Another week has gone by in U St 311A, and this past week was a very busy and eventful one. I learned a lot about myself and my fellow Hixson peer mentors on Wednesday night, where we were given our results for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment.
We started with a presentation from Debra that explained each of the eight areas where we could fall into: extraversion (E) v. introversion (I); sensing (S) v. intuition (N); thinking (T) v. feeling (F); and judging (J) v. perceiving (P). As she explained the traits that correlated with each of the eight personality areas, I found myself thinking, "Yep, that's me for sure." I guessed that I was an ESTJ, which was confirmed shortly after when I received my detailed results.
It turns out that I knew myself better than I thought. All of my facets (subcategories within my 4 major personality areas) were in-preference, with only one facet classified as a "mid-zone" preference. None of my facets were out-of-preference, something that was surprising to me. I found out that I am a 29 out of 30 for extraversion, and I have maximum preferences for being initiating, expressive, active, experiential, planful, early starting, and scheduled.
When we started comparing notes on our types among us peer mentors, I began to learn about the specific details of the opposite facets that I preferred. I may or may not have called the people with a preference for "accommodating" (as opposed to my preference of "questioning") pushovers, something that I definitely did not mean to come across as offensive. Sorry for that, guys!! I also learned where a lot of us stand when it comes to starting a project, from the two extremes of starting a big project the night it's assigned to the morning that it's due. I would say that I'm more in the middle, but it was definitely interesting to see the diversity that we have just in our group of 17 peer mentors (and how that will of course translate to the diversity of the 100 freshman in the fall!). I'm looking forward to using my type preferences to good use, and keeping in mind the limitations of my personality when communicating with others that may not have the same views as me.
Brady-
ReplyDeleteLike you I am looking forward to putting my preferences to good use and to use my knowledge of my prefences to help me become better as a peer mentor.
We have the same MBTI of ESTJ. I remember the pushover comment but I know what you meant by it. I sort of thought the same thing when I said extraverts were more active and introverts were more passive.
ReplyDeleteWell... I suppose I can forgive you for the pushover comment, just this once! I thought it was kind of funny that that was your initial reaction though, perceiving those of us with accommodating preferences as "pushovers." It made me think about how, in other situations, I may be perceived as a pushover or someone who doesn't care just because I would prefer not to ask a lot of questions or wait to ask those questions in more of a one-on-one environment. While I definitely wasn't offended by your comment, it did give me a lot to think about!
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