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Haylea Kirkland
Professor Jeffrey Meier
HONR 1700
27 September 2016
MBTI Reflection
Prior to receiving my results for the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), I had a
completely different prediction as to what my results would be. When given the papers
explaining the different sections (Extroversion/Introversion, Sensing/Intuition, Thinking/Feeling,
Judging/Perceiving), I immediately placed myself into my self-evaluated categories. I thought
my results would tell me I was an INTJ (Introversion, Intuition, Thinking, Judging). Instead, I
found that I was actually an ESTP (Extroversion, Sensing, Thinking, Perceiving). At first I was
caught extremely off-guard and refused to believe my results, however after reviewing the details
of my results, I find that the ESTP personality does a pretty good job of describing me. For two
of the four sections, my results were very close to the middle. For the one section I predicted
correctly, the preference clarity index was all the way towards the left indicting Thinking,
clarifying to myself that I do not let my emotions make decisions for me. For the career choices
to consider, a couple careers relevant to what I hope to do one day was on the list. Those
relevant included detective, police, private investigator, and many careers within the financial
industry.
I personally do not mind other people knowing what my MBTI results were, but I
understand why some people would want to keep their results anonymous. Although I have
never personally experienced it, I am sure that there are some people out there who will judge
others based on this test. The only time I could see myself wishing to keep my result anonymous

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is when applying for a job. Even though businesses are not supposed to use MBTI result in their
hiring process because it is unethical, there are some businesses that do. To keep whatever
company I was applying for a job with unbiased, I would probably try to keep my results
unknown.
I believe that being aware of your particular personality type is crucial to understanding
yourself better. The MBTI test provides one with a detailed overview of ones potential strengths
and weaknesses. By keeping in mind your weaknesses when interacting with others (for
example one of my weaknesses would be my tendency to appear insensitive), one can be
conscious of their weaknesses and work to avoid them. Another thing I really liked about the
results from the MBTI test is that it provided me with a list of possible careers that someone with
my personality would thrive in. Being aware of your strengths and weaknesses is also useful in
relationships, being that personalities play a huge part in how you connect with someone else.
Not that two particular personalities could not get along, it would just help you in knowing what
areas you can be to much in. Along with that though, if you have someone who scores high in
the judging section matched with someone who scores high in the feelings section, I do not
see any sort of long term anything coming out of that duo.