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It's mid-week and things are a little slow so I thought I'd offer up an off-topic post that might be fun.

 

At the beginning of this week I had two new college grads join my time and one thing I always like to do with new folks is to have them take a Myers-Briggs personality test. Helps a great deal in the managing/mentoring process when you know more about what makes folks tick.

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http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

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Takes 5 minutes to take the test.

It can help in understanding yourself, and in relationships.

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If anyone's interested I can supply the links that help to explain the results, though you should be able to find the links to the condensed and/or complete descriptions yourself on the site after you get your result.

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.Have Fun!

Your Type is

INTJ

Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging

Strength of the preferences %

56 38 75 33

 

Qualitative analysis of your type formula

 

You are:

moderately expressed introvert

 

moderately expressed intuitive personality

 

distinctively expressed thinking personality

 

moderately expressed judging personality

I've taken several of these before, but I took this one even though I knew my result would be INTJ, and it indeed was.

 

You are:

* very expressed introvert

* very expressed intuitive personality

* very expressed thinking personality

* moderately expressed judging personality

Haven't taken this in about a year:

 

Your Type is

ENFJ

Extraverted Intuitive Feeling Judging

Strength of the preferences %

22 25 25 67

 

 

ENFJ type description by D.Keirsey

ENFJ type description by J. Butt

ENFJ Career Choices

 

 

 

 

Qualitative analysis of your type formula

 

You are:

slightly expressed extravert

 

moderately expressed intuitive personality

 

moderately expressed feeling personality

 

distinctively expressed judging personality

E 67

S 12

F 75

P 33

 

Extraverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving

 

distinctively expressed extravert

 

slightly expressed sensing personality

 

distinctively expressed feeling personality

 

moderately expressed perceiving personality

Your Type is

INFJ

 

Strength of the preferences %

Introverted - 33

Intuitive - 100

Feeling - 12

Judging - 1

 

You are:

 

* moderately expressed introvert

* very expressed intuitive personality

* slightly expressed feeling personality

* slightly expressed judging personality

 

I took a similar test on SimilarMinds.com and got INTP, so who knows.

E 67

N 25

F 12

J 56

 

distinctively expressed extravert

 

moderately expressed intuitive personality

 

slightly expressed feeling personality

 

moderately expressed judging personality

 

The Idealists called Teachers are abstract in their thought and speech, cooperative in their style of achieving goals, and directive and expressive in their interpersonal relations. Learning in the young has to be beckoned forth, teased out from its hiding place, or, as suggested by the word "education," it has to be "educed." by an individual with educative capabilities. Such a one is the eNFj, thus rightly called the educative mentor or Teacher for short. The Teacher is especially capable of educing or calling forth those inner potentials each learner possesses. Even as children the Teachers may attract a gathering of other children ready to follow their lead in play or work. And they lead without seeming to do so.

 

Teachers expect the very best of those around them, and this expectation, usually expressed as enthusiastic encouragement, motivates action in others and the desire to live up to their expectations. Teachers have the charming characteristic of taking for granted that their expectations will be met, their implicit commands obeyed, never doubting that people will want to do what they suggest. And, more often than not, people do, because this type has extraordinary charisma.

 

The Teachers are found in no more than 2 or 3 percent of the population. They like to have things settled and arranged. They prefer to plan both work and social engagements ahead of time and tend to be absolutely reliable in honoring these commitments. At the same time, Teachers are very much at home in complex situations which require the juggling of much data with little pre-planning. An experienced Teacher group leader can dream up, effortlessly, and almost endlessly, activities for groups to engage in, and stimulating roles for members of the group to play. In some Teachers, inspired by the responsiveness of their students or followers, this can amount to genius which other types find hard to emulate. Such ability to preside without planning reminds us somewhat of an Provider, but the latter acts more as a master of ceremonies than as a leader of groups. Providers are natural hosts and hostesses, making sure that each guest is well looked after at social gatherings, or that the right things are expressed on traditional occasions, such as weddings, funerals, graduations, and the like. In much the same way, Teachers value harmonious human relations about all else, can handle people with charm and concern, and are usually popular wherever they are. But Teachers are not so much social as educational leaders, interested primarily in the personal growth and development of others, and less in attending to their social needs.

 

I usually get about the same response on these jung tests but to be honest with you, outside of today I usually take them when I'm bored and feeling slightly down so I don't really know if that has an effect on the results.

Am I the first E in here? [edit: nm - just read Rune's post]

 

ENFP - Champion Idealist

 

78 Extraverted

12 Intuitive

12 Feeling

11 Perceiving

 

The Champion Idealists are abstract in thought and speech, cooperative in accomplishing their aims, and informative and expressive when relating with others. For Champions, nothing occurs which does not have some deep ethical significance, and this, coupled with their uncanny sense of the motivations of others, gives them a talent for seeing life as an exciting drama, pregnant with possibilities for both good and evil. This type is found in only about 3 percent of the general population, but they have great influence because of their extraordinary impact on others. Champions are inclined to go everywhere and look into everything that has to do with the advance of good and the retreat of evil in the world. They can't bear to miss out on what is going on around them; they must experience, first hand, all the significant social events that affect our lives. And then they are eager to relate the stories they've uncovered, hoping to disclose the "truth" of people and issues, and to advocate causes. This strong drive to unveil current events can make them tireless in conversing with others, like fountains that bubble and splash, spilling over their own words to get it all out.

 

Champions consider intense emotional experiences as being vital to a full life, although they can never quite shake the feeling that a part of themselves is split off, uninvolved in the experience. Thus, while they strive for emotional congruency, they often see themselves in some danger of losing touch with their real feelings, which Champions possess in a wide range and variety. In the same vein, Champions strive toward a kind of spontaneous personal authenticity, and this intention always to "be themselves" is usually communicated nonverbally to others, who find it quite attractive.

I 67

N 38

T 75

J 89

 

distinctively expressed introvert

moderately expressed intuitive personality

distinctively expressed thinking personality

very expressed judging personality

 

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.

 

INTJs are perfectionists, with a seemingly endless capacity for improving upon anything that takes their interest. What prevents them from becoming chronically bogged down in this pursuit of perfection is the pragmatism so characteristic of the type: INTJs apply (often ruthlessly) the criterion "Does it work?" to everything from their own research efforts to the prevailing social norms. This in turn produces an unusual independence of mind, freeing the INTJ from the constraints of authority, convention, or sentiment for its own sake.

 

INTJs are known as the "Systems Builders" of the types, perhaps in part because they possess the unusual trait combination of imagination and reliability. Whatever system an INTJ happens to be working on is for them the equivalent of a moral cause to an INFJ; both perfectionism and disregard for authority may come into play, as INTJs can be unsparing of both themselves and the others on the project. Anyone considered to be "slacking," including superiors, will lose their respect -- and will generally be made aware of this; INTJs have also been known to take it upon themselves to implement critical decisions without consulting their supervisors or co-workers. On the other hand, they do tend to be scrupulous and even-handed about recognizing the individual contributions that have gone into a project, and have a gift for seizing opportunities which others might not even notice.

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