A lot of people aren’t keen on Myers Briggs. But I think it is uncannily accurate for a lot of people. I think the tests are often flawed—they might not give you your correct type. But if you read through the types there is often one that does match. And why I like it so much is that it’s one of the only personality tests I’ve come across where I am hardcore one of the types. With DISC and Synergist and some others I am exactly equal on all fronts—where you’re supposed to have one or maybe one dominant one secondary, I’m slap bang in the middle of all four.

Which means an interesting thing happens and able to adapt between them and will naturally take on the ones that are missing but necessary from the situation I’m very versatile it’s a great thing because it means all bases are covered the flipside is if I’m not very careful about the way I do it it means that I’m always antagonistic always playing devils advocate Myers Briggs puts me firmly in ENTP which is sometimes referred to as the devils advocate part of the fact that personality type is that I want to pick something apart from every angle to be able to understand it unable to take on position so I don’t necessarily agree with just to say just to try just to take it apart put it back together

I am aware that you can’t just distil a person into one of 16 types there is far more nuance to a person than that but if nothing else something that I do think is valuable to be taken from personality systems in general is the notion that different people think and operate differently and that one isn’t more or less right than the other that if somebody doesn’t see things the way you say things that’s just different not better or worse and I think that’s a really important message to be reminded of and to spread widely. So much conflict comes from expecting other people to see the world and operate in the same way that you see the world and operate. Personality systems are a wonderful reminder that that is simply false.