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Your Personality is the visible face you present to the world. It is the set of behaviours, thoughts, emotions and motives that you have developed for interacting with other people. You might think of your personality as being something like a mask - it is not the inner you, but rather it is the outer you. Your personality represents the culmination of all of the success strategies you have internalised over time. Your parents taught you some of these and you discovered some of them for yourself. Myers-Briggs (MBTI)Of the many different systems for determining personality type, perhaps the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is the best known. It measures four different dimensions of personality and breaks its analysis down into sixteen different types.The MBTI test is based on the theories of Carl Jung and measures personality on two dimensions. The first of these concerns a preference for Analytical Thinking as opposed to Intuitive Thinking. The second dimension concerns the way we perceive the world and take in information. It maps a preference for evaluation of the senses in some individuals versus an opposite tendency to read information from the external world intuitively. In addition to these two dimensions, it also measures the extraversion/introversion. The upshot of all this is that you can arrive at eight different personality types - Jung's Stereotypes. The MBTI then adds an extra dimension which is again derived from Jung's theories to arrive at a model of 16 personality types. You can get a very quick feel for what personality type you are by taking the simple test above; it consists of just four little questions and provides some interesting feedback. The Enneagram One of the other personality typing systems I regularly use is known as the Enneagram. The name comes from the Greek for nine (ennea) and points (gram). Its origin is not really known and it may well turn out to be an ancient system as some people claim. Others claim it to have been invented as recently as the c19. However, it is a typing system that categorises personality into nine primary types. There are also three sub-types for each main type, so it's a model consisting of twenty seven different types. One of the interesting things about this system is that it predicts how our behaviour is likely to change under conditions of stress. The site above is an excellent learning resource for anyone wanting to know more.
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