MBTI Myths « INTJ Information It’s not a “Test” The MBTI is not a test — it’s not measuring anything — it’s an “Indicator” (hence the “I” at the end). It indicates which of the Jungian cognitive processes we prefer. It’s like determining whether someone is left- or right-handed. It’s not a “Model” Sometimes people talk about the MBTI as though it were a personality model or a theory in itself. The 4-letter codes are meaningless Well, maybe that’s a bit strong, but it is true to say that Isabel Briggs Myers developed her 4-letter code as a shorthand way of identifying which of Jung’s 8 cognitive processes were preferred. Unfortunately, over the years, many have latched onto those 4 letters as having a “life of their own” and have gone to the trouble of (erroneously) developing descriptions for each. The Myers Briggs Foundation and the Association for Psychological Type (APT) are trying to rectify this situation, but the weight of past literature is against them. The scores are not strengths
Myers Briggs Personality Types Personality Types: Development & Myers-Briggs MBTI theory The Faces of Personality Type Development By Ross Reinhold, INTJ This article is an introduction to a system for understanding the dynamics of personal growth and personality development, using the language and concepts developed by Carl Jung, Isabel Myers, Katharine Briggs and the personality system that has developed around the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)*. The Faces model is based on the theory of eight mental functions, developed by John Beebe, Harold Grant and other Jungian theorists. Readers unfamiliar with this theory can obtain an introduction by reading the Ken Green article in the "Best of the Bulletin of Psychological Type" (Volume 1, Chapter 2). The Appendix at the end of this article also will be helpful. Two-Faces The idea of a duality in character or personality is not new in psychology, literature, nor our everyday relationships with people. The diagrams below illustrates this pattern for ENFP. MBTI Articles
Myers-Briggs Typology System What is the Myers-Briggs System? [back to the top] The Myers-Briggs system is a personality system developed by a mother and daughter team, Katharine Briggs and Isabel Myers, to help us better understand our innate personality differences. It is an adaptation of the psychological typology of the famous Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung. There are three terms that you will need to become familiar with in this system if you want to understand it better. Myers-Briggs lists four pairs of opposite preferences. (1) Extraverting (E) versus Introverting (I) Where we prefer to focus our attention and what energizes us (2) Sensing (S) versus iNtuiting (N) How we prefer to take in information (3) Thinking (T) versus Feeling (F) How we evaluate information and make decisions (4) Judging (J) versus Perceiving (P) What lifestyle we prefer Click on List of Keywords for Each Preference if you want to understand what each of these preferences means. What is MY Myers-Briggs Type? There are no right or wrong answers.
Keirsey Temperament Sorter Heading text[edit] The Keirsey Temperament Sorter (KTS) is a self-assessed personality questionnaire designed to help people better understand themselves and others. It was first introduced in the book Please Understand Me. It is one of the most widely used personality assessments in the world, and its user base consists of major employers including Bank of America, Allstate, the U.S. Air Force, IBM, 7-Eleven, Safeco, AT&T, and Coca-Cola.[1] The KTS is closely associated with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI); however, there are significant practical and theoretical differences between the two personality questionnaires and their associated different descriptions. Four temperaments[edit] David Keirsey expanded on the ancient study of temperament by Hippocrates and Plato. Artisans are concrete and adaptable. Guardians are concrete and organized. Idealists are abstract and compassionate. Rationals are abstract and objective. Understanding the sorter descriptions[edit] See also[edit]
Neuro-linguistic programming Not to be confused with Natural language processing (also NLP) Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is an approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in California, United States in the 1970s. Its creators claim a connection between the neurological processes ("neuro"), language ("linguistic") and behavioral patterns learned through experience ("programming") and that these can be changed to achieve specific goals in life.[1][2] Bandler and Grinder claim that the skills of exceptional people can be "modeled" using NLP methodology, then those skills can be acquired by anyone.[3][4][5][6][7] Bandler and Grinder also claim that NLP can treat problems such as phobias, depression, habit disorder, psychosomatic illnesses, myopia,[8] allergy, common cold,[9] and learning disorders, often in a single session.[10][11][12][13] NLP has been adopted by some hypnotherapists and in seminars marketed to business and government.[14][15]
U.S. Intelligence Unit Aims to Build a ‘Data Eye in the Sky’ Now social scientists are trying to mine the vast resources of the Internet — Web searches and Twitter messages, Facebook and blog posts, the digital location trails generated by billions of cellphones — to do the same thing. The most optimistic researchers believe that these storehouses of “big data” will for the first time reveal sociological laws of human behavior — enabling them to predict political crises, revolutions and other forms of social and economic instability, just as physicists and chemists can predict natural phenomena. “This is a significant step forward,” said Thomas Malone, the director of the Center for Collective Intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The government is showing interest in the idea. The automated data collection system is to focus on patterns of communication, consumption and movement of populations. “I have Total Information Awareness flashbacks when things like this happen,” said David Price, an anthropologist at St.
New York cop at gunpoint is saved by his own finger The suspect's gun was right up against the New York policeman's belly when the officer wedged his ring finger between the hammer and the cylinder. Sgt. Michael Miller and his partner had pulled over a speeding car in Bedford-Stuyvesant this past weekend when the driver ran away. But the NYPD officers reportedly noticed a man in the back seat adjusting his waistband and were attempting to handcuff him when he whipped out a gun. That's when Miller stuck his finger in the .38 caliber revolver. The man pulled the trigger several times to no use -- the officer's finger jammed the gun. "The fight had gone on for too long," Miller told the Associated Press. Miller wrested away the weapon just as two backup officers arrived. The close call left Miller in shock -- and with a crushed bone in his finger tip. Texas driving its cattle north amid drought Obama's jobs council includes job-cutting executives Herman Cain steps up attack on Occupy Wall Street protest -- Geraldine Baum in New York
Jesse James: The Confederate Guerilla Jesse James, one of the most violent outlaws of the wild west, got his first taste for violence as a Confederate guerrilla during the Civil War. Although he came to be known as one of the most dangerous bandits of the west, James started out his life as a religious, peaceful farm boy who seemed destined for a career as a minister, like his father Robert, who died in California while preaching to gold miners. Those plans changed when the Civil War broke out in 1861 and brought chaos to his sleepy hometown of Kearney, Missouri. As slave owners with six slaves working on the family hemp farm, the James family sympathized with the Confederate cause. Born in 1847, Jesse was too young to join the army and begrudgingly stayed behind as he watched his older brother Frank leave home and join a group of Confederate guerillas. The war soon came home to Jesse when his brother's activities in the gang led the Union army to the James farm. Sources: "Jesse James Was His Name"; William A Settle
Outer Space Exposure In scores of science fiction stories, hapless adventurers find themselves unwittingly introduced to the vacuum of space without proper protection. There is often an alarming cacophony of screams and gasps as the increasingly bloated humans writhe and spasm. Their exposed veins and eyeballs soon bulge in what is clearly a disagreeable manner. The ill-fated adventurers rapidly swell like over-inflated balloons, ultimately bursting in a gruesome spray of blood. As is true with many subjects, this representation in popular culture does not reflect the reality of exposure to outer space. Using the data from these experiments and their knowledge of outer space, scientists were able to make some reasonable conclusions about how the human body would respond to sudden depressurization. A Soviet Soyuz spacecraft In 1971, three Russian cosmonauts aboard an early Soyuz spacecraft tragically experienced the vacuum of space first-hand, as described in the Almanac of Soviet Manned Space Flight: