Myers-Briggs Typology System

The Way You Get Energized Extraverting vs. Introverting	Extraverted Types (E) - The after thinkers. Cannot understand life until they have lived it. - Attitude relaxed and confident. They expect the waters to prove shallow, and plunge readily into new and untried experiences. - Minds outwardly directed, interest and attention following objective happenings, primarily those of the immediate environment. Their real world therefore is the outer world of people and things. - The civilizing genius, the people of action and practical achievement, who go from doing to considering back to doing. - Conduct in essential matters is always governed by objective conditions. - Spend themselves lavishly upon external claims and conditions which to them constitute life. - Understandable and accessible, often sociable, more at home in the world of people and things than in the world of ideas. - Expansive and less impassioned, they unload their emotions as they go along. - Typical weakness lies in a tendency toward intellectual superficiality, very conspicuous in extreme types. - Health and wholesomeness depend upon a reasonable development of balancing introversion. Examples Sigmund Freud Charles Darwin Theodore Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt	Introverted Types (I) - The fore thinkers. Cannot live life until they understand it. - Attitude reserved and questioning. They expect the waters to prove deep, and pause to take soundings in the new and untried. - Minds inwardly directed, frequently unaware of the objective environment, interest and attention being engrossed by inner events. Their real world therefore is the inner world of ideas and understanding. - The cultural genius, the people of ideas and abstract invention, who go from considering to doing and back to considering. - Conduct in essential matters is always governed by subjective values. - Defend themselves as far as possible against external claims and conditions in favor of the inner life. - Subtle and impenetrable, often taciturn and shy, more at home in the world of ideas than in the world of people and things. - Intense and passionate, they bottle up their emotions and guard them as high explosives. - Typical weakness lies in a tendency toward impracticality, very conspicuous in extreme types. - Health and wholesomeness depend upon a reasonable development of balancing extraversion. Examples Carl Jung Albert Einstein Abraham Lincoln Jimmy Carter
The Way You Gather and Access Information Sensing vs. Intuiting	Sensing Types (S) - Face life observantly, craving enjoyment. - Admit to consciousness every sense impression and are intensely aware of the external environment; they are observant at the expense of imagination. - Are by nature pleasure lovers and consumers, loving life as it is and having a great capacity for enjoyment; they are in general contented. - Desiring chiefly to possess and enjoy, and being very observant, they are imitative, wanting to have what other people have and to do what other people do, and are very dependent upon their physical surroundings. - Dislike intensely any and every occupation that requires the suppression of sensing, and are most reluctant to sacrifice present enjoyment to future gain or good. - Prefer the art of living in the present to the satisfactions of enterprise and achievement. - Contribute to the public welfare by their support of every form of enjoyment and recreation, and every variety of comfort, luxury, and beauty. - Are always in danger of being frivolous, unless balance is attained through development of a judging process.	Intuitive Types (N) - Face life expectantly, craving inspiration. - Admit fully to consciousness only the sense impressions related to the current inspiration; they are imaginative at the expense of observation. - Are by nature initiators, inventors, and promoters; having no taste for life as it is, and small capacity for living as it is, and small capacity for living in and enjoying the present, they are generally restless. - Desiring chiefly opportunities and possibilities, and being very imaginative, they are inventive and original, quite indifferent to what other people have and do, and are very independent of their physical surroundings. - Dislike intensely any and every occupation that necessitates sustained concentration on sensing, and are willing to sacrifice the present to a large extent since they neither live in it nor particularly enjoy it. - Prefer the joy of enterprise and achievement and pay little or no attention to the art of living in the present. - Contribute to the public welfare by their inventiveness, initiative, enterprise, and powers of inspired leadership in every direction of human interest. - Are always in danger of being fickle, changeable, and lacking in persistence, unless balance is attained through development of a judging process.
The Way You Evaluate and Make Decisions Thinking vs. Feeling	Thinking Types (T) - Value logic above sentiment. - Are usually impersonal, being interested in things more than in human relationships. - If forced to choose between truthfulness and tactfulness, will usually be truthful. - Are stronger in executive ability than in the social arts. - Are likely to question the conclusions of other people on principle -- believing them probably wrong. - Naturally brief and businesslike, they often seem to lack friendliness and sociability without knowing or intending it. - Are usually able to organize facts and ideas into a logical sequence that states the subject, makes the necessary points, comes to a conclusion, and stops there without repetition. - Suppress, undervalue, and ignore feeling that is incompatible with the thinking judgments. - Contribute to the welfare of society by the intellectual criticism of its habits, customs, and beliefs, by the exposure of wrongs, solution of problems, and the support of science and research for the enlargement of human knowledge and understanding. - Are found more often among men than women and when married to a feeling type, naturally become guardian of the spouse's neglected and unreliable thinking.	Feeling Types (F) - Value sentiment above logic. - Are usually personal, being interested in people more than in things. - If forced to choose between tactfulness and truthfulness, will usually be tactful. - Are stronger in the social arts than in executive ability. - Are likely to agree with those around them, thinking as other people think, believing them probably right. - Naturally friendly, whether sociable or not, they find it difficult to be brief and businesslike. - Usually find it hard to know where to start a statement or in what order to present what they have to say. May therefore ramble and repeat themselves, with more detail than a thinker wants or thinks necessary. - Suppress, undervalue, and ignore thinking that is offensive to the feeling judgments. - Contribute to the welfare of society by their loyal support of good works and those movements, generally regarded as good by the community, which they feel correctly about and so can serve effectively. - Are found more often among women than men and, when married to a thinking type, frequently become guardian of the spouse's neglected and harassed feelings.
The Way You Orient Your Lifestyle Judging vs. Perceiving	Judging Types (J) - Are more decisive than curious. - Live according to plans, standards, and customs not easily or lightly set aside, to which the situation of the moment must, if possible, be made to conform. - Make a very definite choice among life's possibilities, but may not appreciate or utilize unplanned, unexpected, and incidental happenings. - Being rational, they depend on reasoned judgments, their own or borrowed from someone else, to protect them from unnecessary undesirable experiences. - Like to have matters settled and decided as promptly as possible, so that they will know what is going to happen and can plan for it and be prepared for it. - Think or feel that they know what other people ought to do about almost everything, and are not averse to telling them. - Take real pleasure in getting something finished, out of the way, and off their minds. - Are inclined to regard the perceptive types as aimless drifters. - Aim to be right. - Are self-regimented, purposeful, and exacting.	Perceiving Types (P) - Are more curious than decisive. - Live according to the situation of the moment and adjust themselves easily to the accidental and the unexpected. - Are frequently masterful in their handling of the unplanned, unexpected, and incidental, but may not make an effective choice among life's possibilities. - Being empirical, they depend on their readiness for anything and everything to bring them a constant flow of new experience -- much more than they can digest or use. - Like to keep decisions open as long as possible before doing anything irrevocable, because they don't know nearly enough about it yet. - Know what other people are doing, and are interested to see how it comes out. - Take great pleasure in starting something new, until the newness wears off. - Are inclined to regard the judging types as only half alive. - Aim to miss nothing. - Are flexible, adaptable, and tolerant.