Types of Personality

Believed that we all use these four (4) functions in our lives, but that each individual uses the different functions with a varying amount of success and frequency. We could identify an order of preference for these functions within individuals. The function which someone uses most frequently is their "dominant function”.

The dominant function is supported by an “auxiliary function”, “tertiary function” and “inferior function”. Asserted that individuals either "extraverted" or "introverted" their dominant function. He felt that the dominant function was so important, that it overshadowed all of the other functions in terms of defining personality type. Therefore, can be defined eight personality types ‘Extraverted Sensing’, ‘Introverted Sensing’, ‘Extraverted Intuition’, ‘Introverted Intuition’, ‘Extraverted Thinking’, ‘Introverted Thinking’, ‘Extraverted Feeling’ and ‘Introverted Feeling’.

Yellow Monster Edition

Personality typing is a tool with many uses. It's especially notable for its helpfulness in the areas of growth and self-development. Learning and applying the theories of personality type can be a powerful and rewarding experience, if it is used as a tool for discovery, rather than as a method for putting people into boxes, or as an excuse for behaviour.

The sixteen personality types which we use in our assessment are based on the well-known. The theory that individuals each had a psychological type. There were two basic kinds of "functions" which humans used in their lives: 1. how we take in information (how we "perceive" things), and 2. how we make decisions. Within these two categories, there were two opposite ways of functioning. We can perceive information via 1) our senses, or 2) our intuition. We can make decisions based on 1) objective logic, or 2) subjective feelings.

Expounded upon quietly working in silence and developing theories further for making the work on Personality Types visible. Asserted the importance of the auxiliary function working with the dominant function in defining Personality Type. While incorporating the auxiliary function into the picture, it became apparent that there was another distinctive preference which hadn't been defined, ‘Judging and Perceiving’.

The developed theory today is that every individual has a primary mode of operation within four categories, flow of energy, respond to the information, decision making and basic day to day lifestyle. Our Flow of Energy defines how we receive the essential part of our stimulation. Do we receive it from within ourselves (Introverted) or from external sources (Extraverted)? Is our dominant function focused externally or internally?

The combination of our four "preferences" defines our personality type. Although everybody functions across the entire spectrum of the preferences, each individual has a natural preference which leans in one direction or the other within the four categories. The categories, we "prefer" to be either ‘Extraverted or Introverted’, ‘Sensing or in Tuite’, ‘Thinking or Feeling’ and ‘Judging or Perceiving’. We all naturally use one mode of operation within each category more easily and more frequently than we use the other mode of operation. So, we are said to "prefer" one function over the other.

The topic of how we take information deals with our preferred method of taking in and absorbing information. Do we trust our five senses (sensing) to take in information, or do we rely on our instincts (intuitive)? The third type of preference, how we prefer to ‘Make Decisions’, refers to whether we are prone to decide things based on logic and objective consideration (thinking), or based on our personal, subjective value systems (feeling).

Conclusion

Are we organized and purposeful, and more comfortable with scheduled, structured environments (Judging), or are we flexible and diverse, and more comfortable with open, casual environments (Perceiving)? From a theoretical perspective, we know that if our highest ‘Extraverted’ function is a Decision Making function, we prefer ‘Judging’. If our highest ‘Extraverted’ function is an Information Gathering function, we prefer ‘Perceiving’. From the first paragraph that have been mention, the first three preferences were the basis of Personality Types. The theory of the fourth preference, which is concerned with how we deal with the external world on a Day-to-day Basis.

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