Quiz: Myers-Briggs personality

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm

(Pardon me, I'm being all self-actualizing and stuff again.) :D

As always, Me:

INFP
Healer Idealists are abstract in thought and speech, cooperative in striving for their ends, and informative and introverted in their interpersonal relations. Healer present a seemingly tranquil, and noticiably pleasant face to the world, and though to all appearances they might seem reserved, and even shy, on the inside they are anything but reserved, having a capacity for caring not always found in other types. They care deeply-indeed, passionately-about a few special persons or a favorite cause, and their fervent aim is to bring peace and integrity to their loved ones and the world.

Healers have a profound sense of idealism derived from a strong personal morality, and they conceive of the world as an ethical, honorable place. Indeed, to understand Healers, we must understand their idealism as almost boundless and selfless, inspiring them to make extraordinary sacrifices for someone or something they believe in. The Healer is the Prince or Princess of fairytale, the King's Champion or Defender of the Faith, like Sir Galahad or Joan of Arc. Healers are found in only 1 percent of the general population, although, at times, their idealism leaves them feeling even more isolated from the rest of humanity.

Healers seek unity in their lives, unity of body and mind, emotions and intellect, perhaps because they are likely to have a sense of inner division threaded through their lives, which comes from their often unhappy childhood. Healers live a fantasy-filled childhood, which, unfortunately, is discouraged or even punished by many parents. In a practical-minded family, required by their parents to be sociable and industrious in concrete ways, and also given down-to-earth siblings who conform to these parental expectations, Healers come to see themselves as ugly ducklings. Other types usually shrug off parental expectations that do not fit them, but not the Healers. Wishing to please their parents and siblings, but not knowing quite how to do it, they try to hide their differences, believing they are bad to be so fanciful, so unlike their more solid brothers and sisters. They wonder, some of them for the rest of their lives, whether they are OK. They are quite OK, just different from the rest of their family-swans reared in a family of ducks. Even so, to realize and really believe this is not easy for them. Deeply committed to the positive and the good, yet taught to believe there is evil in them, Healers can come to develop a certain fascination with the problem of good and evil, sacred and profane. Tutors are drawn toward purity, but can become engrossed with the profane, continuously on the lookout for the wickedness that lurks within them. Then, when Healers believe thay have yielded to an impure temptation, they may be given to acts of self-sacrifice in atonement. Others seldom detect this inner turmoil, however, for the struggle between good and evil is within the Healer, who does not feel compelled to make the issue public.

Interesting article: "Caring for Your Introvert" http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2003/03/rauch.htm

The Counselor Idealists are abstract thought and speech, cooperative in reaching their goals, and directive and introverted in their interpersonal roles. Counselors focus on human potentials, think in terms of ethical values, and come easily to decisions. The small number of this type (little more than 2 percent) is regrettable, since Counselors have an unusually strong desire to contribute to the welfare of others and genuinely enjoy helping their companions. Although Counsleors tend to be private, sensitive people, and are not generally visible leaders, they nevertheless work quite intensely with those close to them, quietly exerting their influence behind the scenes with their families, friends, and colleagues. This type has great depth of personality; they are themselves complicated, and can understand and deal with complex issues and people.

Counselors can be hard to get to know. They have an unusually rich inner life, but they are reserved and tend not to share their reactions except with those they trust. With their loved ones, certainly, Counselors are not reluctant to express their feelings, their face lighting up with the positive emotions, but darkening like a thunderhead with the negative. Indeed, because of their strong ability to take into themselves the feelings of others, Counselors can be hurt rather easily by those around them, which, perhaps, is one reason why they tend to be private people, mutely withdrawing from human contact. At the same time, friends who have known an Counselor for years may find sides emerging which come as a surprise. Not that they are inconsistent; Counselors value their integrity a great deal, but they have intricately woven, mysterious personalities which sometimes puzzle even them.

