The Personality Test:
https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
This is not a snooping expedition, and the purpose for posting is not to endorse or oppose the test as a meaningful characterization of ones personality but merely to review my own experience in a test-retest experiment.
Some recent mentions of INTJ personality types made me wonder if taking the test with a 5 year separation would change the results. Since there are 60 multiple choice questions, I expected that surely there would be a change of some sort. Who could remember how they answered 5 years ago?
Surprise... With 64 possible changes in the results, my profile came back exactly the same as it was in 2012. ENFP-A.
While I don't think the generalized profile to be exact, I found it to be close to my personal perception. Looking back to the choice of career path, I now realize that circumstances led me in the wrong direction. Relative success with promotions etc, but always a feeling that I wanted more.
So why post now? Well, early retirement means that one is foregoing those years that the majority of people experience. One's workaday peers will continue, while the retiree has to forge a new beginning. What better way than to seek introspection, and if testing is at all helpful... to dig in a little deeper and find out those strengths and weaknesses that might be predictive of future happiness is those 40 or 50 hours/week of extra prime time.
The subject has a little more meaning to me, I suppose, because of an educational background in psychology. Here's the historical background of Meyers Briggs from Wiki.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indicator
https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
This is not a snooping expedition, and the purpose for posting is not to endorse or oppose the test as a meaningful characterization of ones personality but merely to review my own experience in a test-retest experiment.
Some recent mentions of INTJ personality types made me wonder if taking the test with a 5 year separation would change the results. Since there are 60 multiple choice questions, I expected that surely there would be a change of some sort. Who could remember how they answered 5 years ago?
Surprise... With 64 possible changes in the results, my profile came back exactly the same as it was in 2012. ENFP-A.
While I don't think the generalized profile to be exact, I found it to be close to my personal perception. Looking back to the choice of career path, I now realize that circumstances led me in the wrong direction. Relative success with promotions etc, but always a feeling that I wanted more.
So why post now? Well, early retirement means that one is foregoing those years that the majority of people experience. One's workaday peers will continue, while the retiree has to forge a new beginning. What better way than to seek introspection, and if testing is at all helpful... to dig in a little deeper and find out those strengths and weaknesses that might be predictive of future happiness is those 40 or 50 hours/week of extra prime time.
The subject has a little more meaning to me, I suppose, because of an educational background in psychology. Here's the historical background of Meyers Briggs from Wiki.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indicator