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Your Myers Briggs personality type is a cryptic code that tells you what your favourite mental muscle is.
The code does not give you this information explicitly, but you have to work it out.
There are four mental muscles: S, N, T and F. Which one is your favourite? You can narrow the choice down to two immediately by looking at the middle two letters of your code. For example, if your code is -NF-, then you know that N and F are your two favourite mental muscles. However, what you do not know (yet) is which of those is your favourite.
To work out which of the two middle letters is your favourite, you can use one of two methods. The first is:
Look at the first and last letters:Confused?The SECOND letter is favourite if the code includes: E--P or I--J;
The THIRD letter is favourite if the code includes: E--J or I--P.
Eg: in an ESFJ, the third letter is favourite (ie F).
Well, the second method is even more confusing. It involves looking at the meaning of E/I and J/P, and then combining the results together with an additional piece of information:
- The E/I of the Myers Briggs code answers the question: do you prefer to use your favourite mental muscle in the outer world (E) or the inner world (I).
- The J/P answers the question: is your extraverted function a judging one or a perceptive one?
- Additionally, we also know that, of the two preferred functions, one is always extraverted and the other introverted (and one is always a perceptive function, and the other a judging function).
This complexity behind the Myers Briggs code is too hard even for many MBTI practitioners.
Bad Joke: The world spins so fast that no one sits on top of it for very long.