Personality Myers-Briggs 16 personalities test

I have found this great page that summarises the character traits of highly creative people based on Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book Creativity: The Work and Lives of 91 Eminent People. Mihaly is a seminal professor of Psychology and Management, and is the Founding Co-Director of the Quality of Life Research Center at Claremont.

Creative people display contradictory traits not usually found together in the rest of the population. I have rarely found a page that better characterises my personality as this one. It finally explains why I get different results almost every time I take the Myers-Briggs Personality Types test (except for the Thinking component). I am borderline Introverted-Extroverted, Sensing-Intuitive and Perceiving-Judging, usually scoring 50% +-3% for each category.
 
For me the best tests for human nature are the Spiral Dynamics that profile the value systems and several tests developed by SixSeconds especially the Brain profile. But, those have to be done only if you get trained and understand the model, otherwise people tend to label and misuse the results. Since my blog is in Albanian only, here is the one that I like about Spiral Dynamics in English http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMM_93.htm .

I would quote this part:
Depending on the developmental stage a person is at, or where they are on the Spiral Dynamics helix, their values will influence everything they think and experience to a greater or lesser extent. This means that their values will impact their:

  • Feelings
  • Ethics
  • Motivations
  • Beliefs
  • Preferences for learning and working
  • Political position
  • Ideas about social systems.
Essentially Spiral Dynamics was developed in order to help us understand:

  • How people think about things (as opposed to "what" they think).
  • Why people make decisions in different ways.
  • Why people respond to different motivators.
  • Why and how values arise and spread.
  • The nature of change.
 
FBS said:
For me the best tests for human nature are the Spiral Dynamics that profile the value systems and several tests developed by SixSeconds especially the Brain profile. But, those have to be done only if you get trained and understand the model, otherwise people tend to label and misuse the results. Since my blog is in Albanian only, here is the one that I like about Spiral Dynamics in English http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMM_93.htm .

I would quote this part:
Depending on the developmental stage a person is at, or where they are on the Spiral Dynamics helix, their values will influence everything they think and experience to a greater or lesser extent. This means that their values will impact their:

  • Feelings
  • Ethics
  • Motivations
  • Beliefs
  • Preferences for learning and working
  • Political position
  • Ideas about social systems.
Essentially Spiral Dynamics was developed in order to help us understand:

  • How people think about things (as opposed to "what" they think).
  • Why people make decisions in different ways.
  • Why people respond to different motivators.
  • Why and how values arise and spread.
  • The nature of change.
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That looks very interesting. I'm going to do some reading about it.

As for the Myers-Briggs test, I almost always come out INFJ. The I and N categories are usually only moderately predominant however, while the F is usually extremely high.

It's a pretty rare type in life from what I read, and I would guess practically non-existent on these types of forums.
 
@Angela
Since you live in US, both SixSeconds and NVCC (Spiral people) are based in CA. So you can easily attend their courses or introductory workshops. For me Spiral is amazing tool in understanding people and societies. I had to go to UK to attend the training which was amazing.
 
Maciamo said:
I have found this great page that summarises the character traits of highly creative people based on Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book Creativity: The Work and Lives of 91 Eminent People. Mihaly is a seminal professor of Psychology and Management, and is the Founding Co-Director of the Quality of Life Research Center at Claremont.

Creative people display contradictory traits not usually found together in the rest of the population. I have rarely found a page that better characterises my personality as this one. It finally explains why I get different results almost every time I take the Myers-Briggs Personality Types test (except for the Thinking component). I am borderline Introverted-Extroverted, Sensing-Intuitive and Perceiving-Judging, usually scoring 50% +-3% for each category.
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Very interesting observations. Many points might seem contradictory in paradoxical way.

For example let me comment on number 7.
Most creative people are both rebellious and conservative. “It is impossible to be creative without having first internalized an area of culture. So it’s difficult to see how a person can be creative without being both traditional and conservative and at the same time rebellious and iconoclastic.”
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Generally creative people are rebellious. This is in sense that they refuse to do anything till they have understanding of its benefit. They will always ask question, or keep thinking, why, why, why, perhaps just from curiosity of their minds. When it is explained, or they find satisfactory answer why it is done this way, and they agree with this logic, they can fulfil what is required of them to the letter. Almost in religious way, with better conviction than ordinary people do, and as long as it makes sense for them. On this grounds they might be called conservative in their behaviour, or it might agree with old customs, or old socio-political ways therefore deemed conservative.
Otherwise if they don't agree they will be in rebellious opposition to the notion.

It is in strong contrast with ordinary folks way, for whom it is enough to follow customs learned from parents or teachers, and be happy with this state of matter.

There are also examples of creative people who don't possess intellectual capacity to pull solid logical conclusions and as such will always rebel against anything, because it doesn't make sense. In sort of conspiracy theorist ways. Something only make sense in their heads but never agrees with the physical world, and will never find understanding of other.
 
