According to 16personalities.com,
Since the dawn of time, we have tried to describe and categorize ourselves in many ways. From the four temperaments of the Ancient civilizations – sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic – to the latest advances in psychology, people have been restless in their pursuit of a good, reliable way to fit something as complex and fluid as human personality into a well-defined model.
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In the 1920’s Carl Jung’s theory was noticed by a teacher with an interest in personality typing, Katharine Cook Briggs. Briggs developed her own type theory. Accompanied by her daughter, she developed a way to describe the order of a person’s Jungian preferences, thus, creating the acronyms for each possible pair of personality traits.
Introversion (I) vs. Extroversion (E)
Intuition (N) vs. Sensing (S)
Thinking (T) vs. Feeling (F),
Judging (J) vs. Perceiving (P).
Your personality effects everything you do, from going out with friends to the type of books you read. Based on your personality type, psychologists are able to predict relationship habits, general weaknesses and strengths in addition to parenting styles and mannerisms. Not all of these predictions are 100% accurate, but are mostly somewhat true if you’re personality type reflects who you are.
There are Sixteen Possible Personality Pairs:
INTJ: The Architect.
- represent 2-4% of the population
- Best Careers: scientist, engineer, medical doctor, attorney or military leader.
INTP: The Logician
- 3-5% of the population
- Best Careers: physicist, chemist, a photographer or a mechanic.
ENTJ: The Commander
- 2-5% of the population
- Best Careers: business executive, entrepreneur, lawyer, judge or a university professor.
ENTP: The Debater
- 2-5% of the population
- Best Careers: psychologist, a photographer, an actor, a sales rep or a systems analyst.
INFJ: The Advocate
- 1-3% of the population
- Best Careers: photographer, musician/ artist, social work, health care professions, and religious work.
INFP: The Mediator
- 4-5% of the population
- Best Careers: councilor, social worker, teacher, musician or religious worker
ENFJ: The Protagonist
- 2-5% of the population
- Best Careers: sales or manager positions, psychology related careers or social workers
ENFP: The Campaigner
- 6-8% of the population
- Best Careers: teacher, writer, politician or a systems analyst
ISTJ: The Logistician
- 11-14 % of the population
- Best Careers: administrative’s assistant, judge, attorney, medical doctor or a dentist
ISFJ: The Defender
- 9-14% of the population
- Best Careers: nurses, child care providers, social workers, designers, business managers or careers dealing with religion
ESTJ: The Executive
- 8-12% of the population
- Best Careers: military leaders, police officers or detectives.
ESFJ: The Consul
- 9-13% of the population
- Best Careers: nursing, social work, bookkeeping, business managers or administrators
ISTP: The Virtuoso
- 4-6% of the population
- Best Careers: police officers, detectives, engineers, mechanics, forensic lab workers or computer programmers
ISFP: The Adventurer
- 5-9% of the population
- Best Careers: artists, designers, social workers and careers dealing with child care or teaching
ESTP: The Entrepreneur
- 4-5% of the population
- Best Careers: sales representative, marketer or emergency medical personnel
ESFP: The Entertainer
- 4-9% of the population
- Best Careers: careers dealing with children, photographers, designers, sales representatives or counselors
Determining an individual’s personality type is not an exact science. Along with many things that have to do with psychology, personality types are concluded by analyzing someone’s behavior and mannerisms. This is done by having the test taker answer a series of questions to judge a person’s morals, value and character. The career suggestions in the descriptions above are not a list of jobs you must pursue in order to succeed, but based on your personality type. Everyone is different, including two people that may have the same personality type. These suggestions are just generalized based on your personality test results.