Personality type-- for fun

[Kellyerin222]

Hello Everyone,

One of my main interests in psychology is pesonality. I have David Keirsy's book "Please Understand Me II" and it is similar to the Myer Briggs personality type, but I prefer it over the the MB. I am an "Idealist- Counselor" and have found everything right on--- the paragraph below really explains the core of my personality and who I am

So just for fun and anyone who is interested (it will take about 10-15 minutes) posting a link to take a small quiz to see what your personality type is.

http://kts2.personalityzone.com/user/register.aspx



Mine:
Custom Keirsey Temperament Report for Kelly
Your Keirsey Temperament Sorter Results indicate that your personality type is that of The IdealistTM.
All Idealists share the following core characteristics:
Idealists are enthusiastic, they trust their intuition, yearn for romance, seek their true self, prize meaningful relationships, and dream of attaining wisdom.
Idealists pride themselves on being loving, kindhearted, and authentic.
Idealists tend to be giving, trusting, spiritual, and they are focused on personal journeys and human potentials.
Idealists make intense mates, nurturing parents, and inspirational leaders.

Idealists as a temperament, are passionately concerned with personal growth and development. Idealists strive to discover who they are and how they can become their best possible self--always this quest for self-knowledge and self-improvement drives their imagination. And they want to help others make the journey. Idealists are naturally drawn to working with people, and whether in education or counseling, in social services or personnel work, in journalism or the ministry, they are gifted at helping others find their way in life, often inspiring them to grow as individuals and to fulfill their potentials.

Idealists are sure that friendly cooperation is the best way for people to achieve their goals. Conflict and confrontation upset them because they seem to put up angry barriers between people. Idealists dream of creating harmonious, even caring personal relations, and they have a unique talent for helping people get along with each other and work together for the good of all. Such interpersonal harmony might be a romantic ideal, but then Idealists are incurable romantics who prefer to focus on what might be, rather than what is. The real, practical world is only a starting place for Idealists; they believe that life is filled with possibilities waiting to be realized, rich with meanings calling out to be understood. This idea of a mystical or spiritual dimension to life, the "not visible" or the "not yet" that can only be known through intuition or by a leap of faith, is far more important to Idealists than the world of material things.

Highly ethical in their actions, Idealists hold themselves to a strict standard of personal integrity. They must be true to themselves and to others, and they can be quite hard on themselves when they are dishonest, or when they are false or insincere. More often, however, Idealists are the very soul of kindness. Particularly in their personal relationships, Idealists are without question filled with love and good will. They believe in giving of themselves to help others; they cherish a few warm, sensitive friendships; they strive for a special rapport with their children; and in marriage they wish to find a "soulmate," someone with whom they can bond emotionally and spiritually, sharing their deepest feelings and their complex inner worlds.

Idealists are relatively rare, making up no more than 15 to 20 percent of the population. But their ability to inspire people with their enthusiasm and their idealism has given them influence far beyond their numbers.

[Polly]

Hi Kel,

I am a Myers-Briggs ENTP. The characterisitic that most defines me is the "N" I believe. I think ENTPs are about 5% of the population.

Polly

[starfire]

It says I'm a Guardian.

[MaggieRedwings]

I am a Guardian too.

Love, Maggie

[Dee]

The Guardian....

Dee~~~`````

[ErinD]

I'm a Guardian too!

[Kellyerin222]

No Idealist like me ---- now I am going to cry, lol! My husband is a guardian and it does fit him well. He is usually the fatherly type and try to keep order and provide guidance.

[tex]

Hi Kelly,

Actually, we've done this before, using a different test, (as Polly mentioned):

http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewt ... light=entp

On that test, I was rated as an INTP, (Architect), the description of which seems to be right on the money.

I didn't take the test in your link, because I'm not too hot on sites that offer a carrot, but then require you to disclose a bunch of personal information in order to gain access to that carrot. (That's probably a key part of my personality profile. ). Obviously, if someone is going to join a site, or make an on-line purchase, etc., then disclosing certain personal information is necessary, but it's not necessary to do that in order to take a simple personality test. I have no doubt the results would be the same, however, as the Myers-Briggs typology test results.

This is a very interesting topic, but according to the results of the previous poll, there doesn't seem to be any apparent correlation with MC, except that Artisans are conspicuously absent, (only one response in the poll).

