The Personality

As a career counselor, one of the things that you try to help students with is trying to figure out who they are as people so that they can better figure out where they would be happiest working. I was reminded of this in class today and my colleague interpreted the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator for my class, who just took the MBTI online. The test, for those who don't know it, asks you a series of questions that sort your personality type into a particular category. People can be divided into one of 16 categories.

I am an INFJ. I took the MBTI when I started working as a career counselor and the more I look into this personality type, the more I know that I KNEW before I took it what I was.

I am an (I)ntrovert, I(N)tuitive, solve problems with (F)eeling, and organize things by (J)udging (but not in a bad way).

What does this mean? I Googled this personality type this morning, just to remind myself why I view the world the way I do, and came to this website:

http://www.personalitypage.com/INFJ.html

Turns out, I am less that 1% of the population. Hurrah? At least I now realize that those gut feelings I have all the time that usually get laughed at by one person or another, I need to start listening to those. Plus, I am apparently ALWAYS right. So there. HA.

I recommend taking the MBTI to anyone. Even if you think you know yourself, at least you can see on paper an explanation of how you move through the world. It helps to have something like that in black and white.