Counselors have strong empathic abilities and can become aware of another's emotions or intentions -- good or evil -- even before that person is conscious of them. This "mind-reading" can take the form of feeling the hidden distress or illnesses of others to an extent which is difficult for other types to comprehend. Even Counselors can seldom tell how they came to penetrate others' feelings so keenly. Furthermore, the Counselor is most likely of all the types to demonstrate an ability to understand psychic phenomena and to have visions of human events, past, present, or future. What is known as ESP may well be exceptional intuitive ability-in both its forms, projection and introjection. Such supernormal intuition is found frequently in the Counselor, and can extend to people, things, and often events, taking the form of visions, episodes of foreknowledge, premonitions, auditory and visual images of things to come, as well as uncanny communications with certain individuals at a distance.

and we're in the minority...

who'da thunk?
dp

And we're only 2% of the population. Odds are, we tend to be liberals.

:hi:

:hi:

Hey, we even have a website: www.infj.org

:hi: http://www.personalitypage.com/ISFP.html

Edit - sometimes I can be the exact opposite though. I *am* a Gemini after all. ;-)

Maybe it was the opposite thing that drew us. :shrug:

Extroverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving

11 1 1 67


ESTPs are spontaneous, active folks. Like the other SPs, ESTPs get great satisfaction from acting on their impulses. Activities involving great power, speed, thrill and risk are attractive to the ESTP. Chronic stifling of these impulses makes the ESTP feel "dead inside."

Gamesmanship is the calling card of the ESTP. Persons of this type have a natural drive to best the competition. Some of the most successful salespersons are ESTPs. P.T. Barnum ("Never give a sucker an even break") illustrates the unscrupulous contingent of this type.

Almost unconsciously the ESTP looks for nonverbal, nearly subliminal cues as to what makes her quarry "tick." Once she knows, she waits for just the right time to trump the unsuspecting victim's ace and glory in her conquest. Oddly enough, the ESTP seems to admire and respect anyone who can beat her at her own game.

"If I was any better, I couldn't stand it!" To an ESTP, admission of weakness feels like failure. He admires strength in himself and in others.

"Shock effect" is a favored technique of this type to get the attention of his audience. ESTPs love to be at center stage, demonstrating feats of wonder and daring.



But then again, this only HALF describes me.....

Lots of E and P, moderately S and T.

And as an engineer I'm constantly skewering them....

Interesting test.

But too noble to toot are horn too loudly. :hi:

I have since found my wife on DU.

Best wishes,

Scuba

The Mastermind.

Of the four aspects of strategic analysis and definition it is the contingency planning or entailment organizing role that reaches the highest development in Masterminds. Entailing or contingency planning is not an informative activity, rather it is a directive one in which the planner tells others what to do and in what order to do it. As the organizing capabilities the Masterminds increase so does their inclination to take charge of whatever is going on.

It is in their abilities that Masterminds differ from the other Rationals, while in most of their attitudes they are just like the others. However there is one attitude that sets them apart from other Rationals: they tend to be much more self-confident than the rest, having, for obscure reasons, developed a very strong will. They are rather rare, comprising no more than, say, one percent of the population. Being very judicious, decisions come naturally to them; indeed, they can hardly rest until they have things settled, decided, and set. They are the people who are able to formulate coherent and comprehensive contingency plans, hence contingency organizers or "entailers."

Masterminds will adopt ideas only if they are useful, which is to say if they work efficiently toward accomplishing the Mastermind's well-defined goals. Natural leaders, Masterminds are not at all eager to take command of projects or groups, preferring to stay in the background until others demonstrate their inability to lead. Once in charge, however, Masterminds are the supreme pragmatists, seeing reality as a crucible for refining their strategies for goal-directed action. In a sense, Masterminds approach reality as they would a giant chess board, always seeking strategies that have a high payoff, and always devising contingency plans in case of error or adversity. To the Mastermind, organizational structure and operational procedures are never arbitrary, never set in concrete, but are quite malleable and can be changed, improved, streamlined. In their drive for efficient action, Masterminds are the most open-minded of all the types. No idea is too far-fetched to be entertained-if it is useful. Masterminds are natural brainstormers, always open to new concepts and, in fact, aggressively seeking them. They are also alert to the consequences of applying new ideas or positions. Theories which cannot be made to work are quickly discarded by the Masterminds. On the other hand, Masterminds can be quite ruthless in implementing effective ideas, seldom counting personal cost in terms of time and energy.

