AN INTRODUCTION TO “DO WHAT YOU ARE” MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR ® Julia Park

Discover your personality type  Who developed the MBTI ®  4 Personality Preferences  Take an MBTI ® online screener

So…  “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 ® )

Handwriting Exercise  Use your right or left hand  /+O%  Sun  Print Your name (first and last)  Your Signature  Use your opposite hand

4 BASIC ASPECTS  Interaction  Information  Decisions  Preferences

How we Interact with the world  Extraversion (E) – 75% Those who prefer the outer world Not “talkers”, but interactors  Introversion (I) – 25% Those 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 / 6 th 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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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

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