I remember taking this test years ago while I was in college, I was a member of the student council and I remember they had us take it while on a team building trip. This was almost 10 years ago and I recently took the quiz at similar minds and the results changed a bit over time in that there are less extremes.

Actualized type: [SIZE=+2]ESTJ[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1](who you are)[/SIZE]
Extroverted (E) 68.57% Introverted (I) 31.43%
Sensing (S) 54.29% Intuitive (N) 45.71%
Thinking (T) 50% Feeling (F) 50%
Judging (J) 57.14% Perceiving (P) 42.86%
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I was always an INTJ.
 
I took the test again today, this time here, and got INTJ (Expert).

"You have many creative thoughts. You always try to turn your ideas into fact tirelessly reaching your goal that you set for yourself. You can understand the connotative model of the outer world and think with a long term perspective. Once you make a commitment, you make a plan and accomplish it. You are very independent and skeptical. You always have a high standard no matter if its for yourself or other people."

This site has really great, in-depth descriptions of each personality types, including an analysis of strengths and weaknesses, and typical behaviours at work, in relationships, as a parent, and so on.

It's amazing how my results change from year to year, except for the thinking component. In brackets is the summary from the site in link just above.

2002 : INTP : (Innovative inventors with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge)
2004 : ISTP (Bold and practical experimenters, masters of all kinds of tools)
2005 : ESTJ (Excellent administrators, unsurpassed at managing things - or people)
2014 : INTJ (Imaginative and strategic thinkers, with a plan for everything)


After reading all the descriptions, INTJ really is the closest to me now. I was living in Japan back in 2004-5, and that surely explains why I scored a bit higher on extroversion (I went out and socialised much more than now), and at first more sensing and perceiving as I was absorbing the culture and learning the language.
 
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Most of the time I come out INFJ, and that's close to my actual personality.
http://www.humanmetrics.com/personality/infj

Occasionally I've scored ESFJ, and that's a bit off, in my opinion. I definitely don't come across to people who really know me as having a "sales" type personality, although my social skills are good, I think, if I care to, or have the interest, or energy to use them.

Accurately enough, the F and J scores are constant.
 
Ha ha. I am Prophet :) Listen to me! This new great idea! Is definately THE IDEA.

But the only real thing about me, which is absolutely undisputable is N over S (I think I scored and usually score close to 100% there). I am also more T than F. P/J or I/E depends on mood or test :)

On other hand, some years ago, I got really carried away with Socionics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socionics
It is Russian school alternative to Myer-Briggs but appealed to me more, because it explained me people and their relationships. I was classified as ENTJ according to that model. But these schools don't overlap 100%. Also Socionics school says you are just one type for all your life. You need to focus and invest on your strengths, because on your weaknesses max you can do is get to socially acceptable standard and that is it. Also it is pretty much about dualism, you need to find your perfect partner who has strengths were you have weaknesses (and vice/versa of couse), but at the same time you share values and perception of life.
 
When I took it again today, I noticed that the site gave hypothetical scores for the characters in The Game of Thrones. Silly, I know, but I was pleased to see that two of my favorite characters were given my profile...Jon Snow and Daenerys.:)
 
Today I was ISFP. I always score very high for introversion but the other three tend to hover around the 50% mark, so my results always start with I but any of the other three can change from one testing to another.
 
I have taken this test before; I have known about it for about 7 years. I almost always exclusively come out as INTP, sometimes INFP and sometimes ISTP.
 
Angela said:
When I took it again today, I noticed that the site gave hypothetical scores for the characters in The Game of Thrones. Silly, I know, but I was pleased to see that two of my favorite characters were given my profile...Jon Snow and Daenerys.:)
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Lovely, Tyrion Lannister is ENTP :) He is my favorite character. And my alter ego ENTJ is lovely Arya Stark.
But, of course it is hard not to love your guys too.

Overall though I believe there is a good correlation between characters you love and who you are. Because you love/hate people based on their values. Their values are based on their perception of world. Their perception of world is based on how they gather and interpret information, which in theory defines their personality type.
 
put me down for

ISTJ ..........Assertive................Sentinel
 
Angela said:
It's a pretty rare type in life from what I read, and I would guess practically non-existent on these types of forums.
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It is indeed the rarest among woman IRL. But when it comes to various sorts of internet forums INTPs and INTJs form a majority.
 
I, myself, am an ENTP. Intuitive extroverted type

Carl Jung typology is one of my hobbies and I have a site where I type people by watching them reply to questions (visual typology)
 
Aha said:
It is indeed the rarest among woman IRL. But when it comes to various sorts of internet forums INTPs and INTJs form a majority.
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Sorry, I'm usually INFJ. Are you saying that's the rarest among women? Not that this surprises me, necessarily.

Do you mean that INTP and INTJ predominate on genetics and population history forums?
 
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