
Got your answers? Now mash them together to create your type. You appear adaptable, laid-back, and spontaneous. You operate best when you leave your options open and would rather see how things play out than make a decision before you have all the necessary information. Perceiving (P): Planning isn't exactly your forte-you'll never be the one to make a vacay agenda for your squad. This makes you appear decisive, focused, and quick to act on new information (people might call you a go-getter). You’d rather make a decision or create a plan than fly by the seat of your pants. Judging (J): You operate best when you tie up loose ends. And by learning about the four dimensions that impact personality, you can become more understanding, avoid conflict, and recognize other people's strengths-as well as your own. But the theory behind personality typing is that there are actually distinct patterns in the ways people use their perceptions and judgments to process information. How you operate is informed by your life experiences, beliefs, relationships, and more. Personality might seem completely random and unique-and in some ways, it is.

There are actually distinct patterns in the way people use their perceptions and judgments to process information.


Today, millions of people have taken the test to understand the 16 Myers-Briggs personality types and learn their own. Then, with his 1978 book Please Understand Me, psychologist David Keirsey helped popularize and expand upon the framework. Based on the theory of "psychological types" proposed by the psychologist Carl Jung, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) was first published in 1962. In the 1940s, mother-daughter team Isabel Briggs-Myers and Katharine Briggs worked to create a system to explain these differences in the ways people think, feel, and behave.
