Just 16 Personalities!?
You may wonder, why 16 personalities? Why a restrict number of personalities? Weren’t personalities supposed to be infinite and diverse? Well, as the title of this article says, no, there are just 16 personalities. You may be really confused about the fact we get categorized into just a certain number of personalities; as if we animals or vegetables.
When I first figured out about this website named 16 Personalities, I was completely lost — like for real! I thought it was insane that by just giving an answer to an approximate of 60 questions this website could decipher your personality. That’s when I told my self, “Why not?” and decided to try this indicator of personalities. At first I wasn’t sure if this website would really work — just think about it, it is supposed to figure out your personality from some questions.
After I finished the questionary — which took me about 12 minutes — some percentages appeared and seemed to be describing my personality. Most of them were surprisingly accurate and some others not too much. A side from these percentages some letters appeared at the top of the page; these letters where reveling in reality to what group — according to Myers-Briggs type indicator — I belong to.
I still had doubts about this page and my result this way, I decided to investigate more about this topic. What I found was truly interesting, and I realized that even thought no all of the answers were accurate, in my opinion, was actually pretty accurate and interesting. The 16 personalities were designed by Isabel Myers and her mother, Katherine Briggs based on the work of psychologist Carl Jung. They wanted to help people detect their strengths and how people are different. Now you may say, — but what! I’m so confused right now, they wanted to justify the fact we are different and they aren’t doing to much by locking 7.8 billion people in just 16 personalities. Nonetheless, you may also understand that there are certain traits and aspects of our personality we share with other people, this is why psychology has been able to differentiate personality types.
Talking more about Isabel Myers and Katherine Briggs, they decided to categorize people’s personalities into four essential dimensions:
- Introversion vs. Extraversion
- Sensing vs. Intuition
- Thinking vs. Feeling
- Judging vs. Perceiving
Each dimension was describes as a “choice” between two styles of being, therefore the sum of the person’s preferred styles become their personality. You may now be wondering what will your personality be! Or maybe just thinking this is a stupidity and you should have never opened this article. If you are relating more to the second possibility and thinking that a web page that only asks you 50 questions can’t define your personality, then you are not thinking enough. Now, it is true no one can accurately know you from just some answers to a number of questions. But, this questions can really define your personality. If we took personalities too serious, then it would be imposible to define yourself, there will be infinite personalities which wouldn’t allow us to have an acutal personality. What do you think now?
If you are now getting crazy by the fact you are the same as probably one or two of your friends, just calm down. You may share some characteristics with them, but we each have unique features, and that’s what makes us each special and different. By doing this personality test I got to understand that plenty of the people I know may have the same personality as me, and that’s fine, my charming unique details are the ones people know me by. Here’s when we can state one of the most famous quotes “We are each different.”
When we discover our own personality type, we will be able to understand why we do things a certain way. Knowing this will help you gain strength and confidence allowing you to make descicion that relate to your own nature and way of being. In my opinion the website I used to discover my personality is factual, and I got more convinced of it as I read more about the Myers-Briggs personality types. I really recommend you on trying this personality test, I will leave the link below if you want to give it a try. It is good to know your personality, it will help you gain more confidence on what you truly are and help you understand we are in part the same. Just don’t panic and be sure of the person you are!
Link to take the 16 personality test!:
