So here I am surfing the net at the office on Saturday… always a good day to learn something new and especially through an old thought.
Sometime back in campus we were studying personalities & how to deal with each other in groups ie how not to strangle your classmate when working together on a project.
Anyway, I remember doing the Jung Personality test but forgot what it said about me so I ventured to redo the rest and lo and behold almost two years later my personality hasn’t changed… alas… I dunno whether to take that positively or negatively but it probably just means that my outlook on life is still the same. So I fall yet again under the eNFj group which means that I am a:
* slightly expressed extrovert
* moderately expressed intuitive personality
* moderately expressed feeling personality
* slightly expressed judging personality
The summary of that which is jotted down below. Would love feedback from people who know me and see if half that stuff is true… I don’t know if I want it to be but somewhere inside I sense it is….
THE IDEALISTS
The Idealists are also called Teachers are abstract in their thought and speech, cooperative in their style of achieving goals, and directive and extraverted in their interpersonal relations. Learning in the young has to be beckoned forth, teased out from its hiding place, or, as suggested by the word “education,” it has to be “educed.” by an individual with educative capabilities. Such a one is the eNFj, thus rightly called the educative mentor or Teacher for short. The Teacher is especially capable of educing or calling forth those inner potentials each learner possesses. Even as children the Teachers may attract a gathering of other children ready to follow their lead in play or work. And they lead without seeming to do so.
Teachers expect the very best of those around them, and this expectation, usually expressed as enthusiastic encouragement, motivates action in others and the desire to live up to their expectations. Teachers have the charming characteristic of taking for granted that their expectations will be met, their implicit commands obeyed, never doubting that people will want to do what they suggest. And, more often than not, people do, because this type has extraordinary charisma.
The Teachers are found in no more than 2 or 3 percent of the population. They like to have things settled and arranged. They prefer to plan both work and social engagements ahead of time and tend to be absolutely reliable in honoring these commitments. At the same time, Teachers are very much at home in complex situations which require the juggling of much data with little pre-planning. An experienced Teacher group leader can dream up, effortlessly, and almost endlessly, activities for groups to engage in, and stimulating roles for members of the group to play. In some Teachers, inspired by the responsiveness of their students or followers, this can amount to genius which other types find hard to emulate. Such ability to preside without planning reminds us somewhat of a provider, but the latter acts more as a master of ceremonies than as a leader of groups. are natural hosts and hostesses, making sure that each guest is well looked after at social gatherings, or that the right things are expressed on traditional occasions, such as weddings, funerals, graduations, and the like. In much the same way, Teachers value harmonious human relations about all else, can handle people with charm and concern, and are usually popular wherever they are. But Teachers are not so much social as educational leaders, interested primarily in the personal growth and development of others, and less in attending to their social needs.
