We’ve all taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality profiling test. (If you haven’t, check it out here or take a Free Personality Test here: 16 Personalities): The letters stand for:
- The first letter is “I” or “E”: “Introversion” or “Extraversion”.
- The second letter “S” or “N”: “Sensing” or “Intuition”.
- The third letter “T” or “F”: “Thinking” or “Feeling”.
- The fourth letter “J” or “P”: “Judging or “Perceiving”.
MBTI has nailed my personality profile and does so again below in how I react in stressful situations:
INFP: diligently ignores problem until it’s too big to manage
ESTJ: ‘exactly as i say, or else’
ISFP: lists and lists and lists and lists…
ESFJ: vocalizes everything they’re doing
ISFJ: ♫ move b*tch, get out the way ♫
ENTP: too interested by the options to do anything
ISTJ: cool headed, but harsh like ice
ENFP: heart rate over 9000
INTP: never does anything despite completely understanding the problem
ENTJ: step aside or get crushed underfoot
ISTP: nothing like a full-blown crisis to get back into the zone
ENFJ: assumes responsibility and approaches with logic
INFJ: adrenaline rush or complete paralysis
ESTP: acts first, figures out later
INTJ: devises a universal system to resolve the problem for all time
ESFP: needs space to figure things out
Source: Sixteentypes. Image – Meyersbriggs.org
Live & Learn 
I took this test years ago and I got ENFP, it’s a basic model to a million different ways to understand ourselves, which I believe takes a lifetime ha! Not long now.
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and, it’s figured me out before I’ve done so myself…
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You might want to look into getting help for that heart rate when it goes over 9000! 😄😄
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Come on Karen, you know that taking your pulse rate up is good for your health!
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You will enjoy this Karen:
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ENFJ, David… 😉
I remember taking this personality test some time back. Thought I’d re-take it, and yep; same result (haven’t changed)! Though I’ve always considered myself slightly introverted, others see me as somewhat extroverted… Guess the test tells it all. 😉
So tell me – What are you? 🙂
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Smiling. Not surprised you are a “E” Carolyn. Not surprised.
I’m squarely a ISFJ.
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Cool headed – I can agree to that.. 😉
But harsh like ice – Never could I agree to that part, David; you sweetie, you! 🙂
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Laughing. Jekyl and…
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Panic Panic Panic 🙂
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Laughing. That’s one approach to manage stress Nia.
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actually you should ask my love 🙂 He is my coach to manage stress!
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You strike me as a Zen-Queen.
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Me 🙂 he he he… you made me laugh now. Thank you dear David,
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It’s gonna take more than four letters to explain you, pal….😉
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LAUGHING! True.
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Imagine? ESFJ. Spot on. Scary.
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“Wow, Lori’s an ENFP–what a surprise!” Said no one ever….
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I refuse to be labeled.
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And take that!
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Ah, the Myers-Briggs; I’m an INFJ and have been for a long time. Interestingly enough David, no one EVER sees me as an introvert! The description for INFJ above is bang-on for me! Fight or freeze, what will it be? 🙂 Cher xo
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Cher, same here on disbelief that I am an “I”… As to fight or freeze, FIGHT ON.
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Hear hear!!! 😉
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My true type is a TGIF David.
According to Myers-Briggs though, I am an INTJ, but only if they’ll have me while allowing me to reserve the right to cross over to other types from time to time.
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TGIF type. LOVE THAT. Yes, of course, temporary cross-over is permitted. But we all revert to form…
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Debra, check this out:
Aligns with your thinking…
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I am an INFP and “diligently ignores problem until it’s too big to manage” sums it up pretty accurately!
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Laughing. And you left us hanging. What happens after it is too big to manage?
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I’m not sure, I’m still diligently ignoring! 🙂
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Laughing. Good! And look at you, so at Peace with it. You are a Zen-Master amid the Chaos!
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INTJ. Shocking, I know.
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Laughing. No. Not shocking. Not even a ripple of surprise.
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I took this test years ago, and then more recently where I’d moved to the middle of all the indicators. Life experience, man, it warps a person.
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You moved! Wow. That’s rare. And must mean you incredible discipline and willpower.
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infp.
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You? An “I”. Really? The rest I get. But an “I”? Wow?
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absolutely.
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Have taken the test many times (and guilty of teaching MB as well in my silly years of youth), but can’t change the results: ENFP. Heart rate steady 68. I have worked with INTJs almost my whole career. That’s been interesting.
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I see you an ENFP. Makes sense. And also not surprised in your field that you have worked with many “T” and “J”s.
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Thought you would find this interesting Helen:
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The Book “Me, Myself and Us” is definitely interesting. I could not read the review because for personal reasons I’m not subscribing to WSJ (a long story), but I own and have read the book she’s reviewing. And I like it. MBTI is “more for fun”, the test is enjoyable to take and popular (estimated 2.5 m people take it annually), simple and easy, nice to use in team building exercises, which I did when I was young and beautiful. And the results do not offend anyone – there are no “bad” personality profiles. It’s not scientifically reliable as it doesn’t have an extensive research base, but it has some validity. I have probably been the exception as my ENFP has not changed in multiple tests – but then, I have not taken one as the middle aged, wise woman I am now 😀
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Thanks for the color Helen. He does mention that the results don’t offend anyone in this passage:
“I was delighted, therefore, to see Mr. Little take down the Myers-Briggs with gusto and clarity, while being sympathetic to the reasons for its popularity. (Myers-Briggs results, like astrological charts, make people feel their flattering profile captures them exactly, even when it is the exact same profile given to a few million others. And the profiles never tell people that they are gullible, cowardly or narcissistic.) “
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That’s so true…all profiles are equally “admirable” and people can be proud of their profile. Little has lots of funny examples of that, and I have seen a few too.
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uh-oh.. that heart rate…
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