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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
INFJ: Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging
A grid of the 16 personality types from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Wouldn't you know it, I scored the rarest form...
A lot of interest the past 15 years or so has arisen in personality types. In the late 90's, Ashley and I took a love languages test (very helpful) and last year I took my DISC profile (I'm high D, low I, a "Conducting Implementor"). Yesterday, for one of my EMBA classes, I had to take a plethora of personality tests.
So, one of them was an MBTI test, this particular one free from HumanMetrics. It pegged me as an INFJ, the rarest personality, "afflicting" only 1.5% of Americans. For those of you real interested, I tested as: I = 22%, N = 88%, F = 12%, J = 22%. Curiously, I went back and changed my answers on a few questions that I tended to have a mixed view on. In an extreme case I tested as an ENFJ, with my I scores E= 11% and N = 50%. In all cases, my F and J scores were the same. But I am quite conclusively, an INFJ.
One of the unfortunate things was a listing of US Presidents that were INFJ's--van Buren and Carter, both poorly performed Presidents I've learned a lot about what NOT to studying them. However, also on the famous people list were Chaucer, Goethe, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and Mel Gibson, a list I'm not ashamed to be a part of.
As with all personality types, there is a lot of literature on the web. Some of the ones I was referred to:
- HumanMetrics' MBTI profile test
- Wikipedia for Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
- Wikipedia of INFJ
- Typelogic's entry of INFJ
- PersonalityPage for INFJ
- PersonalityPage for INFJ relationships
- HumanMetrics vocation page for INFJ
With all the literature now out there on personalities, we should be able to understand ourselves better with out a Herculean effort. In so doing, we should also be able to understand the diversity of personalities God has made and relate better to those around us. I plan to have my wife and my teenagers take the test so I may be better able to relate with them. Isn't that just like an INFJ????
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