What's Your Type? | Jean Kummerow | TEDxGrinnellCollege

AN MBTI expert takes the audience through the different personality types with humor and personal experience.

Jean specializes in leadership/management development and coaching and team building has worked with a variety of for-profit, non-profit and government organizations. She is a leadership coach and coordinates the coaching consultants for the Blandin Foundation’s Community Leadership Program, a program developing leaders from Minnesota’s rural communities. She trains professionals internationally in the use of psychological instruments, such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) and the MBTI Step II™ assessments. She is listed in Who’s Who in American Women. She was named one of Minnesota’s best-known experts in career development to commemorate 50 years of vocational and career support by the Minnesota Career Development Association. A number of years ago, she appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show as an expert on psychological testing and was featured in a short television spot on the Smart Women series.

[gabbymehler]

The camera operator isn’t trying to drive me crazy, they just see the world in a different way.

[ManiFabArt]

INTJ here. I once got INFJ while on my period, it made me cry.

[Ghostieey]

I'm an ENTP, before I stumbled upon MBTI I though I was the laziest, most irresponsible human on Earth. I still am, but at least I've got my type to blame for it.

[bsalmins]

I'm an INFJ, and before finding MBTI I thought that I was "different" and that I didn't belong anywhere, that I was broken and had a fundamental piece missing from me... MBTI has changed my life forever. I now understand that I'm not alone in my feelings, and am at peace with who I am.

[artisanrox]

female INTJ here, I thought I was crazy before MBTI. Bad times. Now I jsut realize I'm surrounded by extraverts, sensors and feelers practically ALL the time.

[mieralunarlunishion]

As an INFP it's interesting to hear my exact opposite talk. :p

[stocazz]

can we appreciate how she was wearing the colours and the outfit of her mbti type?

[Gladzet]

Now we need a part two to get the functions explained as well!

[xin]

I'm infj, before the test I thought I was alien.

[allainefria]

she's a strong woman. she's been through tough times and she was able to cope.

[lisawilson]

INTP. It's like omg this explains me, I wish everyone I ever came into contact could understand me so clearly. I tested the accuracy of the results by having close friends and co workers take the assessment so that I could compare the results to my own assumptions. No one was as impressed.

[maryjowimmer]

Jean is not only amazingly brilliant, but she's a thoughtful, kind person as well. Great work.

[thememoryguardians]

Picked her as an ESTJ from the beginning :)

Learning I was an INFP changed my life. It helped me understand myself and others in a way I never understood before.

[angelicagutierrez]

I'm an INFP! And you are the complete opposite of my type as an ESTJ! It was interesting to see how you presented about MBTI! I could see a lot of similarities in the way we think probably because we have the same cognitive functions, just in reverse order! I really admire how you were able to present your material in a clear way and get down to business in a decisive way! If I did this same talk, I probably would have made it 10-20 minutes longer with side tangents from the original material and interesting stories from my past haha! That's just me xD I can see that you have the same thought process as me, that you like to explore new ideas around you and that you have a lot of curiosity, but you see it less in you than in me because you use sensing more than I do! So I admire that you were so present in the moment when you were speaking! I'm usually in my own little world and sometimes teachers have thought in the past that I am not listening when I really am, I'm just looking around everywhere around me and not at them, so they think I'm not listening to them! Thank you for this TED talk! I really enjoyed it! And I think you did a great job! I love the thing you did at the end with the clapping xD that was great haha!

[macprice]

ENFJ here! You all are awesome, unique, special, and loved. Pursue the things you know are right, and put all of your effort into them. You have one life to make a difference. Don't settle for anyone or anything. May God bless you, may you seek Him diligently, and I assure you everything else will be added to you.

[m-bronte]

INTJ female and I'm more reserved but I can be extroverted when I need to be. I become what I need to be in the situation I am in....it's all an act. Truly I am a more quiet reserved person. Extroverts get on my nerves and people who talk and talk and talk for nothing, very draining and exhausting to be around these people. I bought a t-shirt recently says - DO ME A FAVOUR STOP TALKING. I have yet to wear it, I know it's insulting, maybe I will wear it on halloween...lol!

[jerricarte]

When she talked about someone else's and her personal life, I almost cried. I'm glad there's MBTI to find a way to understand yourself when own's self-assessment is insufficient.

[shybairnsgetnowt]

Female INTJ here. I seriously thought something was wrong with me until I stumbled across MBTI.

[carmelanagneline]

"...I learned I need to stop and ask people..do you want me to stop and listen, or do you want me to help you solve the problem? That way I dont get so annoyed when they dont take my advice." Lol me.

[emmazhang]

ENFP here. Sometimes I love my type and sometimes I hate it. I cry like three times during a children’s movie and I’m just like, do I have to be so emotional!”