Myers-Briggs Personality Test (MBTI) Saved My Life

I express gratitude towards MBTI for positively improving all aspects of my life. I left out the details of all the dark moments that MBTI helped me through to keep this video a modest length. They're usually talked about in other videos that I post.

00:00 Introduction
01:19 Section 1: Personal Experience
06:54 Section 2: Common Misconceptions
10:09 Section 3: What is MBTI?
11:28 Section 4: How to use MBTI

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[heatherw]

Yep, I agree with everything you put out. I had similar experiences with testing during a leadership class for work. I always look for patterns of behavior in people. It makes it so much easier to relate to others. MBTI also helped me with empathy and being less judgmental. I learned to just except people for who they are. Of course, internally, I’m thinking how people could improve, but only would offer advice if approached first…then I was excited as Cher and Dion in clueless trying to help that individual improve. I love being an INTJ. I love MBTI as a tool to help me relate to other people. Your video was spot on!

[sotirismaroudas]

I am sure that MBTI has saved many INTJs who were fortunate to take the test (I am one of those).

Many Coaches don’t like the system because it makes them useless.
MBTI must become the basis of Psychology.

Common Sense for an INTJ is Rocket Science for most people.

Historical Note:
MBTI became a system by David Keirsey based on the work of Jung & Myers-Briggs.

[Elodie_N_INTJ_Analyzes]

MBTI not the test but learning the 8 cognitives functions really saved my life too. It completely changed my life deeply.
This diamond knowledge seem appears in our life at the moment we need the most.

[jenniferpoitier]

I feel you 100%. INFJ here felt isolated in the world I misunderstood now that I understand my personality type I’m able to embrace myself #WholeNewWorld

[crystalpink]

Discovering MBTI has helped me in so many ways its incredible! It has helped me better understand myself and how I relate to others. More importantly it has helped me understand that there is nothing wrong with me. As an INTJ my brain just works differently. My entire life I have been aware that I am "not everyone's cup of tea." Now I better understand why. Which is priceless.  It has also helped me better understand how to avoid common conflicts that I was having with other personality types different from my own.

The most valuable thing that it has taught me is why I experience over stimulation and people fatigue as an introvert working in healthcare as a nurse. Understanding this helps me better emotionally regulate and not burn out doing the highly emotional work that I do that is not really natural for my personality type.

After doing this for 10 years I was really having an existential crisis about being a nurse. Everything about it felt wrong and I didn't know why until I figured out I was an INTJ. Then it all made sense. When I watched your video where you talked about INTJ's wearing different masks I realized many years ago I created this nurse mask and that is why it has never felt natural. Don't misinterpret this: I'm not saying I don't feel empathy for my patients because I do ( I have a great deal of empathy), but I have had to learned to be emotional with people, it's not natural to me. I learned to fill this role.

So, I found myself on meds and caught in the worse depressive loop of my life doubting and over thinking everything. Then I found MBTI.  It was like a light bulb came on in the darkest moment. Then I was able to cope. I realized I wasn't being unreasonable having difficulty with the emotional aspects of what I do. Especially as an INTJ. It also allowed me to focus on my Ni strengths as it relates to what I do. That strong pattern recognition and predicting outcomes in healthcare is super important. I wish this was introduced to me earlier. Nowhere in any of the psychology classes I took in college did they ever introduce this to us. I wish they had.

[BuizelCream]

Nuture really helps differentiate individuals from each other, despite if they have the same time.
For example, I'm an INTJ who's thriving in the creative field, which is not the typical career recommendation for INTJs. I love to draw and illustrate because that's how I project my Ni Te visions and plans and Fi passions to the outside world using Se.

I often find it challenging to meet INTJs in the field same as I am in, and this actually causes me to stand out differently. For example, my peers have long been puzzled to why I can get so many projects done and still maintain quality. That's because of my Ni and Te being so sharp, plus I know how to regulate Se well to make sure I won't experience burnout.
Another example is that illustrators and artists stereotypically do doodles to experiment on ideas and to physically see if they work or look right. I, on the other hand, do not like to waste time on doddling, instead I have a clear simulation in my Ni brain that does all the conceptual and abstractual brainstorming for me. Then when I Te & Se illustrate it out, often once it will come off exactly as how I imagine it (granted it gets better with how much refined my skill is).

