Got Personality? Take the Test!
- At January 24, 2012
- By Roxanne Snopek
- In Life, Roxanne Writes On
- 4
What do William Shakespeare, Neil Diamond, Annie Dillard, Tom Brokaw, Lisa Kudrow and Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis have in common? They fall into the same Myers-Briggs personality category as ME! It’s true. We’re all Introverted-iNtuitive-Feeling-Perceiving kinds of people. (Although I have to wonder exactly how they got Will to take the test.)
If you’ve never done this test, or haven’t done it for some time, try this version here. It’s called the Jung Typology test. 72 yes/no questions, it doesn’t take much time, and it’s free.
At the end, you’ll get an assessment of your personality that includes:
- Your type formula according to Carl Jung and Isabel Briggs Myers typology along with the strengths of the preferences.
- The description of your personality type.
- The list of occupations most suitable for your personality type.
These kind of things amaze and fascinate me – which isn’t surprising, given my score. But it’s so consistent! There are always questions in these type of surveys that are easy to answer, such as:
a) Do you prefer to act immediately rather than speculate about various options?…. NO. I want to speculate. For as long as possible. Back and forth. There are many things to consider, you know.
b) Do you prefer meeting in small groups to interaction with lots of people?….. YES. The smaller the better. In fact, do dogs count?
c) Is your desk, workbench etc. usually neat and orderly?…. NO. Have you seen my desk? (Seriously. I know it’s here somewhere.)
Then again, there are always questions that I have to read over several times before I even understand them. And then, I’m not sure which way to answer, possibly because of a) above. Like these:
d) Do you easily perceive various ways in which events could develop?… um, I might perceive a few ways, depending on the situation.
e) When considering a situation, do you pay more attention to the current situation and less to a possible sequence of events?… as in what, can I tell the future? Well duh. Can’t everyone?
f) Do you like to keep a check on how things are progressing?… what things? A watched pot? That line that fills in on the download screen? Do I look for grey hairs? Weigh myself repeatedly? What does this mean??
But here’s the thing. I’m as honest as I can be with the easy ones. And with the others, I try. Then I go back and do it over, several times, changing some of the answers I feel uncertain of. And no matter how I changed things, and how many times I did it, how many combinations and permutations, it always comes out the same. The percentages in each category changed somewhat, but I still landed in the INFP camp. I guess, like Popeye, I yam what I yam. (I wonder what category he’s in?)
Less than 10% of the population falls into the Introverted-iNtuitive categories. (Be kind to us. We’re lonely.)
What category are you?
Best. Grade 12 History Project. EVER.
- At January 23, 2012
- By Roxanne Snopek
- In Roxanne Writes On
- 0
A+ for a creative – if slightly disturbing – history assignment. And major props to the teacher for sending students out into the Twitterverse.
1. Unit 4 (Bay of Pigs)
@Castro#1
Slaughtered the one and only CIA! Sent them running with their tails between their legs. #Cuba4THEWIN
@CubaCandy45
DATS WHAT I’M TALKIN’ ‘BOUT!! #Cubarocks #HowdoesthatfeelUSA
@Castro#1
Dear God… #WHATHAVEWEDONE
@KenDoll4President
Sorry you had to find out this way. #CubaStillRocks
@KenDoll4President
Whoopsies! #ThatAwkwardMomentWhen…
@UScitizens
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS?! #You’reinBIGtrouble #JKcomeforwardPLS
@KenDoll4President
Ummmm… #HonestMistake
@USmilitary88
Oooh, you’s in trooouubbllee… #Wouldn’tWantToBeAmericanRightNow
@USmilitary88
Deep trouble! I feel ya, man. JK you suck!! Oink, oink!! #AndSoItWasDecreed…
@Castro#1
FML. #Life.Over.
