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alexandral ([personal profile] alexandral) wrote2011-11-03 04:46 pm
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Personality test!!

We had a "team building" event at work, doing Myers-Briggs Personality tests. This was rather interesting and surprising!

My test came as:

ENTP, which stands for:

Extrovert - "I like getting my energy from active involvement in events and having a lot of different activities. I’m excited when I’m around people and I like to energize other people. I like moving into action and making things happen. I generally feel at home in the world. I often understand a problem better when I can talk out loud about it and hear what others have to say.

THIS WAS A SURPRISE (even though I didn't score too high here). I always though of myself as an introvert! And then all my work colleges started saying that I indeed a total extrovert, and I was "OH?? REALLY??" and still not being at all convinced. The trainer, who knows me a bit from the previous courses I had with him also said "Yep. I think you are an extrovert". THIS MADE ME THINK. Learning something new about yourself at my age? Interesting!

Intuitive - Preference for taking in information through a "sixth sense" and noticing what might be (as opposed to concentrating of facts and figures): Ideas, Big picture, Imaginative, Abstract and Theoretical.

Thinking - Preference for organising and structuring information to decide in a logical, objective way (as opposed to a personal, value-based way): Focus on cause and effect, logic, task.

Perceiving - Preference for living a spontaneous and flexible life (as opposed to planned and organised life).

Although I am still not sure about the Extroversion part, the rest is SO ME:

Quick, ingenious, stimulating, alert, and outspoken. Resourceful in solving new and challenging problems. Adept at generating conceptual possibilities and then analyzing them strategically. Good at reading other people. Bored by routine, will seldom do the same thing the same way, apt to turn to one new interest after another.

[identity profile] oresteia.livejournal.com 2011-11-03 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I just think the NT are uh countering of each other. Like I'm totally an I and I'm most definitely a T but the J I'm not sold on and the N- I'm like not totally about at all. The J is really biggest one I go "I don't think I'm really that judgmental".

[identity profile] alexandral.livejournal.com 2011-11-03 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, the way we were explained NT doesn't really counter out each other at all:

N is about the way your tend to think. the example being that N people tend to think in big concepts, not really looking into detail much.

T is about the way you make decisions: Ts are people who often first look for logical decisions (overlooking the people factor) .

And I is not about being "judgemental", it is about being "organised" person. The terminology is confusing, but none the less this is what we were told..

[identity profile] oresteia.livejournal.com 2011-11-03 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
That's the thing there are really different interperations of what they mean. I mean detail-less totally isn't me but I tend to look at the bigger picture than just short term...

[identity profile] alexandral.livejournal.com 2011-11-03 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I dunno, I had a look today at some MBTI websites and the explanations seemed to be quite similar (in different words?). I am so geeky - yes, I totally did some research. :D

[identity profile] oresteia.livejournal.com 2011-11-03 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know, maybe I just don't understand it but when I read them, I get different things from various websites. I mean I don't remember the one I took at school or at work but they were same test so they probably had the same results.

But like when I browse for stuff I get different idea based on the same concept. The cycnicst in me though could reason it's because I never see things one way.

[identity profile] alexandral.livejournal.com 2011-11-03 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Lol, I think this is my "big concepts" thing is talking because for me they all talk about the same thing, sometimes writing paragraphs about something that can be conveyed in two words. But nonetheless, the main idea seems to be the same?