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Understanding the Myers-Brigg Personality Type indicator:
I take the following information straight from my sister’s web-site, www.kittco.net. This is just an overview. I will add more info as I can.
MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR
This personality-assessment tool was developed by Isabel Myers and her mother, Katharine Briggs, more than 60 years ago. It is based on the theories of Carl Jung and rates peoples preferred ways of dealing with the world on four scales. Another way to look at this is which side of each scale energizes someone:
EXTROVERT - INTROVERT (whether one draws energy from outside or within)
INTUITIVE - SENSING (whether one draws energy from a sixth sense or from the five other senses)
FEELING - THINKING (whether one bases decisions on personal information or on logic/rules)
PERCEIVING - JUDGING (whether one prefers spontaneity or organization)
Below is a chart showing the 16 personality types and some famous people who had them. Much of this information came from the web site for the Kiersey Temperament Sorter. There is an abundance of information on the web, and a few sites that offer a free personality test.
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Colin Powell
Joseph Stalin
Queen Elizabeth I
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ISTJ - Inspector
Queen Elizabeth II
Harry S. Truman
Woodrow Wilson
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ESFJ - Provider
Leonid Brezhnev
George Washington
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ISFJ - Protector
George Bush (1st one)
Mother Teresa
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ESTP - Promoter
Winston Churchill
Hugh Hefner
Ernest Hemingway
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ISTP - Operator
Amelia Earhart
Clint Eastwood
Charles Lindbergh
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ENFJ - Teacher
Mikhail Gorbachev
Vladimir Lenin
Margaret Mead
Wendy Russell
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INFJ - Counselor
Emily Dickenson
Eleanor Roosevelt
Dan Aykroyd
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ENFP - Champion
Charelotte Bronte
Thomas Paine
Paul Harvey
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INFP - Healer
Emily Bronte
Albert Schweitzer
Amy Tan
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ENTJ - Mobilizer
Napolean Bonaparte
Bill Gates
Margaret Thatcher
Sean Connery
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INTJ - Master Mind
Peter the Great
Kitty Russell
Thomas Jefferson
Frederich Nietzsche
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ENTP - Inventor
Walt Disney
Steve Jobs
Sir Walter Raleigh
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Jeanne Russell
Marie Curie
Albert Einstein
Meryl Streep
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When thinking about personality types, try to remember the words of Carl Jung:
“My scheme of typology,” he noted, “is only a scheme of orientation. There is such a factor as introversion, there is such a factor as extraversion. The classification of individuals means nothing, nothing at all. It is only the instrumentarium for the practical psychologist to explain for instance, the husband to a wife or vice versa”
In other words, the Myers-Brigg Type Indicator which is based on Carl Jung’s work, is not there to pigeonhole people. It is designed to be used as a tool to help us understand others. If you use it that way, it can really help you to deal successfully with the people in your life.
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