meyers-briggs: file under TMI
recently, a friend of mine re-took the meyers briggs personality test...again...
...she read the descriptions of the personality types and pegged me as a an 'LMNOP' or some such.
in the spirit of fair play, i took a test based on meyers-brings but which differs in that it does not characterize the person or personality by assignement of meaningless (to folks outside of the cult) letters.
aparently, i'm a guardian. ha. usually, i'm the one being guarded.
"Guardians are the cornerstone of society for they are the temperament given to serving and preserving our most important social institutions. Guardians have a natural talent for managing goods and services -- from supervision to maintenance and supply -- and they use all their skills to keep things running smoothly in their families, communities, schools, chucrches, hospitals and businesses.
Guardians have a lot of fun with their friends, but they are quite serious about their duties and responsibilities. Guardians take pride in being dependable and trustworthy; if there's a job to be done, they can be counted on to put their shoulder to the wheel. Guardians also believe in law and order, and sometimes worry that respect for authority, even a fundamental sense of right and wrong, is being lost. Perhaps this is why Guardians honor customs and traditions so strongly -- they are familiar patterns that help bring stability to our modern, fast-paced world.
Practical and down-to-earth, Guardians believe in following the rules and cooperating with others. They are not very comfortable winging it or blazing new trails; working steadily within the system is the Guardian way, for in the long run loyalty, discipline and teamwork get the job done right. Guardians are meticulous about schedules and have a sharp eye for proper procedures. They are cautious about change, even thought they know that change can be healty for an institution. Better to go slowly, they say, and look before you leap."
well, then. babs thinks my meyers-briggs type is 'ISTJ': Introvert Sensing Thinking Judging.
she qualifies her opinion by pointing out that none of those words have the typical meaning. she says, what it really means is...
introvert: really that i get my energy more from being alone; being around other people can tend to make me tired. whereas extroverts tend to get their energy from being around other people.
sensing: noticing all of the details of my environment. remembering things like the plot of a movie, what you were wearing on the 12 of december 1996, etc. comparitively an intuitive person (the opposite) sees the details but remembers the larger meaning of the parts.
...and none of these things are absolutes...
thinking vs. feeling: where you go to first in a situation. tending to ask about the event rather than what someone feels about the event.
judging/perceiving: judging...creating structure in my life, organization and such.
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hey, i called the ISTJ too - you ought to add that little blurb i sent you on it. summed you up nicely (frighteningly actually). i would say all 4 preferences are quite strong for you. i like that we have 'j' in common :)...it's something, no? at least we both like to be on time.
as for the guardian, that fits too...probably an ISTJ on the backend. is there a link to the test you took? here's an alternative m/b analysis with a star wars bent: http://www.xeromag.com/fun/personality.html
according to this, you are "The Thought Police":
ISTJs are characterized by loyalty, duty, and civic responsibility. As an ISTJ, you have a natural understanding of the value of civil harmony and order, and a deep-seated dislike of non-conformity, anarchy, and chaos.
For an ISTJ, work is very important to a sense of self-satisfaction. Happiness comes most easily for you when you have a job that allows you to express your ethic. Whether it's blasting traitorous rebel scum as a proud Imperial Stormtrooper or monitoring the population's cerebral implants searching for evidence of unauthorized thought patterns as one of the Thought Police, you're most satisfied when you are crushing the population beneath the iron boot heel of oppression on behalf of your masters.
RECREATION; ISTJs approach leisure with the same dedication they bring to spreading tyrrany and oppression. Common ISTJ pasttimes include cleaning their rifles, improving their marksmanship, betting on political dissidents in the Gladiator Arena, and macrame.
COMPATIBILITY: ISTJs are capable of stong emotional connections, bonding closely with the other ISTJs in their unit, platoon, or sector.
Famous ISTJs include TK-421, Torquemada, and Yuri Andropov.
You can read up on me, ENFJ: The Cult Leader, at the above link.
Posted by: jenn | November 21, 2005 05:08 AM
just a quick comment on one small item in you response: the xeromag site you point me to is hosted and run by an old friend of mine from tampa. small world.
Posted by: sams | November 21, 2005 08:45 AM