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Kafke  ·  3959 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is your MBTI Personality Type, and what are your functions?

Perhaps it'd be best then to look at the functions themselves and decide that way? I didn't have any problem answering the questions.

A couple of them, maybe, but the vast majority were fairly quick/simple to answer and involved clicking one of the "extreme" answers.

Regardless of what your answers to the questions may be, your personality doesn't change instantly. Neither does your way of thinking.

Here's a few short questions that could replace the quiz:

Social (E) or No (I)? AkA do you like to be in large crowds of people and large friend groups, or do you prefer less people? This is fairly straight forward.

Do you like abstract thinking (N)? Or prefer more "in the now" type stuff (S)? Are you interested in practicality and stuff that can be done right now (S), or more of thinking in the future/past, and your thoughts tend to be unrelated to what's happening (N)? I found this is the hardest part to answer (at least in my case).

Thinking (T) or Feeling (F)? Do you logic and reason through your answers, relying on mental equations to determine how you react? Or do you react with emotion, thinking in good vs bad? This one is also fairly easy IMO. AKA Is your question Who or Why?

And finally, do you make plans (J)? Are you super goal/plan oriented (P)? Or tend to go with the flow? Again, fairly easy if you know yourself. Do you procrastinate, or get things done on day 1?

Grab the letters and put them together. This is the naive way of seeing what type you are. Works decently, but may type incorrectly if you aren't aware of your reasons for picking those answers.

From there, you'd want to look at a function table:

And see if that matches you correctly.

My type is ISTP, which means I have internal Thinking, external sensing, internal intuition, and external feeling, in that order of intensity (thinking being my strongest, feeling the weakest). These functions take a bit to learn how each works, but I find they are all accurate.

A quick example would be my external (but weak) feeling. Which basically means that I tend to ignore it (since it's lower) but it bottles up and I just kind of explode, revealing my emotions raw and being unable to handle them. That's the combination of unconscious/lower feeling, combined with it being external.

As I said, you'd have to read more for each function. It's all interesting stuff though. And once you figure out your type, you can google around and find a lot of people who think/act like you. It's quite surprising.

I'm sad to see that hubski is apparently against this whole system.





codingvagrant  ·  3959 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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elizabeth  ·  3959 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I tried and I have to agree with codingvagrant. I really don't know how to answer most questions. There are days i'm social, there are days I want to be left alone. I think and feel. I honestly don't know which matters most to me because it depends a lot on the situation. Some decisions I make by thinking them through, others I base more on feelings. Or a combination of both. I can make plans to be safe, but be perfectly fine with going with the flow if things don't work out. But I don't really enjoy planning and things not going as planned can be frustrating. Maybe it's a good test but I probably lack the self awareness to take it correctly.

Haha maybe I lack introverted thinking or something.