Myers-Briggs Bonanza

Posted on March 18, 2008 
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Its the first day of a visit with my good friend Dan. My wife and I always try to guess what Myers-Briggs personality our friends are. I am an ENFP (Champion) and my wife is an ENXP (Champion / Inventor split). So naturally our curiosity about Dan’s personality type culminated in his taking the personality test in “Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence“. We both pegged him as being a ENTJ. Does everyone here know what these crazy terms mean?

Myers-Briggs Personality Types

The personality types are coded based on a four letter string. You can be:

E (extroverted) OR I (introverted)
S (sensory) OR N (intuitive)
T (thinking) OR F (feeling)
J (judging) OR P (perceiving)

The Myers-Briggs personality types are then divided into four primary roles: Artisans (SF), Guardians (ST), Rationalists (NT), and Idealists (NF).

Birds of a Feather…

We’ve found that the book’s observations about N’s (intuitive people) is true: birds of a feather flock together. Only about 15% of the population are intuitive. The odds of actually finding a friend who is of the same temperament is actually pretty slim. However, the reality of it is that where you find one intuitive person, you’ll find many others. Consider the following: I am an ENFP personality, which means I am extroverted, intuitive, feeling, perceiving, this makes up my “Champion” personality type. I then married another N, an ENXP. One of my best friends, Dan is an ENTJ. My two brothers are ENFP and INTP. My wife and my friends Serena and Garren are also Ns, an ENFP and an INFP (I think). Our friend Mike is an N, so is my colleague James who I was planning on opening a design firm with, so is my brother-in-law (another ENFP) and so are our friends Rebecca and Amanda. That’s a flock of at least 12 intuitive people. That just beat the odds.

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5 Responses to “Myers-Briggs Bonanza”

  1. Ian McMaster on March 20th, 2008 4:47 pm

    While being fascinated at the probability of me know ing all those intuitive people, I was even more astounded that just within those twelve people their are 4 ENFPs (Champions)as this is one of the rarest personality types with it only making up roughly 3 to 4% of the population.

  2. erin on March 22nd, 2008 9:08 am

    what i don’t understand is why i find groups of nf’s but so rarely encounter another nt. we can’t all be anti-social. there are extraverted nt’s. where are they hiding? of the 20 or 30 n’s i can think of, only five, including myself, are t’s. we need a rallying cry! i will bring us together! RATIONALS, UNITE!

  3. Serena and Garren on March 22nd, 2008 4:35 pm

    Garren and me puzzled over Dan’s personality while he accompanied us in-car to your vedding (most lovely it was). And we concluded that while he has the conversational ability of any wonderful EN and the curiousity abundant, due to his true inclinations, we deemed him ESFJ (one wonderfully open-minded guardian).

  4. Serena and Garren on March 22nd, 2008 4:48 pm

    however, we could very well be wrong

  5. dan on March 23rd, 2008 5:58 pm

    hmm…when i get home check out my website in a few days to find out. you might be as suprised and completely transparent of the information. thats all i can say ;)

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