Personality Type Blog

10 Reasons Why Everyone Should Have a Rational Friend

15 October 2018 / By Jayne Thompson

If you have the opportunity to be friends with a Rational personality type, you are so lucky! Intuitive-Thinkers are the type of friends who will stay up late with you dissecting the meaning of life, motivate you to improve yourself, keep every one of your secrets, never sweat the small stuff and give back exactly what you invest. If you are loyal to a Rational, they will be your best friend for life.

Maybe you don't already have a Rational friend. If not, you're missing out. Here's why:

Categories: Types & Society, INTP, ENTP, ISTP, ESTP

What Keys Unlock the Door to Faith for Thinking Types?

08 October 2018 / By Gayle Weinraub

How do you look at life? According to the brilliant Swiss-American physicist Albert Einstein, our choice of how to live life is simple. “There are only two ways to live your life”, he reportedly said. “One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

Categories: Personality Science, INTJ, INTP, ENTP, ENTJ, ISTJ, ISTP, ESTP, ESTJ

Ranking the Briggs-Myers Personality Types By Who's the Most Addicted to Taking Risks

01 October 2018 / By Jayne Thompson

Hands up if you read this title and immediately answered, "ESTP!" I know I did. These types are renowned for being high-adrenaline risk takers who live life in the fast lane. If there is a type that's the most likely to zoom down the face of an active volcano on a plank of reinforced plywood, it's surely the ESTP.

Category: Self-Discovery

7 Myths About Intuitives - Debunked

24 September 2018 / By Jayne Thompson

When you're super creative and inventive, must you always type as "Intuitive"? Does seeing the big picture mean you're too abstract to survive in the real world? And if there were no Intuitives, would we really still be using stone tools?

We have separated the wheat from the chaff and identified some classic "N vs S" hogwash so you don't have to. Here are seven pesky myths about Intuition debunked.

Category: Self-Discovery

Should an INFJ Accept a Management Position?

17 September 2018 / By G. John Cole

You’re principled, organized and driven – so why, as an INFJ, are you not encouraged to pursue leadership roles?

The INFJ’s steady reputation often earns us positions of responsibility such as life coach, counselor, or employee relations officer; but positions of actual authority tend to evade us (or we avoid them). It’s an odd one, and it may have as much to do with the way our culture understands hierarchical structures as it does with our abilities.

Categories: Careers for Your Type, Personality At Work, INFJ

The Curious Dating Obstacles of an ENFP

10 September 2018 / By Kim Jacobson

Alright everyone, meet Jenny, our theoretical ENFP for the day. Jenny is vivacious and passionate, able to somehow be up in the clouds and grounded at the same time. She is also single and in the wonderful world of dating. As an ENFP there are fewer things that are more exciting than a world full of possibilities!

However, as you may well know, dear reader, dating is not always all it’s cracked up to be. Here are a few snags an ENFP like Jenny can expect to experience on her love-bound journey.

Categories: Personalities in Love, Relationships & Communication, ENFP

Who Needs a Relationship to be Happy? (These Personalities Might)

03 September 2018 / By Jayne Thompson

Are you good at being single? Do you feel that being in a relationship is great and all, but shock, horror! It's not the purpose of your existence. You'd much rather wait for the right person than date someone who isn't really compatible just for the built-in security of being in a couple.

Category: Relationships & Communication

What Happens if You Type in the Middle of the Briggs and Myers Scale?

27 August 2018 / By Jayne Thompson

"Hmm," said a small voice in his ear. "Difficult. Very difficult. Plenty of courage, I see. Not a bad mind either. There's talent, my goodness, yes - and a nice thirst to prove yourself, now that's interesting.... So where shall I put you?"

Harry gripped the edges of the stool and thought, not Slytherin, not Slytherin.

Category: Personality Science

How to Survive Living with a Perceiver When You're a Judger

20 August 2018 / By Jayne Thompson

I'm a Judger, a.k.a a freakishly neat, compulsively organized, stressed out, OCD bore. Ditto my ENTJ husband.

So will someone please explain how we managed to produce an INTP teenager, emphasis on the "P"?

Category: Parenting & Family

How to Stop Being Aimless and Find Purposeful Direction as an INFP

13 August 2018 / By Jayne Thompson

Nothing gives a person more energy than finding the direction they want to go in life. For some people, this is an easy thing to do. They just wake up one day and instinctively know their career path, or what their passion is, or what they're meant to be doing in the next phase of their life.

INFPs are not those people.

Category: INFP

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