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How much stock do you take in personality tests like the Myers-Briggs?
I recently took a Myers-Briggs personality test that told me I was an ISTJ. My best career choices would be an accountant, or a computer programmer, or similar desk-jobs.
On the other hand, I always thought I’d be a fiction writer, and I am currently a psychology major – congruent with the career choices for INFJs.
I realize these tests are just designed to approximate your personality, and nobody fits the exact mold. But I was just wondering who else thought they’d get a different result. And what you did about it?
INFJ here:
You seem to already understand- right-no one can fit their exact type.
To better understand the thing- it’s best to categorize.
When I try to discuss a hot button topic with someone- I always try to get to the basic concept and boil it down. After I get to this basic concept, I then want to add the “what-ifs” the “butt-ifs” to the mix to see how the basic concept holds up.
The 4 letter code is the basic concept boiled down- but no one is exactly that- so now all the extras can be added that make you as a person.
it’s a tool to understand the basic concepts- and that is what I use it for.
Also- if you read too much into the questions- you might have answered them not as the asker intended.
While I am at heart, and INFJ– I have shifted to more of an ESTJ when I was a supervisor at work.
I changed jobs and have now shifted towards INTJ due to the requirements to think logically at my new job.
So- the two reasons I think you didn’t code out as you expected is this:
1.)You ARE an INFJ, but your current life demands are forcing you to act like an ISTJ. If left to your own devices, you would probably act like the infj you are
2.)You over thought the questions, and answered them other then how the test creators intended.
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