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Category: 16 Personalities

  • Why The Big 5 Is NOT The MBTI

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    Erik Thor
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    Take Big 5 Test MBTI Test A lot of people treat Extraversion and Outgoingness the same way. Find out the core differences between the Big 5 and the MBTI and realise why you should study both systems. Qualitative or quantitative The MBTI is based on the works of Carl Jung. It was based on Jung’s…

  • How Does The MBTI Help You?

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    Erik Thor
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    I use the MBTI daily to communicate better with colleagues and to overcome communication barriers and learning difficulties with other personality types.  Using the MBTI, I become more aware of my personal cognitive bias. People don’t become stupid. They become perfectly rational beings, just different. I can find ways to accomodate their needs and to…

  • INFJ – Why I Often Get Mistyped

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    Erik Thor
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    I am an INFJ. I have been frequently mistyped as ENFJ, ESFP, INFP, INTP, ESFJ, ENFP, ENTP, INTJ and ISFP. Here’s why INFJs are difficult to type correctly, from my personal point of view. I am a social chameleon Mirroring was always a more or less natural thing for me. I would adjust my posture…

  • The Ideal Workplace For Each Personality

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    Erik Thor
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    Every personality type has unique needs to reach a good workflow and to be productive and to produce with high quality and care. If your workplace is wired against you, you might perform worse, or under unnecessary amounts of stress. So what can you do to promote a good workplace environment for all types? The…

  • From Typology To Herology

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    Erik Thor
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    In the traditional MBTI we are all taught about so called “normal behaviour” or normal ways for personality types to develop. Typology is an attempt to organise social behaviour into “types”. The goal originally was to help you find a good career match that fit your current behaviour and lifestyle. But what if you’re outside…

  • INFP Enneagram Struggles

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    Erik Thor
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    Discover more in The Power Of Persona In my investigations of connections between the enneagram and the MBTI I uncovered the truth behind why we experience perfectionism, vanity, prejudice, and other struggles and traumas. The reason is often connected to your MBTI type and how in touch you are with yourself. Here, I list the…

  • The Twelve INFJ Traumas

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    Erik Thor
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    Preorder the INFJ Handbook Preorder goal Preorders 5% These are all excerpts from my upcoming INFJ handbook. We all carry traumas. Some we were born with – inherited from our parents. Some happened early in life. Some later. Some just recently. Some minor ones occured just the other day. (You know, when you forgot to…

  • The ENFP Badass Gene – Hidden ENFP Characteristics

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    Erik Thor
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    As an ENFP Campaigner, you are not just brave, but also bold in pursuing and realising your ideas and values. ENFPs are far from soft. You aim for truth and honesty, but you are not afraid of stepping on people’s toes when standing up for what is right. This is because you have the badass…

  • When INTPs Outsmart INTJs

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    Erik Thor
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    There are certain situations where it is better to be an INTP than an INTJ. Now, if you’re an INTJ, you can build around these situations. If you’re an INTP, you can learn to use these situations where INTPs outsmart INTJs to get you ahead when you need to. When the rules have changed. (TP)…

  • Accepting and trusting your voice as an INFJ

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    Erik Thor
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    INFJs tend to have a high symbolical importance in the world. Its not because of how we dress, not because of what we earn, and not for having a lot of political power, but it is because of our ideas. As NFs we are frontrunners, visionaries of change. We use our power to channel ideas…