Kendo and Myer Brigs Personality Test

[MartialArtsGirl]

I am always really interested in learning about different personalities. Sometimes people with certain personalities are drawn to certain things more so than others. One rather well known personality test is the Myer Briggs personality test. So I got to wondering what different types of personalities are in the kendo world.

Here's an online version of the test if you never took it before. (It just takes maybe 5 minutes):

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

I am an ENFP and I suspect I am highly under-represented in the kendo world. No matter. :) I love kendo anyway. (err, love/hate...)

What is everyone else?

[cr720]

I am an ISTJ

[turboyoshi]

Hmm extroverted, intuitive, feeling, perceiving? By your test, I'm INFP but I'd say only the IN part is very certain, I'm a bit in the middle when it comes to behaving between feeling/thinking and perceiving/judging. So some days I can behave more like INTJ or INSP. I know more kendo people that are like you than like me so I doubt you're underrepresented in kendo. Should have made this a poll so we could see what category most KWers would fall under.

[kurisu]

Here's on I had to take for an emotional intelligence course my company sent me to:

http://www.nationalseminarstraining.com/eself/br/

[UnimportantHero]

ENFP Idealist Champion.

(And yet ... total Type B Personality according to the old TATB tests)

Booshah.

[AndreiB]

INTJ 'Mastermind' allegedly. I think the quiz is politely trying to tell me that I'm too judgemental.

[UnimportantHero]

INTJ 'Mastermind' allegedly. I think the quiz is politely trying to tell me that I'm too judgemental.

That, or it is telling you that you are a super villain.

[GothMelancolia]

INTJ 'Mastermind' muahahahahahahaa :evil:

right...sure :ermm:

[Gin]

INFJ:

I Introvert: I interact with few Kenshi's. Mostly Sensei's only. Internalize and think about things alone. Kendo is a puzzle.
N Intuition: The abstract benefit of Kendo is something that attracts me. There is something in the process. Kendo is Koan.
F Feeling: I link intuition and feeling. I am currently trying to develop my intuitive abilities thru feeling. Kendo is something.
J Judgement: Always arrives early an hour before class starts. Certain routines before class. Everything is planned.
Weekly suburi is always planned ahead. I like workout journals and writing on them.
I just dont like surprises. <------- Judgement explains why I like things planned.

Kata's Kihon and Kendo, are something I really enjoy. A wealth of insights thru the process of experiencing this alone.
Its also a specific exercise which I like and just drill alot. I can see how it develops my suburi and kendo.

If I were to play myself:
Takes advantage of JUDGEMENT: Unorthodox off rhythm style to get me off guard.

My strength: Intuition...... I know what your thinking. Off rhythm wont work on me.


Thank you for sharing. I know myself a little more now.

ps. would love to hear a BONAPART type of Kenshi. Would his Men be small?

[Wookiesmurf]

INFJ 'Counselor'. I'd say that's a pretty accurate assessment.

[Bailemor]

Mine comes out as ENTJ

I am (according to this site):
very expressed extravert
slightly expressed intuitive personality
slightly expressed thinking personality
slightly expressed judging personality

I have the same results as Napoleon, Franklin D. Roosevelt , Mark Anthony, Sean Connery, Madonna, and Yulia Tymoshenko

[GothMelancolia]

Mine comes out as ENTJ

I have the same results as Napoleon, Franklin D. Roosevelt , Mark Anthony, Sean Connery, Madonna, and Yulia Tymoshenko

I wonder how they made Napoleon take the test ....hmmmm...

[ScottUK]

INFJ, apparently.


You are:

* moderately expressed introvert
* distinctively expressed intuitive personality
* slightly expressed feeling personality
* slightly expressed judging personality

[Neil Gendzwill]

I think it would be interesting to see the difference in outcome between taking that survey and someone who knows you well taking it for you.

[GothMelancolia]

I think it would be interesting to see the difference in outcome between taking that survey and someone who knows you well taking it for you.

got myself an ESTP ROFL :p

[ScottUK]

I'm a FUBAR and a SNAFU, apparently.

[Koban]

i got INFP - # slightly expressed introvert
# moderately expressed intuitive personality
# moderately expressed feeling personality
# slightly expressed perceiving personality

Princess Diana, Michel de Montaigne, J.K. Rowling, Anton Chekhov are my celebrity matches. I think it's telling me to be a writer or become ar royal. I'll go with the royal as it has more money I heard.

But seriously, I talk to everyone in my dojo and have no problem with interacting with people and alot of people at that. But I do like to read a book than go to a party sometimes, and now I'm introverted?!

[Neil Gendzwill]

Remember that Myer Briggs' biggest function is to generate consultant revenue...

[turboyoshi]

i got INFP - # slightly expressed introvert

[...]
But seriously, I talk to everyone in my dojo and have no problem with interacting with people and alot of people at that. But I do like to read a book than go to a party sometimes, and now I'm introverted?!

This just means that on the scale of things, you lean a little bit more towards introversion than extroversion. On my poll, I was very expressed introvert, the poll game me a numerical score of 100 on that trait.

[1stdan]

I socred ENFP. I knew i was an extravert.

[Karaken]

ENFJ - Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Ronald Reagan - Have I wasted my life not being involved in politics?

[Michael Hodge]

ISTP. The most efficient killers of all the types. :)

[Josh Reyer]

Among research psychologists, Myer-Briggs is the backyard ninjery of personality assessment. The serious guys go by the Big Five (http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/).

[Kenzan]

Mine says:

You will meet a mysterious stranger soon.

Your Lucky numbers are 6, 14, 8, 22, and 5

[Gessho]

I am an ENFP...quick, somebody hug me!

[Wraith]

INTJ

Now all I need is a cape and dastardly evil plan

[Kokoro777]

ENTJ. I'm a 'Field Marshall' like Bailemor, Margaret Thatcher (devil woman!), Hilary Clinton, Bill Gates and a personal hero Carl Sagan.

What a load of twaddle, like all questionnaires!

[Yan Ling]

I got ESFP like the King, Elvis Presley as well as Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Kay (comedian) and Serena Williams!

[mimaru]

INTP
* very expressed introvert
* distinctively expressed intuitive personality
* distinctively expressed thinking personality
* distinctively expressed perceiving personality

I've taken this test - or similar ones - a few times over the years, and consistently scored as INTP.

[kanyil]

For added entertainment value, get your spouse to also take the test. My wife's results were completely opposite to mine.

[Maku-san]

ISTJ here, FWIW. :D

[MikeW]

ENTJ for me.

[zaemon]

Ha Im istp just like my hero Charles Bronson. Go figure.

[JuJitsuGiraffe]

INTJ here.

[bellatrix]

I've taken this twice (a few years apart) and got INFP, then INTP. Both times, the F/T was pretty close.
OCEAN: 84, 6, 4, 1 (!!), 80.

[RozeAngelix]

INTJ


Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging

Strength of the preferences %
89 38 62 44

You are:
very expressed introvert
moderately expressed intuitive personality
distinctively expressed thinking personality
moderately expressed judging personality

But in the cyberpace, I also used to have an extroverted side... but not much nowadays.

Oh boy, my Computer Science course is just too perfect for someone like me.