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I believe you can never know enough about personality type. The Myers Briggs 16 personality types gives you insights into your cognitive functiions and why you think and behave the way that you do. NLP Meta Programs are perceptual filters that cluster together to form personality type. Use the contact form in the right side bar to book a free 20 minute Skype or Zoom session.
Myers Briggs 16 Personality Types Explained From an NLP Perspective
By Abby Eagle (2024)
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In this article I just want to give you a quick introduction to the Myers Briggs personality typology.
It measures four dimensions.
Introversion Extroversion - Intuition Sensing - Thinking Feeling - Judging Perceiving.
Introversion / Extroversion is about attention direction. Is your attention on your inner world or on the external world. That is easy.
Intuition / Sensing – these are your Perceiving functions. That is how you perceive the information that you see, hear, feel, smell and taste. A Sensing type will see what is in front of them and compare it to something similar that they have previously seen. And that is it. A Sensor is a bit like a meditator in that they live in the here and now. They are very practical and down to earth.
Whereas an Intuitor will see what is in front of them but then they will abstract up from what they see in the real world – they will abstract up in their mind looking for patterns and relationship between things and ideas, past, present and future. Intuitors create all sorts of abstractions, concepts, possibilities and scenarios in their mind which may or may not have anything to do with what is in sensory experience.
When it comes to making a decision we use the Judging functions. Thinking or Feeling. So you can make a decision based upon facts and logic or upon feelings. Facts and logic are pretty straight forward. You just look at the data, past, present and future, doing comparisons and making an evaluation based upon the data. Simple as.
However when the Feeler makes a decision they will look at how their decision could impact the lives of others. Feeler types may experience serious internal conflict when they are trying to harmonise a solution for groups of people who have totally differing world views. So the Feeler being naturally empathetic but also wanting to feel at ease within themselves may end up sorting the world into groups of people. For example, the oppressor and the oppressed. Then the Feeler type can feel more at ease in empathising with the oppressed and marginalised groups while at the same time hating on the oppressors. This has nothing to do with facts and logic but all to do with feeling comfortable within oneself.
So the Thinking type who makes a decision based upon facts and logic will put up with uncomfortable feelings in preference of the truth. Whereas the Feeling type will discount the facts in preference of how they feel.
Now we get to the Judging / Perceiving dichotomy. Are you a Judger or a Perceiver? This measures your preference for structure and order in how you move through the world. Judgers like to have structure and order in their lives but in their inner world they have freedom. Whereas the Perceiver has structure in their inner world which gives them the freedom to move through the outer world in whatever way they please.
So for example, let’s say we take an actor like Robbin Williams. He could have been an ENFP. So an actor may put a lot of time into practising different routines so that when they go on stage they can ‘spontaneously’ present that behaviour to the audience. So it may look like they are improvising but what they are really doing is drawing upon rehearsed behaviours from their memory bank.
The Judger on the other hand may rehearse for an event but when they go into that event they have a script or a session plan which they follow which means they may come across as being a bit more tense and rigid – and find it difficult to be spontaneous when that would be more appropriate.. Whereas the Perceiver just seems to be so much more open to what is happening in the moment but they may fail to deliver what the audience was expecting.
So that is my intro to the Myers Briggs. As an NLP’er I find it very useful in knowing someone’s cognitive function stack. I am an INTJ.
And why you are here take a look at the NLP Meta Programs which cluster together to form personality type.
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