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It is easy to romanticize a certain personality type and see yourself that way, but in order to truly understand how your brain works, we would need to get an accurate result. Therefore, when self-administering the personality test online, you need to be willing to be authentic, honest and open-minded. Do your best to choose the answers that represent who you are now and not who you wish you were someday in the future.
LEARN ABOUT YOURSELF
Prior to conducting a coaching session, I will firstly encourage you to do your own research and get as many perspectives from different sources as possible. Read up the personality descriptions from the different links I have compiled and offered to you. Also, you can go onto YouTube and watch some really useful video content about your personality type. I will provide recommendations for you as to which are the best channels on the topic, along with other useful resources for understanding Jungian Analytical Psychology.
FLAWS OF ONLINE TESTS
That is because online tests are not always very accurate and people are generally just not good at self-evaluation, so if the results you get might give you a description that does not resonate with you 100 %. If this is the case, it would be wise to check out & compare the profiles of other similar personality types, since you might discover that a slightly different profile fits you better.
GET PROFILED BY A PROFESSIONAL
Ideally though, if you wish to understand yourself with full certainty that your type is correct - you would want to be interviewed and profiled by a professional Jungian profiler or MBTI certified practitioner. Personality coaching sessions with a qualified Jungian analyst can be life-changing and extremely enlightening for people seeking self-actualization. Utilizing these tools can be especially helpful for you if you find that you struggle to feel understood by others, rejected by society, have difficulting building and maintaining lasting and healthy relationships, or struggle with achieving your most ambitious goals.
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU
Jungian analytical psychology is an amazing tool for personal growth tailored to an individual's specific style of learning and making decisions. Personality coaching does not focus on diagnosing and curing mental illnesses, because we now understand that what may be seen as practical from one person's perspective, can look crazy to a person with a differing point of view.
And so, in my coaching practice, I do not dig into my client's minds to find and fix what is considered "wrong" with them. I am aware that we all have our own unique world-view and perspective, which equipt us with specific strengths, weaknesses and natural talents that are specific to us. There is no one perspective that is any more or less valuable than someone else's.
Therefore, this coaching framework is not about trying to change or fix how you learn or how you think. Instead, it is an exploration of your mental wiring. The main purpose for identifying your cognitive function stack and personality type is simply to observe, understand and appreciate the unique way you experience reality. Therefore, you can gain a lot of insight into your true self at your very core, as well as gain insight into the mental processes you use to experience and make decisions in your life.
THE FOUR LETTERS
Your MBTI type reveals more than just a summary of what kind of person you are. This test determines what your primary way of interacting with the world is.
Your Hero or dominant cognitive function will either be a
Judging (decision-making) function or a
Perceiving function (learning style).
Therefore, dominant Perceivers will first value learning and taking in new information, before making a decision.
Whereas dominant Judgers will likely place more value on making quick decisions on the spot in real-time without needing to have all the information first.
ATTITUDES
The first letter of your personality type determines where you place most of your focus and how you gain and restore your energy. Your results will either begin with an (E) which stands for Extroversion or an (I) which stands for Introversion. This tells us what your preferred cognitive attitude is.
People with a dominant Extroverted function tends to focus on the outer world, to explore and learn in real-time in a social group setting.
Those whose dominant function's attitude is Introverted, will prefer to focus more on exploring their own subjective, private and rich inner worlds.
This tells us where your preferred style or focus lies - since Extroverts tend to focus their energy outward and this restores their energy levels, whereas Introverts are much more internally focused and become easily drained by crowds and parties.
SECOND LETTER (AUXILIARY/GROWTH FUNCTION) - Sensing vs Intuition
The second letter of your MBTI type describes your preference for one of the two Perceiving (learning new information) functions, which would either be:
Sensing (S) vs. Intuition (N),
Sensing means that a person mainly trusts the information that he/she receives directly from the external world. A sensor mainly relies on concrete, actual information - “in so far as objects release sensations, they matter. whereas Intuition means a person
Intuition means that a person believes mainly information he or she receives from the internal or imaginative world. An Intuitive person relies more upon abstract meaning, symbols, and their metaphysical conceptions about things & ideas based on their understanding of the world.
THIRD LETTER (TERTIARY/RELIEF FUNCTION) - Thinking vs Feeling
The third letter determines your preference for one of the following two functions of Judging (making decisions), and will either be:
Thinking (T) vs. Feeling (F)
The third criterion, Thinking – Feeling, represents how a person processes information. Thinking means that a person makes a decision mainly through logic. Thinking preference means an individual makes decisions based on logical reasoning and is less affected by feelings and emotions.
Feeling means that, as a rule, he or she makes a decision based on emotion and values, i.e. based on what they feel they should do. Feeling preference means that an individual's base for decisions is mainly feelings and emotions.
FOURTH LETTER (INFERIOR/ASPIRATIONAL FUNCTION) - Judging vs Percieving
Judging (J) vs. Perceiving (P)
The fourth criterion, Judging – Perceiving, reflects how a person implements the information he or she has processed.
Judging means that a person organizes all of his life events and, as a rule, sticks to his plans.
Perceiving means that he or she is inclined to improvise and explore alternative options.
THE 16 PERSONALITY TYPES
All possible permutations of preferences in the 4 dichotomies above yield 16 different combinations, or personality types, representing which of the two poles in each of the four dichotomies dominates in a person, thus defining 16 different personality types. Each personality type can be assigned a 4 letter acronym of the corresponding combination of preferences.
Carl Jung introduced the idea of hierarchy and direction of psychological functions. According to Jung, one of the psychological functions - a function from either judging or perception pair – would be primary (also called dominant). In other words, one pole of the poles of the two dichotomies (Sensing-Feeling and Thinking-Feeling) dominates over the rest of the poles. The Extraversion-Introversion preference sets the direction of the dominant function: the direction points to the source of energy that feeds it – i.e. to the outer world for extraverts and to the inner world for introverts.
Jung suggested that a function from the other pair would be secondary (also called auxiliary) but still be “a determining factor” ie. if Intuition is dominant, then the auxiliary one is either Thinking or Feeling. If Sensing is dominant, then the auxiliary one can also be either Thinking or Feeling. However, if Thinking is dominant, then the auxiliary one is either Sensing or Intuition, and if Feeling is dominant then the auxiliary one is either Sensing or Intuition. In other words, the auxiliary function never belongs to the same dichotomy.
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