Astrology vs Myers-Briggs Personality Test
You may have taken a Myers-Briggs (MBTI) personality test at work. Or maybe you took it to figure out what kind of job or career you want. Companies often give MBTI tests to employees so their staff and managers have tools to communicate and understand each other better. After answering 93 questions rating your reaction to statements like “you are rarely late for your appointments” or “you trust reason rather than feelings,” you get categorized into an MBTI type.
MBTI is based on four classifications:
Introvert (I) or Extrovert (E) – are you inward-focused (I) or outward (O)?
Sensing (S) or Intuition (N) – how do you gather information? Do you look to reality and the world around you (S) or do you use your inner guidance?
Thinking (T) or Feeling (F) – how do you make decisions based on information? Do you use your mind (T) more or your feelings (F)?
Judging (J) or Perceiving (P) – how do you deal with the outside world? Are you more structured (J) or more flexible (P)?
These classifications are combined to create 16 different four-letter MBTI “type”. Based on your response to the questions, you’re one type.
MBTI was developed in the 1940s by a mother and daughter team named Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers. They were housewives with an interest in human behavior, not professional psychiatrists or academics. Mom and daughter gathered neighborhood children and parents together in their home and started asking them questions to get a read on their personalities. The rest is history.
MBTI can be used in connection with astrology to help you understand how you interact with others and the world. It can help you decide if a particular career is right for you. So if you’re interested in medicine, knowing your MBTI might help you reflect on your bed-side manners and how you might one day interact with your patients. Astrology, on the other hand, will help you understand why you were motivated to be a doctor in the first place.
