Personality Test
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I bounce between ENTJ & ENFJ - thats right I'm not an un-caring robot like the rest of yawl INTJ'ers.
I actually dislike personality tests. Its a nature vs nurture thing, "social norms" and training change how you behave very often. For instance:
-most engineers learn to solve problems like a classic INTJ
-most management consultants learn to solve problems like a classic ENFJ
So even if you are big E ENFJ, if you are an engineer you will have been trained to go sit alone and solve a problem like an INTJ.
There is also a lot of great studies about attitude vs behaviour. Many people act very differently than how they believe they would/should act. My favourite example of this is in Jamaica - they have the highest rate of religiosity (judged by churches per capita) as well as the highest rate of murder.
I actually dislike personality tests. Its a nature vs nurture thing, "social norms" and training change how you behave very often. For instance:
-most engineers learn to solve problems like a classic INTJ
-most management consultants learn to solve problems like a classic ENFJ
So even if you are big E ENFJ, if you are an engineer you will have been trained to go sit alone and solve a problem like an INTJ.
There is also a lot of great studies about attitude vs behaviour. Many people act very differently than how they believe they would/should act. My favourite example of this is in Jamaica - they have the highest rate of religiosity (judged by churches per capita) as well as the highest rate of murder.
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Also INTJ. But I sometimes score as a INTP.
I wonder what we should take away from a personality test. It's interesting, sure. But is it really just pigeonholing? (In which case it gives us a deeper understanding of ourselves.) Or does it tell us what aspects of our personality need work? Or something else?
(I haven't read the book rePete mentioned above.)
I wonder what we should take away from a personality test. It's interesting, sure. But is it really just pigeonholing? (In which case it gives us a deeper understanding of ourselves.) Or does it tell us what aspects of our personality need work? Or something else?
(I haven't read the book rePete mentioned above.)