Best Descriptions on the Web of Your MBTI Type

[Usehername]

After reading thoughts on the subpar/misguided information thread re: MBTI type descriptions, it's time to collect the best of what's out there.

So,

Post your type, and a ranking of your favourite descriptions you've found on the web regarding your type. If you want to include poor descriptions and why these are poor (not just for you specifically but why the description doesn't fit your type properly) go ahead. Primarily, though, please post your best descriptions you've found.

Everyone research their own type really thoroughly, so we can get a great collection. :)

I'll add stuff after my class later.

[6sticks]

ISTP - Introverted Thinking with Sensing (http://www.murraystate.edu/secsv/fye/istp.htm)

I know several other ISTPs will agree with that.

Good thread idea.

[Jeffster]

ISFP specific:

ISFP (http://www.bestfittype.com/isfp.html)

ISFP Personality Type: Myers-Briggs Personality Testing at KnowYourType.com (http://www.knowyourtype.com/isfp.html)

ISFP - Introverted Feeling with Sensing (http://www.murraystate.edu/secsv/fye/ISFP.htm) (that one is good until the very end when it says Charlie Brown is an ISFP. That blockhead is an INFP. ;)

Portrait of an ISFP (http://www.personalitypage.com/ISFP.html)

ISFP Personal Growth (http://www.personalitypage.com/ISFP_per.html)

ISFP, The Myers-Briggs Personality Type (http://www.davidmarkley.com/personality/isfp.htm)

Composer (http://www.personalityzone.com/group/money-zone/view/temperament/composer.html)

Your Personality Type: The Sensitive Doer (http://www.ipersonic.com/type/SD.html)

SP temperament:

Experiencers SP (http://www.davidmarkley.com/personality/experiencer.htm)

Sensing-Perceptive (SP)Realist (http://look.net/success/SP)

Temperament - Complete Version (http://www.trytel.com/~jfalt/Temp/tempfull.html#Artisan)

Artisan (http://www.personalityzone.com/view/temperament/artisan.html)

The Artisan Temperament (http://www.4temperaments.com/improviser.html)



Orange Personality Styles (http://www.winning-solutions.com/Trainings/True_Colors/orange.html)

[sarah]

Post your type, and a ranking of your favourite descriptions you've found on the web regarding your type. If you want to include poor descriptions and why these are poor (not just for you specifically but why the description doesn't fit your type properly) go ahead. Primarily, though, please post your best descriptions you've found....

The absolute best website I've found is Best-Fit Type : Exploring the Multiple Models of Personality Type (http://www.bestfittype.com/). I think highly of both the website and the book that it's exerpted from ( Amazon.com: The 16 Personality Types, Descriptions for Self-Discovery: Linda V. Berens, Dario Nardi: Books (http://tinyurl.com/3lk4re) ). The authors of this website interviewed numerous people of each type --types verified by professional type theorists, not just people who dabble in MBTI stuff-- and they were careful to use phrases from the interviewees themselves in the descriptions, so as not to unconsciously taint the descriptions with their own preferences. I've not only clarified my best type fit through this, but know of other people who have said that these definitions are the best they've ever seen. I could have written the ISFP type description myself, it sounds so much like me: ISFP (http://www.bestfittype.com/isfp.html). this site also has a wealth of information on temperament affects a host of real-life situations, as well as links to other related websites (by the same authors) wtih detailed information on temperament, cognitive processes, and interaction styles. In addition to all that, it offers a free temperament test that's not only easier to take for people who prefer Sensing (I think), but has the potential to produce much more accurate results for a lot of people, given the way the questions are worded. Careerstrength(TM) Step 1 (http://www.notjustapaycheck.com/careerstrength.html) On this test, I show a clear preference for the SP temperament, unlike the mixed and confusing results I get on most type tests that don't do a very good job of explaining the N-S difference, much less go into why certain cognitive processes relate to certain type patterns.