For what is sure, INTJs can relate to this in some shape or form regardless of what an INTJ's career choice is. We just love productivity and achievement.

[sylviaowega]

Well it was an older INTJ that saved my life when I was a much younger female INTP, whom was depressed and lacked confidence; and whom suffers ADHD.

[agent]

After watching a few of your videos, I did a deep dive on the cognitive functions I have as an INTJ. I read a little bit about what carl jung had to say about the other functions as well, and it's incredibly useful. It helps to understand how people process things, even though people are different and all have different actions and choices, the cognitive functions shed some light on what processes go on in their mind and helps to look back into how they made those choices and actions.

another thing I found tremendously interesting was the Ni function. The more I read about it the more I understand what goes on in my mind. It's like Ni is a computer or artificial intelligence that just focuses on finding patterns in all the data that it receives. It loves to receive data, and it's ALWAYS working on finding the patterns. The more you feed it the more patterns it will recognize, and the more patterns it recognizes the more tools you as a person have to use for whatever goals you feel are important. This understanding of Ni is helping me see that i'm constantly processing things even if I'm not consciously trying to, and if I have goals I want to accomplish I have to keep feeding myself data, especially as time goes on so that my understandings don't become wrong or outdated .

A bit of a long rant but I just thought I would share as I NEVER would have this level of understanding if I didn't come across the MBTI community and this channel. it's so valuable. keep up the videos ✊🙌

[The-Labbed-Life]

I've known the MBTI for years and always got INTJ, It's only last year that I became more curious about it after going out with an INFJ. Honestly, I should have studied the functions sooner, it helps me so much, especially as an INTJ woman. Everything became clearer, I understood many things about my behavior but also my close friends (who are all feelers)
I became much more empathic and patient with others and not too hard on myself. As you said, the MBTI should be used as a tool, it's a powerful tool for understanding others and myself.

[danam]

The biggest problem is when there’s a type that always mistypes itself. I try to say “not who you want to be, but who you are”

[pixiegrey]

This video got me excited! 😁 My train of thought was very similiar. Took me a while to figure out that I am an ENTP, as I fit the cognitive functions, but I didn't fit the sterotypes and didn't seem to act like the other LOUD ENTP's 😊

I use MBTI for personal growth and to give me a better understanding of others.

I have slowly over time figured out solutions to the weaknesses of ENTP's.

I'm going to share this as I find it hilarious: I could never keep my place tidy 😒 So I stumbled upon an app that you add all the rooms in your place, add the tasks that need to be done and how often. So you go on the app daily, and pick 3 or so tasks that turned red and quickly do them. My place is now neat and tidy all of the time 😂😂

But it gets what I learnt from the app flowed over into other parts of my life and I am now able to take on big projects, break them down and finish them! 😁

Let me tell you, an ENTP that is able to focus and finish projects is a force to be reckoned with! 😜

Thanks for this video.

[yu-shankuo]

Thank you for making this video, which really gives clarity.

1. How I entered MBTI realm:
I was introduced to MBTI by a prof in Psy. Deportment in college, who kindly offered an interview for type confirmation. As he asked, I let three of my best and closest friends pretend to be me while taking the assessment, and their results were all the same as mine (INTJ). Even so, the prof (ESTP) refused to agree with those results because he firmly believed that I was a perceiver, must be XXXP, not XXXJ. I betted that he knew very little about cognitive functions, otherwise he could have pointed out Ni-dom.

2. MBTI deniers:
> Similarly, most of them are unwilling or incapable of comprehending cognitive functions and the beauty of dichotomies derived from Yin-Yang. According to Dunning–Kruger curve, the most ignorant tends to be vocal, self-absorbed, and blind to evidence.
> For some thinkers like Jordan Peterson, I think they argue the utility of MBTI because it's a horizontal model that distinguishes difference but barely serves as a mental health indicator (a vertical model). OCEAN (Big five), on the other hand, is more useful for medical interventions.

