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The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality test designed to assist a person in identifying their personality preferences. Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers developed the test during World War II, and its criteria follow from Carl Jung's theories in his work Psychological Types.
Carl Jung first developed the theory that individuals each had a psychological type. He believed that there were two basic kinds of "functions" which humans used in their lives: how we take in information (how we "perceive" things), and how we make decisions. He believed that within these two categories, there were two opposite ways of functioning. We can perceive information via 1) our senses, or 2) our intuition. We can make decisions based on 1) objective logic, or 2) subjective feelings. Jung believed that we all use these four functions in our lives, but that each individual uses the different functions with a varying amount of success and frequency.
The developed theory today is that every individual has a primary mode of operation within four categories:
1. our flow of energy
2. how we take in information
3. how we prefer to make decisions
4. the basic day-to-day lifestyle that we prefer
Learning about our Personality Type helps us to understand why certain areas in life come easily to us, and others are more of a struggle. Learning about other people's Personality Types help us to understand the most effective way to communicate with them, and how they function best.
More information on the MBTI:
http://www.personalitypage.com/home.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs
I've included a poll with it to see what most people here obtain, for want of a better word.
Unfortunately i can only include 10 options, the entire personality types are 16.