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Offline Rizzo in a box

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MBTI personality?
« on: September 09, 2014, 05:27:46 am »
Every time I've taken these tests online I always end up ENFJ. It's been a few years since I took one though so I might try it again to see if I've changed much.

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ENFJs are natural-born leaders, full of passion and charisma. Forming around two percent of the population, they are oftentimes our politicians, our coaches and our teachers, reaching out and inspiring others to achieve and to do good in the world. With a natural confidence that begets influence, ENFJs take a great deal of pride and joy in guiding others to work together to improve themselves and their community.

FIRM BELIEVERS IN THE PEOPLE

ENFJ personalityPeople are drawn to strong personalities, and ENFJs radiate authenticity, concern and altruism, unafraid to stand up and speak when they feel something needs to be said. They find it natural and easy to communicate with others, especially in person, and their Intuitive (N) trait helps people with the ENFJ personality type to reach every mind, be it through facts and logic or raw emotion. ENFJs easily see people's motivations and seemingly disconnected events, and are able to bring these ideas together and communicate them as a common goal with an eloquence that is nothing short of mesmerizing.

The interest ENFJs have in others is genuine, almost to a fault - when they believe in someone, they can become too involved in the other person's problems, place too much trust in them. Luckily, this trust tends to be a self-fulfilling prophesy, as ENFJs' altruism and authenticity inspire those they care about to become better themselves. But if they aren't careful, they can overextend their optimism, sometimes pushing others further than they're ready or willing to go.

ENFJs are vulnerable to another snare as well: they have a tremendous capacity for reflecting on and analyzing their own feelings, but if they get too caught up in another person's plight, they can develop a sort of emotional hypochondria, seeing other people's problems in themselves, trying to fix something in themselves that isn't wrong. If they get to a point where they are held back by limitations someone else is experiencing, it can hinder ENFJs' ability to see past the dilemma and be of any help at all. When this happens, it's important for ENFJs to pull back and use that self-reflection to distinguish between what they really feel, and what is a separate issue that needs to be looked at from another perspective.
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

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Re: MBTI personality?
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2014, 05:37:07 am »
ISTJ perpetually stuck in a dominant-tertiary loop.

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Re: MBTI personality?
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2014, 06:39:06 pm »
Supposedly INTP for most tests, sometimes INFP, less often ISTP, though none of this is reliable anymore as before long I knew how to answer to make it say whatever I wanted. Never can be sure if I'm answering for myself or for who I'd like to be.

MBTI is fun but try not to take it too seriously. Just a laugh, like the horoscopes, you know?

https://web.archive.org/web/20130527153132/http://plover.net/~bonds/personality.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20091213030016/http://plover.net/~bonds/keirsey_riff.html

Especially don't fall into the trap of trying to let it guide your life. Ooh, I'm an INFP, would I work well with this ENTP guy, what kind of job should I get, let me feed in some survey answers and you tell me how to be happy, blah di blah.

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Re: MBTI personality?
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2014, 10:48:05 pm »
INFJ master race all day.
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Re: MBTI personality?
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2014, 11:09:24 pm »
INFP, of course :)


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Re: MBTI personality?
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2014, 04:35:34 pm »
Every time I've taken these tests online I always end up ENFJ. It's been a few years since I took one though so I might try it again to see if I've changed much.

ISTP.
Jungian functional preference ordering:
Dominant: Introverted Thinking   
Auxiliary: Extraverted Sensing   
Tertiary: Introverted Intuition
Inferior: Extraverted Feeling     

 

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Re: MBTI personality?
« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2014, 07:29:48 pm »
Entp according to a test i just took.

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« Reply #8 on: September 13, 2014, 10:00:00 pm »
I keep getting ISFP, the worst fucking personality.

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« Reply #9 on: September 13, 2014, 10:00:53 pm »
The other thing is that the tests are not the best way to type yourself. The letters also mean little. The important things to understand are the functions indicated by the four letters you have together, and the best way to accurately type yourself is to determine your functions. If you want to really understand what's going on when you look at your "ISTP", for example (it isn't just "introverted sensing thinking perceiving), read:

http://www.reddit.com/r/mbti/comments/182ri9/comprehensive_mbti_post/ (please also take note of the part about what the MBTI does and does not indicate).

That said, the test at http://16personalities.com/ is the least sucky one I've found so far.

But I'm still not sure what I am.
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« Reply #10 on: September 13, 2014, 11:13:02 pm »


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« Reply #11 on: September 13, 2014, 11:26:11 pm »
The other thing is that the tests are not the best way to type yourself. The letters also mean little. The important things to understand are the functions indicated by the four letters you have together, and the best way to accurately type yourself is to determine your functions. If you want to really understand what's going on when you look at your "ISTP", for example (it isn't just "introverted sensing thinking perceiving), read:

http://www.reddit.com/r/mbti/comments/182ri9/comprehensive_mbti_post/ (please also take note of the part about what the MBTI does and does not indicate).

That said, the test at http://16personalities.com/ is the least sucky one I've found so far.

But I'm still not sure what I am.

Well, thats partially why I added the Jungian preferences to my post, MBTI profiling took up a semester in college. Myers-Briggs indicators are an extension onto Jungian theory.

Anyways, if you answer the questions honestly and don't change them, the test can be spot on with profiling.

Attached are the summaries of the types from the Myers & Briggs foundation:
 
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ISTJ: Quiet, serious, earn success by thoroughness and dependability. Practical, matter-of-fact, realistic, and responsible. Decide logically what should be done and work toward it steadily, regardless of distractions. Take pleasure in making everything orderly and organized - their work, their home, their life. Value traditions and loyalty.

