Can your MBTI type change?

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Can your MBTI type change as you age and go through more experiences? Watch to hear what I think.

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[dustbitten]

This was great. The people who do the ENFP/J thing are particularly amusing to me when you think about how impossible that is.

[bombsfair]

MBTI type is a part of who you are.
Personality is a person's nature.
Identity is a simple formula.
Nurture + Nature = identity
Input + processing = output

Different personalities have different processing. I'm a shadow focused ENTP.

[christianwellness]

Also as we mature our mind goes more into our subconscious or even unconscious if your shadow focused, we have one ego/ personality but also 3 other sides and thru cognitive orbit according to John Beebe and Linda Berens and it changes as we grow .I also wanna say you have one of the best mbti channels and enjoying all your content, :)

[imadeyoureadthis]

I am an introvert but because of work i have adapted into a situational extrovert. I've pushed my body and mind a lot in order to face my past trauma's. I've gotten a lot of results over the years. Now i get infj and it makes sense. I don't know if it will change in the future, but i know it's a tool to help me understand myself.

[MeadeSkeltonMusic]

I think it can. Firstly, if someone had a traumatic childhood and something damaged their original type, or something. I believe it can change. Our personalities are pretty malleable before the age of 30. I don't believe MBTI is 100% accurate. No one is 100 perecent their type. It's a spectrum. We also have something called neuroplasticity, where our brain chemistry can adapt and change over time. So therefor, the way we think could definitely change.

[spinningadam]

I wouldn't say that they CHANGE per se, but with certain mental health issues, such as social anxiety, trauma and especially personality disorders, they seem to reflect very poorly in the typing process. I'm not just counting test results, but the general theory too. I was originally identifying with INFP when I first heard about MBTI but overtime I was integrating my true personality and realised I'm actually an ENFJ. At best I could say that I've been hiding from myself and others my true self so that no test or research or anything would be able to reveal it to me.

[PowerRedBullTypology]

If one fills in different answers on a test each time one takes it, one is going to get different results too. This should not be a surprise. People act like they do the same test over and over and while picking the same answers, each time the test just generates another outcome. Everyone always blames the tests, but at least a similar problem are the people who fill in different answers each time

[alajndress]

Does this mean that all juman potential for processing information is ultimately the same?
I. E. If opposite types master all the functions, there are an exact total amount of functions for all 16 types and this would make a similar if not identical ultimate cognitive prowess?

[GhostofJung]

If there is ANY leeway given to your Type changing, I'd say the I vs E preference is where it could likely happen, or where it would be the hardest to identify as a Typologist. As a commentor said below, the J/P switch is hilariously impossible once you understand how the model works.

[MarkyMark]

I think I know what theory you’re getting at here but you can’t directly reference it for obvious reasons. The more you grow the more you appear like several other types at various times and within various contexts

[jamescah]

I agree with this ~70%. No, MBTI is not a literal way that your brain function, but it is a functional model that we use in order to categorize personality ARCHETYPES, the Arche is important. An analogy is that it is a vehicle. There are many modes of transportation, but they are all designed to get you from point A to point B. It is the mechanism of your brain. In this case it is designed to interpret your observations in order to create your reality. Can you change your MBTI? According to modern neuroscience, most likely (ish), sort of, not really eh but yes. In a nutshell in order to change it you are talking about a large overhaul of ones brain, biologically.

It can happen, but it is like going from left handed to right handed times fifty. I mean this is what drives the decision for you just to move your hand. If this is a willing and conscious decision, with no outside influence, this can happen. Ask anyone who lost their dominant hand, they get good with their off hand eventually. It s a matter of building the neural network for it. Also the older you get the harder it is.

I believe it can only be done though ones own volition (with many years of deliberate and targeted practice) or through a traumatic injury, TBI has been known to cause peoples brain to completely rewire (please don't do this, it sucks trust me). The reason ones own volition is important, is because the nature of the invalidating environment required for such changes will likely result in a whole myriad of problems, resistance and resentment.

In other words yes possible no not likely, and the amount of effort to do so is huge... years, literally. Seriously just improve what you got. That or a huge something hits you in the head and you end up with a year long headache, and have to use a giant pencil because you have no motor control. Also many people with TBI are incontinent for at least a time, so kids unless you want to shit yourself don't get TBI.

