Taking Tests

I love personality tests. It's fascinating to me to learn that different people think, communicate, and learn differently. For example, according to Myers Briggs, I am an ISTJ which means I tend towards:

I – Introversion preferred to extroversion: ISTJs tend to be quiet and reserved. They generally prefer interacting with a few close friends rather than a wide circle of acquaintances, and they expend energy in social situations (whereas extroverts gain energy).
S – Sensing preferred to intuition: ISTJs tend to be more concrete than abstract. They focus their attention on the details rather than the big picture, and on immediate realities rather than future possibilities.
T – Thinking preferred to feeling: ISTJs tend to value objective criteria above personal preference. When making decisions, they generally give more weight to logic than to social considerations.
J – Judgment preferred to perception: ISTJs tend to plan their activities and make decisions early. They derive a sense of control through predictability.

Greg is an ENTP.
E – Extroversion preferred to introversion: ENTPs gain energy through interactions with people or objects in the outside world. They tend to enjoy having a wide circle of acquaintances.
N – Intuition preferred to sensing: ENTPs tend to be more abstract than concrete. They focus their attention on the big picture rather than the details, and on future possibilities rather than immediate realities.
T – Thinking preferred to feeling: ENTPs tend to value objective criteria above personal preference. When making decisions, they generally give more weight to logic than to social considerations.
P – Perception preferred to judgment: ENTPs tend to withhold judgment and delay important decisions, preferring to "keep their options open" should circumstances change.

We are just a little different.  Once we figured out that our personalities put us at opposite ends of the scale on stuff it was so much easier.  For example, Greg will say something like, "I want to live in our fifth wheel full time."  To him he's seeing us out driving from campground to campground visiting America and living the life.  To me I immediately go to the details, which, in this case, just about cause my head to explode because there are so many details required to make his vision a reality.

At my IAAP meeting last night we had someone come in and talk to us about Strengths Finder, which is another test that rates the characteristics that you come hardwired with.  The general idea is if you spend more time cultivating the things you are naturally good at instead of trying to change the ones you aren't good at your life will be happier. It was totally fascinating. It took the test and it told me:

My Top 5 Strengths
1 Harmony
2 Adaptability
3 Input
4 Consistency
5 Responsibility
Yep. That's me. To a T!

So I went and did a Big Five test. What do you think? Is it me? I'm a O5-C30-E37-A90-N14 Big Five!!