:hi:

I guess that's...um...three percent of DU's population? :D

So much for the rarity aspect. I want a refund! I liked my old self better, anyway, whateve rit was. Shoot, may have been INTJ, for all I know -- nothing says that Masterminds have to possess a good memory.

Well people who do computers, A LOT, I think are naturally introverted to start with. So we all self-select to congregate together online.

Finding people who are compatible with me offline is challenging to say the least.

Looked at the details again and, yep, there I am: scientist with romantic stuff as his Achilles heel.

Damn you, Briggs & Stratton! I am not a category!!!!!

That's Meyers and Briggs. Briggs and Stratton are the small engine builders... although the difference might be less than one expected. You might be a lawnmower, for all I know!

:silly:

We rock!

Great to see that birds of a feather flock together.

Now leave me alone while I perfect my plans for world domination.

There must be an explanation for this congregation of INTJs.

etc. are forcing me to admit that years ago when I checked out this stuff I related to INTJ the most. But no category can hold me :nuke: }( :silly: :P :nuke: !

:hi:

DU seems to be MasterMind central. But then, could it be any other way? Let the E's think they run things in the world. Lull them into a false sense of security.

:evilgrin:

Introverted
Intuitive
Thinking
Judging

Strength of the preferences %

56
100
11
11

I can never keep these things straight, but I'm pretty sure that last time I was something else on this test. Anyway, this is the upshot:

"However there is one attitude that sets them apart from other Rationals: they tend to be much more self-confident than the rest, having, for obscure reasons, developed a very strong will. They are rather rare, comprising no more than, say, one percent of the population."

I am very rare. I wonder how much money I'm worth. I wonder if I'm worth more if I sign myself. Actually, a lot of the INTJ stuff seems applicable to only a part of my personality...I think whatever I was before is a better fit.

Further:

"In their drive for efficient action, Masterminds are the most open-minded of all the types. No idea is too far-fetched to be entertained-if it is useful. "

And, finally:

"Masterminds are sex gods of the highest degree. Women of their acquaintance would do well to drape their desartorialized persons about the male Mastermind's torso, because you ain't had nuthin' until you've been blessed by the mojo of these animally-magnetic hunks of burning love."

I swear.... :o

with two masterminds? :7

Oh, behave!

Shagadelic!

I am INTJ with my T being the lowest score. He is INTP with his P being a very low score.

:D

:o

:P

Your Type is
ISFJ


Introverted
Sensing
Feeling
Judging


Strength of the preferences %


56
1
33
11


moderately expressed introvert
slightly expressed sensing personality
moderately expressed feeling personality
slightly expressed judging personality


:D

I've known two women who were INFP's that I know of. Nothing much happened with either of them, but dammit I'd love to meet an INFP activist girl I could have a real relationship with...Maybe I should move to a place with more liberals like Oregon.

Don't those websites have articles about how different types relate to eachother in relationships?

And I'm female. (Not looking for a date though, LOL!) Don't seem to be too many INFP females.

I've evidently done a lot of changing in the last 12 years. I had to take one of these at a job years ago, and then I was an ENFP.

Interesting. I've done a lot of growing up, and caring about others beside myself.

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The second description was pretty apt....

"Guardians of birthdays, holidays and celebrations, ESFJs are generous entertainers. They enjoy and joyfully observe traditions and are liberal in giving, especially where custom prescribes.
All else being equal, ESFJs enjoy being in charge. They see problems clearly and delegate easily, work hard and play with zest. ESFJs, as do most SJs, bear strong allegiance to rights of seniority. They willingly provide service (which embodies life's meaning) and expect the same from others.

ESFJs are easily wounded. And when wounded, their emotions will not be contained. They by nature "wear their hearts on their sleeves," often exuding warmth and bonhomie, but not infrequently boiling over with the vexation of their souls. Some ESFJs channel these vibrant emotions into moving dramatic performances on stage and screen.

Strong, contradictory forces consume the ESFJ. Their sense of right and wrong wrestles with an overwhelming rescuing, 'mothering' drive. This sometimes results in swift, immediate action taken upon a transgressor, followed by stern reprimand; ultimately, however, the prodigal is wrested from the gallows of their folly, just as the noose tightens and all hope is lost, by the very executioner!

