"There are three things extemely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self." -Benjamin Franklin
(Yes, another Ben Franklin quote....)
After a week of looking forward to my results, I could not be happier with the class and the analysis of my MBTI results! I truly find this assessment to be a great personal learning tool and just plain interesting as well!
So, I'm an ESFP, but in some cases just barely.
I'm about a 26 for extroversion, not shocking to me at all! I'm that person who gets antsy sitting in a room by myself, I am the definition of a people person!
As for sensing, I come in around 14. The subcategory that lowered by sensing results was an out of preference characteristic for original over traditional. I guess that makes sense to me as I read the descriptions, especially "like being original and different, but not so much as to be out of the mainstream."
I had one big of preference characteristics for feeling, leaving me in the slight preference. I was shocked to see that my feeling preference wasn't very high, but the questioning category falls under thinking vs. feeling, and I am most definitely a questioner! I continually find myself becoming frustrated if I can't get a straightforward answer to help me understand a situation or a problem so it's good to know that is a part of my personality. In addition, these results equip me with advice about how to avoid those frustrations! Hallelujah!
So perceiving, yeah turns out that fits me pretty well, until you get to emergent vs. methodical. I am VERY methodical. Although I love to have some flexibility in my plans, I HAVE to know when things will get done and have an active plan to get them done. The description "see routine as helpful in your work life but find it confining at home--or vice versa" is a perfect one for me! I have to have a plan for my academic/professional life, but my personal life is a very relaxed, go with the flow atmosphere that allows me to decompress!
My results say that ESFP's are most satisfied in a work environment that is friendly, realistic, flexible and action-oriented. I'm pretty sure those exact words appear on some journalism job descriptions, so that really helps me understand why journalism is such an appealing career to me.
In closing, the phrase in my entire results booklet describing ESFP's that I loved the most was "their attitude is that life is to be lived now, not analyzed," so I'm off to finish my Superbowl Sunday doing just that!
I really liked that final description you included at the end. That sounds like a good view to me. My favorite description of my ENFP is "ENFPs are typically enthusiastic innovators, always seeing new possibilities and new ways of doing things." Also I looked up famous ENFPs and the first one to come up was Hunter S. Thompson, my favorite journalist of all time. He is one of the people I want to resemble in journalism. That made me very happy.
ReplyDeleteI liked that you looked into more aspects of your report and posted quotes about your type in general. I certainly didn't think to do that. After looking in depth more, one of my favorites is INFJ's "are respected for their clear convictions regarding how to serve the common good." I really enjoyed you analysis of your type preferences!
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