You Can Take The Myers Briggs Personality Test Free On These Websites

For upon |The Myers Briggs Personality Test is a free tool that is used to identify how people see the world and make decisions. Like many personality measurement tools, this test should be taken with a grain of salt, but it can give you some insight into how your mind works.

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The makers of the test, Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother Katharine Briggs, created it to apply C.G. Jung’s type theory in a way that was practical and easy for people to understand. Since then, this personality test has been used for both leadership and personal development purposes.

Where Can You Take the Myers Briggs Personality Test Free?

There is an official website where you can take the Myers Briggs Personality Test, but it requires you to pay to take the test in exchange for additional tools and information.

However, you can take variations of the Myers Briggs Personality Test that are based on the 16 personality types for free on these websites:

• 16Personalities
• Truity
• Humanmetrics

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These tests take approximately 10-15 minutes and tell you which of the 16 four-letter personality types you fall under and what each of those letters means.

How Does the Myers Briggs Personality Test Work?

The Myers Briggs Personality Test is based on Jung’s four dichotomies and the sixteen personality types developed by Isabel Briggs Myers.

These four dichotomies exist on a continuum on which everyone can be placed. Your stance on each of these four things determine your overall personality, and there are 16 possible combinations of personality types. The four dichotomies that make up these possibilities are:

• Introversion and extroversion: refers to whether you see the world through more of an internal (introversion) or external (extroversion) lens
• Sensing and intuition: tells us if a person gathers information more from the external senses (sensing) or from inner sources like knowledge and imagination (intuition)
• Thinking and feeling: this relates to whether you make decisions based on objective (thinking) or subjective (feeling) information
• Judging and perceiving: this tells us whether you look at the world through a neat lens of organization and planning (judging) or prefer to keep your worldview more open and flexible (perceiving)

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From these four dichotomies, we have 16 personality types that can be used to sort people and determine not only how they most likely work, but also how they tend to work with others. Characteristics of each of the 16 personality types are listed on the MyersBriggs website.

Conclusion

It is important to keep in mind that even though tools like the Myers Briggs Personality Test are useful, they are not always the most accurate and reliable. This is especially true when they are taken online and not by someone who is trained to administer the test.

You might take the test and feel like the personality type you get suits you perfectly, or you may not. That’s okay too. If the answer that you get doesn’t resonate with you, feel free to just shrug it off and continue your search to learn more about yourself and your personality.

If you are going through a difficult time or you want to learn more about the way that your personality impacts your life, talking to a counsellor is always a good option. You can find a licensed counsellor in-person or online via services like BetterHelp.

A trained professional can help guide you on your journey to self-discovery and help you interpret the things you find out along the way.

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