Getting to know me or you ... a thought for a New Year's resolution

Well, I mean getting to know me, you, or the person sitting next to you right now … in a good way. Today, over lunch, Natacha and I got talking again about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. It’s a wonderful tool that can help you understand your own personality and references, and how those would influence your job, studies, interpersonal relationships and more.

I’ve always been a big believer in knowing the self. I’ve spent plenty of time in the school psychologist’s office (and that was in grammar school!) and ‘on the couch’ as an adult. It’s a long slog doing it that way. I wish somebody would have given me the MBTI early on and sat me down to explain it and what it meant for me.

The MBTI is merely a way of determining how people make decisions, using their unique judgement and perceptions, based on the work of Carl Jung. The goal of the MBTI is to bring that theory down to an accessible and  practical level, so that people could use it in their everyday lives through the use of four basic descriptor dichotomies.

Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I). Sensing (S) or Intuition (N). Thinking (T) or Feeling (F). Judging (J) or Perceiving (P).

I am an INTP. Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Perceiving. Extreme on the first two.

The four dichotomies are then grouped into 16 personality types- INTP being just one

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