My Insights into the MBTI and Why I am the Biggest Contradiction of All
I spent years studying the MBTI. My problem was always with thinking types and the thinking function. I could not get over how cold and stingy this function is, and, as strong feeling type, how I don't live up to its demands. And then I thought about it: as feeling type, I only notice how the theory doesn't live up to the ethical/human side. But this is what I miss: is the theory filled with some of the deepest logical insights that one can imagine? Is the theory just filled to the brim with some of the deepest logical insights into psychology that I have ever read? Because of my emphasis on the lack of ethics and humanity in the theory, I miss just how absolutely tripe the nuggets of reasoning in the theory are. Therefore, I am a huge contradiction: as strong feeling type, the 'thinking' nuggets of reasoning in the theory could not be more tripe... The theory is therefore tripe as well... You see what I mean?
Comments (16)
Of course, in reality there are 7.75 billion personalities instead of 16. That doesn't mean it can't be useful to define 16 types for the purpose of effective communication. Nobody wants to listen to your entire life story unless you're very important to them, so you can use 4 letters as a handy shortcut to convey some of your personality traits. This enables people to behave in certain ways around you that you may prefer, or to see blatant incompatibilities and avoid you quicker. That's how language works: it takes complex realities and gives you vague semi-accurate ways to reference them quickly in a way others can extract some degree of meaning from and take action on.
But if you find all 16 generic summaries far too misleading about you for your comfort, the obvious choice is to stop telling people you are one of them. Perhaps you can make up your own relatively efficient description of yourself, or perhaps you'll just have to make people get to know you.
And if you think there's deep insights about yourself to be learned from a personality summary, then you're doing it wrong.
Personal Construct theory is a meta-theory of personality, in that it classifies people according to the structure and complexity of their understanding of personality. It has never become very popular because it is rather complex mathematically, and doesn't predefine types, but instead explores and analyses the significant dimensionality of folks' ideas about personality.
But it can analyse the MBTI theory itself, and notice that it is rigid, binary, four-dimensional and blinkered. As if one cannot think straight and feel something.
[quote=George Kelly]Behavior is not the answer to the psychologist’s question; it is the question.[/quote]
people criticize and deny what they are too lazy and ignorant to study
thats because MBTI is simply your genetic psyche type. its not summing up the whole person, and therefore dont disregard it because of that. duh
no there is only 16 genetic psyche types, and there is 8 billion different people
maybe thats because the research is too limited.
so is all science and all knowledge itself, including everything you currently believe
T vs F
T's are better with things
F's are better with people
more men are T's compared to women but there is some mix
and for the dummies: just because you are a genetic T or F does not mean you cant adapt to the opposite to a certain extent
If you had asked me, you would find I am quite familiar with MBTI. There is irony in the fact that you didn't ask for "details to study", but simply criticized and denied my statement. If you want a discussion, engage those that disagree with you. Otherwise all you'll ever listen to is people who agree with you. What's the point besides ego?
MBTI type is genetic and never changes
maybe your familiar with your false understanding of it