| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 2/23/2006 3:24:56 AM | Your Type is
ENFJ
Extroverted Intuitive Feeling Judging
Strength of the preferences %
67 75 62 1
Qualitative analysis of your type formula
You are:
distinctively expressed extrovert 67%
distinctively expressed intuitive personality 75%
distinctively expressed feeling personality 62%
slightly expressed judging personality 1%
 
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 2/23/2006 6:04:03 AM |
When I was reading both personality tests ESFJ and ENFJ'S are kissing cousins.
So they are all from West Virginia? 
OT: I've seen a few dissenters on this topic. And that's understandable. As someone who doesn't really like to be labled, I can understand where you are coming from. But the best kind of M-B test to take is one that also shows what percentage of each letter type you are. For instance, you may be an ENTJ, but that J could be 52% vs. 48% P. These tests are not a blanket result that cover exactly who you are, but they will tell you some things about yourself. I have used it to help me grow as an individual.
I think it would be neat to find out what personality type would be least likely to accept the test results. | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 2/23/2006 6:24:56 AM | INTJ, famous for being pains in the ***, though I'm finding that I've mellowed over the years.
I was married for 14 years to an NF (intuitive feeler, feelings on their sleeves). I'm ready to try it with a thinker now.
Also, I consistently come out as 100% introverted on the test. Seems to be a bit much for a lot of people to deal with :-). | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 2/23/2006 6:33:01 AM | The problem is, when you put two ENTJs in a relationship, one of them must go against their nature in order for compromise to take place.
I appreciate the insight. However, I had no less problems with an NF. I was constantly being told that I didn't care. I did care. She just never really got it that my feelings weren't transparent. I could tell here I cared all I wanted, but she seemed to need the visual cues.
As an aside . . . I tried coding your quote for highlighting. In spite of what I read in the forums, it's not working for me. | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 2/23/2006 9:12:22 AM |
Great. So I'm a sensitive, yet helpful perfectionist who must avoid painful feelings to be happy? Gee, no test was needed here.
...but how do you avoid "painful feelings"?
(Seems like I find 'em wherever I look   ) | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 2/23/2006 9:23:18 AM |
The only thing I am absolutely certain of is the IN. It causes problems in relationships unless they understand a lot about introversion. I typically go into overload and withdraw to "process" and rebuild my energies. Overload can come on quickly in the throes of having a wonderful time and I feel myself getting more and more tired. It confuses some because they start calling the next day wanting to continue all the interesting discussion, etc. and I just want to be left alone for a few days.
Yeah, exactly. I used to feel equally drained after teaching a good class or a bad class, i.e., ones that went well or not so well. It's just the one was a "good" drain and the other was a "bad" drain.
and there goes another potential great relationship simply because time was not taken to understand the differences in this very important personality type.
My question is, how can you surreptitiously administer the 100 question or so M-B test on people you might be interested in?
Personally I sometimes wonder if any extrovert can ever really understand an introvert, while most introverts I know accept and understand the extrovert quite well and we actually LOVE being around extroverts. We just have to have that time alone to process and reenergize.
I love being around introverts the most, I think. But then again, I'm so bad sometimes I can honestly be fooled which are which quite easily. Does that seem true to you, too? | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 2/23/2006 9:41:45 AM |
Personally I sometimes wonder if any extrovert can ever really understand an introvert, while most introverts I know accept and understand the extrovert quite well and we actually LOVE being around extroverts. We just have to have that time alone to process and reenergize.
I am not the biggest fan of introverts. And introverts are not the biggest fan of me and I know that's because I will make them leave their element and do things they are not entirely comfortable with. There's a drive inside me to get everyone at a party involved with the fun. Introverts generally want to be left alone. | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 2/23/2006 2:19:05 PM | | INFP Maybe since that a mere percentage of people have this particular group of traits is why I can't find a date? LOL. Guess the introvert part may put the kibosh on that-who knows. I have only gotten 3 replies and one was to tell me how ugly and BIG I am! Glad I am not paying for this membership! | |
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Posted: 2/23/2006 7:20:23 PM | so if you consider yourself to be witty (fast repartee)...what type is that? thinking? intuitive? extroverted? judging? what? please try to narrow it down to one facet, thanks.
i don't consider myself to be "witty" (think gerbil wheels instead; i like to perculate thoughts)...so are you saying i'm introverted? why then are my social skills learnt at the "bar scene"?
