Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Instant Enlightenment for $0.99

I'm subject to taking a few more classes before getting my own piece of paper that says I've taken 90 university credits. Given my schedule, I'm not interested in spending any more effort on it than I absolutely have to, so I have made some pretty boring (almost cowardly) class choices. The current one being "Marketing Yourself", an online class about finding out who you are, what career you want, how to find it and how to present yourself in order to get it. Yes that's right, life's biggest questions answered in academia's equivalent to instant noodles for supper. Consistent with that, their answer to personal self-discovery is taking online personality tests. Yummy. Wonder if we get bonus points by playing Farmville?

Anyway there was one in particular that I remember taking a few times before. I was a bit impressed by the fact that I got the same result as I did previously (ENFP). It's called the Myers-Briggs personality type test, which has 16 personality types based on four criteria: Extravert vs. Introvert, Perceiving vs. Judging, Feeling vs. Thinking, Sensation vs. Intuition. The description of ENFP hits eerily close to home for me.

In fact it's basically more or less spot on, at least in terms of how I perceive myself to be. I'll invite you to tell me what you think if you read it. If you want to get your very own four character set label so you can print it on a t-shirt or put it on your resume to really stand out in an application pile, here's a few versions of the test:
Here
Here
and Here

With detailed descriptions listed here

Warning: Achieving knowledge of self in such a short and easy way might leave you unsatisfied, yearning for more....just like instant noodles. Which reminds me that it's almost 4pm and I haven't had lunch...

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