If you don't want to read it all that's fine. Just take this test and post your four letters (the preference % isn't necessary but you can if you want) or just post your type if you already know it: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
You can read about your type here afterward. It's actually very fascinating stuff: http://www.typelogic.com/
I was just thinking about how much I'm struggling with nursing whereas before I've succeeded in every academic endeavor in which I invest my time and efforts. I operate from a very internal locus of control, so I'm not blaming my hardship on my personality type... but Nursing is inherently very structured... systematic... "real-world"...
So, while I made 99s in highschool, persisitent As and Bs in one of the most academically challenging private schools in this part of the US (with As and Bs often being 95+ and 85+)... I find myself at a loss... Making a D on my first nursing test (I was in the bottom three) and barely making a B on my second (pretty much average).
Anyway, I don't tell you that just to brag or something but to show the contrast between then and now. While I'm not considering changing my major (far too late for that) I have wondered to myself how much personality plays into it.
MBTI has two types dealing with how one organizes one's thoughts and approaches the world. The "s-type" or "sensing type." Sensors are very focused on the real world. They are naturally structured. The "n-type" or "intuitive type" are the creative individuals who might have a room that looks like a hurricane hit it, but can paint a mural like you've never seen.
I'm the creative type... I've done professional graphic design work.. I draw... I write music.. I write poetry... sing... I spend hours on nature photography... But my organizational skills can be crap, my room is notoriously messy, and my ability to memorize these endless assessment procedures is pretty low. I've found that almost all of my peers are s-types through talking with them and just figuring out how they operate.
It dawned on me that a large part of my particular level of difficulty with nursing is probably the very way my brain is wired!
[color=#d000a0]enfj[color=#d000a0]extroverted[color=#d000a0]intuitive[color=#d000a0]feeling[color=#d000a0]judgingstrength of the preferences %[color=#d000a0]33[color=#d000a0]12[color=#d000a0]62[color=#d000a0]1
Pretty much everything in the profile fits me-- from being a quiet leader to being decisive to everything else listed in all the various INTJ profiles.
Someone in one of my classes said he was a "mastermind" (INTJ), but from what I read, I can't really see it. Maybe I'm missing something... because I don't think the two of us are alike at all.
I can relate to what you are going through. I did well in college during the Pre-reqs and then came nursing school. I too felt that one of the criterias to succeed was to "read your instructor". It does not work that way in RN school. The first semester is hell because this a time when you are transitioning from a college student to a nursing student. It is different but do-able. The bottom line is you have to have confidence in what you are learning so that the wrong answers or the not the best answers don't distract you. BTW..I was ENFJ;)
i know someone said this before, but there seem to be a whole lot of infj's here. we are the rarest type, do we flock to nursing??
I was wondering the exact same thing. I too am an INFJ. I took this test (or a similar one) about 9 years ago and scored the same thing. I was working as a substance abuse counselor at the time - a very appropriate career choice according to the INFJ profile.
The info. I read 9 years ago said that INFJs are the rarest types, comprising something like only 3% of the total population. And yet here are so many of us as nurses...interesting.
just came across this thread, looks like i'm an [color=olive]isfj (33, 1, 50, 56). now if i could just be an isfj who can get this caffeine out of my system and get to sleep!
[color=#d000a0] enfp[color=#d000a0]extraverted[color=#d000a0]intuitive[color=#d000a0]feeling[color=#d000a0]perceiving strength of the preferences % [color=#d000a0]22[color=#d000a0]25[color=#d000a0]75[color=#d000a0]33
wow thank you soooo much for reviving this thread, very cool. i did meyers briggs years ago. lets see how others fair on this!!
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jon_kulas
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hi! an istp here
67,12,38,22
hmm..maybe that explains why i usually take some time before making a decision..