Understanding! That has been the driving force since the dawn of mankind. It can be the understanding of the universe or understanding the mind & body and so on. Our likes & dislikes, quirks & habits, goals and ambitions are all revolving around how much we have got into this sense. Now what if we can dig a bit deeper and even understand ourselves?
Are you the person who go with your intuition a lot? Do you like to meet new people a lot? Would you rather be with yourself in the nature? And to all these questions there is the follow up of, why that is so?
To all this we say it is our personality and its traits. Research into this side of human side are centuries old. There are many schools of thought, each having their own set of pros, cons and followers. We dwell here a bit into Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an introspective self-report questionnaire indicating differing psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. The original versions of the MBTI were constructed by two Americans, Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers. The MBTI is based on the conceptual theory proposed by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, who had speculated that people experience the world using four principal psychological functions — sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking — and that one of these four functions is dominant for a person most of the time.
The four categories are Introversion/Extraversion, Sensing/Intuition, Thinking/Feeling, Judging/Perception. Each person is said to have one preferred quality from each category, producing 16 unique types. The Center for Applications of Psychological Type states that the MBTI is scientifically supported, but most of the research on it is done through its own journal, the Journal of Psychological Type, raising questions of bias. “The underlying assumption of the MBTI is that we all have specific preferences in the way we construe our experiences, and these preferences underlie our interests, needs, values, and motivation.”
The four categories are Introversion/Extraversion, Sensing/Intuition, Thinking/Feeling, Judging/Perception. Each person is said to have one preferred quality from each category, producing 16 unique types. The Center for Applications of Psychological Type states that the MBTI is scientifically supported, but most of the research on it is done through its own journal, the Journal of Psychological Type, raising questions of bias. “The underlying assumption of the MBTI is that we all have specific preferences in the way we construe our experiences, and these preferences underlie our interests, needs, values, and motivation.“
With having quite strong academic criticism towards it, acceptance to it is not wholesome. Nevertheless it is very interesting at the least to for a onetime attempt and analysis. So do check out the 16 personalities test and prepare to be amazed or have a laugh over it.
So which one are you! ☺
