The Myers-Briggs Indicator

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, MBTI, provides a useful method for understanding people by looking at eight personality preferences that all people use at different times. These eight preferences are organized into four dichotomies, each made up of a pair of opposite preferences. The four dichotomies describes four activities: v Energizing-how a person is energized-either Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I). v Perceiving-what a person pays attention to-either Sensing (S) or Intuition (N) v Deciding-how a person …

…me to express my own preferences. When I am forced to use a style over a long period of time that doesn’t allow for, or call upon my preference, inefficiency and burn out may be the result. So, although I can adopt a different style when needed, and call upon different preference when appropriate, I will contribute most using my own preferences. The message this test gave me was to go with my strengths.