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The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) assessment has helped millions of people worldwide gain insights about themselves and how they interact with others — and improve how they communicate, learn, and work. It provides a powerful framework for building better relationships, driving positive change, harnessing innovation, and achieving excellence. The MBTI assessment makes Carl Jung's theory of psychological type both understandable and highly practical by helping individuals identify their preferences in four areas:

  • Where you focus your attention: Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I)
  • How you take in information: Sensing (S) or Intuition (N)
  • How you make decisions based on that information: Thinking (T) or Feeling (F)
  • How you deal with the world: Judging (J) or Perceiving (P)

Instructions

For each of the 70 items below, please choose the option that BEST describes your preference, even though that answer may be different from your actual behavior.

1. At a party do you:

 Interact with many, including strangers
 Interact with a few, known to you

2. Are you more:

 Realistic
 Speculative

3. Is it worse to:

 Have your "head in the clouds"
 Be "in a rut"

4. Are you more impressed by:

 Principles
 Emotions

5. Are you more drawn toward the:

 Logically convincing
 Emotionally touching

6. Do you prefer to work:

 To deadlines
 Just "whenever"

7. Do you tend to choose:

 Rather carefully
 Somewhat impulsively

8. At parties to you:

 Stay late, with increasing energy
 Leave early with decreased energy

9. Are you more attracted to:

 Sensible people
 Imaginative people

10. Are you more interested in:

 What is actual
 What is possible

11. In judging others are you more swayed by:

 Laws
 Circumstances

12. In approaching others, is your inclination to be somewhat:

 Objective
 Personal

13. Are you more:

 Punctual
 Leisurely

14. Does it bother you more having things:

 Incomplete
 Completed

15. In your social groups do you:

 Keep abreast of other's happenings
 Get behind on the news

16. In doing ordinary things are you more likely to:

 Do it the usual way
 Do it your own way

17. Writers should:

 "Say what they mean and mean what they say"
 Express things more by use of analogy

18. Which appeals to you more:

 Consistency of thought
 Harmonious human relationships

19. Are you more comfortable in making:

 Logical judgements
 Value judgements

20. Do you want things:

 Settled and decided
 Unsettled and undecided

21. Would you say you are more:

 Serious and determined
 Easy-going

22. In phoning someone do you:

 Rarely question that it will all be said
 Rehearse what you'll say

23. Facts:

 "Speak for themselves"
 Illustrate principles

24. Visionaries are:

 Somewhat annoying
 Rather fascinating

25. Are you more often:

 A cool-headed person
 A warm-hearted person

26. Is it worse to be:

 Unjust
 Merciless

27. Should one usually let events occur:

 By careful selection and choice
 Randomly and by chance

28. Do you feel better about:

 Having actually purchased an item
 Having the OPTION to buy an item

29. In company do you:

 Initiate conversation
 Wait to be approached

30. Common sense is:

 Rarely questionable
 Frequently questionable

31. Childen often do not:

 Make themselves useful enough
 Exercise their fantasy enough

32. In making decisions do you feel more comfortable with:

 Standards
 Feelings

33. Are you more:

 Firm
 Gentle

34. Which is more admirable:

 The ability to organize and be methodical
 The ability to adapt and make do

35. Do you put more value on:

 Infinite
 Open-minded

36. Does new and non-routine interaction with others:

 Stimulate and energize you
 Tax your reserves

37. Are you more frequently:

 A practical sort of person
 A fanciful sort of person

38. Are you more likely to:

 See how others are useful
 See how others see

39. Which is more satisfying:

 To discuss an issue thoroughly
 To arrive at agreement on an issue

40. Which rules you more:

 Your head
 Your heart

41. Are you more comforatble with work that is:

 Contracted
 Done on a casual basis

42. Do you tend to look for:

 The orderly
 Whatever turns up

43. Do you prefer:

 Many friends with brief contact
 A few friends with more lengthy contact

44. Do you go more by:

 Facts
 Principles

45. Which are you more interested in:

 Production and distribution
 Design and research

46. Which is more of a compliment:

 "There is a very logical person"
 "There is a very sentimental person"

47. Do you value in yourself more that you are:

 Unwavering
 Devoted

48. Do you more often prefer the:

 Final and unalterable statement
 Tentative and preliminary statement

49. Are you more comfortable:

 After a decision
 Before a decision

50. Do you:

 Speak easily and at length with strangers
 Find little to say to strangers

51. Are you more likely to trust your:

 Experience
 Hunch

52. Do you feel more:

 Practical
 Ingenious

53. Which person is more to be complimented — one of:

 Clear reason
 Strong feeling

54. Are you more inclined to be:

 Fair-minded
 Sympathetic

55. Is it preferable mostly to:

 Make sure things are arranged
 Just let things happen

56. In relationships should most things be:

 Re-negotiable
 Random and circumstantial

57. When the phone rings do you:

 Hasten to get to it first
 Hope someone else will answer

58. Do you pride more in yourself:

 A strong sense of reality
 A vivid imagintion

59. Are you drawn more to:

 Fundamentals
 Overtones

60. Which seems the greater error:

 Being too passionate
 Being too objective

61. Do you see yourself as primarily:

 Hard-headed
 Soft-hearted

62. Which situation appeals to you more:

 The structured and scheduled
 The unstructured and unscheduled

63. Are you a person who is more:

 Routinized
 Whimsical

64. Are you more inclined to be:

 Easy to approach
 Somewhat reserved

65. In writings do you prefer:

 The more literal
 The more figurative

66. Is it harder for you to:

 Identify with others
 Utilize others

67. Which do you wish more for yourself:

 Clarity of reason
 Strength of compassion

68. Which is the greater fault:

 Being indiscriminate
 Being critical

69. Do you prefer the:

 Planned event
 Unplanned event

70. Do you tend to be more:

 Deliberate
 Spontaneous