An ESFJ at odds with self is a remarkable sight. When a decision must be made, especially one involving the risk of conflict (abhorrent to ESFJs), there ensues an in-house wrestling match between the aforementioned black-and-white Values and the Nemesis of Discord. The contender pits self against self, once firmly deciding with the Right, then switching to Prudence to forestall hostilities, countered by unswerving Values, ad exhaustium, winner take all.

As caretakers, ESFJs sense danger all around--germs within, the elements without, unscrupulous malefactors, insidious character flaws. The world is a dangerous place, not to be trusted. Not that the ESFJ is paranoid; 'hyper-vigilant' would be more precise. And thus they serve excellently as protectors, outstanding in fields such as medical care and elementary education."

iirc, al gore is an intp....

ENFJ...I'm headed for the Island of Misfit Toys.

Hardly more than two percent of the total population, the Fieldmarshals are bound to lead others, and from an early age they can be observed taking command of groups. In some cases, Fieldmarshals simply find themselves in charge of groups, and are mystified as to how this happened. But the reason is that Fieldmarshals have a strong natural urge to give structure and direction wherever they are -- to harness people in the field and to direct them to achieve distant goals. They resemble Supervisors in their tendency to establish plans for a task, enterprise, or organization, but Fieldmarshals search more for policy and goals than for regulations and procedures.

They cannot not build organizations, and cannot not push to implement their goals. When in charge of an organization, whether in the military, business, education, or government, Fieldmarshals more than any other type desire (and generally have the ability) to visualize where the organization is going, and they seem able to communicate that vision to others. Their organizational and coordinating skills tends to be highly developed, which means that they are likely to be good at systematizing, ordering priorities, generalizing, summarizing, at marshalling evidence, and at demonstrating their ideas. Their ability to organize, however, may be more highly developed than their ability to analyze, and the Fieldmarshal leader may need to turn to an Inventor or Architect to provide this kind of input.

Fieldmarshals will usually rise to positions of responsibility and enjoy being executives. They are tireless in their devotion to their jobs and can easily block out other areas of life for the sake of their work. Superb administrators in any field -- medicine, law, business, education, government, the military -- Fieldmarshals organize their units into smooth-functioning systems, planning in advance, keeping both short-term and long-range objectives well in mind. For the Fieldmarshals, there must always be a goal-directed reason for doing anything, and people's feelings usually are not sufficient reason. They prefer decisions to be based on impersonal data, want to work from well thought-out plans, like to use engineered operations -- and they expect others to follow suit. They are ever intent on reducing bureaucratic red tape, task redundancy, and aimless confusion in the workplace, and they are willing to dismiss employees who cannot get with the program and increase their efficiency. Although Fieldmarshals are tolerant of established procedures, they can and will abandon any procedure when it can be shown to be ineffective in accomplishing its goal. Fieldmarshals root out and reject ineffectiveness and inefficiency, and are impatient with repetition of error.

Thus far, unique. (I read somewhere that INTP is the type with the lowest occurrence in the population, so I'm not surprised.)

89% introverted
11%intuitive
89% thinking
22% perceiving

Of the four aspects of strategic analysis and definition, it is the structural engineering role -- architechtonics -- that reaches the highest development in INTPs, and it is for this reason they are aptly called the "architects." Their major interest is in figuring out structure, build, configuration -- the spatiality of things.

As the engineering capabilities the Architects increase so does their desire to let others know about whatever has come of their engineering efforts. So they tend to take up an informative role in their social exchanges. On the other hand they have less and less desire, if they ever had any, to direct the activities of others. Only when forced to by circumstance do they allow themselves to take charge of activities, and they exit the role as soon as they can without injuring the enterprise.

