Learn About Myers Briggs Personality Type

Personality Preference Facets

Preferences in Depth: Sensing/Intuition

The Sensing/Intuition scale of the Myers Briggs describes how you take in and process information. Sensors and Intuitives have fundamental differences in how they see the world, describe the things around them, and communicate with others. Read More >>

Preferences in Depth: Thinking/Feeling

The Thinking/Feeling scale of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator inventory fundamentally describes how you prefer to make decisions. This scale has powerful implications in career choice. Thinkers tend to prefer work that is logical and makes sense, where Feelers prefer work that seems personally meaningful. Read More >>

Preferences in Depth: Judging/Perceiving

The Judging/Perceiving scale of the Myers Briggs describes how you prefer to organize your life. This preference has implications in how you structure your home life, as well as the sort of work environment you prefer. Read More >>

Preferences in Depth: Extroversion/Introversion

The Extroversion/Introversion preference is the most misunderstood of the four MBTI preference facets. We tend to use the words “introverted” and “extroverted” in everyday conversation to indicate whether a person is gregarious or shy. However, in Myers Briggs type theory, the Extroversion/Introversion describes a larger concept: how you get your energy and where you focus your attention. Whether a person is gregarious or reserved is just a small part of this facet. Read More >>

Myers & Briggs' Theory of Type

The Remarkable Story of the MBTI: How Two Unlikely Theorists Created the World’s Most Popular Personality Test

How is it that the world’s most popular personality test could have been created by two women who had no formal training in psychology, statistics, or psychometrics? The story of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, its creation, and its rise to popularity is a remarkable one, and a testament to the determination of its creators: Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother, Katharine Cook Briggs. Read More >>

Type Dynamics: Functions in Myers Briggs Personality Type

If you've been reading about the MBTI and Myers Briggs personality type, you may have come across discussions of functions. Often notated as Te, Si, Ne, and so on, the functions describe our basic mental processes. How we organize and prioritize these mental processes affects how we make decisions, solve problems, manage conflict, and approach the world. Read More >>

Using Type in Work and Life

Infographic: Personality Types in the U.S. Population

Did you know that some personality types are much more common than others? Take the omnipresent ISFJ, making up nearly 20% of the population (as well as 20% of teachers, nurses and librarians). Compare that with the elusive INFJ, at just 1.5%. Read More >>

Improve Your Sales Strategy with the Secrets of Personality Type

Is there anything more frustrating to a sales rep than a customer who leaves your business to purchase the same product or service from a competitor? Despite your best efforts, the sale evaporates, and you rarely know why. However, businesses who have the resources often conduct “lost customers surveys” to find out what happened.The top reason cited for leaving a business to make a purchase elsewhere?

“I didn’t like the sales rep.” Read More >>

Compatibility and Your Myers Briggs Personality Type

It’s the classic story of the Odd Couple: she’s the life of the party, while he gives any excuse to leave early. He’s orderly and fastidious, while she leaves milk on the counter and clothes on the floor. He’s logical, she’s emotional; he’s from Mars, she’s from Venus. Much is made of the idea that opposites attract, and we all know at least one of these “odd couples” that makes a relationship work despite major differences. But is it true that opposites attract? And more importantly, what makes for the most successful relationship—a stimulating opposite or a comforting soulmate? Read More >>

8 Reasons You Hate Your Job: Stress, Burnout and Your Myers Briggs Personality Type

Do you make decent money, get your work done, and feel at a loss to pinpoint anything really wrong with your job—but still dread going to work each day? If it’s not as simple as a tyrant boss, meager wages, or long days in the salt mine, how can you explain your stress and frustration with your job?  Read More >>