MBTI (MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR)

BLOG 2: MBTI (MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR) DISCUSSION

The very thought of knowing our own personality trait excites us to such an extent that we tend to believe that we can do extraordinary things in the process; it’s like getting our palm being read by an astrologer. The same feeling invoked my inner self when we were asked to do the MBTI survey as an assignment in our very first class. The link was shared by our teacher in the course outline; we just clicked and took the test! The result I got was INFJ; introvert (12%), intuitive (6%), feeling (41%) and judging (28%). I couldn’t hundred percent claim the fact that the result was true to my notion but it excited me to the very core, and I started believing that the course has something special stored for me. The results were discussed thoroughly in class which gave us a clearer picture how to examine the results. I always believed the fact that I was completely soaked in intuitiveness and was surprised to see the findings. The domination of feeling was well expected, as I easily get emotional and set my activities in that way. I have worked in a public sector bank for last four years, where I got the chance to mingle with people from all spheres of life. I have tried to work in harmony with everybody unless I was too dumb to understand the signals from the customer’s end. But have I ever tried to do an analysis of my own personality and how it’s affecting others? The answer is a big no. I believe it should be imbibed in every corporate culture regardless of its scope. My fellow classmates shared that they had gone through similar exercises in their work life and it helped them immensely. I became so curious about the test and its existence that I did my own research googling from one page to another. The MBTI was constructed by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers. It is based on the conceptual theory proposed by Carl Jung, who had speculated that there are four principal psychological functions by which humans experience the world i.e. sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking and that one of these four functions is dominant for a person most of the time. At the heart of Myers Briggs theory are four preferences; Extraversion and Introversion, Sensing and Intuition, Thinking and Feeling and Judgment and Perception. When we put these four letters together, we get a personality type code. Having four pairs to choose from means there are sixteen Myers Briggs personality types.