My Personality Type

What’s the real personality of mine? I never used to know. So these two days, I did some research about it. Finally, I found a authoritative personality assessment system---MBTI. Then, I knew I’m the INTP type, after taking the assessment. Let me introduce the MBTI assessment first. The MBTI assessment was developed from the work of prominent psychiatrist Carl G. Jung in his book Psychological Types. Jung proposed a psychological typology based on the theories of cognitive functions that he developed through his clinical observations. The MBTI preferences indicate the differences in people based on the following:

• How they focus their attention or get their energy (extraversion or introversion)
• How they perceive or take in information (sensing or intuition)
• How they prefer to make decisions (thinking or feeling)

How they orient themselves to the external world (judgment or perception) INTP (Introversion, iNtuition, Thinking, Perception) is an abbreviation used in the publications of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to refer to one of sixteen personality types. By using their preference in each of these areas, people develop what Jung and Myers called psychological type. This underlying personality pattern results from the dynamic interaction of their four preferences, in conjunction with environmental influences and their own individual tendencies. People are likely to develop behaviors, skills, and attitudes based on their particular type. Each personality type has its own potential strengths as well as areas that offer opportunities for growth. What’s the personality of the INTPs like?

• I – Introversion preferred to extraversion: INTPs tend to be quiet and reserved. They generally prefer interacting with a few close friends rather than a wide circle of acquaintances, and they expend energy in social situations (whereas extraverts gain energy).
• N – iNtuition preferred to sensing: INTPs tend to be more abstract than concrete. They focus their attention on the big picture rather than the details, and on future possibilities rather than immediate realities.
• T – Thinking preferred to feeling: INTPs tend to value objective criteria above personal preference. When making decisions, they generally give more weight to logic than to social considerations.
• P – Perception preferred to judgment: INTPs tend to withhold judgment and delay important decisions, preferring to "keep their options open" should circumstances change.

Okay. After knowing all these, let me describe my personality assisted by the MBTI. I’m Intensely intellectual and logical.

Also a conceptual problem solver and often show flashes of creative brilliance. Outwardly quiet, reserved, and detached, I’m inwardly absorbed in analyzing problems. I’m also critical, precise, and skeptical and are driven to find and use logical principles to understand their many ideas. I like conversation to be high level and purposeful and may argue to the point of hairsplitting just for fun. I’m convinced almost exclusively by logical reasoning. I set high standards – for themselves and for others. And I think in extremely complex ways and are generally better at organizing new concepts and ideas than at organizing other people. Highly independent, I’m tend to be more interested in finding creative solutions to problems than implementing them on the ground level. INTPs are one of the rarest types, accounting for about 1–5% of the population. According to Keirsey, based on behavioral characteristics, notable INTP Architects might include Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin and Thomas Jefferson. INTPs are one of the rarest types, accounting for about 1–5% of the population. I’m so happy to know that I’m one of the. The peculiarities of my personality will always be my treasure in my life.

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