Professional Documents
Culture Documents
“Natural” “Unnatural”
“Easy” “Difficult”
“Quick” “Slower”
“Comfortable” “Awkward”
“Effortless” “Took more Energy”
Basic Assumptions of Type Theory
E I
Ask yourself…
E ? I
Clear Moderately Not Moderately Clear
Clear Sure Clear
Sensing and iNtuition
What did you see?
S : I The kind of information you
prefer to gather and trust
Sensing iNtuition
Prefer information coming Prefer information coming
from the five senses from association
S N
See the specifics See patterns
then the pattern then the specifics
Characteristics
Sensing vs iNtuition
Facts vs Ideas
Specifics vs Big picture
Realistic vs Imaginative
Here and now vs Anticipating the future
Practical vs Theoretical
Observant vs Conceptual
What is your preference?
S ? N
Clear Moderately Not Moderately Clear
Clear Sure Clear
Thinking : Feeling
T F
Makes decisions by Makes decisions by
stepping out of the stepping into the
problem to be problem to be
objective compassionate
T : F What process you prefer
to use in coming to decisions
Thinking Feeling
Prefer to make decisions on the Prefer to make decisions
basis of logic and objectivity on the basis of values
and personal convictions
T ? F
Clear Moderately Not Moderately Clear
Clear Sure Clear
J : P How you prefer to deal with the
world around you : your ‘lifestyle’
Judging Perceiving
J P
Characteristics
Judging vs Perceiving
Planned vs Emergent
Organised vs Flexible
Controlled vs Unconstrained
Structured vs Go with the flow
Scheduled vs Spontaneous
Ask yourself…
J ? P
Clear Moderately Not Moderately Clear
Clear Sure Clear
Preference Type
E or I
S or N
T or F
J or P
There are 16 preference types (e.g. ESTP, INTJ, ENFP, INTJ etc)
31
Type of Type?!
√ Self Assessed Type
The preferences you have chosen so far combine to give your “Self
Assessed” Type.
Reported Type
The preference type reported after you have completed the MBTI
questionnaire. You will also get a ‘preference score’ showing how
consistently you chose one preference over the other.