The Architects' distant goal is always to rearrange the environment somehow, to shape, to construct, to devise, whether it be buildings, institutions, enterprises, or theories. They look upon the world -- natural and civil -- as little more than raw material to be reshaped according to their design, as a formless stone for their hammer and chisel. Ayn Rand, master of the Rational character, describes this characteristic in the architect Howard Roark, her protagonist in The Fountainhead:

He was looking at the granite. He did not laugh as his eyes stopped in awareness of the earth around him. His face was like a law of nature-a thing one could not question, alter or implore. It had high cheekbones over gaunt, hollow cheeks; gray eyes, cold and steady; a contemptuous mouth, shut tight, the mouth of an executioner or a saint. He looked at the granite. To be cut, he thought, and made into walls. He looked at a tree. To be split and made into rafters. He looked at a streak of rust on the stone and thought of iron ore under the ground. To be melted and to emerge as girders against the sky. These rocks, he thought, are here for me; waiting for the drill, the dynamite and my voice; waiting to be split, ripped, pounded, reborn, waiting for the shape my hands will give to them.

Many regard this attitude as arrogant, and Architects are likely, especially in their later years, after finding out that most others are faking an understanding of the laws of nature, to think of themselves as the prime movers who must pit themselves against nature and society in an endless struggle to define ends clearly and adopt whatever means that promise success. If this is arrogance, then at least it is not vanity, and without question it has driven the design engineers to take the lead in molding the structure of civilization.

Darn these tests. Making me question who I am. Now they think I'm an INTJ, or whatever. Could it be that the mighty Briggs-Meyers test is inherently flawed????? *gasp*

:P

I mean, it's not like I have multiple personalities.

No, I don't.

That's what I just said.

Oh, okay.

on edit: I had 89% on the "I" too!
on edit: 89%
44%
22%
11%

I don't hold much faith in these tests, A few years ago I came up as an INTJ, and now I've taken the test a few times, and consistently come up as INTP. It seems to me that these tests means absolutely nothing if your personality can change like mine has. I don't know, maybe it's because I'm still an adolescent?

:evilgrin:

Although someone's managed to shift my perceiving score up 6 percentage points.

hmmmm

Your Type is
INTP
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
100 100 22 11


last time i took the test, about 5 years ago, i was also intp, but the introvert score was MUCH closer to the middle, as were all the scores i think.

i am introverted, but i'm not as introverted as "100%" would suggest.

of course, the fact that i'm quibbling about this proves that i am, in fact, an intp!

I am supposed to be a good field marshal. I guess that explains my affection for leather.

Al Gore is an ENJT apparently.

Interesting .We are only 2% of the population yet several of us are on this thread. Fieldmarshals for DU !

My department is divided into two application development groups: production writes all the output code and data entry writes all the input code. The production people turned out to be all Es except for one guy and the data entry were all Is. Of about 15 people in the department, mine was the only type that wasn't duplicated and wasn't appropriate for a career in IT, which I've worked in for 20 years. :shrug:

You are:
very expressed introvert

moderately expressed sensing personality

slightly expressed feeling personality

moderately expressed judging personality

slightly expressed introversion

moderately expressed intuition

slightly expressed thinking

highly expressed perceiving

Yes, I procrastinate like crazy, don't like structure and have never been able to keep an orderly house.

I always score almost balanced between INFP and INFJ, just leaning slightly to the "P."

On this one:

I am:

very expressed introvert

distinctively expressed intuitive personality

moderately expressed feeling personality

slightly expressed perceiving personality

Introverted
Intuitive
Feeling
Perceiving


Strength of the preferences %


11
67
22
22

That Atlantic Monthly article was great. I passed it
along to my extrovert friend who is married to a cavedweller
like me. We both drive her nuts.

I found out when I was typed as part of a consultant's visit to my business. The partner I couldn't get along with was an ESTJ which went a long way to helping me understand why we were always at loggerheads (we split up the practice).

I fluctuate between INFP and INTP. Today, I was in the "T" category by 1 point.

Oh, well, sometimes I'm ENTJ. *That* has always made me wonder about the accuracy of these tests. I'll admit I am always ENT-something, but perhaps the -P or -J portion is unreliable enough not to be worth considering? And why can I see myself in most if not all the type profiles?

I am close to being INFJ though. I growing to appreciate feeling and knowing things by feeling more than when I was younger.

