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I'm am INTJ and my hubby is ESFJ which I think is as incompatible as you can get on paper! But we do just fine...I guess opposites attract, or we fill in for the other's weaknessness!

We first used these tests at work and it helps explain why the different types of people sometimes aggravate each other. We are little more sympathetic to each other because of it. But, we do tease each other about it, "Oh, you are such a Feeler!"

For my husband, I now understand why he needs CONSTANT re-affirmation of my feelings for him! It drives me a little crazy, but I show him how much I care a lot more frequently than I used to.

Nan

Hmmm.... I came out as IIFJ, I don't think I've ever got the same set twice on these things, and I find it interesting that the "strength of preferences" for this time were "1%, 37%, 22%, 1%"

Last time I did a version of this with "strength of preference" ratings, the results fit me like a... well, didn't fit me at all, but gave all 9x% preferences.

So, I think I failed: I don't have a personality

-Mich (who shoudl be studying)

PS: Oh,my G-D, I'm a "Counsellor?" Yeah. NO.
PPS: Ok, I read the whole discription, and it's not AS far off as the title made it sound. Still not exactly convinced.

I am INFJ, this was third time doing it, and the same outcome. The last time I did it I was really not that convinced that I am INFJ. Bu now ten years later when I look at the description, it fits me. I have grown into it

I was an INTJ the first time I took it in my early 20s, and evolved to an ENTJ by the time I took it again in my 30s. I think that is right, I have become more extoverted over the years (really as a requirement for success in my work, and have found that life is much easier as an "E"). I still have my I moments occasionally, though.

I thought about you sometime while I was reading all this and wondered if "intp" had anything to do with this.

Glee.! I love the box checking analogy and especially delight in discovery of a new box. I remember explaining that by the time I answer the question you're probably hearing my fifteenth thought on the subject, and there's more where that came from- so don't think it's my final answer. If nothing else reading this will convince me what an agreeable pita I really am.

NanRos, I hope by reading about this we'll "help relieve the suffering of all sentient beings", including us!
Trust me Micky, you've got personality spilling out everywhere
I have to make a new thread so I don't hijack my own. Jaime's link lead me to browsing their bookstore on that site and that lead me to looking up "define procedural memory/ declarative memory", which lead to a site I think luocounu wanted to see.

ha ha La Tex, we can only try

Interesting. I'm very strong INT (nearly 100% on each) and practically 51/49 on P and J on every test I've taken. It always ends up P, but just barely.

Hey, did you just imply I have the personality of a MOUSE?!?!?!?!?!?

;P

(and I'm pretty sure that'd be an E... anyway)

-Mich

I'm always an I, and almost always a J (but I love nothing better than a deadline, I must add, and really I seem to identify much more with other P's).

I'm sometimes strongly both S+N, depending on the questions.

I'm apparently too soft-hearted to be a pure T-type, but far too fact-oriented to be an F.

The S+N balance is the one that is close to 50-50, though it always seems to lean just slightly to the S.

Then again, most scientists I know have that S+N profile-- if we didn't, we would probably be engineers, KWIM? Just kidding.


ISTJ or ISTP seems to be my "persona" to the world. It's how I seem professionally, anyway. I'm the one that will pull an all-nighter to make things right (even if I didn't create the problem to begin with).

With friends and family, however, I can come across as much more the INTP... and truly, I strive to be MORE that person. I don't always succeed, by any means.

Here is another Myers-Briggs based tool that gives career compatibility along with the type descriptions.

http://www.careertest.net/index.htm

This is another interesting one that gives a general "type" of person. Sometimes I'm a "guide" in this one, and sometimes an "idealist."

http://similarminds.com/career.html

I'm adding both links here because these are something that I think DD might be interested in taking a look at. Multipotentiality is a real bear sometimes, and at least personality inventories give some insight into what provides fuel for one's SOUL.