Judging/Perceiving
| Judging/Perceiving—How a Person Prefers to Live His/Her Life | |
| Judging (J) types like to come to closure and take action. | Perceiving (P) types like to remain open and adapt to new information. |
| • Prefer matters to be settled and structured
• Finish before deadline • Like plans and goals and reducing surprises • Quickly commit to a plan • See routines as effective • Trust the plan |
• Prefer things to be flexible and open
• Finish task at the deadline • Like to see what turns up and enjoy surprises • Reserve the right to change a plan • See routines as limiting • Trust the process |
Modified and reproduced by special permission of the Publisher, CPP, Inc., Mountain View, CA 94043 from MBTI® Manual: A Guide to the Development and Use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Instrument®, Third Edition by Isabel Briggs Myers, Mary H. McCaulley, Naomi L. Quenk, and Allen L. Hammer. Copyright 1998 by Peter B. Myers and Katharine D. Myers. All rights reserved. Further reproduction is prohibited without the Publisher’s written consent.
REFLECTION: MBTI 16 Types at a Glance
Read the following descriptions and match your MBTI findings to interpret your personality and preferred behavioral style on each of the four MBTI dichotomies.
The 16 MBTI Types
| ISTJ (Introversion, Sensing, Thinking, Judging) |
| Quiet, serious, earn success by thoroughness and dependability. Practical, matter-of-fact, realistic, and responsible. Decide logically what should be done and work toward it steadily, regardless of distractions. Take pleasure in making everything orderly and organized—their work, their home, their life. Value traditions and loyalty. |
| ISFJ (Introversion, Sensing, Feeling, Judging) |
| Quiet, friendly, responsible, and conscientious. Committed and steady in meeting their obligations. Thorough, painstaking, and accurate. Loyal, considerate, notice and remember specifics about people who are important to them, concerned with how others feel. Strive to create an orderly and harmonious environment at work and at home. |
| INFJ (Introversion, Intuitive, Feeling, Judging) |
| Seek meaning and connection in ideas, relationships, and material possessions. Want to understand what motivates people and are insightful about others. Conscientious and committed to their firm values. Develop a clear vision about how best to serve the common good. Organized and decisive in implementing their vision. |
| INTJ (Introversion, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging) |
| Have original minds and great drive for implementing their ideas and achieving their goals. Quickly see patterns in external events and develop long-range explanatory perspectives. When committed, organize a job and carry it through. Skeptical and independent, have high standards of competence and performance—for themselves and others. |
| ISTP (Introversion, Sensing, Thinking, Perceiving) |
| Tolerant and flexible, quiet observers until a problem appears, then act quickly to find workable solutions. Analyze what makes things work and readily get through large amounts of data to isolate the core of practical problems. Interested in cause and effect, organize facts using logical principles, value efficiency. |
| ISFP (Introversion, Sensing, Feeling, Perceiving) |
| Quiet, friendly, sensitive, and kind. Enjoy the present moment, what’s going on around them. Like to have their own space and to work within their own time frame. Loyal and committed to their values and to people who are important to them. Dislike disagreements and conflicts, do not force their opinions or values on others. |
| INFP (Introversion, Intuitive, Feeling, Perceiving) |
| Idealistic, loyal to their values and to people who are important to them. Want an external life that is congruent with their values. Curious, quick to see possibilities, can be catalysts for implementing ideas. Seek to understand people and to help them fulfill their potential. Adaptable, flexible, and accepting unless a value is threatened. |
| INTP (Introversion, Intuitive, Thinking, Perceiving) |
| Seek to develop logical explanations for everything that interests them. Theoretical and abstract, interested more in ideas than in social interaction. Quiet, contained, flexible, and adaptable. Have unusual ability to focus in depth to solve problems in their area of interest. Skeptical, sometimes critical, always analytical. |
