Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®

My Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®

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Extroversion or Introversion
Where do you live mentally? Do you attend mostly to the external world of events and people (you need people) or to the internal world of your thoughts and reactions (you need privacy)?

Sensing or iNtuition
How do you take in information? Do you attend to your senses telling you what is happening and useful right now (likes detail and routines) or do you tune into the pattern of what is happening so you can anticipate possibilities for the future (likes imagination and change)?

Thinking or Feeling
How do you make decisions? Do you use your head--objective data, logic, justice, and reason to analyze causes and effects or do you rely more on your heart--feelings, values, relationships, and vague, subjective reactions?

Judging or Perceiving
What is your lifestyle? Your way of dealing with the world? Do you have clear ideas about what "should be done" and carefully plan and organize for each anticipated event (seem rigid and stuffy to P's) or do you prefer to wait and see what develops, remaining open to new or different options that you can select spontaneously (seems loose and messy to J's)?

I am ~ INFP (although as I get older I am becoming more ESTP)

INFP
Harmonizer Clarifier: INFP
Theme is advocacy and integrity. Talents lie in helping people clarify issues, values, and identity. Support anything that allows the unfolding of the person. Encourage growth and development with quiet enthusiasm. Loyal advocates and champions, caring deeply about their causes and a few special people. Interested in contemplating life's mysteries, virtues, and vices in their search for wholeness. Thrive on healing conflicts, within and between, and taking people to the center of themselves.

ESTP
Promoter Executor: ESTPTheme is promoting. Talents lie in persuading others and expediting to make things happen. Have an engaging, winning style that others are drawn to. Adept at picking up on minimal nonverbal cues. Anticipate the actions and reactions of others and thus win their confidence. Like the excitement and challenge of negotiating, selling, making deals, arbitrating, and in general, achieving the impossible. Thrive on action and the freedom to use all resources at hand to get desired outcomes.

Freud, for instance, described "oral," "anal," "phallic," and "genital" characters. Each type originates during a particular psychosexual stage of development, i.e. you can get stuck at any stage.

Anal retentive characters have traits that supposedly originate during toilet-training; they include being orderly, persevering, compulsively clean, and reluctant to give things away. Anal expulsive characters are messy, unconcerned with cleanliness, careless with money and everything, disorganized, and, when pushed, stubbornly rebellious and defiant. Phallic characters have never resolved the Oedipus or the Electra complex and tend to be strident, proud, dominant, and arrogant. Such men are often self-centered, macho Don Juans obsessed with proving their sexual attractiveness; such women are resentful of men and try to dominate them. Genital characters are healthy; they have gone through puberty; they are physically and psychologically mature. They have learned to handle external stresses and internal conflicts by coping with the previous stages of "psychosexual" development. During puberty when there is a demanding upsurge of sexual interests, the genital characters are able to draw on the skills and rationality they have acquired. As adults, they have the maturity to cope well with others, with love, with work, and with the conflicts within.

Adler typed people according to birth order and research still supports some of these differences. Adler described the first born as anxious, conscientious, and dependent on authorities, the second child as socially oriented but competitive, and the youngest child as pampered but always having to "catch up."

The ancient Greeks classified people as cheerful-sad and emotional-unemotional, not very different from our current Type A and Type B personalities.

Much research has assessed the relationship between physique (heavy, muscular, and thin) and character.

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During this test you answered questions which measured four important aspects of your personality - Dominance (D), Influence (I) , Stability(S) and Compliance(C). Following are your scores on each of these factors.

Leon Fairley, you are a bit of an introvert.

Your personality incorporates a little of both the extrovert and the introvert. Being closer to one end of the scale Indicates that you are more one way than the other. But generally, your score suggests that you are someone whose personality shifts comfortably with your mood and changing circumstances.