[coldsummerdays]

I know there's already a thread like this, but I'm wondering how you people learned about the whole MBTI thing, not just how you figured out you were different.

This thread is just more specific.

 

[DustyDrill]

Gained an interest in personalities and psychology in an attempt to fix myself. Found MBTI and used it to do just that. I'm a much better person now than I was a year ago.

 

[Aquc]

My friends had to do it for a university course, so naturally they wanted to see what I was. I came out as an INTP, read the page, and realised that there was enough there to convince others, but I could see it was all just forer effect. I then began searching other types to see if the same applied for them, and was stunned when ISTP hit me perfectly. Since then I've seen the sense in it, although I only really used the result to find this forum, and people who think similarly.

 

[madhatter]

The book Type Talk was on my aunt's coffee table. I had already taken a few dinky quizzes online that said I was ISTP or INTP. I started reading the book, and I was hooked. I went home that night and bought my own copy on Amazon. I've been obsessed ever since.

 

[Sandbox]

I took advantage of the free career counseling at my alma mater, which included the MBTI and verifying the results with a counselor. I thought it was a load of crap at first, but soon realized what a great tool it can be if used properly.

 

[reletative]

I thought I was INTP or INTJ, but they just weren't a good fit. Read some Kiersey and realized I was a sensor. (Despite Kiersey's idiocy....yes he slightly helped) Thought I was ISTJ, but that wasn't a good fit either. Found a great description of ISTP that wasn't all full of stereotypical garbage. Then found this forum and read about 2 threads and I instantly knew I was ISTP.

 

[Speedy Gonzalez]

The company forced me to join the rest of my team for a 2 day mbti course, i did the official questionnaire and came out istj (mainly cause i answered based on my work which involve meeting strict deadlines, setup project planning with customers and other shit), after the different functions were explained during the course i thought i was intp.
The enfp instructor sat with me and discussed it and said: "you are way too sexy to be an intp, i think are istp" #joking

I wasn't convinced so i started to read some descriptions of istp and it was pretty accurate.

 

[Arno]

I met a person on the internet a few years back. I noticed that we had quite some things in common when it comes to personality and such things. I was entirely unknown to Myers Briggs until he told me about it and which type he was. He sent me a link with a test and it turned out to be an ISTP. At the time, I had know idea what an ISTP was until I searched for some descriptions and examples. These were pretty accurate as well!

 

[Erbse]

I like got here and people actually understood what I'm saying.

There can hardly be more evidence than that.

 

[Tenshi_rdk]

Bought a book to find my passion and chapter 1 was on finding out my personality. Tested as ISTP/INTP , but ISTP fits me better. ( lots of OH MAH GAWD - I DO THAT ! moments when reading... And yes I'm currently so obessed with reading everything on MBTI that Im still on CHAPTER 1 !! Better go back and read it hahahahah !

 

[Falling Leaves]

An angel came down from the heavens and told me "go forth and take a crappy, online personality test; from this, you shall become the saviour of the lands of 'personality cafe' by enlightening the masses with your wisdom"...

...aaand I'll admit that it's taking a little longer than I thought for the whole 'messiah' thing to catch on, but hey ho, give it time... give it time...

 

[Tenshi_rdk]

LOL...that's all im going to say...

 

[Abuwabu]

Was brought up in a household of feelers, and needed a better understanding of irrational behaviours. I found MBTI and pretty much everything fell into place.

 

[Alice_Morgan]

I took a quiz, which got me interested in MBTI, which prompted me to read up on it, which led me to discover that I was indeed ISTP.

 

[BlueG]

My mother took a quiz because of work or a friend, and had my sister and I take it. I forgot about the whole thing. Fast forward a few years later (around this time last year) and I was wondering why I was so fundamentally different than other females my age. I was researching theories on the Internet and personality theories came up. I remembered the name of this theory (MBTI) and I took an online test. I was pretty sure I was an ISTP and I read the "You Know You're An ISTP When..." thread and I kept going, "ROFL! I do that!" to every post. It was like these people were in my head.

 

[Charles Schwaniger]

I was taking a vocational guidence course.

 

[Tempest09]

I managed to bypass the laws of physics and kill a random pedestrian with a penny flicked in snide derision from the top of the Sears Tower (fuck Willis Group Holdings, Ltd and their name). Something only an ISTP could do. I didn't know anything about MBTI at the time, but as I stepped out of the elevator in the lobby, I was detained by a first responder (coincidentally also an ISTP) who proceeded to briefly congratulate me, stuff a copy of So You're An ISTP, Now What? into my hands, and shuffle me out of a back door with the advice to leave town as soon as possible.


Of course, the truth is far less entertaining....I sort of stumbled upon it during a Google query about introversion.

 

[Zulu]

I was tested while attending a "one day a week" school for gifted kids. I was only 11 and the descriptions we got after the test were absolutely spot on and still are.

 

[Feral]

I got interested in online personality quizzes and such and started researching the different MBTI descriptions. Took me a while but ISTP stood out as the most accurate.

 

[chrisu]

someone sent me a link "how to treat INTJs" and i could relate... (mostly introvert-stuff) so i took some online-tests. came out as ISTP or INTJ in different tests, wanted to know which one was "correct", started to read about it, cancelled the possibility of being INTJ the moment i read the ISTP-descriptions.