Myers Briggs personality types. ( Archived) (122)

100% INTJ

I love MyersBrigg... neat introspective way to categorize personality types. Have not seen anything better come along, since! Neat to people watch and figure out what others are.

I would argue those that claim it has no place. The test is a great validation in defining our own characteristics and certinly recognises that all people are not alike, but that we all have parts in common.

ESFP for me.

Bill Clinton
John F Kennedy
Horatio Nelson
Hugh Hefner
Richard Branson
Depak Chopra
Paulo Coelho
Leonardo DiCaprio
Justin Bieber (ack!)
Ringo Starr
Pink
Miley Cyrus (double ack!!)

Perhaps a greater influence on our society, greater than autism is psychopathy.

Are you one?

The prevalence rate for anorexic eating disorders is estimated a 3.43 percent, deemed to be nearly epidemic, and yet this figure is a fraction lower than the rate for antisocial personality. The high-profile disorders classed as schizophrenia occur in only about 1 percent of [the population] - a mere quarter of the rate of antisocial personality - and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that the rate of colon cancer in the United States, considered "alarmingly high," is about 40 per 100,000 - one hundred times lower than the rate of antisocial personality.

The high incidence of sociopathy in human society has a profound effect on the rest of us who must live on this planet, too, even those of us who have not been clinically traumatized. The individuals who constitute this 4 percent drain our relationships, our bank accounts, our accomplishments, our self-esteem, our very peace on earth.

Yet surprisingly, many people know nothing about this disorder, or if they do, they think only in terms of violent psychopathy - murderers, serial killers, mass murderers - people who have conspicuously broken the law many times over, and who, if caught, will be imprisoned, maybe even put to death by our legal system.

We are not commonly aware of, nor do we usually identify, the larger number of nonviolent sociopaths among us, people who often are not blatant lawbreakers, and against whom our formal legal system provides little defense.

Most of us would not imagine any correspondence between conceiving an ethnic genocide and, say, guiltlessly lying to one's boss about a coworker. But the psychological correspondence is not only there; it is chilling. Simple and profound, the link is the absence of the inner mechanism that beats up on us, emotionally speaking, when we make a choice we view as immoral, unethical, neglectful, or selfish.

Most of us feel mildly guilty if we eat the last piece of cake in the kitchen, let alone what we would feel if we intentionally and methodically set about to hurt another person.

Those who have no conscience at all are a group unto themselves, whether they be homicidal tyrants or merely ruthless social snipers.

The presence or absence of conscience is a deep human division, arguably more significant than intelligence, race, or even gender.

What differentiates a sociopath who lives off the labors of others from one who occasionally robs convenience stores, or from one who is a contemporary robber baron - or what makes the difference betwen an ordinary bully and a sociopathic murderer - is nothing more than social status, drive, intellect, blood lust, or simple opportunity.

What distinguishes all of these people from the rest of us is an utterly empty hole in the psyche, where there should be the most evolved of all humanizing functions.

I have heard of this trait, like a self fulfilling prophecy.

And that couldn't possibly be because medics like to maintain their hierarchical position?

If you have to withhold the models you're using from the people you're applying them to, you lack personal congruence. Research also shows that the relationship between facilitator and facilitatee is a more significant factor in the progression of well-being than the model of facilitation used. This relationship necessarily involves trust and power balance. If it doesn't, it's something other than other-facilitative.