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This report is based on the results of the Mental Muscle Diagram Indicator™ (MMDI™). This is a questionnaire that can help you find out your personality type. However, as explained on our page introducing personality tests, the results of all personality questionnaires can be wrong. This report therefore aims to help you decide for yourself what your personality type is. Your conclusion may be the same or different to this report. It may also be different to other questionnaires. It is estimated that the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, for example, produces a wrong result in one out of every three or four cases.
This is because working out your personality type is not an easy task. Much of personality is 'unconscious'. Sigmund Freud used the analogy of an iceberg, suggesting that most of personality is out of sight under the water. Also, people are complex, full of contradictions. That can make finding out your personality type a bit like trying to find a black cat in the dark, whilst wearing sunglasses! Such difficulty is quite normal. Even some 'experts' in the field of personality have found it difficult to find out their type.
So, finding out your personality type is more of an art than a science. Questionnaires can help you help in your quest, and so can other people. But they don't always have the right answers. The only real expert in your personality is you.
To help you find out your type, we have matched the pattern of answers you gave to the MMDI questionnaire with the 'standard' patterns of the 16 personality types. The table right shows the percentage fit with each personality type.
| ISTJ 34% | ISFJ 22% | INFJ 49% | INTJ 61% |
| ISTP 65% | ISFP 38% | INFP 50% | INTP 77% |
| ESTP 59% | ESFP 47% | ENFP 74% | ENTP 86% |
| ESTJ 58% | ESFJ 31% | ENFJ 43% | ENTJ 70% |
From this table, you can see that the two highest scoring types are ENTP and INTP. This doesn't rule out the other types. But those are the two that are closest when we 'pattern match' your questionnaire results with each of the 16 personality types
Differences between ENTP and INTP
It may help you work out your type if we compare the similarities and differences between ENTP and INTP.
One important thing to look at is which preferences 'dominate' the personality. Carl Jung and Isabel Briggs Myers said there is a 'dominant function'. What this means, in simple terms, is that two of the letters in the type code are much more important than the others.
For people with ENTP preferences, the most important letters are E and N. For people with INTP preferences, the most important letters are I and T. This means that there is a very important difference between ENTP and INTP. The letters in the type code that are particularly important for them are different, or they have different 'dominant functions'.
The Dominant Function
For ENTP the most important preferences are Extraverted Intuition. Your 'dominant function' is Intuition, oriented towards the outer world. You promote exploration of new and better ways of doing things, to uncover hidden potential in people, things or situations. You break new ground, and are often looking one step beyond the current situation to pursue unexplored avenues, until all the possibilities have been exhausted. You often challenge the status quo and experiment with the introduction of change, to see if the situation can be improved or new potential uncovered.
For INTP, however, the most important preferences are Introverted Thinking. Your 'dominant function' is Thinking, oriented towards the inner world. You provide explanation of how and why things happen. You bring structure and organisation into the inner world of ideas and understanding. You analyse things, formulating hypotheses and explanations of how they function. You gather evidence to assess how true those explanations are. You produce mental models that replicate how particular aspects of the world work. You try to understand the full complexity of any situation.
Preference Differences
ENTP and INTP differ in Extraversion/Introversion. This preference is about where you prefer to direct your energy. If you prefer to direct your energy to deal with people, things, situations, or 'the outer world', then your preference is for Extraversion. If you prefer to direct your energy to deal with ideas, information, explanations or beliefs, or 'the inner world', then your preference is for Introversion.
Everybody uses both sides of the preferences at times, depending on the circumstances. But the difference between the two personality types is your natural inclination. That is, which would you prefer to do in a situation of free choice?
'Whole Type' Differences
Another way to help decide between two (or more) personality types is to look at the descriptions of each one.
As an analogy, you can't always tell which country someone comes from by listening to the words they use. If they use French words when speaking, they might be from France or Belgium or Canada or many other countries. To work out where someone comes from you have to listen to the whole person: the language, the accent, the behaviour, etc..
In a similar way, sometimes you cannot tell someone's personality type by looking at individual behaviours. You need to look at the whole person. You can then work out your type by comparison with some descriptions of the personality types.
Final Notes
Carl Jung said: 'every individual is an exception to the rule'.
You are a unique individual. The personality types can help you to orient yourself as you find your way around your personality. They also provide a language (a label) that helps you explore your identity.
However, personality types are not meant to put you in a box. Some people misuse the concept of personality type by saying that if you are ABC type, then you must be good at doing XYZ. Some people also make judgements about others on the basis of their personality type, e.g.: in recruitment. Such judgements are mistakes, made through ignorance.
We have an article on recruitment that explains why Myers Briggs shouldn't be used to make important judgements about others.
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More Resources
There are many more articles and questionnaires at this website that you may find useful, such as:
- A short article summarising the Myers Briggs model of personality
- An in-depth description (6 text articles) of the Myers Briggs model of personality
- A fun 'powerpoint' presentation (46 slides with text annotations) explaining the mental muscles in more depth
- A Job Demands Questionnaire™ (JDQ™)that you can compare with your personality type, to see how you are being 'stretched' between the two
- Further MMDI reports, using your MMDI and/or JDQ code, can be found at http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/mmdi/
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