“…there are no right and wrong answers to these things, just different perspectives for looking at life.”

If only people could understand and practice this. But everyone believes they’re right inside their head.

Hi Jose,

Great to see that you got value out of the MBTI assessment.

On the one hand, it made me feel like I was much more normal than I previously thought I was. Realizing that there are literally hundreds of millions of people around the world that tend to think in a similar way to me was something that came as a surprise to me.

On the other hand, it also made me more aware of how much my values differ from many other people. And there are no right and wrong answers to these things, just different perspectives for looking at life.

Finally I also found that even people who are MBTI opposites can often have a huge amount in common with you.

Often we ultimately value the same things as most important, such as the importance of family and good friends, but our process of reaching those values just goes via a different route.

Hi Josh, I can relate to much of this. I usually find thinking about the past or the future is much less positive and effective than being in the present moment, but my thoughts have a tendency to wandering into those areas and it is challenging to stop that and come back to now again.

With enough practice though, it is entirely possible to be whoever we want to be.

This article will help you gain an even better understanding of your thinking patterns
http://www.cognitiveprocesses.com/16Types/INTJ.cfm

Another good book is “The Power of Habit” by Charles Du Higg. Our thinking patterns are habits that we can control. It is very difficult to begin with, but over time it gets easier and easier.

Thank you for reminding me about the Strengths Finder, I’ve been meaning to read the book for a while!

Lol, I also thought I was not normal and something was wrong with me. I have too many things to quote from my ENFP-T result, but I’ll use the initial quote:

“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you
ache for – and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It
doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk
looking like a fool – for love – for your dreams – for the adventure of
being alive.”

This is me 100%

I’ve had a similar experience. I’m an INTJ, and my profile completely nails me. To the point where I realized that there were places where I thought I was weird or “broken” that are actually completely normal for my personality.

Like a healthy distain for authority. And a constant struggle to “be in the moment” instead of always thinking about how far I am from where I want to be… I perpetually live in my head, and that’s how INTJs are wired.

These assessments are well worth the time and minimal investment.

Other good ones include:

– Strengths Finder (mentioned below)
– Kolbe
– DISC

According to the 16personalities website, I’m a:
ENFP-T Personality (“The Campaigner”)

It’s shockingly accurate. Thanks to you, I have gained a better insight of who I am (and always been).

I think you might be able to identify some correlations between the two, but I’m fairly certain the team who built Strengths Finder use a completely different set of criteria and weights to calculate the person’s top 5 strengths.

Thanks Jason. Yes Strengths Finder is also very popular, I haven’t tried it myself but I have heard of several people who found it useful. Is it based on MBTI?

It categorizes those things we excel at naturally into strengths, and helps to understand how to mitigate our weaknesses.

My top 5 are Responsibility, Strategic, Input, Learner, Achiever.