The document provides information about a personality assessment and discusses how understanding one's personality preferences can help with career choice, relationships, and life satisfaction. It describes the four dimensions of personality assessed - Extraversion/Introversion, Sensing/Intuition, Thinking/Feeling, Judging/Perceiving - and explains the 16 possible personality types that result from combinations of those preferences. The text stresses that the assessment indicates natural preferences, not abilities, and encourages participants to use their results for self-understanding rather than limitation.

2. Ever feel like this?
Who am I?

3. The dreaded question…

4. Well, just pick one…
Not that easy?!

5. Fine… I’ll make it easy for you!

6. What?!

7. So, how DO people decide
what they want to be when
they grow up?!

8. As quick as you can!
Don’t over-think these!

9. “Personality is to a
man what perfume is
to a flower.”
~Charles M. Schwab

10. Don’t worry…
we all have a personality!

11. This mini-assessment
does NOT measure…
 Stress
 Emotions
 Maturity
 Intelligence
 Psychiatric Disturbance
 Career Potential
 Level of Skill

12. This mini-assessment
DOES tell you about…
 Your PREFERRED way of thinking
and behaving
 Understanding your preferences
can help you…
 Be more successful
 Deal with other people better
 Contribute more to a team
 Reduce stress
 Enjoy work more
 Get more out of your life

13. This is not about ability or
“being” something or not…
 This is about PREFERENCES!
 Let’s try this to illustrate my point:
 Give me your autograph!
 It doesn’t mean you can’t, it just
means you prefer…

14.  The farther to one side or the other (E or I, S or N, etc.) the
more strongly you identify with that letter. It also indicates
that it is harder for you to identify with the opposite letter.
 What if you fall in the middle? This means you are equally
divided between the two and they are of equal strength for
you; the advantage of equal scores is that you can relate
well to both sides, the disadvantage is that it may cause
confusion at times.
 We tend to be attracted to our opposites. We also tend to
least understand our opposites – this is our biggest
challenge!
 If we begin to understand what makes us act, feel, and
make decisions as we do, it possible to know our strengths
and weaknesses.
 If we can understand ourselves – then we can begin to
understand, predict, and appreciate how someone else
may behave and make decisions.

16. 16 Possible Types

17.  E = Extraverted (Expressive)
 I = Introverted (Reserved)
 Where does a person prefer to focus their attention and draw
their energy from?
 S = Sensory (Observant)
 N = Intuitive (Introspective)
 How does a person prefer to gather information? How do you
become aware?
 T = Thinking (Tough-minded or objective)
 F = Feeling (Friendly or sympathetic)
 How does a person prefer to make decisions?
 J = Judging (Make and keep schedules)
 P = Perceiving (Probing for alternative, options)
 What way does a person prefer to position themselves to the external
world? How do you relate to the outer world?

18. Facets of our
Personalities

19.  75% of population
 Attention focused on
outer world
 Energized by people and
outer world
 Sociable – lonely when
not with people
 More involved in
external activities
 Friends to many
 Need to experience
world in order to
understand it
 Tend to like action
 Society tends to reward
E-type behavior
 25% of population
 Attention focused on
inner world
 Energized by inner
world and solitude
 Desire privacy
 Selective in external
activities
 Limited relationships
 Need to understand
world before
experiencing it
 Often think about
what they are doing
before acting
 Society tends to label
I-type as being too
shy and withdrawn
E - Extraversion I - Introversion

20. Introversion

21.  75% of population
 Information is acquired
through 5 senses
 Realistic and practical
 Accept and work with
what is “given” in here
and now
 Wants, trusts, and
remembers facts
 Believe in experience
and trusts history
 Good at remembering
and working with
number of facts
 Feel firmly on ground
 Could you intuition
more but doesn’t trust
it much
 25% of population
 Information is acquired
through intuition
 Imaginative and
inspirational
 Look at big picture and
try to grasp essential
patterns
 Futuristic in thinking
and trusts hunches
 Look at potential
growth, not necessarily
present situations
 Expert at seeing new
possibilities
 Complex ideas come as
a package
 Considers facts but
may go beyond
S - Sensing N - Intuition

22.  50% of population
 Make decisions through
thinking
 Tend to keep emotions
private
 Decide objectively by
standard of truth
 Analyze and weigh
evidence
 Not swayed by emotions
 Principles are important
 Believe in policies, laws,
etc.
 Gender biases – 60% male
 Schools tend to teach to
& value T-Types, makes it
difficult to develop F
 Actual feelings and
emotions are no
stronger/weaker than F’s
 50% of population
 Make decisions through
feeling
 Tend to show emotions
openly
 Decide subjectively on
basis of person-centered
values
 Don’t require logic
 Motivated by emotion
 Values are important
 Believe in extenuating
circumstances
 Gender biased – 60%
female
 School gives opportunity
to develop T – aspect
 Can think as much as
thinkers
T - Thinking F - Feeling

23.  50 % of population
 Orientation toward outer
world –taking action
 Like to make decisions
 Tend to live in planned,
orderly way – like control
 Establish deadlines and take
them seriously
 Like to get work done – then
play
 Structured and organized
 Outcome oriented
 Decisions are decisive
 Plan ahead
 Feels sense of urgency until
decisions are made
 “Let’s get the show on the
road”
 Can help make sure
decisions are made
 50% of population
 Orientation toward inner
world – reserve action
 Like to gather data
 Like to keep options open
 Tend to live in a flexible,
spontaneous way
 Like work to be play
 Seek to understand life
rather than control it
 Process oriented
 Decisions are tentative
 Adapt to the moment
 Resist making decisions
 “Let’s wait and see”
 Can help make sure
decisions don’t get made
too quickly
J - Judgement P - Perception

24. You might be a “J” if…

25. Which type are you?

26. Exploring
Majors
 First and last letters of personality
type may indicate preferred style
of exploring majors
 EJ Types may declare majors early
 EP Types like to experience
everything first
 IJ Types research majors before
deciding
 IP Types delays decision while
considering all options

27.  Each preference and
each type has its own
gifts and strengths
 It is up to you to decide
whether the results are
accurate
 Type should be used to
understand yourself, not
as an excuse for doing or
not doing something
 This indicates your
preferences, not your
abilities

28. Keep things in
perspective…
Please remember to write down (I have to
be able to read it!) your email address and
type so I can email you more info!
And fill out the evaluation!
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