Myers-Briggs

Posted by cadalyyn 8 years, 11 months ago to Culture
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A thought crossed my mind while driving home yesterday. Are certain personality types more likely to hold Objectivist values than others?

Personally, I was thinking in terms of Myers-Briggs personality types. I am an INTJ and have always leaned towards logic and trying to make all of my emotions rational and logical to the situation. Maybe, because this is my personality, I was more likely to be drawn into Objectivism and similar ideals.

What is your opinion on this and/or (to get an idea of how many of us share the same personalities) what are your personality types?

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  • Posted by Rex_Little 8 years, 11 months ago
    I figured Objectivism would correlate with INTJ, but it looks like it does so even more than I thought.

    I'm INTJ, and I was pretty much an Objectivist before I even knew what that was.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 8 years, 11 months ago
    I tested as INTJ at 17, but now I test ENTP. I think both were accurate. I do get energy from extraverted and intraverted times, and can flip (I vs E). I definitely like trying new things and being a little spontaneous, but also like a "home base" with rules to go back to (P vs J).

    I like the DISC better than Meyers-Briggs. I totally nailed me, except for one small sentence. It was so "on" that one of my co-workers put my test results over his desk to point to whenever he needed to remind me of a behavior. It was pretty funny.

    Both help interpersonal communications by facilitating an understanding of another's perspective. This helped a lot around our offices. DISC, in particular, pointing out who needed a lot of data for decisions, and who was oriented to us intuition. Every single person in management was a "D", which indicated a decisive, take charge nature. Most engineers score a high "C" rating. For DISC, I scored zero in S and C and 100% inl D, I. This profile pattern is named the Influencer.
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  • Posted by cksawyer 8 years, 11 months ago
    Cool. I am an executive coach, and am very familiar with Meyers Briggs. I will watch mt clients more closely through this lens. Thanks for the question. I am equally ENTJ and INTJ over the 4-5 times I have taken it over the years. I have always considered
    my self more of a Ragnar.
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  • Posted by $ winterwind 8 years, 11 months ago
    I can't remember when/where I read it, but it bears out my experience: INTJs, despite their low incidence in the general population, have a large percentage of the Objectivist population.
    It's the "J" that does it, I think.
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  • Posted by bittersweet 8 years, 11 months ago
    I was talking about that with a friend just the other day. We both took the Myers -Briggs personality test and were INTJs. When I looked it up, I found that INTJs make up only 2% of the population and are only found in 0.8% of women. Yet all the friends I have that share similar ideals fall into this category of personalities.
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  • Posted by cadalyyn 8 years, 11 months ago
    tkstone,

    I realized you posted a similar question recently as well
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