Myers-Briggs
A thought crossed my mind while driving home yesterday. Are certain personality types more likely to hold Objectivist values than others?
Personally, I was thinking in terms of Myers-Briggs personality types. I am an INTJ and have always leaned towards logic and trying to make all of my emotions rational and logical to the situation. Maybe, because this is my personality, I was more likely to be drawn into Objectivism and similar ideals.
What is your opinion on this and/or (to get an idea of how many of us share the same personalities) what are your personality types?
Personally, I was thinking in terms of Myers-Briggs personality types. I am an INTJ and have always leaned towards logic and trying to make all of my emotions rational and logical to the situation. Maybe, because this is my personality, I was more likely to be drawn into Objectivism and similar ideals.
What is your opinion on this and/or (to get an idea of how many of us share the same personalities) what are your personality types?
Using the quizzes in the book, I come out to be a type that it says cannot exist: IXTJ, a hybrid of the Logical and Artisan types.
It's the "J" that does it, I think.
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I like the DISC better than Meyers-Briggs. I totally nailed me, except for one small sentence. It was so "on" that one of my co-workers put my test results over his desk to point to whenever he needed to remind me of a behavior. It was pretty funny.
Both help interpersonal communications by facilitating an understanding of another's perspective. This helped a lot around our offices. DISC, in particular, pointing out who needed a lot of data for decisions, and who was oriented to us intuition. Every single person in management was a "D", which indicated a decisive, take charge nature. Most engineers score a high "C" rating. For DISC, I scored zero in S and C and 100% inl D, I. This profile pattern is named the Influencer.
I have also taken the DISC, as well as red-yellow-blue-white, which is more of an organizational behavior test. I really liked that one (sometimes yellow is substituted for green) where Red is Driver, Blue is Analytical, White is Amiable, and Yellow is Creative.
Dangit! (LOL)
The confirming impression that Briggs-Meyers is an accurate test is due to an effect we all must be wary of for we all are subject to it, the Forer Effect, after psychologist Bertram Forer who, in 1948, gave a personality test to his students and then gave each one a supposedly personalized analysis. The impressed students gave the analyses an average accuracy rating of 85%, and only then did Forer reveal that each had received an identical, generic report. Belief that a report is customized for us tends to improve our perception of the report’s accuracy. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-n...
Does not speak well for the test being derived scientifically and it isn't. It's pseudoscience palm reading. Want to experience the Forer effect for yourselves? Use color to "determine" you personality characteristics and be amazed. http://www.colorquiz.com/
Analysis of the present glut in cult personality testing. https://www.amazon.com/Cult-Personali...
in later years, i was out in L.A. on a layover as a pilot with American Airlines...i met Nat for lunch...the subject came up that Ayn had commented in a taped conversation that she did not trust the psycho-epistemology of pilots...i asked Nat to comment...he said that she was very distrustful of putting anyone in charge of her life unless she knew them very well...Nat said he would trust his life to fly with me as the pilot in charge...
i have found many pilots with a similar personality type as mine...we are obsessive compulsive and find great certainty in a very step-by-step approach to life in a logically structured order. Yet other pilots were also religious...some would profess that if the rapture came while we were flying, that they would be lifted up and the rest of us would be left alone on this earth (oh yeah)...i would play with their mind by telling them that if i was in the lav during a rapture and he was lifted up and the plane crashed and the rest of us died that he would go to hell for not staying with us...most of them would have an existential crisis and worry themselves no end (what else do you have to talk about at 35,000 ft on autopilot from L.A. to Miami on the red-eye)....but i found that Objectivism and flying fit my personality desires naturally and logically...
Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I)
Sensing (S) or Intuition (N)
Thinking (T) or Feeling (F)
Judging (J) or Perceiving (P)
INTJ is defined as:
"Introversion + iNtuition + Thinking + Judging.
Vision oriented, quietly innovative, insightful, conceptual, logical, seeks understanding, critical, decisive, independent, determined, pursues competence, improvement"
by the Myers-Briggs website.
When I first read Genotype by Dr. D'Adamo I learned that certain Genotypes/bloodtypes have slight, predictable personality traits. the idea here is the different chemicals used by the DNA or the part of the strands that are active or read by the body and is determined first, by bloodtype and then your resulting genotype. (based on common measurements, head and body shape, partially determined in the womb.)
But, that only points to a level of probability and can be influenced by upbringing, family dynamics and...wait, wait for it, you may not believe it...the food you eat.
Do not discount this body of work until you read the book.
I found by reading his books, I understood myself better than all the road trips I took in my teenage years to "find" myself.
I have found that personality model extremely useful in understanding others better, and to learn more about myself!
I do not know what or who Myers-Briggs is.
As to personality types, people who, as children
and adolescents, are rational and honest sometimes tend to get hurt by others because of
this. (At least, I think this was true in my case). They also may be accused of being "selfish!" quite frequently. (Or, in a class discussion of a
character in a fiction work in English class, may
hear a character accused of being "selfish"
for merely standing up for him/herself). Such a
person may very well have trouble getting along
with others. And somebody like that may be more receptive to Objectivism.
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The purpose of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) personality inventory is to make the theory of psychological types described by C. G. Jung understandable and useful in people's lives.
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Jump to Structured vs. projective personality assessment - A chart with descriptions of each Myers–Briggs personality type and the four dichotomies central to the theory. Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers extrapolated their MBTI theory from Carl Jung's writings in his book Psychological Types. A diagram depicting the cognitive functions of each type.
Back in 2007 I was sent to a charm school called the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina. They based a 3 day workshop in part around the Briggs-Myers personality classification. I was sent because my boss at the time was telling me I couldn't communicate. I had been warning the production folks that a certain highwall in a coal strip mine in Wyoming was at risk of massive failure if they continued to ignore slope stability protocol. I began in a written memo backed with monitoring data, and then verbally on a weekly basis in morning line-out meetings. In June the wall completely failed. Three thousand feet long and five hundred feet back. Twelve million dollars in lost production and thankfully no one hurt.
The workshop was the most bizarre Orwellian experience I have ever been through. One way windows with cameras behind filming everyone's demeanor and performance. And then review your performance while mutually the film and pointing out where you were combative, evasive, or at fault in some way. Prior to attending I had to pick a list of 12 people (peers) that would do an on-line Q&A session about me. My boss was able to pick 5 more of his choice. The on-line results were all tabulated, scored and summarized before we got there. In several major areas, everybody's response clustered on a graph with my own self evaluation. But my boss was way out in left field. At the end of the workshop we individually met with a "counselor".
The guy assigned to me said we have a problem. My assignment was to approach my boss with the results and mutually hammer why might be. And report back. Forget it. Within a year I had a knew job.
I can't remember what I classified as. I was so put off by the whole thing I dismissed it all. And then I learned that major employees were starting to use Briggs_Myers results as hiring criteria. Needless to say I was not impressed with the whole thing, but perhaps I had a bad experience because of the shock collar...err....charm school approach.
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It's free and hopefully less bizarre than your experience
Just my individual opinion.
I've always vaguely suspected that we Objectivist types tend to be INTJ. I suppose it also explains why I find few people I can relate to.
Has anyone done research on relationships and marriages between Myers-Briggs types?
I'm INTJ, and I was pretty much an Objectivist before I even knew what that was.
Back then the church offered a deal. If I went to communion on 9 consecutive first Friday's. I would get the chance to repent just before dying- and then could escape hell !! I did the 9 consecutive first Friday's and then was free of the whole thing.
Now I realize the folly of the whole catholic religion . What a thing to put children through !! It's cruel
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