“Have you taken the Myer
Briggs Test?” You have to take it!
When my roommate asked me
this a few days ago, I scurried to look through my results from the test I took
a few years ago.
The Myers Briggs test boils
one’s personality down to four simple letters. The first letter deciphers
extraverted vs. introverted(HumanMetrics). The second defines one’s preferences
of sensing or intuition. The third letter represents one’s inclination to think
versus feel. The final letter reveals one’s preference for judging versus
perceiving. The combination of these letters amount to sixteen distinctive
personality types(Humanmetrics).
Remembering that I saved my
personality results as a document on my laptop, I looked through all of my
files to finally I found my results.
I distinctly remember the
feeling I had as I took the test years prior. Like millions of others, I took
the test in hopes of becoming more self-aware and as a means of soul searching (Atlantic).
I recalled that as I finished the test, I felt
understood and more confident in the reality of my strengths and weakness as a
person. My results equated to the personality type, INFP: Introversion,
Intuition, Feeling and Perception.
On the website the
introduction of my personality stated
“Forming around 4.5% of the population, INFP
personalities are usually perceived as calm, reserved or even shy. However,
such an exterior can be deceptive – even though INFPs can be somewhat cautious,
their inner flame and passion is not something to be taken lightly. People with
this personality type are really affectionate, a trait not often seen in other
types(16Personalities).”
Expecting to once again self reflect on my
strength and weaknesses in reading the detailed personality description, the results
before me were quite simply outdated.
The Myer Briggs test gives you results assuming
that the results can decipher one’s personality down to a simple static
formula. As I pondered upon my results from sophomore year, I realized the
impact college has had on my personality. While my values and morals have
remained, I have challenged aspects of my personality results that were once
prominent weaknesses that in many ways stifled me.
While the test can be self reflective, I believe
it is crucial to understand personalities can evolve. Humans are complex and
should never be stifled by a test that believes it has you indefinitely figured
out.
As expressed this to my roommate she replied,
“My mom said she had the same personality as me when she was younger but has a completely
different result now in her 50s.’
If in these short four years my results have
changed, I cannot even bear to grasp the amount I will grow and evolve for decades
to come.
-Karen
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp
https://www.16personalities.com/infp-personality
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