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Understanding Your Personality

Discussion in 'Self Improvement' started by The Real Man, Apr 10, 2019.

  1. The Real Man

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    I thought this would be an interesting topic to some, and it's one I've not yet seen on these forums. Anyone familiar with MBTI theory? If not, read on and you may learn some very interesting stuff about yourself.

    What this mostly consists of is a test, taken online, to determine your personality type. There isn't really a whole lot to explain, as the site I have linked at the bottom of this post will explain it much more thoroughly than I can. I do think that coming to a basic understanding of yourself and your own personal tendencies is important, and in my experience the best place to start is identifying your personality type.

    A few points to be made. MBTI theory and the test itself is not an exact science. It is heavily researched and is valid theory, and mostly accurate. It cannot, however, take into account the differences between individuals, even though those individuals may have the same exact personality type. This isn't a way of segregating people into boxes with labels. It is a generalisation, but when you get to the end of the test there will be an extensive written feature on your test result and your personality type. You may be surprised with some of things you read, I know I certainly was. Taking this test changed a lot of things for me, and caused me to better understand the way I do things, and why I do things a certain way. It also helped me to understand my flaws, and so learned to develop those areas of my life. Perhaps most importantly, it helped me embrace myself as the person I am and helped me understand the ways in which we all differ, which helped my social life greatly.

    It is extremely important to answer every question honestly for most accurate results.

    https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
    For anyone who may be a little curious, this is my own result when I take the test. I find it to be mostly accurate, especially in areas pertaining to my social habits and tendencies: https://www.16personalities.com/intp-personality

    Happy researching, I look forward to seeing a discussion unfold here :)
     
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    It would be interesting if someone documented their personality across a complete reboot.

    Who knows how many of our traits & behaviors are there because we are wounded or addicted?
     
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    That's a great idea! I'd imagine you may see things to do with social habits, such as speaking confidently, or looking people in the eye change over time due to increased testosterone. That's from my perspective as an introvert anyway, an extrovert would maybe see different changes. You would need a wide range of personality types to do this to see how the reboot process affects each one. Very interesting idea!
     
  8. vulture175

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    @The Real Man : u sound like an intp :p . This is an interesting topic, I've been studying this for a while and really got into jungian functions. I notice when we pmo our personality mess up and we're not really ourselves. The inferior function is the scariest function that we tend to avoid yet it is the pathway to our consciousness. I believe if we understand this better we can understand why we get addicted to pmo or anything in the first place. It can even help us come up a nonmedical way to deal with mental illnesses. As Jung said "inferior is God" which he means although it is scary function to us, that positive pain helps us connect with self which can create a more intellectual society.

    Take intp for example, introvert sensing and extrovert feeling is struggle, but when intp spends enough time and energy on that function, he can experience an enlightening moment which helps him understand the hidden unconscious and he would naturally understand and respect his opposite types such as isfj. But of course, it's just my theory ^^
     
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    Mine actually changed. I was ENTJ, but now I am ENFP. Seems trying to get rid of porn AHS made me less performance oriented, and more socially oriented.
     
  10. Hi, don't know if the threads died but I'm interested in this stuff.

    My experience is similar to @frogs2345 in that it changes between 2 depending on levels of confidence and social inclination, which depend on where I am with PMO (struggling and feeling hopeless = INFP, abstinent, even if very short term, and feeling positive = INFJ).
     
  11. I'm interested in these subjects but in particular I don't like that test very much. The problem is that it is based on behavior while the MBTI is based on cognitive functions and furthermore the problem is that it uses silly stereotypes, for example when it asks "When in a group of people you do not know, you have no problem jumping right into their conversation" that is not introversion or extroversion, it is insecurity or shyness and it is applicable to all types.

