Personality types

On April 7 of this year, I took a free online Meyers-Briggs personality test, and these were my results:

PERSONALITY TEST RESULTS
Ta-dah, your personality type is ISFJ!
Introverted (I) 79%, Extraverted (E) 21%
Sensing (S) 73%, Intuitive (N) 27%
Feeling (F) 90%, Thinking (T) 10%
Judging (J) 59%, Perceiving (P) 41%
or ISFJ.

Today, six months and ten days later, I took the same test, with these results:

PERSONALITY TEST RESULTS
Ta-dah, your personality type is ESFJ!
Extraverted (E) 50%, Introverted (I) 50%
Sensing (S) 55%, Intuitive (N) 45%
Feeling (F) 90%, Thinking (T) 10%
Judging (J) 73%, Perceiving (P) 27%
or ESFJ.


A summary of the categories and letter representations:

The first letter describes how you get re-energized.  Extraverts spend time with others and introverts spend time alone.  The specific amounts of time, of course, vary depending on the person, but this is generally true.

The second letter describes how you take in information from the world, what you observe, and how you think.  Sensors observe with their senses - what they see, colors, how things feel on their skin, tastes, smells, etc.  If you're intuitive, you think about things, ideas, etc, what it would be like to be in another person's position, etc.

The third letter is how you make decisions.  Feelers focus on the way things make them feel and their decisions are based on this.  Thinkers focus on what makes the most sense and other logical routes.

The final letter is how you work with your time.  Judgers are planners and perceivers are spontaneous and much more comfortable with flying by the seats of their pants.

So, for me, this is what these letters mean:

When I took the test in April, I was much more introverted.  Today I'm 50/50 introverted and extraverted.  I think this is because I'm spending a lot more time with other people and am seeing the value in that.  I feel better more often when I'm with others.  I've also become more intuitive, as oppososed to sensitive, which I think is because I've done a lot more thinking about who I am and my growth, etc.  I just think a lot more in general.  I'm also more of a planner, if that was even possible, which makes sense because I am doing so much with my time that I definitely need to keep it straight.

Isn't this all interesting?  I definitely find it interesting.  When I took the test today, I didn't think anything would really change.  But look at that, I sure have.  Can't figure out if this is a good thing or not.

xoxo

ps.  Famous ISFJs and ESFJs.

ISFJ - St. Teresa de Avila, Robert E. Lee, President William Howard Taft, Kristi Yamaguchi, Ophelia in Hamlet, and Dr. John H. Watson, MD, Sherlock Holmes' sidekick

ESFJ - President Bill Clinton, Desi Arnaz ("Ricky Ricardo"), Terry Bradshaw, Mary Tyler Moore, Steve Spurrier, Sally Field, Monica from Friends, Molly Weasley from Harry Potter, and Donald Duck