You are:

* slightly expressed introvert
* slightly expressed sensing personality
* slightly expressed thinking personality
* slightly expressed perceiving personality

- distinctively expressed introvert
- slightly expressed sensing personality
- moderately expressed thinking personality
- slightly expressed perceiving personality


"Like their fellow SPs, ISTPs are fundamentally Performers (note the capital 'P' :-)), but as Ts their areas of interest tend to be mechanical rather than artistic like those of ISFPs, and unlike most ESPs they do not present an impression of constant activity. On the contrary, they lie dormant, saving their energy until a project or an adventure worthy of their time comes along--and then they launch themselves at it. The apparently frenzied state that inevitably ensues is actually much more controlled than it appears--ISTPs always seem to know what they're doing when it comes to physical or mechanical obstacles--but the whole chain of events presents a confusing and paradoxical picture to an outsider.

ISTPs are equally difficult to understand in their need for personal space, which in turn has an impact on their relationships with others. They need to be able to "spread out"--both physically and psychologically--which generally implies encroaching to some degree on others, especially if they decide that something of someone else's is going to become their next project. (They are generally quite comfortable, however, with being treated the same way they treat others--at least in this respect.) But because they need such a lot of flexibility to be as spontaneous as they feel they must be, they tend to become as inflexible as the most rigid J when someone seems to be threatening their lifestyle (although they usually respond with a classic SP rage which is yet another vivid contrast to their "dormant," impassive, detached mode). These territorial considerations are usually critical in relationships with ISTPs; communication also tends to be a key issue, since they generally express themselves non-verbally. When they do actually verbalize, ISTPs are masters of the one-liner, often showing flashes of humor in the most tense situations; this can result in their being seen as thick-skinned or tasteless.

Like most SPs, ISTPs may have trouble with rote and abstract classroom learning, which tend not to be good measures of their actual intelligence. They tend, sometimes with good reason, to be highly skeptical of its practical value, and often gravitate towards classes in industrial arts; part-time vocational/ technical programs can be useful to even the college-bound ISTP. In terms of careers, mechanics and any of the skilled trades are traditional choices, and those ISTPs with strong numerical as well mechanical gifts tend to do extremely well in most areas of engineering. Working as paramedics or firefighters can fulfill the ISTP need to live on the edge; they are at their best in a crisis, where their natural disregard for rules and authority structures allows them to focus on and tackle the emergency at hand in the most effective way.

ISTPs with more sedate careers usually take on high-risk avocations like racing, skydiving, and motorcycling. While aware of the dangers involved, they are so in touch with the physical world that they know they can get away with much smaller safety margins than other types."

Extrovert 22
Intuitive 89
Thinking 1
Processing 11

Extraverted iNtuition
ENTPs are nothing if not unique. Brave new associations flow freely from the unconscious into the world of the living. Making, discovering and developing connections between and among two or more of anything is virtually automatic. The product of intuition is merely an icon of process; ENTPs are in the business of change, improvement, experimentation.
The attraction Extraverted iNtuition has toward the real and physical amounts to a cosmic non sequitur: theory is drawn to practice. Such encounters are clearly puzzling. Both parties--the intuitor and the realist--are aware of a xenic quality in their meeting, with reactions ranging from recoil to reverie.


Introverted Thinking
Thinking is iNtuition's ready assistant, an embodiment of the sort of logic found in laws, boards and circuits. Thinking's job is to lend focus and direction to iNtuition's critical mass. The temporary habitations of changeling iNtuition are constructed of Boolean materials from Thinking's storehouse. Ultimately, Thinking is no match for iNtuition's prodigiousness. Systems lie in various states of disarray, fragmentary traces of Thinking's feverish attempts to shadow and undergird the leaps of the dominant function. One can only suppose that Thinking must continue to work during REM sleep pulling together iNtuition's brainchildren into integral wholes.

Extraverted Feeling
To the extent that Feeling is developed, ENTPs extravert Feeling judgment. As a result, it is not uncommon to find affability and bonhomie in members of this species. Tertiary functions are potentially utilitarian. Their limitations appear in their relative underdevelopment, diminished endurance, and vulnerability. ENTPs may harness Feeling's good will in areas such as sales, service, drama, humor and art. ENTP loyalty often runs high and can be hooked by those the ENTP counts as friends.

John Adams and Teddy Roosevelt? Hell, I'm in good company!

Or SSDD. Pick 'em.

67
22
44
11

which goes well with my becoming a social worker.