3. Behavioral diseases like ADHD are widely diagnosed, while personality assessments (MBTI) are hardly accepted:
In my opinion, it's a rivalry among multiple forces - Individualism vs. Collectivism / Capitalism
> Hyperactivity began to become a problem in the education system / industrialized society, since educators / enterprise owners want their students / employees to stay calmly in front of desks / production lines as long as possible to ensure optimized outcomes: obedience / profit. Big Pharma are benefited from it, cooperating with the medical system and providing medicine that kills the vitality of children to ensure the cycle of such slavery.
> Personality assessments aim for self-recognition, self-growth and mutual understanding, which foster the awareness encouraging people to challenge and reform current social structures. No wonder, it's very undesirable to elites at the top of the pyramid, who want people to be docile and controlled.

4. MBTI is more of philosophy than science:
Last point here, according to my observation, Ni and Ne users are more interested in MBTI, because it gives excellent references or languages for abstract thinking. "When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate, " said Carl Jung. MBTI is a tool that lights up inside and makes one conscious of the unseen. I used to be frequently angry at humanity for all kinds of absurdity. After learning MBTI, humans become adorable to me because they start making senses.

[yourfriendashlee]

Love the why. It is a tool! 😊 Good morning from Aus 🤗 Love the colour combo for the video too 😁 very calming clean set up.
ENFP: That just used similar strategies in my interview this morning 😅

[sylviaowega]

Both the INTP’s and the INTP have a great potential for leadership. Most people don’t think so, especially for the INTP, because we are all reluctant leaders.

[elvinfp]

I'm so glad I found your channel! I think I like INTJs quite a bit more now. And I did find this video relatable. So, well done on the self-growth, and thank you for sharing your personal experiences!

After discovering MBTI and applying it to the people and relationships in my life, I also had several similar light bulb moments that fundamentally changed how I view and relate to people and their different (but equally valid) preferences for processing and functioning. MBTI really opened my eyes, providing a framework for figuring out people, their motivations, short-comings, and potential for growth.

When I'm not entertaining myself trying to type people, I also mainly use MBTI (and enneagram) as a tool for self-improvement, and doing so has improved my perspective on life immeasurably. Your comment about everyone's "common sense" being different really struck me, because it seems few people really realize that and consider someone dumb or inferior for doing something differently or not thinking of something that they naturally would. In the past, I've certainly gotten frustrated when I thought someone should've considered what was obvious to me. Now I can be more understanding. The world could be a much less judgemental, more compassionate place if more people learned this, too, and applied it conflict resolution.

Learning about MBTI also helped me feel more connected to the world as a whole by allowing me to recognize the tons of other people just like me (INFP) out there, and that there are absolutely romantically compatible people for me and everyone else out there, too (but that the mental/emotional health of both parties is much more important than type compatibility).

MBTI offers comfort, hope, and growth opportunity, and it helps the world make more sense. And tangentially, because of MBTI, I was able to find your channel, which I'm enjoying quite a lot. You're very pleasant, and I appreciate the way you relate to and understand INFPs in particular. 😊 Anyway, this was a long, unnecessary ramble. Thanks again, Jon. Take care!

[crystlefeigel]

Thank you for sharing the things you've learned through your learning journey. I love how this knowledge will now spread from you, to our community, and onward to help many others and help push us all forward. Thank you for starting this channel, I appreciate the insights I have gained from them as I continue my journey of growth. 🙂

[darrencapaldi]

For me it was the MBTI coupled with me making a new friend who saw the world so massively different from me (my INTJ friend)

[rhambosia]

Posting as an infj... I'm sure there's more of us on your channel! I relate to everything you have said, thanks for the insight! I like your manner of explaining things.

[lcc]

YES!
I was typed by another intj. I dislike labels so wasn't terribly interested. Then he lent me a book on mbti written by an intj.
Blew my mind. I then read every single book. There are a lot of bad ones. I finally had a system for understanding how ppl behave and how to interact with them, or not. I type someone as soon as I meet them.
I can't say I am more empathetic, but I know how to meet someone's needs, so I can get the best out of a situation or conversation.

[yournidom]

It saved my life as well!! Thanks for sharing your story. I especially appreciate you normalizing mental health and presenting type- psychology as a tool for wellness!