Just for a bit of fun, take this quick personality test.Â
Grab a piece of paper and draw a pig.  Go on, don’t read on until you have your pig done to your satisfaction.Â
Now, here is what that pig says about you:
If the pig is drawn:
Toward the top of the paper, you are positive and [...]

For those of you familiar with MBTI type, I am sure you will find this amusing.
ISTJ          Lord, help me to relax my focus on insignificant details, even though any of them may cause significant problems later.  Begin this tomorrow at 8:31:04 am.
ISTP     God, please help me to consider other people’s feelings, even if most of them [...]

Many people struggle as youngsters with the idea of deciding what we “want to be when we grow up”.  Many adults still don’t know what they “want to be”, years after they start their working lives and careers.  Gone are the years of one job for life! Many of us will changes careers a number of times throughout our working [...]

 I have expressed my opinion before on the availability of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) “tests” on line and what I see as the dangers of such.Â
Now we are entering a whole new arena ….. I stumbled on this article today on Inside Facebook about an app available in facebook – My Personality that seems to [...]

The last process to be covered with MBTI is how we organise our outer world.  Are you a slave to your To Do List?  Does the thought of a To Do List leave you cold?  Do you like your life organised and structured or do you like to leave plans open in case a better [...]

Moving right along, the next process we need to look at is, how do you make decisions?  You will either have a preference for Thinking (T) or Feeling (F).  Again, we need to remember the meaning of these words in a Myers-Briggs context.Â
Thinking preference means you will use logic to make decisions and you will [...]

So, next up is the preference that determines how you prefer to gather and process information.  The preferences are for either Sensing or iNtuition (shown as S or N – the I is used for Introversion in the first preference).Â
Those with a preference for Sensing focus on past or present experiences and what they experienced [...]

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My apologies for being so slack!!  Sometimes life really does have a way of interfering with our plans!
So back to where we were …….  we established in my last couple of articles that the first dichotomy looks at where you get your energy from and that each of us has a preference for either Introversion [...]

One important thing to remember when we talk MBTI is that each of the words used to label preferences may have different meaning from a psychological point of view, or from a MBTI point of view than what they do in every day common use language.  We need to be careful to not make judgement [...]

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Welcome to the second of my series of articles about MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator).  This is a topic I am passionate about and am constantly disappointed to hear how it is misused and misunderstood.  I find it particularly difficult to be in conversations with people that go something along the lines of:
 “Oh Myers-Briggs, is that [...]