Personality – MBTI

“Do you know yourself?”

This was the major theme of this session. According to me, this is one of the simplest yet heaviest questions one can be asked. How truly we know ourselves? The best way to analyze this is to view our life’s decisions that we took, objectively. That is, to watch our life from a third person’s perspective.

Our facilitator introduced us to a tool called “Myers Briggs type indicator” which had a series of questions analyzing your decision-making skills, your likes, your preferences etc. and based on our responses it categorized us into 4 factors.

My category is INTJ. That is, I am inclined towards Introversion, Intuitive, Thinking and Judgmental. I was able to relate myself (to some extent) with the personality description given by that tool. For example, it said that INTJ person prefers lone time rather than socializing. This is true. I love to spend time reading books rather than going out and meeting people. In this session, the facilitator grouped the people of same category together and made us interact with each other. I really liked this part of this session. I was able to meet people with a similar mindset like me.

We conversed about our likes and preferences and discussed about our personality description. We talked about how much we are able to relate to the description given by the tool. This session helped me understand who I am, how I react and what are my preferences. This tool also provided career options that are related to this type of personality. Overall, I got much insights about myself if not completely.

Know thyself.