.
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I hate the MBT it's so long winded and complicated i much prefer the DISC system very easy to use and very easy to explain how it works
I had to use DISC once... mind you I wasn't fully immersed in the whole 'other' process that was going on at the time... I must revisit the results and review
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But can any one explain how/why it works?
Er.. yes but it will bore the pants off most people
MBTI is a preference indicator created by Isobel Briggs Myers that has been used for some 40 years. The MBTI is a self-report instrument. It is an “either-or” test in that each item being evaluated does not distinguish shades or degrees of a preference. It reveals personal preferences for making decisions, source of energy and focus and orientation to the outer world. Although the MBTI acknowledges Carl Jung’s theory of personality type, there are some significant variations to his theory in the instrument.
MBTI seeks to locate for an individual their “true” type which is believed to be considered to be relatively stable throughout. An individual’s preferences are measured independent of each other and then combined into an MBTI type.
The measures are; extrovert-introvert,thinking-feeling and sensing-intuitive, with the addition of a fourth preference scale (judging-perceiving)which is the invention of Myers and Briggs. The system identifies 16 types through the possible combination of preferences (E or I, T or F, S or N, J or P). It is acknowledged that the 16 MBTI types are not absolute, that is they are not intended to stereotype. Participants are invited to reconsider their type if the resulting type indicated does not feel right to them.
I do this kind of thing as a job but don't favour MBTI as there's more sophisticated instruments out there that are not as prescriptive.
Hope that helps.. PM if you really want boring
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Funnily enough none of the descriptions include the phrase "cynical". I think mine should have done.
IN/STJ's usually are (check your earlier post ;)) - it's one of your special 'gifts' and great that people like you don't take things at face value. It saves the rest of us ENT/F... types from wading into the sea and trying to swim to Amsterdam after a night out on the lash :)
Remember, as NWC said, it's probabalistic, not deterministic, behaviour is subjective and emotions are irrational and this makes both difficult to measure or compartmentalise. It's merely an indication of how you're likely to behave most of the time, not always, all of the time :) See it as a bit like a compass.. dependent on where you are in the world, the direction that the needle of your compass faces may be different and yet it's still the same person holding it. Behaviour is similar - dependent upon the situations we're faced with, most of us will adapt our behaviour accordingly but we will all have a starting point.
BIoke x
PS: I'm an ENTJ :)
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INTJ
But I don't agree with it. It says I am a 1% thinker. That's daft - I'm thinking all the time. But since I am joined by Stephen Hawking who am I to complain? LOL Although Hillary Clinton being in there is a worry. I'll ignore her.
Edit : This is growing on me. "To outsiders, INTJs may appear to project an aura of "definiteness", of self-confidence. This self-confidence, sometimes mistaken for simple arrogance by the less decisive, is actually of a very specific rather than a general nature; its source lies in the specialized knowledge systems that most INTJs start building at an early age. When it comes to their own areas of expertise -- and INTJs can have several -- they will be able to tell you almost immediately whether or not they can help you, and if so, how. INTJs know what they know, and perhaps still more importantly, they know what they don't know."
Oh, THAT is so true! Great confidence in what I know, total un-confidence in areas I don't know about.
But I don't agree with it. It says I am a 1% thinker.
That's daft - I'm thinking all the time. But since I am joined by Stephen Hawking who am I to complain? LOL Although Hillary Clinton being in there is a worry. I'll ignore her.Edit : This is growing on me. "To outsiders, INTJs may appear to project an aura of "definiteness", of self-confidence. This self-confidence, sometimes mistaken for simple arrogance by the less decisive, is actually of a very specific rather than a general nature; its source lies in the specialized knowledge systems that most INTJs start building at an early age. When it comes to their own areas of expertise -- and INTJs can have several -- they will be able to tell you almost immediately whether or not they can help you, and if so, how. INTJs know what they know, and perhaps still more importantly, they know what they don't know."
Oh, THAT is so true! Great confidence in what I know, total un-confidence in areas I don't know about.
