Up until today, I've had something to write about every day on this little experiment. I've actually come to look forward to it. And now tonight, I am sitting here wracking my brain trying to figure out what to write and am drawing a complete blank. So I thought to myself, what day am I on, how many more days do I have to go? Well, I started this little challenge, to write every day for twenty-one days in a row, exactly twenty days ago. The theory was, that if you did something twenty-one days in a row, it would become habit. While I may have writers block, the fact that I sat here for half an hour trying to figure out what to write is a good indication that I am well on my way to forming a new habit, and for tonight, that is enough for me.
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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