I’ve been meaning to do a thread about this for a while: Myers-Briggs ?

I’m not disappointed or anything, just really surprised, it doesn’t feel like me at all

That was fun! Came out as a mediator. Which is about right. Friend used call me the cheesemaker! (As in life of Brian)

I am an Advocate and the synopsis of my personality is absolutely freakish in its accuracy.

I'm an Assertive Virtuoso. So you/we can now be Billy Two Mates, supernanauna1 and AskAlice. Sounds a lot like me.

Potagonist here

Great thread

I'm a virtuoso too- most of its correct, 94% introvert,although I have no practical skills at all.

I am a Turbulent Logician.

Who knew?!

Architect. I recognise a lot of myself in many areas. Weirdly accurate I'd say. Interesting exercise, thank you.

I’m an Assertive Protagonist.

Protagonists’ gifts include idealism, determination, and the ability to envision a better future – but they don’t just want to hear what makes them great. Protagonists are committed to actually using these gifts to serve a greater purpose.

I actually have developed since first using the Myers Briggs tests in my early career as a social worker. (The tests have also developed.) A protagonist is ‘a born leader’, which in fact I was not, but have developed leadership skills over time. If twenty years ago you had told me that I would found and lead a charity I would have been surprised, as at that time I had yet to hone the skills and experience I needed to make a success of it.

Yes you are right Grannyactivist. We do change as we mature. Mine as Defender was uncannily accurate now but I think it would have been different 50 years ago.

Doesn’t personality change and evolve over time and is not fixed? We grow and develop and learn from our mistakes. I’m not the same person I was in my early 20s. I find the MBPT tends to oversimplify.

Sorry crossed post dragonfly

I think I must be an unassertive protagonist.
Not leader material too lazy

DanniRae

I am a Defender. Agreed with most of it!!

Just asked Mr R if I an introvert - as Defenders are, apparently, and he said "No" and then added but you aren't an extrovert either. In my book that means I am nicely somewhere in the middle. I am happy with this and it's the nicest thing he has said to me in a very long while!!

I’m a defender!!!

If you are an Advocate/INFJ, check this out.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Stg7XGgkq94

I am stunned, this describes me to a T!!!!!! It was uncanny.

Marydoll

If you are an Advocate/INFJ, check this out.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Stg7XGgkq94

I am stunned, this describes me to a T!!!!!! It was uncanny.

I have just watched that video. Thank you for providing the link.

I did not get INFJ this time, but I did in the test I took a little over twenty years ago.

I found that some of the things in the video match with me, but others do not.

Oh, I didn't realise the test had multiple letters in the results.

DanniRae

DanniRae

I am a Defender. Agreed with most of it!!

Just asked Mr R if I an introvert - as Defenders are, apparently, and he said "No" and then added but you aren't an extrovert either. In my book that means I am nicely somewhere in the middle. I am happy with this and it's the nicest thing he has said to me in a very long while!!

When I had the Myers-Briggs system explained to me, it was pointed out that Introvert and Extrovert are not the same as the popular everyday meaning.

In Myers-Briggs it is, if I remember correctly, about how the person gets their "energy".

So the Extrovert needs to do things externally, such as doing sports or sky diving, and so on. The Introvert may write poetry. That sort of thing.

Thanks for that SD. I was wondering what exactly it meant.

I went to

www.youtube.com/

and, as usual, there were various videos offered without searching.

I saw this one and watched it.

LINK > 12 Genuine Signs of Intelligence You Can't Fake

Bellanonna

Thanks for that SD. I was wondering what exactly it meant.

My preferred explanation of extrovert and introvert is that the former get energy from being with others, whereas introverts get their energy from within.
I find that being with others saps my energy; literally drains me.
After working a full week, and even part time, I couldn’t bear the thought of socialising.
Even phone calls would be too much.

Introverts may also find the concept of the Highly Sensitive Person interesting.
(I will leave you to Google it yourself! ?)
I now know that I am a HSP, and I found it really enlightening learning about it.

It’s quite interesting reading about personality tests, this one originated in the 1940’s based on work by Yung. There are many more available since then, I suppose, if you had the time you could try multiple tests to see if the results are similar.

I would like to find the unpleasant traits associated with these different types and see if they are uncannily accurate .

That is a good point. The few I have looked at all seem to say the good points about having that personality type.

So what about nasty people? Which personality do they have?

A business trying to sell stuff to people seems unlikely to tell a potential customer that he or she is a nasty piece of work!