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Myers-Briggs Assessment

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After taking a Myers-Briggs assessment my mind has been changed. The very first time I took any kind of personal assessment was my second year of college. I had taken my general education classes and it was time to pick a major. The thing is, what 19 year old know what they want to do for the rest of their lives? None I tell you! So I went to an advisor and was given the test. Many seemingly random questions the results were in; you can be a doctor or lawyer or astronaut they said! The least helpful 45 minutes of my life I gave to that advisor. Taking the Myers-Briggs seemed no different. A long test with seemingly unsystematic questions about nothing specific. This time, for the first time, I got it. After I read the results I understood. This test didn’t try to tell me what career I should select, or what degree to pick. It simply gave me results about me. My result gave me a type ISTP, where each letter stands for personality traits. Introversion, Sensing, Thinking, and Perception. To me that didn’t mean much, until I started reading up on them. With every sentence I found myself agreeing more and more. Factual, realistic, and impersonal. Cool-headed, perceptive, and …show more content…

“(S)ensing: preferred to intuition; ISTPs tend to be more concrete than abstract. They focus their attention on the details rather than the big picture, and on immediate realities rather than future possibilities.” There have been many times in my life where I couldn’t understand why people were worried about the future, or things they had no control over. “If you can’t know what tomorrow holds then why worry about it? Live in the now, how hard can it be?” I often thought to myself. Now I know, it can be hard. If that’s not part of your personality, part of how God made you to think, that can be very hard. Just as hard as it is for me to be around large groups of people for extended periods of

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