As children, we are told we are unique and special. When we grow up, we can be what ever we want to be. (Grammar? Sentence arrangement?) As high schoolers, being ourselves isn’t cool, and that we should just be ‘normal’. We are told we will never be good enough to be the next astronaut, Steve Jobs or major league baseball player. As college students, we are suddenly expected to know exactly what major we’ll choose, what job we are going to have and what life we are going to live. At this point we can be so disoriented, we don’t even know who we are, much less what we want to do with our lives. Essentially, every entangled little piece of what comes next for us condenses down to one single thing: personality.
The Myers Briggs personality test …show more content…
These, of course, are used to describe how someone interacts with others around them. However, these two expressions do not describe the entire character and personality of any given individual. In fact, the introvert/extrovert description is merely 1/4th of the picture in the Myers Briggs Personality Test. This assessment focuses on ways the participant behaves in every day life. The individual’s responses are analyzed based on four different categories. The first, as already mentioned, is whether the individual is extroverted or introverted (E or I). The second category is based on the individual’s way of obtaining information, whether through sensing or intuition (S or N). The third examines if the individual makes decisions through thinking or through feeling (T or F). The last category is judging verses perceiving (J or P), where the individual’s lifestyle is either organized or flexible (Mitchell, 1996). The participant is then given one of sixteen personality ‘types’. This is a combination of four different letters, where each letter represents a trait from each of the four categories above. For example, the famous singer Elvis Presley is considered an ESFP. Each personality type interacts with other personalities in different ways, and knowing how we get along with others is an important part of succeeding in
The Myers Briggs personality test …show more content…
These, of course, are used to describe how someone interacts with others around them. However, these two expressions do not describe the entire character and personality of any given individual. In fact, the introvert/extrovert description is merely 1/4th of the picture in the Myers Briggs Personality Test. This assessment focuses on ways the participant behaves in every day life. The individual’s responses are analyzed based on four different categories. The first, as already mentioned, is whether the individual is extroverted or introverted (E or I). The second category is based on the individual’s way of obtaining information, whether through sensing or intuition (S or N). The third examines if the individual makes decisions through thinking or through feeling (T or F). The last category is judging verses perceiving (J or P), where the individual’s lifestyle is either organized or flexible (Mitchell, 1996). The participant is then given one of sixteen personality ‘types’. This is a combination of four different letters, where each letter represents a trait from each of the four categories above. For example, the famous singer Elvis Presley is considered an ESFP. Each personality type interacts with other personalities in different ways, and knowing how we get along with others is an important part of succeeding in