ESFP??

[quasigeostrophy]

I think the last time I took a Myers-Briggs I was an INTJ (Introvert, iNtuitive, Thinker, Judge), and it wasn't that many years ago. WTF?

Star Trek Personality Test -- Results

Myers-Briggs would say that you are an ESFP (Extrovert, Sensor, Feeler, Perceiver). In Star Trek language, you share a basic personality configuration with Kathryn Janeway and Tom Paris. Funny - Voyager is the Star Trek series I watched the least (actually, hardly at all).

People like you are warm and social, impulsive, and unpredictable. You have a great zeal for life and are intensely aware of the world around you. You love to play and respond quickly to people who will play with you. You respond well to appeals to common sense and poorly to being judged. Attempts to trap you will make you ready to flee or fight.

You're highly curious and talkative, but also gentle, sensitive and caring. You close down when people fail to provide you with input and you're frustrated with silences. You're most comfortable taking action, particularly in order to help or enjoy the company of others.

Your primary goal in life is freedom to be spontaneous and have fun. Your reward is to enjoy the company of others and know that they enjoy and appreciate you.

Good careers for your type include primary education teacher, starship captain, public relations specialist, tour operator, actor, marine biologist, and starship pilot.


Not that I don't believe the quiz results, and I didn't lie on any answers, but several of the questions struck me as not entirely appropriate. I answered a few of them as I would know I would have to handle a situation within a military environment such as Star Fleet, when it isn't how I might have answered it in "real life". Oh well, I forget where the quote comes from, but "life is not like Star Trek." I'm not an ESFP, but I play one on TV! :-)

I can see some of the traits of ESFP being more prominent in my personality these days than they once were, certainly. If I put much stock in these, maybe I'd take a "real" Myers-Briggs again to see what has really changed...

Comments

[semperfiona]

I answered a few of them as I would know I would have to handle a situation within a military environment such as Star Fleet, when it isn't how I might have answered it in "real life".

I think that might have been part of the reason for the differences. When I had questions like that, I went with the first gut reaction (like "fight with the Evil Kirk") and not the thought-out rational one.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

That was one that I recall possibly affecting my outcome. Also, the one where I had to choose between cutting out a social, get to know the team situation vs. cutting out one of the pre-mission briefings I am sure was another.

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

I don't know --- I went with my gut response, and I had the same result, 180% out from my usual test. I go with "bad test".

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Maybe Dan's just a closet ESFP. We need to get him out of the closet!!

*snicker*

Jim, I'm a doctor, not an extrovert!

[firecat]

I responded to some as would be appropriate for the job (Sure, I'd rather have the science team forward me reports in my ready room, but as Captain, I would need buy-in from all the sections to pursue something unknown, so I would have to have a meeting of the section heads. Duh), and some from my gut (yes, I'll screw the dream lover alien), and I got ESFJ (Dr. McCoy). My last Myers Briggs test scored me as INTP.

Now, I've taken Kiersey Bates tests and other knockoffs of Myers Briggs in the meantime and I've sometimes scored S and/or J on those, and I've often scored very close to the middle on most of the spectra. And on the Star Trek test I scored 10 on three of the sections and 9 on the fourth, which seems pretty close to the middle to me.

So I think the overall likely conclusion to draw from all this is that I'm an XXXX.

And that I'm annoyed the test popped up *sixteen* ads. Sheesh!

[wolfprincess.livejournal.com]

"4. (Pretend you're not married if you are.) The alien lover of your dreams offers to give you a night of unbridled passion, no strings attached. All you have to smile. You

a. Smile.
b. Get out your tricorder and scan the alien for anomalies."

Damned monogamous testing!