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09-07-2006, 09:58 AM
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Have you heard of Myers Briggs personality types? Quote:
Type and Your Work
When you understand your type preferences, you can approach your own work in a manner that best suits your style, including how you manage your time, problem solving, best approaches to decision making and dealing with stress. Knowledge of type can help you deal with the culture of the place you work, the development of new skills, understanding your participation on team, and coping with change in the workplace.
| Have you gone through the process? What did you think of the results? Were they helpful?
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09-07-2006, 10:01 AM
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I've taken the online tests and found it to be quite interesting. Mine changes somewhat over the years, but not substantially. I don't know whether I changed much that I did, but it did help me to understand why I did certain things in certain ways and gave me a glimmer into why others might behave the way they do.
It's interesting, if nothing else.
I should add that I took the free, miniature versions, not the full, professional versions.
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09-07-2006, 10:10 AM
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I believe that I took it and found it interesting, too. |
09-07-2006, 12:45 PM
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I've done the full, professional versions. They were interesting but not something I find useful on a daily basis. There's other work-personality tools besides M-B that are of varying utility and ease of use.
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09-07-2006, 05:16 PM
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I took the MB in high school when my mom worked in a college student counseling office, I was staying with her and needed something to do. It nailed me as, I believe, INFP at the time.
We talked about it here a couple years ago, I took the online one, and mine had actually changed, but I don't remember what to.
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09-07-2006, 05:21 PM
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Where's Andrea these days? Pluckyduck was always a big fan of Myers-Briggs.
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09-08-2006, 12:26 AM
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Myers-Briggs can be very descriptive of preferred ways of operating, or of styles of interacting with others. My husband and I end up at opposite corners of the Myers-Briggs chart. I am an ENFP and he is an ISTJ, which makes him the perfect editor and researcher, by the way. Over time, I am more I and he is more E, but not much. I use logical judgement more, and he uses intuition more, as we get older, but our personality types stay pretty much the same.
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09-08-2006, 01:33 AM
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We had an EA thread going about MB shortly after Amy got us going. Quite a few of us here are INFP or ENFP - the proportion seems to be much higher than the general population.
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09-08-2006, 08:35 PM
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Quote: conradd said
 We had an EA thread going about MB shortly after Amy got us going. Quite a few of us here are INFP or ENFP - the proportion seems to be much higher than the general population. | I was told that the INFPs are about one percent of the population.
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09-08-2006, 08:45 PM
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Yep. They are. But not here. 
Sara
XNFP
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09-08-2006, 09:24 PM
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Quote: taurusmoon said
Yep. They are. But not here.
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XNFP | "X"? 
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09-08-2006, 09:31 PM
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X means that the score is so close between I or E that it can go either way.
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09-08-2006, 09:44 PM
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Ah.
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09-08-2006, 10:11 PM
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The MB test linked above is down, I googled and just took a Jungian Typology test, found here: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes3.asp
And I'm back to being an INFP somehow.
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09-08-2006, 10:19 PM
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Here's an interesting list, wonder how they determined some of these! Quote: Famous INFPs:
Homer
Virgil
Mary, mother of Jesus
St. John, the beloved disciple
St. Luke; physician, disciple, author
William Shakespeare, bard of Avon
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Evangeline)
A. A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie)
Helen Keller, deaf and blind author
Carl Rogers, reflective psychologist, counselor
Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood)
Dick Clark (American Bandstand)
Donna Reed, actor (It's a Wonderful Life)
Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis
Neil Diamond, vocalist
Tom Brokaw, news anchor
James Herriot (All Creatures Great and Small)
Annie Dillard (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)
James Taylor, vocalist
Julia Roberts, actor (Conspiracy Theory, Pretty Woman)
Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap)
Terri Gross (PBS's "Fresh Air")
Amy Tan (author of The Joy-Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife)
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Lisa Kudrow ("Phoebe" of Friends)
Fred Savage ("The Wonder Years")
Fictional INFPs:
Anne (Anne of Green Gables)
Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
Deanna Troi (Star Trek - The Next Generation)
Wesley Crusher (Star Trek - The Next Generation)
Doctor Julian Bashir (Star Trek: Deep Space 9)
Bastian (The Neverending Story)
E.T.: the ExtraTerrestrial
Doug Funny, Doug cartoons
Tommy, Rug Rats cartoons
Rocko, Rocko's Modern Life cartoons
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09-08-2006, 10:31 PM
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I just took this version of the test. It placed me in the ENFP camp. But not by much.
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09-08-2006, 10:51 PM
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Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
| Cool!
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09-08-2006, 11:37 PM
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ISFJ |
09-09-2006, 04:35 PM
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ISTJ
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09-09-2006, 04:44 PM
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ENFJ again, yet, and still
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09-10-2006, 10:43 PM
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Wow, it's amazing that the typing seems so consistent with how all of you appear on EA!
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09-10-2006, 11:24 PM
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LOL, yes. And, when we meet in real life too.  I took the test again from the link Melanie posted and I am still solidly INFP. Haven't budged since I first took it at age 18.
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09-17-2006, 10:06 AM
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There was someone else who was an ENTJ here, but I think there were only two regulars who were and admitted to it. The rest of you were, of course, wrong. | |
