# What do you think about the myers briggs type indicator?
**URL:** https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-the-myers-briggs-type-indicator/85876
**Category:** Psychology and Mind
**Created:** [July 22, 2026, 7:45am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-the-myers-briggs-type-indicator/85876 "2026-07-22T07:45:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Zeroeth\_Nature](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Zeroeth_Nature)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2026, 2:17pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-the-myers-briggs-type-indicator/85876/41 "2026-08-29T14:17:02Z")
No it’s not right… You are _not_ an INTJ/P.
If your self-righteous indignation makes it easier for you to make decisions, good for you, I guess.
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### Author:  [@Destiny](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Destiny)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2026, 4:55pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-the-myers-briggs-type-indicator/85876/42 "2026-08-30T16:55:23Z")
I almost died of boredom at question 5. Im not ADHD or anything I just don’t have answers to these questions. One day I may avoid a phone call. The next day I may seek it out.
One ethical debate I may enjoy, another may be so horrid in its violence that it makes me want to get suber.
Its so autistic to try to pin people down in these ways. I think these briggs thinglets are toys for autisic persons. I will decide this. I have always agreed with it by the way but never decided it before now. Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Destiny](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Destiny)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2026, 4:56pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-the-myers-briggs-type-indicator/85876/43 "2026-08-30T16:56:24Z")
Hey MagsJ hows London these days?
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### Author:  [@Zeroeth\_Nature](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Zeroeth_Nature)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2026, 8:01pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-the-myers-briggs-type-indicator/85876/44 "2026-08-30T20:01:51Z")
> [@Destiny](#):
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> I almost died of boredom at question 5.
Only at question _5?!_ 🤣
(The one about phone calls is question 6, by the way.)
Such tests are only for self-helpy pop psychobabblers like MagazinesJ, who think a J in your code just means you’re a “Judging person”, whatever that means. But changing the J to a P would actually change the deepest layers of your psyche according to the actual (Jungian) theory:
INTJ to INTP:
Layer 1. Introverted iNtuition to introverted Thinking;
Layer 2. Extroverted Thinking to extroverted iNtuition;
Layer 3. Introverted Feeling to introverted Sensing;
Layer 4. Extroverted Sensing to extroverted Feeling;
Layer 5. Extroverted iNtuition to extroverted Thinking;
Layer 6. Introverted Thinking to introverted iNtuition;
Layer 7. Extroverted Feeling to extroverted Sensing;
Layer 8. Introverted Sensing to introverted Feeling.
> [@Destiny](#):
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> I think these briggs thinglets are toys for autisic persons.
In other words, for _vaccinated_ people? 😏
You once said they held true only for _Judging_ types… thereby paradoxically confirming they also held true for _non_-Judging types, of course.
A hilariously accurate formulation by my highly personalised Google Gemini:
“To [Snadert’s] Fi-Se matrix, Jakob is a morally hollow, chaotic flake who weaponizes emotional drama to avoid pragmatic responsibility (Te-PoLR).”
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### Author:  [@Ichthus77](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Ichthus77)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2026, 2:33am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-the-myers-briggs-type-indicator/85876/45 "2026-08-31T02:33:52Z")
> [@Zeroeth\_Nature](#):
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> In other words, for _vaccinated_ people? 😏
Are you encouraging the anti-autism bull crap or mocking it? Let’s get clear here.
This… is \*bullshit\*:
> [@Destiny](#):
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> Its so autistic to try to pin people down in these ways. I think these briggs thinglets are toys for autisic persons.
Surrounded by imbecile.
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### Author:  [@shanyak](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/shanyak)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2026, 1:18pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-the-myers-briggs-type-indicator/85876/46 "2026-09-21T13:18:21Z")
I don’t really have any opinion on Myers Briggs type indicator.
I also think that personality is not fixed. We present different versions of our personality depending on what company we are in. People generally don’t show up the same to a football match as they do to a job interview, or when they are at work as opposed to socialising, with their gran or with their best friend. Personality changes across these different scenes. Personality is easy to adjust, it’s character that is more stubbornly fixed and more difficult to adjust.
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### Author:  [@Ichthus77](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Ichthus77)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2026, 2:02pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-the-myers-briggs-type-indicator/85876/47 "2026-09-21T14:02:56Z")
Temperament you mean? Like… personality?
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### Author:  [@shanyak](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/shanyak)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2026, 2:19pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-the-myers-briggs-type-indicator/85876/48 "2026-09-21T14:19:04Z")
I think temperament is the foundation on which personality is built. We are born with a certain temperament we are not born with a certain personality. Personality lies with the masks we choose.
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### Author:  [@Ichthus77](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Ichthus77)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2026, 3:32pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-the-myers-briggs-type-indicator/85876/49 "2026-09-21T15:32:03Z")
You don’t think the differences of personality aren’t just how temperament plays out in various contexts? Why does it necessarily have to involve masks? Maybe (at least sometimes?) it’s a revealing of what wasn’t _intentionally_ covered… was just never initiated until the context arose?
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### Author:  [@shanyak](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/shanyak)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2026, 4:21pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-the-myers-briggs-type-indicator/85876/50 "2026-09-21T16:21:03Z")
Well I don’t think it’s that simple. I think that personality is built through experience, social norms, environment, culture, choice and your propensity for seeking external validation. These things will be what govern which masks you wear to which parties.
The masks aren’t hiding anything they are just easily changed. My point is that you choose your personality based on your audience. Whereas— for me— character is what reveals itself when the initiated context arises.
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### Author:  [@Ichthus77](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Ichthus77)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2026, 4:44pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-the-myers-briggs-type-indicator/85876/51 "2026-09-21T16:44:00Z")
> [@shanyak](#):
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> you choose your personality based on your audience. Whereas— for me
The personality I am choosing right now is a resting \*\*\*\* face.
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### Author:  [@PerpetuallyCurious](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/PerpetuallyCurious)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2026, 9:44pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-the-myers-briggs-type-indicator/85876/52 "2026-09-21T21:44:19Z")
All I can say is it nailed me so accurately it was scary. I’ve taken tests several time and the results are always 96% introverted, INTP.
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### Author:  [@PerpetuallyCurious](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/PerpetuallyCurious)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2026, 2:18am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-the-myers-briggs-type-indicator/85876/53 "2026-09-22T02:18:39Z")
To a certain extent, yes, but when you aren’t performing, your true personality comes through. I can’t become an extrovert by trying. I can’t change the fact that being around other people drains me. I can’t change the fact that I can’t stop thinking. I can’t help but connect everything I experience and know. I can’t change the fact that I need to be doing something creative all the time. I can’t change the fact that being alone is soothing. I can’t change the fact that I see the hidden premises people smuggle, like looking through a plate-glass window.
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