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MYERS-BRIGGS PERSONALITY TYPE

Table 1: Personality Type by Function

 

eF extroverted feeling	Dominant for: ENFJ & ESFJ Fourth for: ISTP & INTP	How can I use this to help someone else? Directed by the wishes and expectations of others, friendly and avoid conflicts, schedule relaxation because they need order before they can relax. eF can relax by doing chores, because knowing they are done is great stress relief. eF enjoys the conventional, and enjoys fitting in. eF adapts to the situation, rather than changing it, and generally follows instructions.
eN extroverted intuition	Dominant for: ENFP & ENTP Fourth for: ISFJ & ISTJ	What else could I do with this in the big picture? Explore future possibilities, are confident and innovative, always looking for opportunity in situations. eN hate routine, and are easily bored. Fun is dreaming up and pursuing options without any follow-through or accountability. En enjoy group exchanges of ideas, challenges, and projects. eN enjoys changing the situation rather than adjusting to it. eN loves new things, and would rather start something new than finish something old. eN is naturally self-expressive.
eS extroverted sensing	Dominant for: ESFP & ESTP Fourth for: INFJ & INTJ	How can I get sensory pleasure from this? Pay attention to their external environment. Jump right in, action-oriented, in the moment thrills and pleasures, aware of what is around them. eS has little interest in thinking or reasoning, or finding subjective meaning in the outer world. eS accept reality and are tolerant of others. They enjoy highly sensory activities, and are pleasure-seeking. eS generally ignores the instruction manual except when absolutely necessary.
eT extroverted thinking	Dominant for: ENTJ & ESTJ Fourth for: ISFP & INFP	What's wrong with this? How can I perfect it? Lead, show-off, plan, and compete with self and others. eT enjoy mental challenges, stating strong opinions, giving and receiving rewards based on doing and being 'right'. eT strive toward perfection. They will focus on facts, enjoy finding solutions for practical problems and critiquing ideas. eT observe the rational external world, and suppress feelings.
iF introverted feeling	Dominant for: INFP & ISFP Fourth for: ESTJ & ENTJ	How many ways does this affect me? Does it fit with who I am? Governed by harmony, respect for natural boundaries. iF needs relevance. They are often quiet with intense feelings inside. iF is committed to self-growth and social causes tied to individual and personal values. They enjoy activities requiring great manual skill and dexterity, especially those that express feelings and creativity. iF usually prefers depth to breadth in activities.
iN introverted intuitive	Dominant for: INFJ & INTJ Fourth for: ESFP & ESTP	How can I use this to improve myself? How can I do this better? Caught up in fantasy, dreams, theoretical and abstract visions of self and world. iN is independent, has little communication with others, T generally less social than F. iN enjoy generating ideas and challenges for potential self-improvement and self-mastery, then doing it. iN seeks to change their understanding of a situation rather than change the situation itself. iN enjoy interpreting and understanding life.
iS introverted sensing	Dominant for: ISFJ & ISTJ Fourth for: ENFP & ENTP	What does this feel like to me? What is this doing to me? Pay attention to their experience of the environment, especially physical and body sensations. SiS is systematic, patient with details, hard working. iS absorb facts, play by the rules, enjoy tradition and ritual. iS often prefers the subjective impression of the object, to the concrete observation of it.
iT introverted thinking	Dominant for: INTP & ISTP Fourth for: ESFJ & ENFJ	How and why does this work? Enjoy problem solving, taking things apart to understand and putting pieces together to create a whole. iT likes cleverness, competency, conceptual perfection, and self-mastery. iT often disregards authorities and rules. iT Enjoys creating theories, seeing how things fit into a framework. iT uses facts to prove ideas, and focuses on own ideas and analysis of the world, not external observations. iTs are objective -- often oblivious to people's feelings and needs, even their own.

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