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Just Your
Type, Part 1,
using
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

Report by Jim
Stephens

Just Your Type using
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
(MBTI)

Part 1

I have found that there are many thoroughly
researched personality profiles available and
these can be used as valuable tools to help
couples. The most significant value that I see is
that they can help a person get beyond
thinking that there is something WRONG with
another person and that they need FIXING or they
need to CHANGE.

People are extremely different. By accepting
and appreciating our differences and valuing them,
we can become much happier in all of our
relationships, especially with those closest to
us.

Today is Email Tip # 1 of 2 Emails which
will give an overview of the Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator (MBTI). It is
based on the
work of Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and Americans
Katharine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers.

It is the most popular and widely
respected personality assessment instrument in the
world, translated into many languages. Many high
schools in America are using it.

Here are the four General
Principles:

1. Each person is born with one true type.
Everyone changes greatly as he/she grows and
matures, however the "Type" usually remains fairly
consistent.

2. All types are equally valuable. None is
better or worse, healthy or sick, intelligent or
unintelligent. All have strengths and weaknesses.

3. Every individual is unique. The MB "Type"
gives only insights.

4. The MB "Type" is a great tool to better
understanding and appreciation of others who may
be very different in small or great ways.

The MBTI assesses FOUR DIMENSIONS of
Personality Type which are the important aspects
of personality. The dimensions represent four
scales or continuums, with two ends and a
midpoint. Each person has an inborn preference for
one side or the other of each of the
continuums.

Today I will discuss the first of the four
dimensions. Tomorrow I will explain the other
three. If you would like to find out more
immediately, I have prepared the quiz to find out
your type and several additional pages of
explanation in a PDF file. Click here.

The book mentioned on the right, Just
Your Type, explains each of the 16
Myers-Briggs Types and also goes into great detail
about their compatibilty with each
other.  Each combination has sections for
"The Joys" and "The Frustrations".

Here is the first dimension, known as
the Extraversion-Introversion scale. This concept
is probably familiar to you. This dimension
answers the question, "Where do you get your
energy?"

Extraverts:

* Prefer being around people.
* Are
interested in many things.
* Have lots of
friends, associates.
* Jump into things
pretty quickly.
* Are usually pretty
talkative.
* Are more public and easier to
get to know.
* Are enthusiastic and
outgoing.
* Represent about 55% of US
pop.

Introverts:

* Are comfortable spending time alone.
*
Are selective and like to focus on one or a few
things.
* Have a few very close friends.
*
Think about things before they act.
* Are
usually fairly reserved.
* Are more private
and harder to read.
* Appear calm and
self-contained.
* Represent about 45% of US
pop.

You could probably put yourself somewhere
along a continuum using these two descriptions or
using the Quiz I prepared.

One final reminder, let me repeat point 2
from above: All types are equally valuable. None
is better or worse, healthy or sick, intelligent
or unintelligent. All have strengths and
weaknesses.

See you tomorrow for descriptions of the
final 3 dimensions.

_________________________________________________

God
bless your marriage and family.

Jim
Stephens

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