Replying to Avatar ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ

one of the things that has been part of the fiatmine gig i have (well, the pay is indexed on fiat) is MBTI, the Myer-Briggs personality system.

as a child i did the test and i got INTP, but when i do it now, 2x out of 3 i get INTJ. well, i guess that means that something changed in me since then. i have thought about it and i think it's that the P is observation and J is impulse and i'm more impulsive and decisive than i was back then.

the other thing that resonated was one site gave a general term for INTJ as "the mediator" and i was like, "omg, i forget how many times i got into shit over the years trying to mediate between people in conflict"

yeah, ok, i'm INTJ

introspective, intuitive, thinking, judging. my mother was ENFJ and we used to often have conflicts about exactly the fields that were different - she was more outward focused and more focused on feeling that thinking.

it's not a useless system, i think. probably can be useful to help guide an organisation. the one i work in i have definitely had issues with two specific people in it and probably they will return a test that has one or both of the last two in conflict (those are tension oriented) or the first two different (those cause misunderstanding).
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MoMeezy ϟ 𓅦 ₿ 6mo ago

i either get intj or entj, with introversion/extroversion near the center of the continuum.

its wierd being basically dead center on the i/e scale. i have often heard people describe extroversion vs introversion as whether you get recharged or drained when interacting with others and for me it just doesn’t work that way.

an unrelated point:

isn’t the big 5 model superior to the mbti in terms of actionability and predictiveness?

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 6mo ago

i honestly have no idea. the reason it's back on my radar is apparently it's popular in asia right now, so the work i'm doing includes an MBTI score

but i agree with the principle of it, but it is a bit more fuzzy than the 16 possible values, probably it's most useful knowing your own so you know how to deal with the various conflicts. the first two letters are just positive if they match, the last two are negative if they conflict. at least that's how the evaluation algorithm i used says it.