    Our Approach
    With our model, we’ve combined the best of both worlds. We use the acronym format introduced by Myers-Briggs for its simplicity and convenience, with an extra letter to accommodate five rather than four scales. However, unlike Myers-Briggs or other theories based on the Jungian model, we have not incorporated Jungian concepts such as cognitive functions, or their prioritization. Jungian concepts are very difficult to measure and validate scientifically, so we’ve instead chosen to rework and rebalance the dimensions of personality called the Big Five personality traits, a model that dominates modern psychological and social research.
    Our personality types are based on five independent spectrums, with all letters in the type code (e.g. INFJ-A) referring to one of the two sides of the corresponding spectrum. You can see where you fall on each scale by completing our free personality assessment, NERIS Type Explorer®. This approach has allowed us to achieve high test accuracy while also retaining the ability to define and describe distinct personality types.​

    That test is based on something called "Big Five", it's not necessarily a bad thing but MBTI is really powerful but yout type can't change, Big Five on the other hand is just a percentage representation of your behaviors, it changes over time and it doesn't say much beyond the numbers. With MBTI you can understand how your brain works, with Big Five you just take a picture of your personality.

    Ah, I am ENTP (Ne-Ti-Fe-Si)
     
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  12. Thanks andean. I'm slightly confused. When I google neris type explorer I get 16personalities. Are you saying that is the superior or inferior test? If inferior, can you recommend a superior one?
    Cheers
     
  13. HINT: If you can't tell whether you're INFP or INFJ, you're INFJ. Also, you'll probably be 'Buddha family' in the Buddha family.

    The ultimate in personality type accuracy is objectivepersonality.com . Celebritytypes.com is actually pretty informative too. It's been ages since I did 16personalities, but that might have been the one that gave me bogus results.

    There's also a certain ;) guy who did a few ;) videos on being ;) INFJ on ;) YouTube. You should check him out, although I couldn't possibly tell you who he is. :D
     
  14. That was my thought - I'm INFJ and being depressed causes me to mistype because I'm not really me when in that frame of mind.

    I've never heard of Buddha family. Similar thing?

    Cheers bud I'll check out those sites. Always interested in that sort of stuff. Read a good thread somewhere recently (not on nofap) about grip stress and how se can 'grip' my type and throw me way out of whack, especially when stress is chronic. PMO is an se activity, and when used addictively, creates life problems which increase stress.......... You get the picture.

    Oh no of course not! But you could signpost said videos if you were so inclined...
     
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  15. Yeah, the Buddha Family is like the Buddhist MBTI system, and there's a sub-group also called Buddha Family, which essentially equates to INFJ. I suspect they named our group Buddha Family just to make us feel better about being impractical space cadets. :p

    Feel self-conscious. Cannae dae it. Mibbi l8r.

    Your post is INFJ-AF.

    Objective Personality is doing reeeeeeeaaally impressive, fine-grained, scientifically rigorous (taking into account the subjective nature of this whole thing, which is what makes their methodology and results so profoundly impressive) stuff. Definitely worth checkin' oot.
     
  16. Alright cool, I'll let you off the hook. For now. But in the future don't dangle interesting things in front of my nose if you don't want me to pay attention and not give up until I get them!

    4.4 buddhas and objective-p gives me enough to keep busy with for a while.
     
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  17. Noted. That's actually legit helpful feedback.

    Yeah - I need to look into the Buddha thing more too. Only found out about it the other week. Let me know what you discover...
     
  18. The perfect test doesn't exist, 16personalities is not necessarily a bad thing but my point is that it doesn't respect the MBTI theory.

    Imagine taking a picture of your body in February, then in March and then in April. It's excellent because it's a more objective way to see the changes. 16personalities (and "Big Five") is that, it's personality pictures but it focuses more on the behavior than the cognitive side. That's why many people change their 16personalities score over time when in fact your MBTI type should never change.

    I don't think there is an ideal test on the Internet, this is a personal process that requires contemplation and self-knowledge. I can recommend the book Gifts Differing by Isabel Briggs Myers, it clearly explains the differences between the different types and also is helpful to understand the cognitive functions instead of reducing the types to a false dichotomy between the four letters.
    And although it is not a test, in the forum personalitycafe I have found much material on the subject, you could also look there for things related to this that has been very useful to me to grow as a person.
     
  19. Ha love the surprise at me saying something useful!!

    Will do bro.
     
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  20. I get offended by the same shit! Everything an INFJ says is inherently useful, after all, otherwise why would we have deigned to utter it?
     

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