2. Unit 5 (6 day war)
@MosheMan
Greatest territories gained by Israel in SIX FREAKING DAYS!! Where the party at?? #WE’RENUMBER1
@I’mIsraeliyo666
Call Guinness, this has to be a record. #kickingsome@$$
@MosheMan
Fo Shizzle. #ICanFinallyPutInThatPool
@MosheMan
WTF WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?! #OutOfTheLoop #USUCK
@Nasser4life
Snooze you lose, bubba! #AwkwardButAwesome
@MosheMan
IMMA KILL U #RevengeIsBestServedANYTIME
@Nasser4life
Use proper English, please. #HateAbbreviations
@MosheMan
You know where you can shove that? You stupid little—
@Nasser4life
Whoaa, no need for name calling! Let’s be civil here. #Didn’tYourMotherEverTellYou…
@MosheMan
…Eyepatch. #GoingDownWithABang
@Nasser4life
OKAY NOW YOU’RE ASKING FOR IT. #KeepMyEyepatchOutOfIt!!
@Nasser4life
Sooo…we kind of have no place to live… #Nomorepovertypls
@EgyptCitizens
I’m getting to it. #JUSTGIVEMEAMINUTE
@MosheMan
What’s all this then? #WWIIIPLEASE
@USSRpeeps111
Nothing!! Absolutely nothing!! #Can’tAnyoneKeepASecretAnymore
@USAladiesandgents
Awwkkwwaarrdddd… #CloseCall
3. Unit 6 (Rosa Parks)
@XMan666
Soooo I got kicked off the bus today because I wouldn’t give up my seat to this middle aged white woman with a serious stick up her @$$. #FML
@RosesNParks
Ouch. We should go protest!! #TimeIsNow
@BlackPantherBros99
Dude. No one’s blowing up anything. Chill. #NotThatMad
@RosesNParks
No violence? I applaud you. #Let’sTalkAboutOurFeelings
@MLKjr
Omg can we just stop with the sweet talk already? Or is the plan to kill all the racists with diabetes? #TalkingDoesNOTHING
@BlackPantherBros99
The goal is to not kill anything, young grasshopper. #UseYourWords
@MLKjr
…..What? #WTFutalkingabout
@RosesNParks
WTF why didn’t you just give up your seat?? #PeepleRStoopid
@IWANTYOURSEATlady60
STFU AND GTFO. #WellSaid
The Wounded Healer
- At January 20, 2012
- By Roxanne Snopek
- In Life, Roxanne Writes On
- 2
“Only what is really oneself has the power to heal.” – C.G. Jung
Last spring, my daughter invited an acquaintance over to the house to bake cookies. They lived in the same neighbourhood, shared a few university classes and the impecunious eye of a hopeful gas-saver. By the time they’d taken the last batch from the oven, they’d agreed to car-pool.
But it didn’t last.
The day after their cookie-baking date, the friend discovered she was ill. Really ill.
This week, barely six months after her diagnosis, she died.
My daughter visited her early on, before it became apparent that this was not a get-well-soon kind of illness. They hadn’t passed the superficial stages of early friendship and death is nothing if not intimate. Besides, what do you say to someone who had the same plans as you, but won’t even be here a year from now? Or a month from now? How do you claim one second of the time left for idle conversation?
I don’t know the family, and can’t pretend to know what they have gone through, and will continue to go through. But I think I can imagine.
I think every parent can imagine.
It’s what makes us lie awake at night until all the cars are back, what makes us freak out when a cell phone goes unanswered, what makes our heart-rate skyrocket each time the phone rings at an odd hour and we can’t mentally check off everyone as safe and sound.
We can imagine, because from the moment they come to us, we know fear. We can never, ever be absolutely certain that they are safe and sound. The fear of loss changes a person.
My daughter is in nursing school. In her career, she will see all sorts of people in all sorts of extreme situations. She won’t be able to claim she knows what they’re going through, but she will be able to imagine a tiny fraction of their pain.
And she will be a better healer for it.