In 1943 mother and daughter duo, Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers developed the first edition of what is now known as the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (“A Mini-History” 1). More than seventy years later this test is still used in numerous high schools, universities, and workplaces across the world. Personalities are based on “four separate dichotomies” (“A Mini-History” 1) assessing where one’s energy is directed, how one processes information, how one evaluates information, and how we display ourselves to the world around us. Upon taking this test I have been categorized as an ENTJ, or “The Commander” (16 Personalities). As an ENTJ I express my energy towards the world around me. I also tend to focus on the meanings of facts/events
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Over the last eighteen years I have learned to develop the skills associated with my personality, skills that will propel me into the world of nursing and give me an edge that can only be possessed by an ENTJ.
Throughout high school I was always known to be one of the “smart kids”, but I never truly excelled in a class as I did in Anatomy and Physiology (A&P) my junior year. Anatomy and Physiology is the study of the structure and function of the human body parts. Although it was unknown to me at the time many aspects of this class aligned perfectly with my learning style. ENTJs typically prefer a learning environment that is well organized, a topic that is analytical, and something that doesn’t have to be …show more content…
By comprising only 0.9% of the population female ENTJs are exceptionally rare, so growing up with my personality was a fairly daunting challenge (“How” 1). Although it is 2016, many in the general vicinity of Western Pennsylvania still believe that females should not be goal oriented, determined students/employees, but that they should settle for a life of cooking and cleaning. Due to the ambition that defines ENTJs I never fit well into the aforementioned role of a perfect Western Pennsylvanian wife. I grew up determined to be the absolute best I can possibly become, I am extremely critical on myself and have pushed myself to overcome numerous challenges in my path. These attributes of my personality have taught me that I can do most anything that I set my mind to, but they also reminded me that I have limits and that I cannot hold other people to the same standard to which I hold myself.
As “commander[s]” ENTJs become leaders in their workplaces, communities, and sometimes even on the world platform (16 Personalities). By having the traits of an ENTJ I too am equipped with the determination, self-discipline, and work ethic it takes to become a great figure in my own community. In the words of my fellow ENTJ Margaret Thatcher, “if you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing” (“Margaret”
Over the last eighteen years I have learned to develop the skills associated with my personality, skills that will propel me into the world of nursing and give me an edge that can only be possessed by an ENTJ.
Throughout high school I was always known to be one of the “smart kids”, but I never truly excelled in a class as I did in Anatomy and Physiology (A&P) my junior year. Anatomy and Physiology is the study of the structure and function of the human body parts. Although it was unknown to me at the time many aspects of this class aligned perfectly with my learning style. ENTJs typically prefer a learning environment that is well organized, a topic that is analytical, and something that doesn’t have to be …show more content…
By comprising only 0.9% of the population female ENTJs are exceptionally rare, so growing up with my personality was a fairly daunting challenge (“How” 1). Although it is 2016, many in the general vicinity of Western Pennsylvania still believe that females should not be goal oriented, determined students/employees, but that they should settle for a life of cooking and cleaning. Due to the ambition that defines ENTJs I never fit well into the aforementioned role of a perfect Western Pennsylvanian wife. I grew up determined to be the absolute best I can possibly become, I am extremely critical on myself and have pushed myself to overcome numerous challenges in my path. These attributes of my personality have taught me that I can do most anything that I set my mind to, but they also reminded me that I have limits and that I cannot hold other people to the same standard to which I hold myself.
As “commander[s]” ENTJs become leaders in their workplaces, communities, and sometimes even on the world platform (16 Personalities). By having the traits of an ENTJ I too am equipped with the determination, self-discipline, and work ethic it takes to become a great figure in my own community. In the words of my fellow ENTJ Margaret Thatcher, “if you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing” (“Margaret”