Myers Briggs Indicator

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The Myers-Briggs personality indicator is used to indicate a person’s preferences based on Carl Jung’s studies. The personality indicator categorizes people into 16 categories using the following parameters, Introversion vs. Extroversion, Intuiting vs. Sensing, Thinking vs. Feeling, and Judging vs. Perceiving. For each of these types, there are careers in which individuals will excel and other careers in which they would miserably fail.

We took our favorite Game of Thrones characters, dead or alive, and assigned them to a Myers-Briggs personality type. From there, we assigned what we felt would be a career in which they would be successful if they were working alongside us. For example, an ISFP would not be a good administrative person

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