Personality Types

[calvinist]

My girlfriend and I were recently reading about our personality types (we're each other's recommended types! ) and it gave me an idea. Since Latin and Greek are for the most part voluntary pursuits, I'm interested if the subject attracts a certain personality type (or at least similar types). Let me say that I realize the shortcomings of the Myers-Briggs system. People are infinitely complex, and no system of describing personalities could ever be perfect. That being said, I think the Myers-Briggs system does have some validity and if nothing else, it's fun and interesting!

So... I'm an INTJ according to multiple tests over the years. (I once came up as ISTJ)

Obviously, I have a hypothesis about this, which some of you may guess... but I may be completely wrong!

[pster]

All my pursuits are voluntary.

If INTJ means skeptical hedonist, then I would help confirm your hypothesis.

[ferrous]

I'm not sure how accurate my own MBTI type is, since I always have somewhat ambiguous scores and trouble answering the questions accurately. But, I've received ISTP as a result several times now, and the description seems to fit well enough.

[Lex]

INTJ.

[SeanL]

INFP, with a high degree of certainty. But the NF are fairly weak and I share traits w/ ST.
Hmm... Let me see...
INFP
That about sizes it up.

[Markos]

I think you are on to something, Calvinist. I am an INTJ, and most of the people I know who study Ancient Greek seem to have a similar personality type.

INTJ is the rarest type, and people who like Ancient Greek are pretty hard to find. "We few, we happy few."

ολιγοι μεν, μακαριοι δε.

[jaihare]

I'm INFP. :">

[Scribo]

INTJ

[delicious]

I'm an INFP.

What's with all the INFP's and INTJ's? Should I be looking for love in these forums too? Cause there is definitely a high concentration of similar personality types according to M-B.

As an INFP, I should definitely share some of these feelings I'm...feeling. Let's do this.
I joke.

Am I reviving a zombie thread? Sorry. I need my third comment for the mod to moderate(love ya, whoever you are).

[Quin Firefrorefiddle]

INFJ

And I know a bunch of people who have studied Greek, and many of them were INTJs- most of the rest were I's, at least. Of course, a lot of them were going into seminary.

[jswilkmd]

I'm the oddball, I guess. I'm a ESFJ, which I feel to be fairly accurate. I'm a physician (medical complications of pregnancy), medical school professor and poet and passionate about my work, a former theology school student, a former rock musician and high-school debater. I'm liberal on the political spectrum and vocal about it. Apparently Martin Luther King, Jr., Bill Clinton, Dezi Arnaz and Dr. McCoy on Star Trek (the fictional character, not the actor who played him) are this personality type. I can live with that.

[Markos]

I'm liberal on the political spectrum and vocal about it.

οὐδεὶς τέλειός ἐστιν.

Joke, joke, joke, that was a joke!

πως εχεις ω φιλε μου? εγω καλως εχω. τί νυν αναγνωσκεις? γραφε εμοι. χαρησομαι τῳ αντησαι προσωπον προς προσωπον.

[Quin Firefrorefiddle]

Also, for what it's worth, I've always heard that INFJ is the rarest type. I know a lot of INTJs, universities and such are full of them.

[jswilkmd]

I'm liberal on the political spectrum and vocal about it.

οὐδεὶς τέλειός ἐστιν.

Joke, joke, joke, that was a joke!

πως εχεις ω φιλε μου? εγω καλως εχω. τί νυν αναγνωσκεις? γραφε εμοι. χαρησομαι τῳ αντησαι προσωπον προς προσωπον.

[mingshey]

I'm INTJ.

[Ste11aeres]

I'm INFP

[citizen]

INFP.

[Paul Derouda]

I'm an INTJ, like many people around here apparently... I didn't know about this test before you revived this thread. Skimming thru the wikipedia article, this Myers-Briggs classification doesn't seem to have enough validity for real (medical or other) use. Beside an amateur Hellenist, I'm a physician (no specialty yet).

[Bart]

I'm an INTJ, like many people around here apparently... I didn't know about this test before you revived this thread. Skimming thru the wikipedia article, this Myers-Briggs classification doesn't seem to have enough validity for real (medical or other) use. Beside an amateur Hellenist, I'm a physician (no specialty yet)

My advice (as a fellow INTJ and a fellow physician): keep away from orthopaedic surgery!
I specialised in neurology which is more in line I guess with the personality type you would expect from someone interested in ancient Greek.