Personality and Development

A couple of years back I found out about the Myers&Briggs personality test.To make a long story short, the test divides people's personalities into 16 different types by testing 4 different aspects of a person's way of thinking. I usually don't take such tests very seriously.But after I got back the results, it was freaky how much the description of my personality type matched who I am.The accuracy was amazing.By the way, my result was "INFP".

Please go ahead and take the test at this link.

http://similarminds.com/jung.html

Even though the real test costs money to make, the test in the link is free.Although it's not as accurate as the real test, it will still give you a very close, if not the exact, personality type you have.

Every character type has its own strengths as well as its weaknesses.So if you've been wondering what area of life might needs a little work, you can start by taking the test.After you get the result, you need to read about it in other websites.Let's say your result is "INFP" or any other 4 letters, just google them and you'll get loads of websites that will tell you what the type's strengths and weaknesses are.

Now, should personal development be about working on your strengths to make them even stronger, or working on your weakness areas to get better at them? There are different opinions, but I would like to do a little bit of both.

My personality type description says that people with my same type usually:

- Avoid confrontation.
- Are unorganized because they are often in their own world and do not pay attention to little details.

I agree with both of these points.I am like that.Although I have gotten much better at both recently.

Sometimes you are put into situations in life that force you to improve on your weak points.When it comes to organization, I was pretty bad it.Come into my room, you'd see a mess.Open my wallet, it's not the most organized in the world.I would often miss place things and forget where I had put them.That was because my mind would find things like organization, something unimportant, and would start wandering and focusing on other things that it would fine more interesting.

However, my new job that I got a couple of weeks back requires me to be the exact opposite of this.I am supposed to keep track of hundreds of files,folders, papers, processes, etc.It was overwhelming in the first week.Then it started to get easier and easier.It was as if I needed to be put in this situation in order to improve myself. Otherwise, I would have stayed where I was at. Not only am I becoming more aware of where I'm placing things at work now, but this has also extended to home.My brain is beginning to adapt.

I know this might not sound like something very important.But to me it is. Absent mindedness to me was a huge problem. I was beginning to think that I had ADD.Turned out that I don't.Since I actually CAN focus when I need to.

I'll write about the confrontation issue later..that in itself is a long story :)