Sunday, October 19, 2008

what type are you? it's more than left brain/right brain...


so a few weeks back the other half came home with this personality test he had to take for work. this threw me a bit as i wondered the purpose of the test...to really understand the company's employees??? to determine how "crazy" one is??? to determine if the employee is in the right field??? who knows. he took the test, as required, and sent in the results. then on friday he went to a conference to discuss the results of the test, what it all means. i am still a bit confused as to the purpose of all of this. anyway, according to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test, he is an INFJ or Introverted-Intuitve-Feeling-Judging type. then he came home and was eager for me to take this test (i was a bit interested, but other things have taken precedence these days over understanding what type of person i already know i am). but i took the test anyway. i am an ESFJ or Extraverted-Sensing-Feeling-Judging type. what does this all mean to you? in a nutshell, the other half looks inward for answers and uses intuition to help make decisions while i am a tactile person and use the outside world to make decisions. this left me with, "well, okay. so which is better?" that's me. the answer-seeking competitor who quickly became frustrated with the plethora of information to disseminate and now just wants the other half to explain what it all means. you, on the otherhand, might be interested for other reasons...of course based on your type. i am sure this has left you with wanting to figure out that type, even though you already know. go on. take a similar version for yourself for free at: www.humanmetrics.com and click on jung typology test.

1 comment:

Bruce Anderson said...

glad you are back and hopefully feeling better...i have no desire to take the test, i know that i'm an judging person, and extravert and probably other things that i have no interest in knowing and i know bruce is totally opposite, but let me tell you that after 12 years together opposites do attract, we so compliment each other in every way. kind of like you and K.