MBTI is a psychometric tool designed to measure how people perceive the world and make decisions. It is based on the theory that we a natural tendency to respond to the world as a result of a complex interplay of 4 inherent preferences.

  1. Where is your primary source of energy?
    Do you make sense of things by thinking them through before talking to anyone about them or do you prefer to talk to others before drawing conclusions? Are you action oriented or thought oriented?
  2. What type of information do you gather easily in the world?
    Data and details gathered objectively through the 5 senses? Or patterns, conceptual meaning and possibilities?
  3. How do you make decisions with the information you gather?
    On the basis of logic and objective considerations, detached from the circumstances at hand? Or on the basis of personal values and the most harmonious & empathetic choice.
  4. How do you prefer to deal with the outside world?
    In a structured way, planning your work and working your plan? Or in a flexible way, going with the flow of whatever life presents?

There are a wide variety of resources that can be found to explore more about MBTI. This exploration can be used to enhance personal awareness, including what the advantages and disadvantages of our particular preferences happen to be, as well as a way to foster an understanding of individuals who have different preferences from our own and an appreciation for what they can contribute to decision making that we may not.