I am browsing my old `readings` folder on my personal computer and came across the following article saved on `Friday, December 05, 2003, 12:36:06 AM` (formerly from selfnetwork.com, now LIVESTRONG.COM – Health, Fitness, Lifestyle:
What’s Your Type?
Prepared for: FLYNN
Date: Friday, December 05, 2003
Your Type:
I = Slightly Expressed
S = Slightly Expressed
F = Slightly Expressed
J = Highly Expressed
What do the letters mean?
Your personality can be defined by dividing it into four independent preference areas or scales. These scales can be put together to form a personality “picture” or type for an individual, each of which defines one unique personality archetype. There are 16 possible combinations of preference; therefore, 16 different Personality Types.
Different type preferences lead to different ways of living and working, taking in information and making decisions. They describe different learning styles and effective approaches to communication, teamwork, and relationships. Personality Typing is used extensively in career counseling, business and education.
The preferences for each of the four scales are as follows:
Energizing – How a person is energized: Extroversion (E) or Introversion (I) Preference for drawing energy from the outside world of people, activities or things or preference for drawing energy from one’s internal world of ideas, emotions, or impressions.
Attending – What a person pays attention to: Sensing (S) or Intuition (N) Preference for using the senses to notice what is real or preference for using the imagination to envision what is possible – to look beyond the five senses.
Deciding – How a person decides: Thinking (T) or Feeling (F) Preference for organizing and structuring information to decide in a logical, objective way or preference for organizing and structuring information to decide in a personal, value-oriented way.
Living – Life style a person prefers: Judgement (J) or Perception (P) Preference for living a planned and organized life or preference for living a spontaneous and flexible life.
The ISFJ Personality
ISFJs have excellent organizational skills, and are interested in others’ feelings. Ideally, they should choose a career where they can observe others’ needs, and organize a plan to meet these needs.
Career Matches for ISFJ’s
- Dietician
- Librarian
- Interior Decorator
- Paralegal
- Customer Service Representative
- Bookkeeper
- Innkeeper
- Administrators/Managers
- Social Work/counselors
- Clergy
- Elementary School Teacher
- Health Care
- Curator
ISFJ Celebrities
- Louisa May Alcott
- Alfred
- Lord Tennyson
- Barbara Bush
- Charles Dickens
- Queen Elizabeth II of England
- Robert E. Lee
- Queen Mary I of England
- William Howard Taft
- Kristi Yamaguchi
- Terri Garr
- Michael Jordan
MBTI® and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® are registered trademarks and Myers-BriggsT is a trademark of Consulting Psychologists Press, Inc., the publisher of the MBTI instrument.