The thing i disliked about the "extrovert/introvert" bias in the myers-briggs typology was the constant and overbearing emphasis on PARTYING versus not. it seemed shallow no matter how many descriptions you read or how many tests one reverse engineered.
as for the argument about the "simple" test not being as complex and deep as the "long test", i'd just like to point out that's a bit of a non sequitar, since any test will reflect the biases of a larger one and visa versa. unless, of course, the "free" version is some stymied demo that has less of the features of the "long test" (i find that ludicruous and facile)
Besides, it's obvious the test and results cannot help but be shallow and point out the basic poppsychology these two women shoe horned into Jung's types. | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 2/24/2006 6:34:28 PM |
you can not sleep for hours and hours until you process all the sensory information you took in for the evening
true, but...then I pass out from all the other stimulants I have had...
Tell the truth INFPs:
DON'T YOU JUST JUST FEEL THE WORLD IS NOT MADE FOR YOU, BUT YOU HAVE TO FIGURE OUT SOME BACKDOOR WAY TO LIVE LIFE ANYWAY???? | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 2/24/2006 8:32:28 PM | | Hey ENFP! I'm an actor though so go figure ....lol I'm on a quest to entertain the world but my test results are all barely over the line to the side I get so I'm also up to helping with that world domination thing too...but I request that we use the top 100 things to do if I was an evil overlord as a guide so we don't fail like Vader...Hitler, Napolean...you get the idea....lol | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 2/25/2006 3:04:51 PM |
LJT, I do sometimes seem to have a problem recognizing introverted S's. I rarely have a problem with introverted N's. Just had this happen recently after I had to withdraw to "process" for a few days. This person started asking what was wrong. NOTHING was wrong...I just had to have some alone time. This person turns out to be an IS. The "IS" types are the ones that usually throw me,particularly SJ's. Despite this short test showing me 1% into J, I only have a few J traits. most of us have a few overlap traits. I think that is why some refuse to believe the usefulness of these tests. Of course, you can not base life or death decisions on them, but they are helpful despite what some may think. I have studied this stuff for so many years i see clearly its benefit.
JMelton, I recently have had an experience of a person asking what was wrong, and it spiraled into a core meltdown. Unfortunately, the person doing the asking was me. I'd always rather assumed she was engaged in "interior matters" --worries, anxieties, plans, private thoughts on some other wavelength entirely, but it seems at least as likely that I simply provoked her into the thing I feared by pressing her for greater intimacy. I'd love to get her to test, so I can "process" her reactions by Myers-Briggs. (I would guess she's INSP, I know, a very rare type. But she's not very ARTICULATE about her real time feelings, as I am not, either, but has amazing intutition and sensing capacities that I just love about her.)
Also, are INFPs typically as insecure as I am? (I won't say "emotionally moronic," although it takes an effort not to). You know, constantly needing to know whether the relationship is gaining or losing value on the stock exchange, ready for a cashing in or doubling down? And I don't know why I'm going for the investment metaphors all of a sudden.
And how in the heck did you learn so much about personality types, again? And have you really found behaviors so characterizable, if not predictable? As I've written, I know I'm INFP because it just so exactly encapsulates my patterns and because the test keeps coming up the same.Did you get many others to take the MB, etc., and then get to know them well enough to correlate behaviors with types?
Finally, do you often get called upon to be the Miss Lonelyhearts of Plenty of Fish?
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Posted: 2/26/2006 1:53:13 AM | | Im an ENFJ and one of my closest guy friends is an ISFJ . We scored exactly the same on the feeling portion of the test:)62% Are we compatible as far as the test results are concerned?We seem to have an uber amount of things in common in reference to our sense of humours, personalities and the way we handle life issues/relationships ...Is Anyone willing to give my lil question a go?Thanks kids,Kat | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 2/26/2006 11:08:52 AM | Hey guys,
This personality test has been found to not be reliable, in that people taking the test twice have been 'assigned' different personality types each time as a result.
My suggestion: don't depend on a test to know if you should be with a person or not! Let it come from the heart. | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 2/26/2006 11:38:41 AM | | Smartsalsa, you are right when saying not to depend on a test. Still some of the tests might be useful: you can start a conversation with yourself, take a step backward and ask whether there is something I could change e.g. in my attitude. - Like some things have been tried to explain with our genes and enviroment which both obviously have some influence but in the last analysis is our own will which makes things to go towards a certain direction. | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 2/26/2006 12:21:39 PM | | jmelton, let the rules be :p Just one comment: how people behave does not tell whether they are introverts or extroverts. Relevant is how they feel: an introvert loses energy when dealing with other people, an extrovert is gaining energy from interaction with others. | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 2/26/2006 1:18:40 PM |  INTJ, which means I know everything about everything except girls :
Personal relationships, particularly romantic ones, can be the INTJ's Achilles heel. While they are capable of caring deeply for others (usually a select few), and are willing to spend a great deal of time and effort on a relationship, the knowledge and self-confidence that make them so successful in other areas can suddenly abandon or mislead them in interpersonal situations.
