I’ve always believed personality types are a malleable concept.
You’re someone today.
Someone else tomorrow.
Sometimes, this change happens in shorter intervals.
Between hours, minutes, and even seconds.
So how can pre-determined archetypes decide what kind of a person you have been in the past and predict what kind of a person you could be in the future?
So I thought.
But then, recently a friend sent me a link to an online personality test.
The Myers Briggs I’m guessing.
The test had a lot of questions.
Most of these questions were revolving around behaviour patterns.
Keyword, patterns.
'Aha' moment.
In the short term, we may think we are ever changing in nature depending on situations.
But imagine this.
Our primary emotions are not in millions.
They are few, single digit, I'm guessing.
But we experience these few emotions over a 'million times' in our lifetime.
Sometimes, as combinations.
This is how we experience our personalities in the short term, when you’re thinking in terms of minutes, and hours.
Now think in terms of days, months and years.
You get patterns.
Behavioural patterns.
Data that has been repeated for years.
And that’s the point where I’m inclined to be convinced about personality types.
I’m not sure if I could have the same type of confidence in Zodiac signs.
Planets, far. Patterns, here in the now.
Circling back to the personality test, there were about 16 types in total.
Mine?
INFJ-A.
Seemed reasonable when I read through the traits.
Now, is taking the test worth your time?
People decide careers, marriage partners, and even future goals according to their type.
Or at least help narrow down their options.
But personally, I prefer to disassociate myself from the result.
That way I feel I have more control over my actions and be happily ‘undefined’.
Have you taken the test or similar ones?
What’s your type and how true do you feel the result is?
Comments