AN INTRODUCTION TO

“DO WHAT YOU ARE”

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MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE

INDICATOR®

Julia Park

Discover your personality type

Who developed the MBTI® 4 Personality Preferences Take an MBTI® online screener

So…

“Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water clears?” – Lao-Tzu

MBTI®

Carl Jung, Psychological Types

Katherine Briggs Isabel Myers-BriggsMyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®)

Handwriting Exercise

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4 BASIC ASPECTS

Interaction InformationDecisionsPreferences

How we Interact with the world

Extraversion (E) – 75%Those who prefer the outer world

Not “talkers”, but interactors Introversion (I) – 25%

Those who prefer the inner world

Not “shy or quiet”, but small scale interactors

What Information we notice

Sensing (S) – 75%Receive data through the sensesConcrete / realities / facts

Intuition (N) – 25% Read between the lines / 6th sense

Inspiration / possibilities / what will or could be

How Decisions are made

Thinking (T) – 50%Logical / AnalyticalObjective / truth over tact / argument

Feeling (F) – 50%Harmony / exception to the ruleEmpathy and compassion / tact and truth / persuasion

How we Prefer to live

Judging (J) – 50%Making decisionsStructured / orderly / outcome

Perceiving (P) – 50% Taking in informationSpontaneous / flexible / process

16 Types

ISTJ ISFJ INFJ INTJ

ISTP ISFP INFP INTP

ESTP ESFP ENFP ENTP

ESTJ ESFJ ENFJ* ENTJ

Sun Tzu - The Art of War

“And so in the military –knowing the other and knowing oneself,

In one hundred battles no danger. Not knowing the other and knowing

oneself, One victory for one loss.

Not knowing the other and not knowing oneself,

In every battle certain defeat.

To the Lab…

Jung Typology Test™ After completing the questionnaire, you will obtain:Your 4-letter typeA description of your personality type

Suggested career fields

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