This is poorly written and I can live with that because I am tired. Also I accidently deleted half of it, but screw it good enough and goodnight.

[pugninja]

I can sometimes be such a radical honest jerk as a entp, and I've just realised this..

But, maturity in yrself, means better understanding instead of nit picking, but accept others for their flaws and positives with compassion, full stop. Not being a "entp"

[janjezek]

Hmm, this is definitely a difficult question. There are certainly things which don't change in your brain over time. E.g. perception of colors - you will see them all the time the same. However, there are other things which can slightly change over time. E.g. you don't like mushrooms at young age but start to like them when you grow up. On the other hand, the taste of mushrooms is still the same, it is only your preference what changes.

To get back to cognitive functions, everyone have all of them and everyone is using them. There is nothing like complete absence of Fe or Ti or Ni or whatever. If you didn't have Fe at all, you wouldn't be able to understand what it means at all. It would be just some kind of a theoretical concept but you wouldn't be able to experience it. I am sure it is not the case. You can understand all of the functions and you can experience all of them.

MBTI type is about preference of cognitive functions. Here it comes a bit tricky. I think that you can change preference of certain cognitive functions. One day you realize that your Te is too strong and Fe is too weak. You start to prioritize Fe over Te for long period of time and suddenly your Fe becomes stronger. I think it can happen with some functions but these functions must both be inferior or shadow or how you call it. The problem is that your superior functions have an extraordinary strong bind to yourself. They are so strong that you often don't realize that you are actually using them. The question "Can your MBTI type change?" can be translated to "Can your first two superior cognitive functions change?" I am not going to answer that but if you were able to do so, the implications would be incredible. Your friends wouldn't react to your personality change like "He has changed." or "He has grown up" but it would be more like "Who is he? I cannot recognize him!"

[mkingISTP]

I’ve been trying to find ways to explain this to people. They never get it. Also children can be typed if you can tell. This offends a lot of people because they think you’re trying to prescribe a type to someone and force them into a box when you’re not

[AdamLedford]

What about medication? I test INTJ while on Adderall, and INFJ off Adderall. I exhibit both characteristics of both types, but where they differ is specific to if I've been taking my Adderall as prescribed or not.

[faridh]

Very cool to see an ESTP making videos about mbti type. Good job 👏 I'm curious to know is it possible to change my personality type with effort OR not? Any answer from you about this question will be helpful. Thank you.

[hanspeter]

I get the points you make, but I think you are mixing different terms together. As you said, your Personality doesn't change.. and you can NOT develop a trait or quality you haven't had already before somewhere latent / potentially and from the abstract standpoint it is the same with your "ideal" type (Ideal in a sense of theoretical). But everytime you "ask" for your type in the here and now, you need to find certain ways to determine it...answer certain questions or what else...finding the patterns in your behavior, interpreting your behavior.... The point is that in every possible way to find out your type NOW, you depend on your factual/ "in-fact" self NOW and this self at least partially consists of a factor called experience, which is obviously a movable factor. And with this variable your "ideal" personality appearing in the here and now changes from time to time.
How do you wanna know at which point a determination of your type shows your ("ideal") type and not you on the way to your type? Look at it like integration calculation and you are integrating your personality over time, within the boundaries t_0=birth and t_end=death. Isn't it totally arbitrary to pick an instantaneous value after e.g. 30 years or so and declare that your unchangable type?
What I want to say is, that the answer to the question depends on how you look at it. Do you mean the ideal "you" - the fictional "you", you would know now if you knew how you will be at every point of your life until death - or just the realized "you" -"so far"-

[pablogutierrez]

I’d really like to get typed by someone you recommend. I’m almost certain I’m an ENFP, but would like to make sure. Recommendations?

[heatherbryant]

I was patting my Se on the back for noticing the other person in the chair in the office behind you... then after 4 minutes I realized it was just your reflection 🧐😖😳😅 -- Se blind

[hermonymusofsparta]

It cannot change because it doesn't exist. MBTI is long since abandoned by psychologists. It's fun to do, but it is not reliable or accurate.