Understanding Personality Styles: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Its 16 Combinations, Study notes of Decision Making

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Your Personality Style

A brief overview of different personality styles in

terms of strengths and weaknesses

Matching your

personality strengths

with your objectives

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test indicates psychological preferences

(E) Extraversion or (I) Introversion

(S) Sensing or (N) iNtuition

(T) Thinking or (F) Feeling

(J) Judging or (P) Perceiving

This results in a total of 16

combinations; each trait is noted

with a letter:

The Sixteen Types U.S. Population Breakdown The table organizing the sixteen types was created by Isabel Myers (an INFP). ISTJ 11.6%

ISFJ

INFJ

INTJ

ISTP

ISFP

INFP

INTP

ESTP

ESFP

ENFP

ENTP

ESTJ

ESFJ

ENFJ

ENTJ

The test uses 4 categories

with opposite pairs for each

Sensing and intuition are the information- gathering (perceiving) functions

Intuitive Sensitive

Strengths

 Sees possibilities  Sees the big picture  Imagines, intuits  Works out new ideas  Works with the complicated  Solves novel problems  Attends to detail  Is practical  Has memory for detail, fact  Works with tedious detail  Is patient  Is careful, systematic

Potential

Weaknesses

 Is inattentive to detail  Is inattentive to reality  Is impatient with the tedious  Leaves things out in leaps of logic  Loses sight of the here-and- now  Jumps to conclusions  Does not see possibilities  Loses the overall in details  Mistrusts intuition  Does not work out the new  Is frustrated with the complicated  Prefers not to imagine future

Thinking and Feeling are the decision-making (judging) functions

Feeler Thinker

Strengths

 Considers others’ feelings  Understands needs, values  Is interested in conciliation  Persuades, arouses  Is logical, analytical, objective  Is organized  Has critical ability  Is just  Stands firm

Potential

Weaknesses

 Is not guided by logic  Is not objective  Is less organized  Is uncritical, overly accepting  Bases justice on feelings  Does not notice people’s feelings  Misunderstands others’ values  Is uninterested in conciliation or persuasion  Does not show feelings  Shows less mercy