For the Genuinely Bored

After re-reading this, I realise that the Types Test was developed by Myers and Briggs not Jung.

So,
I remember once walking down the hallway of my beloved old dormitory and hearing people say things like "Oh! so you're an ENTP? How interesting! I'm a INPS." Yavapai was an Honors dorm at the University of Arizona, and so I was accustomed to hearing things that made little or no sense to me. At the time, I figured that they must have been talking about some nerdy roll-playing computer game. I now know that they were talking about Jungian Personality types. Let me briefly explain.

The letters mentioned, correspond to adjectives such as "Extroverted", "Feeling", "Perceiving" ect... All combinations combined(handy how that works eh), there are 16 personality types, all of which are characterized by certain idiosyncratic social and emotional tendencies.
There are the "Visionaries" for example, who are extroverts and are extremely driven to lead and scheme and so forth. There are the "Pedagogues" who are perceptive and lively. I, being curious, recently took a Meyers-Briggs personality "test" online and was intrigued to see that it had pegged me as an "ISFP". The "Peacemaker".

Now, certain family members might not agree with Meyers or Briggs on this assesment, but all in all it jived with me. After looking at general personality attributes of the "ISFP" type as explained on various websites, I decided, though not perfect, the results were pretty consistent. Now, of course, Jung's system isn't perfect. There's no "Peeping Tom" or "Sexual Deviant" personality type, but of course all of the sixteen types do have inherent weaknesses. I found some of "mine" funny.

To wit: May have skewed or unrealistic ideas about reality, May be unaware of appropriate social behavior, May be oblivious to their personal appearance, or to appropriate dress, May come across as eccentric, or perhaps even generally strange to others, without being aware of it, Under great stress, may feel out of control and fearful, dwelling on the "dark side" of things.


Hah! Me? Stressed? Never! *sarcasm. I have plenty of positve traits as well, but wouldn't get such a kick out of writing those. Anyhow, I thought PeaceMaker was apropos because I am in the process of trying to join the PeaceCorps. It must be fate.

Anyhow, go ahead! Take a personality test online! (Mine was courtesy of a Facebook application called "MyTYPE). Compare your results to mine, and see how your type relates to my "ISFP."