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Myers-Briggs says I’m an ISTP-A, an assertive virtuoso. The summary says A-Vs are more likely to be confident that they know the best way to do something, less likely to consider the worst-case scenario when engaging in an activity, notably less likely to compare themselves to others – or worry about fitting in with them, and much more likely to feel they have control over their emotions, and their anger typically fades faster.

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yvilletom 8 July 28
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Try the MMPI.

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I am interested in your frankness and style of thinking. Currently I am up against people who try to squash my ideas and say that I am over assertive. I will look at Myers-Briggs and others. Things like these analyses could be very useful if they could be applied to the masses. but HOW?

How do we secure original thought?

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My "Myers Briggs Personality Type Indicator" is INFP. But that's of doubtful value.

Here's a self-evaluation I completed recently, the "Love Language Profile".

Neither of these explains why so many women want me as a friend while simultaneously having zero sexual interest. Needless to say, I'm starving for physical contact.

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I like being Virtuoso-Assertive. Conformation bias be damned. LOL

Wikipedia has something, One study found personality disorders as described by the DSM overall to correlate modestly with I, N, T, and P, although the associations varied significantly by disorder. The only two disorders with significant correlations of all four MBTI dimensions were schizotypal (INTP) and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (ISTJ).

With ISTP, I have three out of four, twice. LOL again.

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Unfortunately, or fortunately, as the case may be, the Myers-Briggs is not a scientifically tested personality inventory. It's really kind of a parlor game, which can be fun, if you're into that.

If you take it againabout 3 months later, when you have had a chance to forget your first answers, you will get Completely different results.
Exactly the same modus operandi as Your Daily Horoscope in tbe newspaper.....

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I never found Briggs - Meyers useful. Instead I found the Anthony Gregorc's Style Delineator much more accurate in describing myself. Using that instrument to define my style learning and processing information, I am both an abstract sequential and its polar opposite, a concrete random. That is I am a person who seeks the big picture and to to use information to build a productive cognitive structure. The concrete random side makes me a problem solver, a person who makes cognitive leaps, and a person somewhat resistant to authority.

That combination has has made me a a good identifier of real problems, a conceptualizer of potential solutions, and a highly effective program designer and implementor. I get things done that work, even resisting authority opposed to my actions.

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