Steve and Susan came over last night and I hooked them up to the electrodes to administer the Myers-Briggs Personality Test. If you know me, you know this is a perennial obsession of mine. The Myers-Briggs is to me, what astrology is to hippies. Some people say this leads to pigeon-holing everyone you know, and reducing their distinct personalities to a few, general descriptives types, but I have an argument against this notion that consists of the following:
First of all, this is for educational purposes only. The test is a conceptualized sorting of personality characteristics used solely for the purposes of investigating and delving into how you and others think, perceive the world and each other, and how you relate to the world based on this perception. It is not deterministic. It is only a model to describe perceptions and behavior. After all, what is personality but the way you perceive situations and yourself and how you behave in situations according to these perceptions. I actually believe it is somewhat possible to change your personality because it is a way of seeing and behaving. Once you are aware of how you see things it may be possible to then change your perceptions.
