Has Anyone Taken the Myers Briggs Personality Test?

Always INTJ. And it is really interesting to me how it’s such a rare personality type, but there are so many of them on here.

@imbep49 As an INTJ, I feel like I have the ability to be very sensitive to the emotions of others. I’ll often hyperanalyze the actions/reactions of myself or of others to determine what I’m doing right, what I’m doing wrong, how the other person is feeling, etc. However, I think that I can be analytical to a fault in a sense. Since I’m spending so much time with my head in the clouds, wondering what other people are thinking and how they’re feeling, I can often come off as cold or uncaring. It’s a pretty vicious cycle.

^@Bozusaki I experience the same exact thing! (INTJ as well)

I’ve apparently changed over the years. Sometimes I am an introvert, sometimes, extrovert. Sometimes I am an F, and other times a J.

I get different results every time, which should probably be a personality in its own right. Today I got INFJ.

ENTP – I love Myers-Briggs and find it very helpful in a lot of different ways!

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Extreme INTJ here.

I’ve gotten INFJ most times I’ve taken the test.

ENTJ

INTJ’s usually dominate these threads for many reasons and it is really interesting.

  1. I think INTJ's tend to be drawn to forums in general much more. It's a debate format that caters to introverts and a haven for information usually.
  2. Internet use in general usually trends up in INTJ's i've found.
  3. INTJ's tend to like the MBTI organization.

To add to this, percentages are a key part of MBTI. Knowing you switch, say, J and P is just as useful as a strong P or J. So people in the middle that are not polarized to a particular type often find themselves switching, from my experience.

I think I used to get INTJ as a result of wishful thinking. INTJ is a “cool” personality type because it’s associated with intelligence and objectivity.

I got INTJ on my first try.

Though I’m not sure how much faith I’d put in the testing system or it’s results.

^great insight @PengsPhils

I’m an INFP, and a fan of MBTI. I’ve taken multiple tests online. Some online tests I have taken seem to generalize MBTI types while others were more focused on cognitive functions. I think the tests based on cognitive functions felt more accurate to me in their personality profiles.

It’s interesting that most people who are attracted to taking the MBTI seem to be INxx types, but it looks like there are more xSxJ’s. I felt like the INFP profile is accurate to me in the basic form of my personality, but I honestly think there are some differences within people of the same type based on how they’ve been raised.

@halcyonheather While INTJ is often thought of as the “cool” type, INFJ’s are the rarest so you can take random pride in that :smiley:

In fact, a couple of my friends are INFJ, and myself and my best friend (INTJ) refer to them as “unicorns” due to their rarity and often positive and what we find to be an admirable life outlook.

Interesting sentence there. There’s a few personality/MBTI questions here that I find especially interesting.

  1. Is Personality genetic, learned by how someone is raised, or both, and if so what percentages?
  2. This one is less of a question, and I alluded to it before in this thread, but I think that it's important to think of each dual grouping as a spectrum and not a hard line. So to me, your place on that spectrum (usually I choose to represent it with a percentage) makes the variation in the types within their own group. After all, there's only 16 groups and there's millions of personalities.

For the first one, I stand on the very learned side, but it’s mostly speculation.

For an example of the second, I am an INTJ, but to me, this is a more accurate typing:

20% I over E
40% N over S
70% T over F
50% J over P

The percentages help detail the intricacies of two people of the same type, and if you know each individual letter’s characteristics, you can even find them in the descriptive profile, and make a profile that better represents you by swapping in more descriptions of the other type you are also closer to.

So, the INTJ profile reads incredibly well for me because my percentages are so high, but sometimes I find the introvert / extrovert part a bit off base. But if you mix in a bit of extrovert language, it suddenly reads much more accurately. In contrast, my best friend INTJ is about 50% I, and the original profile reads more true (approx same on the others)

Basically, try to think of MBTI less black and white (because personality of course isn’t) and it will serve your personal purposes better.

I am an ENTJ, and I personally think that we are the coolest type.

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Most of the time I come up as an INFJ, but occasionally I’ll skew extrovert. I’m married to an INTJ (22yrs). Our kids are ENTJ and ENFP. Never a dull moment.

@MotherOfDragons That post is one of the best posts I have seen on this site. Everything about it.