ENFJ

Last week I participated in a fellow New College student's project that required us to take the Myers-Brigg Type Indicator test. The Myers-Brigg test reveals your personality type and preferences in four separate categories. The four categories key areas that combine to form the basis of a person's personality are:

• Where you focus your attention- Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I)
• The way you take in information- Sensing (S) or Intuition ( N)
• The way you make decisions- Thinking (T) or Feeling (F)
• How you deal with the outer world- Judging (J) or Perceiving (P)

Before we were given our test results we were given a presentation explaining each of these categories. We then had to circle where we felt we fell on a scale. I categorized myself as an ENFJ. This means that I am an extrovert, intuitive, feeler, and I judge instead of perceive. As an ENFJ I am described as:

• warm, compassionate, and supportive
• highly attuned to others; their empathy enables them to quickly understand emotional needs, motivations, and concerns
• likely to value harmony and cooperation; tend to look for the best in others
• curious about new ideas and stimulated by possibilities for contributing to the good of humanity

 When I was given my test results later it revealed that I was spot on even to the degree of what I thought I was. I was fascinated by these results. It shows that I understand myself and the strengths of my personality. This was an awesome experience and I strongly recommend that everyone takes this test. Below are my papers from the test... The one of the left is the paper where I guessed what I was and on the right is the results from the computer.