MBTI

According to statistics, there are 3 million people taking MBTI exams in the United States every year, of whom more than 800,000 are managers. Among the global 100 top companies, 89% companies regard MBTI as an important method to manage conflicts, develop leadership and improve organizational performance, and more than 80% senior managers and senior personnel supervisors are using this tool.

Among all kinds of personality tests today, MBTI is one of the western personality measurement tools widely accepted and applied in China, which is more in line with China people's thinking habit of judging others. Using MBTI well can help us to know ourselves and others, and also inspire us to explore the personality characteristics of China people formed under the cultural history of China.

Whether you are a parent, a teacher, a student, a consultant or an ordinary office worker, MBTI can help you understand the advantages and disadvantages of other people's personalities, break through the "personality barrier" between people, improve your interpersonal skills and successfully achieve your set goals.

Today, I want to recommend a book about MBTI written by American psychologist Isabel Myers? (Isabel Briggs Myers) Born Different: Personality Type Identification and Potential Development.

The following are some theoretical excerpts from the contents of this book, which I hope to share with partners who are interested in MBTI theory.

Reprint preface

People are born, and different individuals have innate differences in thinking mode, value orientation and emotion.

What causes human inner pain and pressure is often not the irreconcilable contradiction between them, but the misunderstanding between the well-meaning parties in the communication process.

Part one? theoretical basis

Chapter one? Reflections on the differences of personality types

Everyone is the product of the interaction between heredity and environment.

Perception (S/N) and judgment (J/P) constitute the main body of our psychological activities and control most of our behaviors. Perception determines our cognition of the environment, and judgment determines how we will respond. Therefore, different ways of perception or judgment will naturally lead to different behaviors, which will lead to differences between people.

In fact, many destructive interpersonal conflicts are caused by different ways of perception and judgment.

In daily life, we will meet four kinds of people: realistic ST type, emotional and friendly SF type, enthusiastic and intelligent NF type, and rigorous and alert nt type.

Chapter two? An extension of jung's theory

The second part is personality type and personality dimension.

Chapter III Table of Personality Types

Perception (S/N) is the earliest and most observed dimension. Next is the judgment (T/F), an easy-to-judge dimension.

Chapter IV Extroversion and Introversion

According to the psychological type theory, everyone's prototype is born, and the acquired life experience of the individual may activate the prototype, but it will not change the prototype. Prototype is the essence of all human experience and will.

Chapter V Feeling and Intuition

Chapter VI Thinking and Emotion

Thinking and emotion are two completely different decision-making tools, both belong to rational judgment methods, which have inherent consistency, but their working standards are different. Thinking is evaluated and judged from the perspective of "truth-falsehood", and emotion is judged from the standard of "acceptable-unacceptable".

Thinking and emotional preference are the only personality dimensions with significant gender differences.

Thinking individuals don't necessarily have super thinking ability, they are just better at applying thinking to all aspects of life.

Logical thinking is not necessarily the best way of thinking.

Thinking individuals always repel each other. Everyone who thinks always says "this is right", while people who are emotional only need to say "I think this is more important".

Chapter VII Judgment and Perception

The judgmental people think that life should be chosen and changed according to their own wishes, while the perceptive people think that people should experience and understand life as much as possible.

Talent of judgmental individuals: high efficiency, clear organization, strong planning, perseverance, decisive decision-making, professional authority and stable concept.

Gifts of perceptual individuals: spontaneous, open-minded, considerate, tolerant, curious, willing to experience and adaptable.

In real life, what a person wants to do, what he should do and what he actually does are often inconsistent, and what he wants to do is an individual's instinctive tendency. Therefore, when judging your personality type, you should take your instinctive tendency as the standard.

16 Chapter 9 Personality types

"Introversion" is really not a trait, but a basic tendency and attitude.

The third part is the practical application of personality types.

Chapter ten? The opposition of personality types

A perfect partner should have only one difference in perception preference or judgment preference, and at least one preference in other personality dimensions is the same. At this time, their differences can best complement each other, and the same preference in other two or three personality dimensions is helpful for understanding and communication.

Chapter eleven? Personality types and marriage

For couples of any personality type, the similarity between the two sides in the S/N dimension is very important.

There are often more differences than similarities in personality types between husband and wife.

Understanding, appreciation and respect are the keys to a happy marriage.

Chapter 12 Early Learning of Personality Types

Feeling faces the objective material world, intuition faces the self-unconsciousness, and our insight into things comes from the unconsciousness.

For individuals, when trying to solve a problem, they can try to use four psychological functions at the same time: collecting information with sensory S, finding possible solutions with intuitive N, analyzing possible results obtained by different methods with thinking T, and judging the acceptance of these results by other team members with emotional F.

The fourth part is the dynamic development of personality types.

The key to the development of personality types lies in the development of perception and judgment, and the way individuals use these two psychological functions.

The deepest and earliest personal preference should be extroversion and introversion.

Personal thinking and emotional preferences are closely related to various family conflicts and will also be manifested in the early life.

Sensory children will think mother goose's story is stupid when they know that cows can't jump on the moon.

Chapter 16 Healthy Personality Development

Healthy personality development needs two elements. First of all, individuals should have developed perception and judgment functions at the same time, with the most developed as the leading psychological function and the less developed as the auxiliary psychological function; Secondly, individuals should have the ability to use both extroversion and introversion, with one of them as the dominant attitude. When these two conditions are met at the same time, individual personality development can be balanced.

Perception without judgment is powerless, and judgment without perception is blind. Pure introverts are unrealistic, while pure extroverts are often superficial.

The dominant psychological function of the individual must remain unchanged, otherwise, the individual will lose his way.

To some extent, an individual's character strengths can make up for his own intellectual deficiency.

Chapter 17 Personality development disorder?

The obstacles to personality development come from environmental pressure, individuals' lack of confidence in their own personality types, family's disapproval of personal personality types, and lack of opportunities and motivation.

Chapter 18 Motivation of Children's Personality Development

Whether children's judgment ability can be developed depends on how they deal with disappointment and various problems in life.

It is not childhood trauma that leads to adult neurosis, but childhood doting.

"If they can grow Chinese cabbage well, they are also saving the world," Jung said.

Excellence is not necessarily competition, but the satisfaction that children get after their efforts is the most effective incentive.

Chapter 19 From now on

Understanding the essence of the problem is the exercise of perception function, while choosing specific coping style is the exercise of judgment function.

Personality type theory holds that people's preferences are innate.

The dominant psychological function of an individual can dominate the other three psychological functions and determine the main life goals of the individual. Therefore, the full development of personality means the full development of leading psychological function.

Among all interpersonal relationships, marriage may best reflect human nature.

The most successful communication is that although everyone compromised each other, the final resolution skillfully adopted what everyone valued most.

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