Exploring Personality Type (updated and links checked on 29 Nov 2023)

OUR OWN PERSONALITY TYPE

Exploring our own personality type allows us to better understand:
* Our natural talents
* Careers we are most naturally suited for.
* Personality types we get along with well.
* Personal growth and development modalities we’re naturally suited to.


THE HISTORY OF PERSONALITY TYPE

* Developed by Carl Jung in early 1900s
* Jung observed that our minds have two functions: gathering information (Perceiving) & making decisions (Judging)
* He believed that a mature adult has a well-developed Perceiving function: Sensing or iNtuition, and a well-developed Judging function: Thinking or Feeling
* He also identified the energizing aspect of personality type: Extraversion/Introversion
* Jung’s work was expanded by Isabel Myers and Katherine Briggs to include a 4th aspect, lifestyle. We either prefer a planned, scheduled lifestyle (Judging) or an unplanned go with the flow lifestyle (Perceiving).
* Further work done by many other researchers like David Keirsey.
* Current personality type tests available from many sources and on the web.


FOUR PERSONALITY TYPE PREFERENCES

* Our preference for energizing ourselves, recharging our batteries when we’re exhausted. [Extraversion/Introversion].
* Our preference for gathering information, Perceiving the world. [Sensing/iNtuition].
* Our preference for making decisions, for Judging. [Thinking/Feeling].
* Our lifestyle preference – more structure [Judging] or less structure [Perceiving].