So we talked yesterday about those things you are just meant to do and that feeling when you're doing it. The exact opposite, for me, is working with spreadsheets. I like putting them together to be able to quickly tell a story, but the repetitive data entry part makes my eyes cross. The only reason I bring it up, is when you have those things you know you hate to do and that are far outside your preference, remember to balance them with something that is more in your zone. It will reduce your overall stress and make you look forward to finishing the dreaded task.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is based on the work of Swiss psychiatrist Carl G. Jung. Jung observed that people have inborn preferences for gathering information and making decisions and that these preferences guide an individual’s behavior. The mother/daughter team of Katherine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers expanded on Jung’s theories and created an assessment to make the combined work accessible to all individuals. Today, the assessment is used by most Fortune 100 companies and over two million people worldwide, annually. The assessment identifies an individual’s inborn preferences on four dichotomous scales: where you focus your energy, how you prefer to take in information, how you make decisions, and how you deal with the outer world. Type is best used to understand other people, improve communication, and develop individual skills. The first dichotomy is Extraversion (gets energy from other people) and Introversion (gets energy from reflection). The second...
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