Tex

[barbaranoela]

by golly Galahad---thats why I didnt do the test---didnt want to give out my info---

but the one we did with U---I also was the GUARDIAN----

[Kellyerin222]

Tex: Thats no problem and I completely understand about sites that require personal information. I actually only put in my first name and 1 letter for the last name and I have a junk email account for all those lovely websites that require such, lol.

Yep, Myer Briggs is the most common personality test. It was very interesting information on how those two ladies developed it from the basis of Jung psychology. I have read many of Jung's books (can give you a headache if your not use to it, lol) and actually find Jung interesting. Besides personality psychology, my second focus is self-actulization and admire Jung, Rogers and Maslow for their insight into that.

[mle_ii]

I took the MB a long time ago, not sure if I'm the same, but back then I was INFP.

[mini]

Hi Kelly

I took the Myers/Briggs also I studied Psychology! Going to have to say I love reading Freud, wonderful to write critics on! At the moment for me it would have to be Carl Rogers for 'Self Actualisation' because I believe this.


The Portait of the Counselor (INFJ)

The Counselor Idealists are abstract in thought and speech, cooperative in reaching their goals, and enterprising and attentive in their interpersonal roles. Counselors focus on human potentials, think in terms of ethical values, and come easily to decisions. The small number of this type (little more than 2 percent) is regrettable, since Counselors have an unusually strong desire to contribute to the welfare of others and genuinely enjoy helping their companions. Although Counsleors tend to be private, sensitive people, and are not generally visible leaders, they nevertheless work quite intensely with those close to them, quietly exerting their influence behind the scenes with their families, friends, and colleagues. This type has great depth of personality; they are themselves complicated, and can understand and deal with complex issues and people.

Counselors can be hard to get to know. They have an unusually rich inner life, but they are reserved and tend not to share their reactions except with those they trust. With their loved ones, certainly, Counselors are not reluctant to express their feelings, their face lighting up with the positive emotions, but darkening like a thunderhead with the negative. Indeed, because of their strong ability to take into themselves the feelings of others, Counselors can be hurt rather easily by those around them, which, perhaps, is one reason why they tend to be private people, mutely withdrawing from human contact. At the same time, friends who have known a Counselor for years may find sides emerging which come as a surprise. Not that they are inconsistent; Counselors value their integrity a great deal, but they have intricately woven, mysterious personalities which sometimes puzzle even them.

Counselors have strong empathic abilities and can become aware of another's emotions or intentions -- good or evil -- even before that person is conscious of them. This "mind-reading" can take the form of feeling the hidden distress or illnesses of others to an extent which is difficult for other types to comprehend. Even Counselors can seldom tell how they came to penetrate others' feelings so keenly. Furthermore, the Counselor is most likely of all the types to demonstrate an ability to understand psychic phenomena and to have visions of human events, past, present, or future. What is known as ESP may well be exceptional intuitive ability-in both its forms, projection and introjection. Such supernormal intuition is found frequently in the Counselor, and can extend to people, things, and often events, taking the form of visions, episodes of foreknowledge, premonitions, auditory and visual images of things to come, as well as uncanny communications with certain individuals at a distance.

Mohandas Gandhi, Sidney Poitier, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jane Goodall, Emily Bronte, Sir Alec Guiness, Carl Jung, Mary Baker Eddy, Queen Noor are examples of the Counselor Idealist (INFJ).

[Kellyerin222]

mini: I'm not alone!! (I am also an INFJ by Myer Briggs) lol.. It is very true about me that though I am open and honest with others, there is only a few select individuals in my life that I feel comfortable with showing all my inner workings about who I am. The intutions is another thing, which I think has also drove my passion for my psychology degree (along with my intense desire to help others). It is funny because often times my husband will be going through something, then he asks me for help or my advice and I am able to break it down for him-- then he will sit back and say "wow, I never thought of it that way". Do you have the same thing?

Yes, Freud is certainly an interesting one to break down. I so enjoyed Carl Rogers. When I first acknowledged Self Actualization I really researched some much into it and found it so fascinating. Not that I would be so bold to say I am self-actualized, but I saw many of my characteristics when reading about it and maybe that is what drew me to it. When an individual can really truly understand and break down exactly why they do the things they do, but keep that self entity from social structures and not allow that to influence behavior/thought is thought provoking. It saddens me that more reasearch was not conducted-- but then again only a few could be considered to be in this catagory to be included in research.

[sunny]

Sunny here....I'm an IFNP with some E showing when I feel safe!

[mle_ii]

Sunny here....I'm an IFNP with some E showing when I feel safe!

Ha, same here with the INFP and then E when I think it's safe. :)