I also highly appreciate The Personality Page (http://www.personalitypage.com/) . Like bestfittype, this website also goes into detail about how each type's cognitive process preferences shape their overall pattern. I really respect how the author(s) have tried to steer away from bias by calling attention to the fact that all types have a natural intelligence and a wide range of behavioral traits. (many other sites assume a narrow set of behaviors for each type, which gets very annoying to read through if you don't fit their hypoethetical idea of what yoru type "ought" to be like.) I particularly like the page on personal growth, and felt it was useful enough for me to print out and keep handy by my books on type as a reminder to stop automatically turning to my favorite function to solve all my problems. Portrait of an ISFP (http://www.personalitypage.com/ISFP.html)
ISFP Personal Growth (http://www.personalitypage.com/ISFP_per.html)

For anyone who wants good quality free information, I highly recommend both sites, and I haven't found anything else that even remotely compares to them. Some other sites aren't terrible, but they aren't very helpful either. Sometimes being unhelpful can be all it takes to contribute to bias and misinformation being touted as "fact". For example, the Keirsey website attempts to be positive-sounding overall, but fails in that it links some pretty extreme examles of contextual behaviro with certain types/temperaments so that it sounds as if the author is saying that everyone of that type does ___. I notice the negativity the strongest when I look at the way Keirsey's ISTJ and ESTJ descriptions make them sound like mindless, humorless automatons.

Sarah
ISFP

[Jeffster]

Nice, Sarah, but I already posted most of those. NER NER NER. ;)

[wolfy]

Jeffster and Sarah have done a great job but you missed
ISFP.pdf (http://www.iusb.edu/~sbcareer/assets/ISFP.pdf)
This is one of my favourites.

[placebo]

INFP :)

INFP (http://linus.highpoint.edu/~bblatchl/infp.html)

INFP - The Dreamer (http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/infp.htm)

INFP Personal Growth (http://www.personalitypage.com/INFP_per.html)

[TenebrousReflection]

INFP

I'll have to re-read the above INFP links before I comment on them, but the following are the best ones I can think of to describe INFPs.

E. Buie -> INFP Profile (http://www.aesthetic-images.com/ebuie/infp-profile.html)

NF-Idyllic - 629-infps-you.html#post16519 (http://www.typologycentral.com/forums/nf-idyllic/629-infps-you.html#post16519)

Doh! :doh: and how could I have forgotton a link to the BW INFP description here. I might not agree with everything in it, but overall think its a very good read.
http://www.typologycentral.com/forums/nf-idyllic/2238-infp-profile.html

Quick impressions of the above INFP links


linus.highpoint.edu/~bblatchl/infp.html


Good find - Looks like a compilation page that was probably made by an actual INFP, lots of good information gathered and put in one page. I did not read it in its entirety, but a quick skim did not show anything I'd complain about for accuracy.


INFP - The Dreamer (http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/infp.htm)


I've seen this one before, another one that compiles information from several sources. Reasonably good content - no complaints


INFP Personal Growth (http://www.personalitypage.com/INFP_per.html)

Overall a fairly good page, but the Mother Teresa refernece in regard to INFPs disturbs me (I do NOT beleive she is a Fi dominant - the previous lifeexplorer link types her as an INFJ and another site (PersonalityDesk - Learning Center - ISFJ in Careers, Relationships, Leadership, Parenting (http://www.personalitydesk.com/isfj-type-description.php)) types her as ISFJ which is a lot more believable to me), and while I don't take issue with anythign else there, a claim like that makes me question the credibility of everythign else on the page.

[FDG]

The absolute best website I've found is Best-Fit Type : Exploring the Multiple Models of Personality Type (http://www.bestfittype.com/).

Yes, that's right. I generally prefer socionics descriptions, but if I have to choose an MBTI one, the website sarah posted is definitely the best. I just don't relate to some parts like:

I am my own worst critic. I want perfect achievement of myself, and sometimes I have a fear of suddenly waking up and being known as someone who doesn’t really know anything.

Anyway, if I really had to choose the best one, it would be this:

ENTj profile by Stratiyevskaya: revised version - The16types.info (http://www.the16types.info/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2692)

[sarah]

Nice, Sarah, but I already posted most of those. NER NER NER. ;)


I was contributing my vote for these two sites as being the best. NER NER NER back at ya. :happy2:

Sarah
ISFP

[sarah]

Overall a fairly good page, but the Mother Teresa refernece in regard to INFPs disturbs me (I do NOT beleive she is a Fi dominant - the previous lifeexplorer link types her as an INFJ and another site (PersonalityDesk - Learning Center - ISFJ in Careers, Relationships, Leadership, Parenting (http://www.personalitydesk.com/isfj-type-description.php)) types her as ISFJ which is a lot more believable to me), and while I don't take issue with anythign else there, a claim like that makes me question the credibility of everythign else on the page.

