Comments on: More adventures with the 4-year-old http://betterthingsahead.com/more-adventures-with-the-4-year-old/ Life as a family of expats Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:11:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Myrrh http://betterthingsahead.com/more-adventures-with-the-4-year-old/comment-page-1/#comment-1642 Myrrh Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:23:19 +0000 http://betterthingsahead.com/?p=656#comment-1642 That actually makes a lot of sense because the ENTJ women I've encountered are the most high achieving, with both excellent people skills and a great business acumen. Female ENTJs are less common (since about 60% of women have a feeling preference and supposedly only 25% of the population has an intuiting preference). A lot of pastors are ENTJs also. Family background and circumstances are known to affect the outcome of the instrument, which is why it's recommended to both self-select your type (before taking it) and work with a practitioner to arrive at a best fit type. I'm not trying to sell myself here (in fact, I rarely use my skill for pay--more to talk to groups and help friends)--it's just that I commonly hear from people that either they're "borderline" or that they've changed, when the premise of the MBTI is that our preferences are inborn. We all operate with all 8 functions (which is what the preferences expand into), just in a different order, and we develop them throughout our lives, so healthy people tend to be pretty fluid in using whatever function(s) the situation calls for. Sorry for the mini personality rant--I can't help myself--I've got a talk coming up this week (tying this in with the conclusion of our Grace-Based Parenting women's study), so it's on the brain! :) That actually makes a lot of sense because the ENTJ women I’ve encountered are the most high achieving, with both excellent people skills and a great business acumen. Female ENTJs are less common (since about 60% of women have a feeling preference and supposedly only 25% of the population has an intuiting preference). A lot of pastors are ENTJs also.

Family background and circumstances are known to affect the outcome of the instrument, which is why it’s recommended to both self-select your type (before taking it) and work with a practitioner to arrive at a best fit type. I’m not trying to sell myself here (in fact, I rarely use my skill for pay–more to talk to groups and help friends)–it’s just that I commonly hear from people that either they’re “borderline” or that they’ve changed, when the premise of the MBTI is that our preferences are inborn. We all operate with all 8 functions (which is what the preferences expand into), just in a different order, and we develop them throughout our lives, so healthy people tend to be pretty fluid in using whatever function(s) the situation calls for.

Sorry for the mini personality rant–I can’t help myself–I’ve got a talk coming up this week (tying this in with the conclusion of our Grace-Based Parenting women’s study), so it’s on the brain! :)

]]> By: Tsh http://betterthingsahead.com/more-adventures-with-the-4-year-old/comment-page-1/#comment-1641 Tsh Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:48:43 +0000 http://betterthingsahead.com/?p=656#comment-1641 I've actually taken the official test several times (work-related, mostly). And I actually consistently come up as an E, though over the years, it's decreased in its extreme. Last time, I was barely an E. I go back and forth with the F and T, but typically, I'm a T. The N I'm always consistently strong. And the J showed up after I became a mama - maybe that's because I have to be, I don't know. When I first took the test, not too long after high school graduation, I was a hard-core P. I was very fly by the seat of my pants. So... all this to say - last time I took the official test, I was an ENTJ. I’ve actually taken the official test several times (work-related, mostly). And I actually consistently come up as an E, though over the years, it’s decreased in its extreme. Last time, I was barely an E.

I go back and forth with the F and T, but typically, I’m a T. The N I’m always consistently strong. And the J showed up after I became a mama – maybe that’s because I have to be, I don’t know. When I first took the test, not too long after high school graduation, I was a hard-core P. I was very fly by the seat of my pants.

So… all this to say – last time I took the official test, I was an ENTJ.

]]> By: Myrrh http://betterthingsahead.com/more-adventures-with-the-4-year-old/comment-page-1/#comment-1640 Myrrh Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:42:10 +0000 http://betterthingsahead.com/?p=656#comment-1640 Very cute misphrase :) I've got three (2,4,6) and the older two (the girls) are competitive to the point of shedding tears over things like who gets to say grace at each meal and wash their hands first! (they practically tackle each other on the way to the bathroom). However, the other 75% of the time they are best friends and even quite good at resolving their many disputes (usually involving sharing or playing pretend characters). I tried to comment on this post on your other blog: http://simplemom.net/productivity-quality-down-time-they-go-hand-in-hand/ ...but I kept getting an error message (about a code that wasn't showing up), so here's what I wanted to say: Great post! You mentioned that you are an "idealist" and either an INTJ or ENTJ. The NT type is actually the "Rational," whereas the NF is the "Idealist." Even in a non-MBTI (Myers-Briggs) personality type analysis, that label would most likely refer to someone with a feeling preference, since heart over head is what characterizes idealism. I'm a a certified MBTI practitioner, so I'm always curious about people's types. Your intuiting and judging preferences are very clear from your blog, but the other two preferences (introversion/extraversion & thinking/feeling) are harder to determine (probably because they have to do with how you get your energy and how you make decisions, neither of which come up in this blog as much as ideas and planning!). Have you taken the actual MBTI or just the clones online? My guess is that you're either an INTJ or INFJ (that's me). Very cute misphrase :) I’ve got three (2,4,6) and the older two (the girls) are competitive to the point of shedding tears over things like who gets to say grace at each meal and wash their hands first! (they practically tackle each other on the way to the bathroom). However, the other 75% of the time they are best friends and even quite good at resolving their many disputes (usually involving sharing or playing pretend characters).

I tried to comment on this post on your other blog:
http://simplemom.net/productivity-quality-down-time-they-go-hand-in-hand/
…but I kept getting an error message (about a code that wasn’t showing up), so here’s what I wanted to say:

Great post! You mentioned that you are an “idealist” and either an INTJ or ENTJ. The NT type is actually the “Rational,” whereas the NF is the “Idealist.” Even in a non-MBTI (Myers-Briggs) personality type analysis, that label would most likely refer to someone with a feeling preference, since heart over head is what characterizes idealism.

I’m a a certified MBTI practitioner, so I’m always curious about people’s types. Your intuiting and judging preferences are very clear from your blog, but the other two preferences (introversion/extraversion & thinking/feeling) are harder to determine (probably because they have to do with how you get your energy and how you make decisions, neither of which come up in this blog as much as ideas and planning!). Have you taken the actual MBTI or just the clones online? My guess is that you’re either an INTJ or INFJ (that’s me).

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