Category Archives: Personality Types
Self Employment for the Myers Briggs Types: The Artisans
Note: If you don’t know your Myers Briggs Type, click here for a free, quick test to find out.
Fun-loving Artisans (SP) like to play first and then work if there is time. Not fans of working for “the man” the SP would rather be hanging out with his buddies watching the game (or better, [...]
Self Employment for the Myers Briggs Types: The Rationals
Note: If you don’t know your Myers Briggs Type, click here for a free, quick test to find out.
Rationals (NT) are probably the most adept of the four temperaments at brainstorming ideas. In fact, if you get a big group of them together, have them sit at a large, round table, and give them [...]
Self Employment for the Myers Briggs Types: The Idealists
Note: If you don’t know your Myers Briggs Type, click here for a free, quick test to find out.
More than the other temperaments, Idealists are likely to want a career which makes them feel that they are giving back to the world. They also desperately seek meaning in their professional lives, which isn’t always [...]
Self Employment for the Myers Briggs Types: The Guardians
Note: If you don’t know your Myers Briggs Type, click here for a free, quick test to find out.
While it was a bit brash of me to do this, yesterday I wrote that Guardians (SJ) will have trouble becoming self-employed/starting a business/escaping the rat race. Why would I go and shoot myself in the [...]
Self Employment for the Myers Briggs Types: A Guide
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a very popular personality-assessment tool that can teach you quite a bit about your temperament, style, and lifestyle. While it doesn’t have the psychological/scientific backing of the Big Five (OCEAN) assessment, it is very revealing, popular, and helpful as a self-exploration tool.
If you have not taken the test, (or [...]
Your Money Personality
Take this all-new test to get a look at how you tend to view money and some advice about how to improve your situation! The results are very straight-forward and clear. Simple is best. This test was part of a collaborative project developed by Annette Shtivelband and myself.
Part 1
1 – This week [...]
Career Choices for Enneagram Types
After I wrote my article Bad Career Choices and the Enneagram, I realized that there weren’t really all that many websites/books/studies done out there that linked this exciting personality type system to various compatible careers. And many of the ones that are out there are very general and give very “obvious” answers that may [...]
Bad Career Choices and the Enneagram
As stated in my earlier entry about the Myers-Briggs Type indicator and career choices, your personality is an important component to consider when choosing a career path.
Could it be that what you do for a living is just wrong for your personality type? Let’s find out! At the very least, you’ll figure out [...]
Myers Briggs and Work
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a personality testing system that has been around for quite some time. While it is not as highly regarded in the psychology community as the Big-Five and has not shown as high a reliability as the latter (according to the wikipedia site) it does have some interesting points with [...]
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