Becoming a Leader
Photo by LusiI had my last office visit on Thursday, and then I spent from Thursday night to Saturday afternoon at a leadership conference for graduate students. It gave me plenty to think about in terms of setting goals, finding jobs, and knowing myself.
My main take-aways from the conference are that I want to:
- Get involved more, volunteer more, commit to some projects
- Put more emphasis on caring about people, getting to know people
We took the Myers Briggs personality test as part of the retreat, and spent a lot of time talking about how to analyze the results, which were scarily accurate, especially because we got the “Step II” results, which break down the 4 categories into other categories that really capture your personality.
I’m an INTP, which means:
- I’m introverted (only slightly- I like talking to people, but not big groups).
- I use intuition to collect data, rather than strictly sensory information. This means that I focus on patterns and interrelationships, which might explain why tax classes are so difficult for me because I can’t see any rhyme or reason in the tax laws!
- I’m a thinker, rather than a feeler, which means I like to use logic and be objective, rather than letting compassion and tenderness sway my decisions. I would like to move more towards being a feeler. This was the category in which my results were strongest – in the other categories, I was close to the middle, more balanced. I think people are important, and would like to balance them more in my decision-making process.
- I’m a perceiver rather than a judger, which means I am more flexible and enjoy spontaneity. However, I had some strong judger traits too, such as starting early and working with a plan, because I get stressed out starting late.
Has anyone else taken the Myers Briggs? Where do you fall on the scale, and is it accurate?
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Thats the same as I was, INTP that is. It was close to 50-50 between judging and perception.
“INTPs are one of the rarest types: they account for about 1% of the population as measured by the KTS,[3][4] and 3–5% of the US population as measured by the MBTI.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTP
So it appears you are likely either Republican or Independent in your political persuasion.
http://www.politicaltypes.com/content/view/24/56/
Honestly, my Step II Myers-Briggs assessment is far more “me” than the simple INTP code. I’m basically in the middle on everything except T
. I could easily be an ENTP, and there’s still a good chance I’m not a Republican or an Independent 
.