MBTI Step 2: A better look

Woot MBTI!  I think we can all agree that this was an exciting week for the peer mentors all thanks to our new MBTI results.

I kind of had an idea of what I was not only from last year but also just because of the review before Debra gave us our results packet.  I was indeed an ESFP, but this step two of the MBTI goes more in depth so now I guess I am a Conceptual, Original, and Planful ESFP.  I have been carefully reviewing my results to help understand how they arrived at this conclusion.  Even now, as I write this post, I keep finding little things in the report that set off little bells in my head and make me go “That is just like me!”

Since I could easily fill a page or two explaining each facet of each letter, I will just go over one or two from each, the things that were out of range for the items, and anything else that sparked my interest.

Extraversion

Extraversion was one of my strongest traits overall.  The thing that interested me the most about it was not what parts were considered in preference for me, but the one thing that was in the middle the gregarious-intimate scale.  I was reading the characteristics that they list for someone who is in the middle and two in particular stood out to me: like large-group activities or one-on-one conversations at different times and appear outgoing at times and reserved at others.  I thought both of these “hit the nail on the head” when it comes to me.  It all depends on my mood for that day.

Sensing

Out of all my results I found sensing to be the most interesting.  Under the sensing trait I had two facets that were considered out of preference: conceptual and original.  While I was reading the details below the thing that kind of shocked me was that it said conceptual people may be more attracted to an academic career rather than being a practitioner.  This is definitely not true for me.   I plan to be a practicing child psychologist and the idea of an academic career sounds terrible in my opinion.  The other thing that was out of preference was being original which again “hit the nail on the head.”

Feeling

The thing that stuck out to me was not an extreme; in fact it was the opposite, in the facet of tough-tender I was exactly in the middle.  The descriptive points that were provided confused me a little at first but the more I keep reading them the more they make sense to me.

             Perceiving

                I was considered out of preference under the planful facet too.  I like to have a plan, but I do not have to follow my plan to a T and that is pretty much what the points were describing. 

               The MBTI is a perfect tool to help you understand yourself on a deeper level.  Not because it is telling you what type of person you are, but that it makes you think/reflect on all of the facets that make up your personality.