MBTI

[da_lj]

I spent 20 minutes earlier this week filling out an online MBTI, and today I went to Career Services on campus to review it with their resident expert, Liz K. (Free for staff; and mah boss has told me it's job-related and I shouldn't count it as personal time. ...But wait till she hears I'm going backIt was an entertaining hour, and I took a few

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[earthling177]

Hey!

I'm one of those people who tests mostly on the cusps too (except for always pegging I instead of E)... anyway, here's a file I keep floating around in my hard drives because I like it so much (so much so that I may already have sent it to you a bunch of times) and because it does tend to make people go "wow, that does describe me even if I don't like it" a lot.

Anyway, just thought it might make you smile/laugh and rile up the MBTI people at the same time, always a plus in my book. (And in case it matters, I seem to be INTJ by the rules below...) ;-)

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From: larry@birdsong.sunnyvale.ca.us (Lawrence T. Hardiman)
Subject: MBTI Prayers (giggle, inside joke on... MBTI)
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[da_lj]

Thanks. You hadn't sent that to me before.

It's impressive the author came up with 16 different (look! a bird!) prayers.

[da_lj]

Neat! Yeah- I'm not sure what Jung & crew had to say about being flexible on the diagnostic, but it's clear that lots of people don't really fit into once nice little box. :)

[alltoocozy]

I've said for 20 years that the MBTI quizzes/tests are only somewhat useful for actually finding your type - if you know yourself pretty well, then the best way to zero in is to actually read the descriptions of each 'letter' as well as the descriptions of the types as a whole. That is, it's not "cheating" to look at the answers and decide which one you "are." Particularly in cases where you have to behave/pass as a type day-to-day.

But then, I may be in that cohort of types who can do that or who like to do that. ;)

[dpolicar]

I pretty consistently test out as an ?NT? with mild IJ tendencies. But I can fake the others when I need to.

[dr_tectonic]

I'm ?N?P, and even the P is kinda squidgy. My answer to a vast array of the questions is "well, it depends"...

[dcseain]

I'm consistently iN?P, though i very rarely come up barely E.

[nobodyhere]

From your last line, I think you should listen to Tim Minchin's lament of the 3 toed sloth (it's on youtube).

Interesting stuff!

[da_lj]

haha, that's a fun lament. :)