Richard Williams, III Essays (1744 words) - Personality, Psychology

Richard Williams, III Dr. Bryan Corbin Composition 1301 March 3, 2017 ENFJ-A Myers-Briggs Type Indicator All people in this world can be categorized into different and partially unique personality divisions. Almost everything we choose or pursue can be predicted and are expected based on our personality type. There is a total of 16 types of personalities; all different in their own ways and all have small subpersonalities which help magnify your true personality. My personality type is ENFJ - A, as determined by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. It is a representation on how I interact with other personalities, behave on a day-to-day basis, how I learn, how I communicate, and it can accurately predict the field of career I will most likely settle with. Background The purpose of the MBTI or Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is to indicate the preferences on how different people absorb and exert information as well as communicate and make decisions. The MBTI was created by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myer in 1943 during World War II in the effort to help women entering the work force to find a job that best-fit their individual personality types to increase productivity (OPP) . The indicator was based upon the speculation proposed by Carl Jung, who had stated that people operate based on the 4 psychological functions; sensation, intuition, feeling and thinking. He believed that in most cases, all the functions were present and active, however, one was dominant to the others (OPP) . In the process of developing the MBTI Myers and Briggs added their own series of ideas to improve the indicator and increase accuracy such as; structured vs projective personality assessment, judging vs perception, a nd orientation of the tertiary function. The type indicator contains a total of four step with each consisting with two possible outcomes. Step one determines if the person is an introvert or an extrovert. These steps are referred to as the "E" or "I" in the results (DEC) . The second step is designed to find out how the test takes absorbs or learns new information. These results are displayed using either "S", meaning sensing or "N", meaning intuition (DEC) . Step three determines how the person makes decisions. These are displayed using a capital " T " if the person thinks things through or a capital " F " is the person acts based on fell ing, emotion or instinct (DEC) . The fourth and final step is designed to show if someone uses judgements or perception in correlation with the second and third functions . The letter results for this step are either "J", meaning judgement and " P " meaning perception (DEC) . The result of this process will leave the test taker with one of the 16 possible combinations with the most popular being ISFJ and the rarest being INFJ (MBTI Manual) . My personality type is ENFJ-A. This personality is described as "The Protagonist" , with the main role s of this personality being diplomat and the common strategy being "People Mastery" (16personalities). The results show I am 91 percent extraverted, 67 percent intuitive, 56 percent feeling, and finally 62 percent judging, with an identity of 75 percent assertive (16personalities) . Most people would perceive this personality as natural-born leaders, full of passions and charisma (16personalities) . It is stated that we form only two percent of the populations with our common roles being politicians, coaches, and teachers, put in place to inspire others and achieve goals and go positive things in and for the world (16personalities) . We have a natural confidence that begets influence and take a great joy when helping others and improving ourselves and our surrounding community (16personalities) . A few of the famous Protagonist are Barack Obama, Oprah Wi nfrey, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lawrence, Demi Lovato, and the character Morpheus from The Matrix Trilogy (16personalities) . Career Due to my personality type I work extremely well with other people, making a job in the retail, public service, media, or political fields almost guaranteed (Joseph Chris). My current job is in the retail field under the discount distribute 5 Below. Since it is retail it requires me to be flexible, good