I’m usually ENFP whenever I take the Myers-Briggs test and this app thinks I’m INTP so half right?
I’ve posted about the Myers-Briggs test on this blog before and I’ve referenced it occasionally when talking about my own personality or the personality of others. But the more I read about Myers-Briggs and other similar personality tests, the more I’ve come around to thinking of them like I think of handwriting analysis – a fun parlour […]
Which of the 16 Myers-Briggs Personality Type are you? (I usually test as ENFP as I did when I just re-did the test right now.) Below are some graphics to help map your personality type to well-known pop culture figures… Marvel Universe… Star Wars… Harry Potter… Animal Kingdom… Other male pop culture figures: …and […]
Okay, maybe not but the Facebook MyType application is the first application I've installed on Facebook in a *long* time.I'm not sure what I got in high school but I think every time I've taken the test (official or an unofficial variation) since then, I've gotten ENFP.Here's a summary of what that personality type is […]
In my Wisdom Wednesday series, I’ll eventually do a post about the difference I see between what I call “black & white” thinkers and “grey area” thinkers. (Myers-Briggs has 16 classifications. True Colors has 4. Hamology basically only has 2!) One big aspect of this difference is that are those who think there are hard […]
We didn’t see eye to eye on everything but I was very fortunate to have the first manager in libraries that I did as he was very experienced and knowledgeable (obviously people have to start somewhere but it can be a lot tougher if your manager is someone who’s newly hired or has only been […]
This was a lesson I learned from my first manager at RPL (who also happened to be the Manager of HR so had tons of great insights into managing people, dealing with conflict and so on.) The context was that I was in a very unique role as Organizational Development Specialist, responsible for all staff […]
I haven’t done a navel-gazing post for awhile so I thought it’d be interesting to list which of my blog posts have had the most views during this year along with the date that they were originally published… How To Make A Rye & Coke Press (Dec 2006) Myers-Briggs Results as Cultural Touchstones (Oct 2013) Ranking […]
In my interview for my first librarian job, I was asked that all-time favourite interview question, “Where do you see yourself going in ten years?” I replied “I'd like to be a director someday” but to this day, I honestly don't know how much of that answer was me being honest and how much was […]
I attended the Saskatchewan Book Awards last Saturday night and since it was the Saskatchewan Publishers Group that first got me involved with that organization, I thought this would be a good time to post the third part of a series I'm doing on the main things I learned from the various jobs I've held […]
