What is your personality type?
Personality Test for myself and my team?
Yes. Ok.
Understand yourself, Seek to understand others....
It's simple.
A leader
MUST know their own personality type, and the
personality types of their subordinates to quickly learn "HOW" to lead a particular individual.
Different things, motivate different people...
Do you agree?
"Learn to LEAD."
There are many places to take the free MBTI personality test. A couple of the websites to look at: 16 personalities or Truity.
FREE:
https://www.truity.com/
FREE:
https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
Also search for:
Free and accurate
MBTI test online
PAID Version: $49.95
https://www.mbtionline.com/
--------------------------------------
THIS GETS DEEP!
-----------------
Reference:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-good-website-to-take-the-MBTI-test
I really enjoyed Personality Hacker's Genius Style Assessment, particularly because they acknowledge the general inaccuracy of tests and the importance of further information. Among other things.
Truity and 16 Personalities are also fairly good. In the end, the tests are just a good introduction; it's important to confirm by doing more research and personal assessment: in that sense, all tests are equally useful and equally limited. So it matters a little less which one you take and more what you do to confirm the results.
---------------------
Reference:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-free-version-of-the-Myers-Briggs-personality-test-online
Answer on Quora:
There really isn't a best version. You could take the standard 16 personality test, but even that won't tell you anything. It's better if you took the test, got a result, but take it with a grain of salt and go confirm it for yourself. It's going to take a fair amount of research if you truly want to know yourself, without dealing with frivolous stereotypes or heavy biasedness towards certain types.
The standard tests don't really touch on the individual function stacks, such as Ni or Si, which is why they are pretty bad. Furthermore, they over-emphasize your type based on traits, which is stupid because two different personalities can share the same traits.
The common example that I often use is the difference between ISTJ and INTJ. Both types are smart, cold, independent, efficient, diligent, hard-working because of Te, or Extroverted Thinking. Also, INTPs and INFPs can look similar because they are both quirky, dorky, quiet, shy, insecure, scattered, air-headed.
But they are vastly different in function stacks. There is a difference on how they process information, how they interpret it. There are priorities and values that they project onto it to either distort the information or better understand it. There are different worldviews, ranging from the most broad to the most specific.
When I took an MBTI the first time, I was in pretty bad shape. I was very insecure, extremely sensitive, sulking and brooding mostly. I had cognitive dissonance, where my thought didn't align with what I was doing or what I was projecting. So when I took the MBTI, I did get INTJ. But being the insecure insufferable teenager that I was, I opened the page to investigate, but as soon as I saw the wrd “Mastermind" as the title, I scoffed and immediately closed the tab. But the thought nagged me for a couple of days. Next time, I actually read the description, but it still didn't seem to fit me.
I was definitely cold to others, but not in a rude way. I was more absentminded in that I didn't know I was pushing people away. My speech was laconic, simple enough to answer a question and then I was off, which earned me a fair bit of frowns.
But I wasn't mean, or rude, or snarky, or rebellious. I had some regard for authority, and I did have a fair bit of ambition.
I definitely didn't consider myself “smart” because I didn't do that well in school, and my teachers often compared me to my older sister, who is more diligent than I am. I tried for INFJ, but was pretty frustated.
Yes, I was idealistic, but I didn’t expect reality to be shaped that way. I was also very critical and suspicious of other people's intentions.
You see what the problem is? This could very well be fit the description of an ISTJ, which I thought I was for a long time because, wow, they weren't considered as genius or power-hungry as the INTJ. And I definitely wasn't smart.
But when I asked others, they insisted that I was an INTJ, but I never really realized it until I read the actual functions. Or more specifically, the Ni function, which made a world difference—no pun intended.
Thing is, INTJs are pretty stupid when it comes to practical things. They often forget where they are, which is why they have trouble with names, phone numbers, or frivolous details. In fact, it's utterly infuriating to be forced out of this grandeur world that you built in your own mind to deal with what you have to at the moment.
Because what you could be is more interesting than what you actually are.
This is why you often find them engaging in either thoughtful and meaningful activities such as reading, listening to a podcast or something, or even watching a courtcase.
Because they have this vision of who they are going to be, which is naturally different than what they are now. And in order to implement that reality where you see yourself standing in that spotlight that you concocted in your mind, you must be willing to change, analyze yourself, identify different worldviews, observe the ones that did succeed in order for you to achieve something.
And I only realized that after I read that the Ni function is a future-oriented, grand-scale sort of function where you don't have to squint your eyes to understand something. It's not really “smart.”
The personality test had used the wrong word. It's more insightful. More broad and philosophical. More ambitious. In the real world, “smart” contains a more pragmatic connotation, which I obviously didn't align with.
But since that world-view of mine is vague and blurry, then my solution is to find an Si, which is inherently more detailed, user to interact and come to terms with those differences. This makes sense since INTJs and -ENxPs are natural partners. They balance the weakness that the other has.
Something my INTP professors do, which utterly baffles me, is when they ask me a question about something broad. For example, a simple, resting container, and they ask me to analyze it using the principles of chemistry.
Well, I reply that there is a fair amount of pressure involved because the container is closed. But that's not the answer they're looking for. They want to know everything about the container, and all of its components, and everything that would happen if they changed one of the components.
You know, all the Ne questions: the “what if?” questions.
They say, there is magnetic field, electromagnetic pulls, temperature, pressure, volume, gravity, friction, blah, blah, blah. When you raise the temperature, pressure increases. If you lower temperature, pressure decreases. If you lower volume, then pressure and temperature increases. Furthermore, you must factor in the law of gravity because there is a force downward pushing on the container, and gravity depends on the height of the container, and the height affects the volume.
You see how detailed that is? That is insanely detailed. I could hardly keep track of all of the components; in fact, I very nearly missed three-fourths of the variables involved because it's not natural for me. I rely on broad generalizations: it's a container that stores things, then ask why and where did it come from? Well, it's from a very crystallized arrangement of atoms. That's all I really need to know. But the Ne questions helps keep me in check, and ask more questions to make sure my conclusions are right.
And that only makes sense after you realize what the functions are, not the traits. An unhealthy ENTP may appear reclusive, brooding, and manipulative, but they are still ENTP. They didn't become an INTP or an INTJ just because they are more introverted. They still are dominant Ne, which is an extroverted function. It's the priority and use of the function stacks that matters.
If you want to learn the MBTI as a tool for self-growth, then I suggest to thoroughly the function stacks and be wary of stereotypes as well. It's not perfect, but it's definitely useful. It helped me appreciate myself a lot more.
Hope that helps.
--------------
END
--------------
* This blog can help any Entrepreneur or Business leader with further development and growth. Sales and marketing teams need this information.
This is a good idea for people who work with Sales, Insurance, Financial Services, business professionals, HR recruiters, and people who work with remote digital teams.
TRAINING is Available:
https://fultonfilmcompany.com/hire-us
Written by:
George Ohan
International Entrepreneur
U.S. Army Veteran
