I was chatting with Leah, Josh and Troy at Leia’s birthday party on Saturday and we got to talking about Myers-Briggs personality tests (they’re the ones which result in a set of four letters indicating a personality type). At the time I thought I might be INTJ, but I wasn’t sure. Well, as it turns out, I’m ISTJ. I took the Word Choice Test at similarminds.com and the test at Humanmetrics.com and both confirmed that I’m ISTJ.
Reading over commentary on ISTJ, it seems mostly right, though I’m definitely not the “We’ve always done it this way” type (as one site put it). Typelogic’s ISTJ Profile is fairly colloquial and it includes examples of famous ISTJs. And PersonalityPage’s Portrait of an ISTJ is also good.
In any case, perhaps my friends would be a better judge of whether these assessments are an accurate portrayal of me. It can be hard to analyze myself and it may be easier for someone with an outside perspective. If you think some of the characteristics in the write-ups are right (or wrong) about me, leave a comment (and you may as well include your letters if you know them).
Funny. Our whole office did the test and only 4 of us came out ISTJ. It’s apparently the most rare personality. (yes, believe it or not, I’m an introvert) So, we decided to form an ISTJ club here at work, but of course we never have meetings because we prefer to be left alone. ;)
The test is pretty amazing and accurate.
I am ENTJ -> http://www.personalitypage.com/ENTJ.html
My wife is ISFJ and we have the Duality relationship. Kinda cool.
I always get ENFP.
I’m ESFP. No surprise there.
I remember doing this kind of test before, but have no idea what letters I came out with. I like to try to control these kinds of tests so I find it hard to trust the results. I’m going to have to take a Myers-Briggs test or two and see if they all come out with the same result.
I recently completed one of those online IQ tests and was fairly pleased with the results, but am really curious how accurate they are (again not trusting the test).