[Dung]

No.

[TheBigPicture]

I think about it everyday, I've actually gotten really good at predicting peoples types. I can understand why we as INTJ's love the MBTI. Like everything else, we like to categorize things to understand them. Obviously you can't know someone completely by just knowing their type but it's a useful tool.

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	Originally Posted by sunlover To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	To me, it should be mandatory in school to teach MBTI personality types. Misunderstanding and miscommunication are what cause the vast majority of problems between folks. Even a little basic knowledge would make a difference. I've always felt the most prevelant bias in the world is the extrovert/introvert disconnect.

I also think there is a huge disconnect between the sensors/intuitives

[Rivers]

I'm probably going to be a teacher or a school counsellor and I would really like to administer the test to my new students every year, just so I could understand them better.

[Owfin]

	Originally Posted by Rivers To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I'm probably going to be a teacher or a school counsellor and I would really like to administer the test to my new students every year, just so I could understand them better.

If I was your student, and they test told you I was an ISTJ... what would that influence?

[Rivers]

	Originally Posted by Owfin To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	If I was your student, and they test told you I was an ISTJ... what would that influence?

I wouldn't expect of you/insist for you to be creative nor play with various ideas nor connect random theoretical patterns. I also wouldn't expect you to misbehave. For example, if teaching a language, I know that you would prefer exact rules to determine correct tenses rather than relying on your intuition or logic, thus, I would put more emphasis on that where possible. I will also be able to give you a better answer after I finish my studies in three years time.

[Awesome]

I am wondering if they added another letter combination to the MBTI. What would it represent?

[rohit]

MBTI has become an integrated part of my life. Every time I talk to people or meet anyone, first thing I try to determine what their type is. In case if I'm not able to figure it out myself, then I make themselves give personality test online to figure out the same. But I personally feel that people are far more complex than what MBTI can possibly suggest. TAke for example...you might meet an ENFP who's like ENFP's are supposed to be like and you might also meet one who would be like the biggest bitch you might have seen in your entire life.

[Owfin]

	Originally Posted by rohit To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	TAke for example...you might meet an ENFP who's like ENFP's are supposed to be like and you might also meet one who would be like the biggest bitch you might have seen in your entire life.

Very true. I am an ISTJ who is animated, likes thinking about intellectual stuff, and always questions the rules.

[Harvest]

There may be ENTJs who question the rules too. You can only type someone if you know him long enough. On first glimpse you can't even say if a person is extroverted or introverted. That's all shenanigans in your head about "typing someone I just met". If you met me outside you'd think I'm an E sensor type, but I'm INTJ.

[sadf]

All the time. With everyone I meet think about what their "functions" are, what order they use them, or if they fit a stereotype of one of the sixteen, then I automtically type them and when they are around I watch how they behave to see if they really do fit that type. Unless I really like someone, then I don't care anymore.

[liningSilver]

	Originally Posted by sunlover To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	To me, it should be mandatory in school to teach MBTI personality types. Misunderstanding and miscommunication are what cause the vast majority of problems between folks. Even a little basic knowledge would make a difference. I've always felt the most prevelant bias in the world is the extrovert/introvert disconnect.

I think about it almost daily - I think it aids attempts to communicate with someone different from you.

[rouge1]

My life seems to be a continuous study of the human being. Since I was very young I was highly interested in what's going through the minds of others. Now I am a psychology student. So yes, I think about MBTI and other personality theories almost dialy

[ipodboy2137]

The MBTI is a piece of shit. Your type cannot be classified by some stupid test; well, it can but not exactly down to the point. The MBTI has become so frequent know a days that people are actually using it just like some ordinary tool. To really determine your exact functions, one must research the functions and not just rely on some dumb test (which is made by two normal human beings, just like us.) Hence, the MBTI could be useful though in some methods; however, I would not put my money on it. To purse this further, the MBTI is unreliable and was actually made for women to determine their personality type.

[sunlover]

Originally Posted by ipodboy2137 To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Truly I would be lost without the MBTI, it has helped me discover so much about myself and other personality types. I think about the MBTI almost daily and the typology behind it. I use the MBTI to figure out new people I meet, figure out peoples types and just compare info., most likley I like to figure out if one is a N or S. I dont' know why but I catch myself once daily thinking about the MBTI and it's types, either that or the, "actual founder" Carl Gustav Jung. He did not find the MBTI, but he processed the whole theory behind it. What a great man!

Well, I believe we're kindred spirits.

[Still Standing]

	Originally Posted by Sumwun To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I still tend to think in terms of extroverts and introverts, separating them further by "creepy" introvert/"functional" introvert and "charming" extrovert/"annoying" extrovert. That's about as specific as I personally get.

That's pretty much as far as I will go too. I've actually met a few "charming" introverts also (which I tend to admire and view as role models), but "annoying" extroverts seem to be the type that I mostly end up having to deal with and/or avoid.

[WindUp]

Yes, but it's died down a bit recently. Much more healthy.

[anticlimatic]

I enjoy using it to judge and write people off that I don't like. Cuts back on a lot of social avoidance guilt.

[Owfin]

	Originally Posted by anticlimatic To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I enjoy using it to judge and write people off that I don't like. Cuts back on a lot of social avoidance guilt.

What if you are just projecting your shadow onto them? You might just be projecting all of the unconscious ESFJ things you don't like onto people you type as ESFJs.

[sunlover]

	Originally Posted by sadf To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	All the time. With everyone I meet think about what their "functions" are, what order they use them, or if they fit a stereotype of one of the sixteen, then I automtically type them and when they are around I watch how they behave to see if they really do fit that type. Unless I really like someone, then I don't care anymore.

I would guess if you'd really liked someone you'd have be more inclined not less, but hey it's all good,lol.

[Beric]

I don't think about it almost daily, I think about it almost hourly. I type everything from anime and movie characters to cats. Everything *can* be explained by MBTI (whether or not it actually should be). I'm definitely a bit obsessed.

[ipodboy2137]

Wow! It seems many of us are obsessed with the MBTI and it's typology. However, there are a few on here that could care less, but the point is without the MBTI many of us would be lost.

[UnrulyR3d]

Theory applied in the practical world. Pattern recognition. Testing theories looking at nuances... (okay I am just using all my big girl words today. Lmao)

Yeah it's mindless entertainment, which I engage in all the time, because I don't watch TV.
(Somewhere in the universe something beautiful has died because I said this.
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[drake2]

MBTI has become for me, a way of viewing the world just like male/ female is to wider society - only MBTI is much more acurate.
I view every social context with MBTI in mind and it is very usefeul in business dealings particularly.
I am ow mainly focussed on learning about the relationships between genetics and MBTI.

[Kuroneko]

Yes. And the most curious thing is that I don't even take it that seriously.