This happens in part because many INTJs do not readily grasp the social rituals; for instance, they tend to have little patience and less understanding of such things as small talk and flirtation (which most types consider half the fun of a relationship). To complicate matters, INTJs are usually extremely private people, and can often be naturally impassive as well, which makes them easy to misread and misunderstand. Perhaps the most fundamental problem, however, is that INTJs really want people to make sense. :-) This sometimes results in a peculiar naivete', paralleling that of many Fs -- only instead of expecting inexhaustible affection and empathy from a romantic relationship, the INTJ will expect inexhaustible reasonability and directness.
Probably the strongest INTJ assets in the interpersonal area are their intuitive abilities and their willingness to "work at" a relationship. Although as Ts they do not always have the kind of natural empathy that many Fs do, the Intuitive function can often act as a good substitute by synthesizing the probable meanings behind such things as tone of voice, turn of phrase, and facial expression. This ability can then be honed and directed by consistent, repeated efforts to understand and support those they care about, and those relationships which ultimately do become established with an INTJ tend to be characterized by their robustness, stability, and good communications.
Source: http://typelogic.com/intj.html | |
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| Myers-Briggs Personality type...if you know it?
Posted: 4/27/2006 1:46:57 PM | ENFJ
Extroverted Intuitive Feeling Judging
Strength of the preferences %
33 44 6 22
The Portrait of the Teacher Idealist (eNFj)
The Idealists called Teachers are abstract in their thought and speech, cooperative in their style of achieving goals, and directive and extraverted in their interpersonal relations. Learning in the young has to be beckoned forth, teased out from its hiding place, or, as suggested by the word "education," it has to be "educed." by an individual with educative capabilities. Such a one is the eNFj, thus rightly called the educative mentor or Teacher for short. The Teacher is especially capable of educing or calling forth those inner potentials each learner possesses. Even as children the Teachers may attract a gathering of other children ready to follow their lead in play or work. And they lead without seeming to do so.
Teachers expect the very best of those around them, and this expectation, usually expressed as enthusiastic encouragement, motivates action in others and the desire to live up to their expectations. Teachers have the charming characteristic of taking for granted that their expectations will be met, their implicit commands obeyed, never doubting that people will want to do what they suggest. And, more often than not, people do, because this type has extraordinary charisma.
The Teachers are found in no more than 2 or 3 percent of the population. They like to have things settled and arranged. They prefer to plan both work and social engagements ahead of time and tend to be absolutely reliable in honoring these commitments. At the same time, Teachers are very much at home in complex situations which require the juggling of much data with little pre-planning. An experienced Teacher group leader can dream up, effortlessly, and almost endlessly, activities for groups to engage in, and stimulating roles for members of the group to play. In some Teachers, inspired by the responsiveness of their students or followers, this can amount to genius which other types find hard to emulate. Such ability to preside without planning reminds us somewhat of an Provider, but the latter acts more as a master of ceremonies than as a leader of groups. Providers are natural hosts and hostesses, making sure that each guest is well looked after at social gatherings, or that the right things are expressed on traditional occasions, such as weddings, funerals, graduations, and the like. In much the same way, Teachers value harmonious human relations about all else, can handle people with charm and concern, and are usually popular wherever they are. But Teachers are not so much social as educational leaders, interested primarily in the personal growth and development of others, and less in attending to their social needs. | |
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Posted: 5/7/2006 10:05:00 PM | ENTP, nice to see few other ENTps on here. According to socionics theory ISFp is supposed to be my dual. I can't find one though. They are supposed to be far more common than my personality type but I don't know where they are all hiding. It looks as though they don't have much of an interest in the internet though because I've rarely seen anyone typed an ISFp. Even if I did meet one I would unlikely jump at the opportunity simply because they had an ISFp personality type.
For the record, MBTI and Socionics helped me come to terms a bit with who I am. Being a female NT of any type is hard and it offered me a bit of explanation so I stopped blaming myself for being so different and recognizing the positive traits I have that many just can't see or understand. | |
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