{"id":600,"date":"2009-04-09T02:46:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T09:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/attractwomenanywhere.com\/blog\/?p=600"},"modified":"2009-04-09T03:00:25","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T10:00:25","slug":"myers-briggs-test-carl-jung-and-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/attractwomenanywhere.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/09\/myers-briggs-test-carl-jung-and-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Myers-Briggs Test, Carl Jung, and you&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_601\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-601\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-601 \" src=\"http:\/\/attractwomenanywhere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/carl-jungs-work.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/attractwomenanywhere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/carl-jungs-work.gif 240w, http:\/\/attractwomenanywhere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/carl-jungs-work-150x150.gif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">16 Personality Types<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0If you guys (or girls)\u00a0are in the field of self-improvement then you owe it to yourself to take the Myers Briggs test.\u00a0 This is a test to basically give you a general understanding of your own personality.\u00a0 It&#8217;s heavily based on the work of the famous and well-respected psychologist, Carl Jung.\u00a0 I personally am intrigued by Jung&#8217;s categorization of people&#8217;s personalities, but that topic can wait for another day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The mentioned test will take you about 10 minutes to complete.\u00a0 It evaluates your personality type by 4 categories:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><strong>Extraversion &#8211; Introversion <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sensing &#8211; Intuition <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Thinking &#8211; Feeling<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Judging &#8211; Perceiving<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>This is a well-respected test in modern psychology and I find the results to be very accurate in my own personal experience.\u00a0 It seems to be based on sound scientific principles and it will not make you creepy, unlike NLP.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Take the test here: <a href=\"http:\/\/humanmetrics.com\/cgi-win\/JTypes2.asp\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/humanmetrics.com\/cgi-win\/JTypes2.asp<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are 16 possible combinations.\u00a0\u00a0 After finishing the test, you will receive a 4 letter code such as: ISTJ or ENFP<\/p>\n<p>Once you get the code, click on this page and read about your own particular type:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.personalitypage.com\/portraits.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.personalitypage.com\/portraits.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Again, these pages are very broad as they&#8217;re written for a very general Internet Audience. You could spend quite a bit of time delving more into the individual components of each personality type if you&#8217;re curious about its meticulous nature.\u00a0 The links above attempt to make the experience a bit more fun.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I&#8217;ve taken it myself.\u00a0 According to the test, I am an ENFP, &#8220;The Inspirer.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Regarding ENFPs, it states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0&#8220;They have an exceptional ability to intuitively understand a person after a very short period of time, and use their intuition and flexibility to relate to others on their own level.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0Perhaps, that explains my unusual fascination with people&#8217;s archetypes and behavioral tendencies.&#8221;\u00a0 Regardless, it&#8217;s a fun test and if you have a girlfriend, it&#8217;s something you can do together.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0It does not make you a good or bad person.\u00a0 It does not limit your capabilities or goals, but rather, it provides a better pathway of understand yourself.\u00a0 It allows you to understand HOW you perceive information and it provides you with insight regarding your behavioral patterns and character traits.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0How does it relate to dating and attraction?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0Firstly, this is more about understanding your own self and psyche and why you repeat certain habits\/behavioral patterns and why you often experience certain emotions from particular events\/experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Secondly, it can provide insight as to what causes you angst or trouble in the dating area.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s say you were an &#8220;ENFJ, The Giver.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 (Male or Female, it doesn&#8217;t matter.)\u00a0 It&#8217;s very conceivable that you may be doing TOO much giving to the point of pushing other people away.\u00a0 This could come across as needy behavior.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Understanding this about yourself, you realize that you can cut back on trying to give so much so quickly.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t mean that you ought to change your entire behavior because then that&#8217;d be a great recipe for disaster and unhappiness.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just understanding where and WHEN to give, and when to hold off a bit.\u00a0 That&#8217;d keep true to your nature while enabling you to be more effective in applying dating and attraction principles.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Ultimately, it&#8217;s a smart idea to know and understand yourself well.\u00a0 I think this test is able to deliver that insight.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t make any money from it and I am not an affiliate.\u00a0 (It&#8217;d be nice if they had an affiliate system, however.)\u00a0\u00a0 I am sometimes annoyed at the amount of junk that self-help &#8220;gurus&#8221; wants to push down people&#8217;s throats, and very often, the advice is based on obviously faulty principles.\u00a0 (Which basically mounts to someone taking what works for him on some level and attempting to sell it as a vehicle that&#8217;s applicable for the masses.)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0If I had the time and the resources, I&#8217;d probably embark on a very ambitious journey of matching EACH of the 16 personality types with the type of problems they could encounter in dating and attraction.\u00a0 I think I could combine my understanding of dating\/attraction and relate it to the personality archetypes to provide a more detailed glimpse of commonly faced situations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Come to think of it, if you do take the test, post a quick comment with your 4-letter code as to which archetype you are.\u00a0 (Don&#8217;t be a lazy, post it!)\u00a0 It&#8217;d be cool to see what sort of\u00a0 people read the Blog.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0If you guys (or girls)\u00a0are in the field of self-improvement then you owe it to yourself to take the Myers Briggs test.\u00a0 This is a test to basically give&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[15,137,59,136,135],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-social-psychology-and-behavior","tag-attraction","tag-carl-jung","tag-dating","tag-myers-briggs","tag-personality-archetypes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/attractwomenanywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/attractwomenanywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/attractwomenanywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/attractwomenanywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/attractwomenanywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/attractwomenanywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"http:\/\/attractwomenanywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/attractwomenanywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/attractwomenanywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/attractwomenanywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}