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Personality Types

The document discusses the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a personality assessment tool. It describes how MBTI was developed in the 1940s and is now widely used. MBTI categorizes personalities along four dichotomous scales: Extraversion-Introversion, Sensing-Intuition, Thinking-Feeling, and Judging-Perceiving. It provides insights into personality preferences and how individuals interact with and take in information from the world. While MBTI can increase self-awareness, it also has limitations and should not be used to overly predict or justify behavior.

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Personality Types

The document discusses the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a personality assessment tool. It describes how MBTI was developed in the 1940s and is now widely used. MBTI categorizes personalities along four dichotomous scales: Extraversion-Introversion, Sensing-Intuition, Thinking-Feeling, and Judging-Perceiving. It provides insights into personality preferences and how individuals interact with and take in information from the world. While MBTI can increase self-awareness, it also has limitations and should not be used to overly predict or justify behavior.

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Personality Types

Myer Briggs
(MBTI)

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• Behaviour is individual and
predictable
• Developed by Katherine
HISTORY Briggs (mother) and Isabel
OF MBTI Myers (daughter) 1940s
• The most widely used
personality indicator in the
world

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PREFERENCE SCALES

• Extraversion -------------- Introversion


• Sensing -------------- iNtuition
• Thinking -------------- Feeling
• Judging -------------- Perception

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• I vs. E: You’re exhausted after a tiring day at
work. To recharge your batteries, do you: a)
go to a out like for a party, or b) sit quietly at
home, alone?
• S vs. N: When some one is asking you for
directions, how do give – detailed or not in
The detail?
Questions • T vs. F: Would your friends consider you
more soft-hearted or clear-minded (facts
driven)?
• P vs. J: You’ve made careful plans for a
holiday (organised / list makers). At the last
moment, something forces you to change
your plans. How do you feel? Disturbed / its
ok.
Dominant style – developed by age 7
Secondary function – developed by age 20
Used to support the dominant function.
Together 75% or more of a persons behaviour.
Tertiary function – develops in the 30’s and
40’s
Inferior function – develops mid life or later

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Four Basic Function

Dealing
Energy Information Decisions with world
flow Processing processing around me

Extravert Sensing Thinking Judging

Introvert iNtuition Feeling Perceiving

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E-I DICHOTOMY
EXTRAVERSION INTROVERSION
• Attention focused outward: people, • Attention focused inward: concepts,
things, action ideas, feelings
• Using trial and errors with confidence • Considering deeply before acting
• Relaxed and confident • Reserved and questioning
• Scanning the environment for • Probing inwardly for stimulation
stimulation
• Seeks quiet for concentration
• Seeks variety and action
• Wants time to be alone
• Wants to be with others
• Understand it before, live it
• Live it, then understand it

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S-N DICHOTOMY
SENSING INTUITION
• Perceiving with the 5 senses • Perceiving with memory and
association (6th sense)
• Reliance on experience and actual data
• Seeing patterns and meanings
• Practical
• Innovation
• In touch with physical realities • Seeing possibilities
• Attending to the present moment • Future achievement
• Live life as it is • Projecting possibilities for the future
• Prefer using learned skills • Change, rearrange life
• Pay attention to details • Prefers adding new skills

• Make few factual errors • Look at big picture


• Identifies complex pattern

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T-F DICHOTOMY

THINKING FEELING
• Decision based on the logic of the • Decisions based on impact on
situation people
• Uses cause and effect reasoning • Guided by personal values
• Strive for an objective standard of truth • Strive for harmony and positive
interaction
• Can be tough-minded
• Fair- want everyone treated equally
• May appear tender hearted
• Fair-want everyone treated as an
individual

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J-P DICHOTOMY
JUDGING PERCEIVING

• Focuses on completing task • Focuses on starting task


• Deciding and planning • Taking in information
• Organizing and scheduling • Adapting and changing
• Controlling and regulating • Curious and interested
• Goal oriented • Open minded
• Wanting closure even when data • Resisting closure in order to obtain
are incomplete more data
• Wants only the essentials of the job • Wants to find out about the job

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• Extravert :-action oriented
• Introvert :-contemplative (thoughtful)
• Sensing :-pragmatic (practical)
• Intuition :-visionary
• Thinking :-logical
• Feeling :-compassionate
• Judging :-planful
• Perceiving :-adaptable
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ADVANTAGES OF MBTI
• Self awareness for better self-
management
• Identification of behaviour trends
that have positive outcomes
• Identification of behaviour trends
that have less desirable outcomes
• Link trends with other data points to
clarify personal or professional
developmental opportunities
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DISADVANTAGES OF MBTI

• Trying to predict others behaviour


• Trying to estimate another individual
type (eg. You must be an extravert
because you are so expressive)
• Assuming that how a preference plays
for you is exactly how it would play
out for someone else
• Justifying behavior (e.g. Declaring that
the individual must be P because he is
always late)
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TYPE TABLE

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THANK YOU

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