Myers-Briggs: Being Predictable

Because I am highly amused by this:

INFJ – “Author”. Strong drive and enjoyment to help others. Complex personality. 1.5% of total population.

Take Free Myers- Briggs Personality Test

Maybe I just hang out with author-types, but it’s same answer that Ceri scored on the test.

What I found interesting were these scores:

Introverted (I) 61.54% Extroverted (E) 38.46%
Intuitive (N) 55.26% Sensing (S) 44.74%
Feeling (F) 62.86% Thinking (T) 37.14%
Judging (J) 57.14% Perceiving (P) 42.86%

Doing a bit of research I discovered that INFJs (Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging types) typically displat traits such as, or similar to, the following:

Intuitively understand people and situations
Idealistic
Highly principled
Complex and deep
Natural leaders
Sensitive and compassionate towards people
Service-oriented
Future-oriented
Value deep, authentic relationships
Reserved about expressing their true selves
Dislike dealing with details unless they enhance or promote their vision
Constantly seeking meaning and purpose in everything
Creative and visionary
Intense and tightly-wound
Can work logically and rationally – use their intuition to understand the goal and work backwards towards it

Apparently, [t]hey need to feel as if everything they do in their lives is in sync with their strong value systems – with what they believe to be right. Accordingly, the INFJ should choose a career in which they’re able to live their daily lives in accordance with their deeply-held principles, and which supports them in their life quest to be doing something meaningful. Hey, that sounds kind of familiar…

And what’s right at the top of the career list for INFJ-types? Clergy / Religious Work, directly followed by Teachers. A couple lower we find Alternative Health Care Practitioners, Counselors and Social Workers, and Musicians and Artists.

So nice to know I’m pursuing paths generally considered rewarding for my personality type. And yet… not so nice to be this predictable. (That’s probably an INFJ thing too, I’ll bet.)

INFJ is apparently the rarest personality type, coming in at a whopping 2% of the population. Read all about ’em here, and here too.