#30daysWritingChallenge — Describe Your Personality!
Tags: Personality Types, Self Development, Writing Challenge

Personality Types (source: Google)

This is gonna be my first post for #30daysWritingChallenge as I am regretting my own decision to do the challenge in this super hectic month.

So, I will be writing down about my personality, which will never be considered as easy as an opening. I myself have always thought that I am complicated enough to be a human, while I do believe every person is indeed complicated. I spent too much time thinking about who I really am, yet the truth has still remained undiscovered. Psychology indeed helps me a lot, but still, I questioned myself a lot, or even more.

I believe that I was once a cheerful girl with a lot of enthusiasm for the existence of everything in this world, but turning into an overthinker woman who questioning too much on why this world and everything in it even exists. Random-thinking has always been my undoubted skill, though I do think it is unnecessary most of the time. Other than that, I used to believe that I was an extroverted human being until I realized that it took only 3 years to change me into the introverted one. That’s all I knew about myself before I was into Psychological tests on personality, which remain to be developed and will still be.

Types of Personality (16personalities.com)

Introduced to Psychological testing on personality had my mind (slightly) opened to my personal traits. The first Psychology-based personality test ever that I could try was MBTI. However, this test has received critiques over its inconsistency and inaccuracy. Also, many views the personality types based on this test has arouse stereotype and unable to describe human’s unique & diverse traits. Besides all the controversies, I might still have to say that it is the most familiar and the easiest one to understand.

Based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicators, I surprisingly have been receiving typical and consistent results for 8 or 9 years. Before 2014, I rarely got any other else except the ENTP type. Since then, the only thing that got changed was the E into the I, like I said before. Everything else was pretty much the same. According to the 16 personalities webpage, INTPs are considered a logician. Here’s a line that I thought would be a good match for my personality:

“They love patterns, and spotting discrepancies between statements could almost be described as a hobby…but people with the Logician personality type tend to share thoughts that are not fully developed,…..”. It is also said that INTPs might appear unreliable due to their under expanded notions, but no one seems to be more excited in finding and solving problems than INTPs.

INTPs are well-known for their insensitivity and tendency to condescending to others. These characters of INTPs have emerged much more confusions as I’d never disregard anyone or anything, and I also enjoy having a conversation where many emotional situations are involved. Not only to my own perspectives, but those discrepancies were also validated by my besties and families. However, you can consider it unapproved since I do not possess any exclamations from others besides my closest ones.

Big Five Personality (openpsychometrics.org)

Besides MBTI, I tried the IPIP Big-Five Factor Markers, which is based on Big Five Personality theories as well. This theory is also on further research to develop, so I couldn’t claim that the test I took was the most reliable one. While in college years ago, I experienced taking the longer version -consisted of 300 items- named IPIP NEO. Basically, they were all assessing our personality from 5 factors: Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. It is usually known as OCEAN. In the picture above, Neuroticism is replaced by Emotional Stability, which is actually inverted.

Let me try to define it all in short with my limited knowledge. For the sake of our cognitive development and growth mindset, I suggest you (and no exception for myself) to use our mighty technology in pursuing further information about this.

Well, Extroversion is the tendency to gain more energy with social exposure (if it does make sense). One with low extroversion tends to drain their energy in too many social situations/events. Mine is 50, which pretty much explaining why did my extroversion often change and detected as introversion. Some said it is a sign of ambivert and I actually believe that it does exist. Emotional Stability, as it stated, the tendency to have a stable state of emotions. I was a pretty flat person, and mood-swings have never been able to describe me. However, as time goes by, and I get older every little second, I got more sensitive over things that didn’t even matter way before. But I am pretty assured that 87 is fair enough to portray me. Agreeableness is somehow can explain how cooperative you are to other human beings. A person who receives a high score in this aspect tends to be warm, kind, and considerate to others. Based on the result, I somewhat moderate, and would not explain more as I am not really sure either.

Conscientiousness defines how well-disciplined you are. I’d never got a high score in this element, yet still persistent and consistent doing my bullet journal. Anyway, I do agree that I tend to do something spontaneously as well, so this result kind of true. A high score in intellect/imagination, or sometimes named as openness to experience, shows your curiosity, creativity, and perhaps open-mindedness. I do find myself get curious about a lot of things and enjoy to try new experiences. Also, I’ve always been excited and enjoyed knowing about someone’s perspectives, notions, etc. Exploring something and someone new is actually my hidden passion.

I seriously need to hone up my skill and knowledge so that I could explain others theory of personality, at least as well as I (tried to) explain two theories above, even if it doesn’t explain much indeed. Anyway, I hand it to you how you would judge me, but I have to say that this post is could possibly lead you to misjudge me as well.