AN INTRODUCTION TO
“DO WHAT YOU ARE”
---MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE
INDICATOR®
Julia Park
Discover your personality type
developed the MBTI®
4 Personality Preferences
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Who
So…
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“Do you have the patience to wait
until your mud settles and the water
clears?” – Lao-Tzu
®
MBTI
Carl Jung, Psychological Types
 Katherine Briggs
 Isabel Myers-Briggs
 Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®)
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Handwriting Exercise
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Use your right or left hand
/ + O %
 Sun
 Print Your name (first and last)
 Your Signature
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Use your opposite hand
4 BASIC ASPECTS
Interaction
 Information
 Decisions
 Preferences
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How we Interact with the world
Extraversion
(E) – 75%
Those
who prefer the outer world
Not “talkers”, but interactors
Introversion
Those
(I) – 25%
who prefer the inner world
Not “shy or quiet”, but small scale
interactors
What Information we notice
Sensing
(S) – 75%
Receive data through the senses
Concrete / realities / facts
Intuition (N) – 25%
Read between the lines / 6th sense
Inspiration / possibilities / what will or
could be
How Decisions are made
Thinking
(T) – 50%
Logical / Analytical
Objective / truth over tact / argument
Feeling (F) – 50%
Harmony / exception to the rule
Empathy and compassion / tact and
truth / persuasion
How we Prefer to live
Judging (J) – 50%
 Making decisions
 Structured / orderly / outcome
 Perceiving (P) – 50%
 Taking in information
 Spontaneous / flexible / process
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16 Types
ISTJ
ISFJ
INFJ
INTJ
ISTP
ISFP
INFP
INTP
ESTP
ESFP
ENFP
ENTP
ESTJ
ESFJ
ENFJ*
ENTJ
Sun Tzu - The Art of War
“And so in the military –
knowing the other and knowing oneself,
In one hundred battles no danger.
Not knowing the other and knowing oneself,
One victory for one loss.
Not knowing the other and
not knowing oneself,
In every battle certain defeat.
To the Lab…

Jung Typology Test™
After completing the questionnaire, you
will obtain:
Your 4-letter type
A description of your personality type
Suggested career fields
References
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Lao-tzu / S. Mitchell: translator. (1995, July 20). Tao te ching: Lao-tzu. (CH 15). Retrieved April 15, 2012 from
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/taote-v3.html
Myers & Briggs Foundation. (2003). Jung Typology Test. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from
http://www.myersbriggs.org/, http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp.
The Denma Translation Group. (2001). The art of war: the Denma translation/Sun tzu. (pp. 14-15). Germany:
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