Myers-Briggs Types

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I took the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) questionnaire which provides indicators of how people perceive the world, why they do the things they do the way they do and how they make decisions. My results after taking the MBTI came up with the letter representation of ISTJ which the website 16personalities.com coins as “The Logistician”. This places me in the same company with notable people such as Sting, Denzel Washington, Angela Merkel and Natalie Portman. The website also goes on to say how ISTJ types are a no nonsense type people and they rely of facts to support their decisions.
I do believe this personality type does reflect me very well since many of the descriptions are very relevant to me such as having very little tolerance to

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