What the MBTI Is Really About and How It Can Help You

It’s not about putting people in a box — it’s about understanding, acceptance, and improvement

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I first came across the MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) back in 2012, through a good friend of mine I knew from high school. My friend found this personality test online and took it. She forwarded it to me, telling me the results she got described her to a ‘T’. I went through the test myself and found my results to be strangely accurate too. Naturally, I had to find out more.

And that’s where it all began.

I spent the next ten years researching, observing, and learning through the basis of the theory: the cognitive functions (I introduce and explain the basics of the cognitive functions in the next two posts in my Objective MBTI list):