Myers-Briggs....erm.....who??

Hands up if you've ever heard of Myers-Briggs? No? Well, until relatively recently, neither had I!

In the depths of my memory I seem to remember being interviewed for a job and the stern faced interviewer, who reminded me a lot of Evil Edna from willow the whisp....(same screechy voice and oddly square head) asked me to sit for half an hour and complete a "Psychometric Test".
Hang on....what was this!? I was being interviewed for a junior position in an Estate Agency, not a job as a Rocket Scientist, or an MI5 secret agent!
So I filled in the form and at the end, had to wait while they gave me a score and informed me, there and then, that I could have a job at their office.

For years, I thought no more of it, until a lovely colleague of mine Kathryn Evans (from Crimson Chrysalis Hypnotherapy down in Canterbury) suddenly informed me, quite out of the blue, that she thought I was almost certainly an ENFJ.
I looked blankly at her. A what?? An ENF what?!

Now, being the self professed expert on Personality Typing that she is, Kathryn eagerly went on to explain The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment and explained that it is a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological differences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. It seemed that Kath had ignited something within me; a curiosity about personality testing! I was absolutely fascinated how she could look at someone for less than half an hour and predict exactly what kind of personality they had! It was almost like magic!! Like she was psychic!

It was then that I realised that I absolutely needed to find out more about Carl Jung and his personality theories!

Carl Gustav Jung  was a Swiss psychiatrist by the way, he is worth looking up on google for those of you who are interested in finding out more about the theories behind the tests!

Broken down into different parts, everybody has a dominant four elements from the following list:

Dichotomies
Extraversion (E) -	(I) Introversion
Sensing (S) -	(N) Intuition
Thinking (T) -	(F) Feeling
Judgement (J) -	(P) Perception

Some of the elements are more dominant than others, and we are all either in the extrovert category, or the introvert category.

So, for example, I am an ENFJ - so I am Extrovert, Intuitive, work on Feelings, and Judgement.
Another colleague of mine is an ISTP - she is Introvert, works with her Senses, Thinking and Perception.

It's a little long winded for me to go into fully in a blog, but if, like I was, you're interested in taking a test to see what kind of personality you are, then the following links should interest you!

Humanmetrics - Jung Typology Test™

or

Cognitive Quiz

You can then find out how that correlates to your own personality by visiting this site:

4 Temperaments - understanding your personality

Once you have your four letters, have a look on the right hand side of the site above and find those letters on the list. it'll then give you an often spookily accurate synopsis of your personality! Facinating and fun! Give it a go, i'd be very pleased to hear what some of you think. Remember, you are more than welcome to comment!

Happy Psychometric Testing! :-)

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