I agree. Claims about types of famous people turn me off, and I can't help but devalue all the rest of the "information" on the page. That said, if an author wants to tentatively propose a guess for some body's type, that's different than simply posting a list of "Famous INFPs" as if that were the last word on the topic. I also don't think much of the accuracy and fairness of a website if all the people listed in the NF columms are wonderful artists and humanitarians who have contributed greatly to the good of this world, but the people listed in the SP column are mostly crooked politicians, bimbos and playboys who made life miserable for a lot of people, or who got famous for "achievements" of dubious worth. Such bigotry tells me the authors haven't bothered to find positive examples of each type that most everyone of each type would want to identify with, even if their lives aren't similar, and the fact that they didn't bother tells me more about the authors' prejudices than about the types they disparage.

Oh, and stupid type guesses for famous people (like those websites that list everyone you can think of who did any achievement at all as preferring iNtuition) make me question the author's intelligence as well as his or her knowledge of type. :P

Sarah
ISFP

[INTJMom]

I despise the descriptions of Berens.

[Flush]

I despise the descriptions of Berens.

Why?

[Randomnity]

ISTP - Introverted Thinking with Sensing (http://www.murraystate.edu/secsv/fye/istp.htm)

I know several other ISTPs will agree with that.

Good thread idea.
Yep, this one is by far the best one I've seen, at least for me...I like the best-fit type one as well, though it's a lot less detailed.

[INTJMom]

Why?
Because they are depressing.

[Mondo]

I think Best-Fit Type : Exploring the Multiple Models of Personality Type (http://www.bestfittype.com) has the best descriptions.
They do an excellent job analyzing the psyche of all the types- it allows me to determine which ones fit and which ones don't.

[Economica]

I like Enspired Profiles (http://www.carolcraig.co.uk/EnspiredProfiles/profilestable.htm)' description(s).

[entropie]

:D best description eva

[Bella]

I thought you were going to bed, mister?

[MEC]

I like Enspired Profiles (http://www.carolcraig.co.uk/EnspiredProfiles/profilestable.htm)' description(s).
Thanks I hadn't seen that one before just added it to my favorites

[Mort Belfry]

From the Enspired Profiles pages I found this paragraph particularly definitive of myself.

http://www.typologycentral.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2530&stc=1&d=1223166098

I can be a real prick about that.

["?"]

The absolute best website I've found is Best-Fit Type : Exploring the Multiple Models of Personality Type (http://www.bestfittype.com/). I think highly of both the website and the book that it's exerpted from ( Amazon.com: The 16 Personality Types, Descriptions for Self-Discovery: Linda V. Berens, Dario Nardi: Books (http://tinyurl.com/3lk4re) )......I agree with Sarah wholeheartedly and it coincides with edcoaching's (http://www.typologycentral.com/forums/mbti-enneagram-other-personality-matrices/9269-finding-best-fit-type.html) thoughts. The average person does not want to invest the time and energy to determine their best fit type. I know that even the word "Analyzer" (what I see in myself from the title) fits me well from Berens/Nardi description. What you do determine quickly is there is little or no mention of mechanics in the self-descriptions. On another note and something that I have admitted in the past is why I came to believe that I was INT initially and why many ESTPs may mistype as ENTJ.

[Jeffster]

I like Enspired Profiles (http://www.carolcraig.co.uk/EnspiredProfiles/profilestable.htm)' description(s).

Some of the ISFP description is right, but some things are totally wrong for me. It won't let me copy the text for some reason, but:

"ISFPs are naturally cooperative people." - BZZZZZ

"They eat slowly and savor their food." - BZZZZZ (I usually eat like it's going to be taken away from me if I don't wolf it down)

"They are the most patient of all the types." BZZZZZ (I think they really mean lazy, not patient. I HATE waiting. For anything.)

[sade]

I really liked the Enspired profle's description(s), but the page has moved. Does any one have an idea where they could be found again?

[locke]

I really liked the Enspired profle's description(s), but the page has moved. Does any one have an idea where they could be found again?

Hello again, Peabody here (http://web.archive.org/web/20071229115205/http://www.carolcraig.co.uk/EnspiredProfiles/profilestable.htm).

Sadly the first page of the INFP profile is missing... Improbable!

[Lukepd]

Portrait of an ESTP (http://www.personalitypage.com/ESTP.html)

[mlittrell]

the one that stole their description from keirsey

[sade]

Hello again, Peabody here (http://web.archive.org/web/20071229115205/http://www.carolcraig.co.uk/EnspiredProfiles/profilestable.htm).

Sadly the first page of the INFP profile is missing... Improbable!
Such a mistake.. :dont:
Thank you, none the less!