What type are you?

 this lesson, you will know what type of person you are.Read and fill in the blanks.


Suppose you attend a party ………. there are several people you know well. The hosts have a new party game ……….. involves asking everyone to compare each person to a flower. Which flower would you choose for each person and which flower for yourself? Are you the kind of person ………. resembles a sunflower, open to the world most of the time? Or are you more like a four o'clock, someone ………. opens up only at special moments?

This may sound like just an amusing activity, but there is a science of personality identification ………. grew out of the work of Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and ……… of two American women, Katharine Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers. After studying Jung's work, Briggs and her daughter developed a system of 4 personality dimensions and 16 different personality types. Based on this system, they developed a test, ………… has been refined many times over the decades and has been taken by millions of people. Take a look at the following descriptions based on the Myers-Briggs test. Try to place people you know into one or more of the categories. You may learn something about your co-workers, friends, loved ones, and yourself.

Category 1: extrovert or introvert. This category has to do with the way …….. people direct their energy. An extrovert is basically a person ……….. energies are activated by being with others. An introvert is essentially a person ………… energies are activated by being alone. Mary is a good example of an extrovert. She's the kind of person ………… others consider shy, but there's no correlation between shyness and either introversion or extroversion. At a party, Mary starts to open up and get energized once she meets some people ……… make her feel comfortable. Her friend Bill is the opposite. He isn't shy at all, but after he's been at a party for a while, he's tired and ready to go home. He finds the conversation interesting enough but is just as likely to be imagining a time when he was hiking alone in the mountains.

Category 2: sensor or intuitive. This category has to do with the kind of information we notice and remember easily. Sensors are practical people ………. notice what is going on around them and rely on past experiences to make conclusions. Intuitives are more interested in relationships between things or people, tending to focus on what might be. Consider Jack and Barbara, ………... have been married for years. At a party, Jack, ………..parents own a sofa company, notices that their hosts have bought a new sofa and asks where they bought it. Barbara is less interested in the sofa and more interested in the tense way the hosts are talking with each other. Did they have a fight? Jack is the sensor and Barbara the intuitive.

Category 3: thinker or feeler. This category is about the way that we make conclusions. Thinkers are those ……….. tend to make decisions objectively, on the basis of logic. Feelers make decisions based on their personal values and how they feel about choices. Helen and Gary are at a bank applying for a loan. The loan officer tells them they owe too much on their credit cards and will have to pay off their debt before they can borrow money. This makes perfect sense to Helen, ………… classifies her as a thinker. Gary's reaction is quite different. The loan officer, ………… makes Gary feel criticized, is only trying to do his job. However, Gary takes the loan officer's comments personally, …………. classifies him as a feeler.

Category 4: judger or perceiver. This dimension is about the kind of environment ………. makes us feel most comfortable. Judgers are people ………… prefer a predictable environment. They like to make decisions and have things settled. Perceivers are more interested in keeping their options open, preferring to experience as much of the world as possible. Consider Tim and Samantha. Tim, …………. always has a plan for everything, gets impatient with Samantha when he calls her to plan a time when they can get together. Tim wants things to be definite; Samantha wants to keep her options flexible.

So we're left with this question: What good is classifying people? It certainly doesn't give us any magic powers or tools for relationships. But it can give us insight. It can help us understand others better, and perhaps minimize or reduce conflict. Best of all, it can help us understand ourselves.



Note: What type are you? Give some evidence and examples to support your idea.