ISFJ: Quiet, friendly, responsible, and conscientious. Committed and steady in meeting their obligations. Thorough, painstaking, and accurate. Loyal, considerate, notice and remember specifics about people who are important to them, concerned with how others feel. Strive to create an orderly and harmonious environment at work and at home.

INFJ: Seek meaning and connection in ideas, relationships, and material possessions. Want to understand what motivates people and are insightful about others. Conscientious and committed to their firm values. Develop a clear vision about how best to serve the common good. Organized and decisive in implementing their vision.

INTJ: Have original minds and great drive for implementing their ideas and achieving their goals. Quickly see patterns in external events and develop long-range explanatory perspectives. When committed, organize a job and carry it through. Skeptical and independent, have high standards of competence and performance - for themselves and others.

ISTP: Tolerant and flexible, quiet observers until a problem appears, then act quickly to find workable solutions. Analyze what makes things work and readily get through large amounts of data to isolate the core of practical problems. Interested in cause and effect, organize facts using logical principles, value efficiency.

ISFP: Quiet, friendly, sensitive, and kind. Enjoy the present moment, what's going on around them. Like to have their own space and to work within their own time frame. Loyal and committed to their values and to people who are important to them. Dislike disagreements and conflicts, do not force their opinions or values on others.

INFP: Idealistic, loyal to their values and to people who are important to them. Want an external life that is congruent with their values. Curious, quick to see possibilities, can be catalysts for implementing ideas. Seek to understand people and to help them fulfill their potential. Adaptable, flexible, and accepting unless a value is threatened.
INTP: Seek to develop logical explanations for everything that interests them. Theoretical and abstract, interested more in ideas than in social interaction. Quiet, contained, flexible, and adaptable. Have unusual ability to focus in depth to solve problems in their area of interest. Skeptical, sometimes critical, always analytical.
ESTP: Flexible and tolerant, they take a pragmatic approach focused on immediate results. Theories and conceptual explanations bore them - they want to act energetically to solve the problem. Focus on the here-and-now, spontaneous, enjoy each moment that they can be active with others. Enjoy material comforts and style. Learn best through doing.
ESFP: Outgoing, friendly, and accepting. Exuberant lovers of life, people, and material comforts. Enjoy working with others to make things happen. Bring common sense and a realistic approach to their work, and make work fun. Flexible and spontaneous, adapt readily to new people and environments. Learn best by trying a new skill with other people.
ENFP: Warmly enthusiastic and imaginative. See life as full of possibilities. Make connections between events and information very quickly, and confidently proceed based on the patterns they see. Want a lot of affirmation from others, and readily give appreciation and support. Spontaneous and flexible, often rely on their ability to improvise and their verbal fluency.
ENTP: Quick, ingenious, stimulating, alert, and outspoken. Resourceful in solving new and challenging problems. Adept at generating conceptual possibilities and then analyzing them strategically. Good at reading other people. Bored by routine, will seldom do the same thing the same way, apt to turn to one new interest after another.
ESTJ: Practical, realistic, matter-of-fact. Decisive, quickly move to implement decisions. Organize projects and people to get things done, focus on getting results in the most efficient way possible. Take care of routine details. Have a clear set of logical standards, systematically follow them and want others to also. Forceful in implementing their plans.
ESFJ: Warmhearted, conscientious, and cooperative. Want harmony in their environment, work with determination to establish it. Like to work with others to complete tasks accurately and on time. Loyal, follow through even in small matters. Notice what others need in their day-by-day lives and try to provide it. Want to be appreciated for who they are and for what they contribute.
ENFJ: Warm, empathetic, responsive, and responsible. Highly attuned to the emotions, needs, and motivations of others. Find potential in everyone, want to help others fulfill their potential. May act as catalysts for individual and group growth. Loyal, responsive to praise and criticism. Sociable, facilitate others in a group, and provide inspiring leadership.
ENTJ: Frank, decisive, assume leadership readily. Quickly see illogical and inefficient procedures and policies, develop and implement comprehensive systems to solve organizational problems. Enjoy long-term planning and goal setting. Usually well informed, well read, enjoy expanding their knowledge and passing it on to others. Forceful in presenting their ideas.

Excerpted from Introduction to Type® by Isabel Briggs Myers published by CPP. Inc. Used with permission.

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Re: MBTI personality?
« Reply #12 on: September 13, 2014, 11:56:32 pm »
I've typed as either ENTJ or ENFP in the past. Both quite different it seems?

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« Reply #13 on: September 14, 2014, 12:01:09 am »
I've typed as either ENTJ or ENFP in the past. Both quite different it seems?

If you were taking a lousy test it could be giving false results, The test I took was about 250 questions.

There are types that are pretty close if you look at the groupings here at http://www.personalitypathways.com/16-personality-types.html
The Four Primary Myers Briggs Personality Types:
Dominant Intuitive Types: INFJ, INTJ, ENFP, ENTP
Dominant Sensing Types: ISFJ, ISTJ, ESFP, ESTP
Dominant Thinking Types: ISTP, INTP, ESTJ, ENTJ
Dominant Feeling Types: ISFP, INFP, ESFJ, ENFJ

or here at http://www.16personalities.com/personality-types
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« Reply #14 on: September 14, 2014, 12:06:34 am »
Ahh very true, I remember being close % wise so I doubt there were enough questions. That said reading up ENFP seems pretty solid.