MBTI Personality type

This is one of the most popular personality tests that are out there. Each personality type is equal, there is no one that is better than others. One important thing to note is that the only right personality is In 1943 Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers created the famous Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality test.

Inspired by renowned Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, they devised a questionnaire that would help identify a person’s psychological type. The questionnaire gives you four letters that make up your personality.

Learning your MBTI profile is very helpful in understanding yourself, how you deal with others, ideal careers, and your strengths and weaknesses. Some organizations go as far as using the MBTI to assess compatibility with a spouse!

The MBTI sorts people into 16 different personality types broken down by two pairs of cognitive functions.

1. The “Rational” (Judging) Functions: Thinking and Feeling

2. The “Irrational” (Perceiving) Functions: Sensation and Intuition

The cognitive functions are then broken down into 16 different personality types based on how the functions are paired with each other.

1. The Orientation of Your Focus and How You Are Energized: Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I)

2. The Way You Take in Information and What You Pay Attention to: Sensing (S) or Intuition (N)

3. How You Make Decisions and Form Judgments: Thinking (T) or Feeling (F)

4. How You Deal With the World and the Lifestyle You Prefer: Judging (J) or Perceiving (P)

Here are some important points on how to best complete this test:

There is no right answer to any of the questions

Answer the questions quickly, don’t overanalyze, and go with what feels the best

Be honest with yourself and answer the way you truly are, not what you think others see you as

Complete the test before looking at the scoring chart

Remember that no test is fully comprehensive and your personality can change over time.

Feel free to take it periodically! The important thing to glean from the test is to understand and appreciate the differences in people.