According to the Myers-Briggs Personality profiles, I’m probably an ENFP, which sounds like a sports radio station to me. But in actuality the letters stand for traits that are especially strong in me.
This personality type is bit of a performer, loyal and places extremely high value
in relationships, is interested in many things, willing to negotiate, focuses on
ideas, concepts, and possibilities, improvises, cares about people, get bored
easily, gets annoyed with details—I’d list more, but I’m losing interest….
Somebody said Mark Twain was one. He once said—and this
tickles me: "I have been told that
Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
He also said,
"Who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common
humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?" It’s an
out-of-the-box thought, and my personality profile suggests I like those kinds
of things. So I’m thinking it over.
It is further stated that Oscar Wilde had a similar
personality type. He once wrote, "A
dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is
that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
That last statement? I kinda love that one.
This is not really a formalized essay. I just felt
chatty. My profile says I’m like that. :)
My husband and I have both had occasion to do this personality test and it is eerily accurate. It is quite amazing what differences are wrought when the components appear with others.
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Our favourite Mark Twain quote:
"In the first place, God made idiots, that was for practice. Next he made school boards."
Actually, I was kind of interested in how well the profile had me pegged. Scathing statement by Mark Twain.
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