Gaining a better understanding of yourself

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Gaining a better understanding of yourself

Post by Searching » Sat Apr 24, 2004 10:59 am

I've found one of the most comforting things for me is being able to better understand who I am or why I do certain things. Perhaps you may already know, or have some sort of idea, but having a seperate party also make the assesment and at the same time hit the nail right on the head can really make the difference in becoming more secure with who you are, or how you can change to become better or make your own life better, because nobody is perfect.

One of the greatest resources I have found for being able to do this are online tests. There are alot of crappy personality tests out there that really won't tell you anything except for what you filled out in the survey, or the questions and results will be skewered that there is no possibly way it could be accurate in any sense. There are however, the few out there, that will give you incredible results, which are deep and thorough, and can literally scare you sometimes with their accuracy.

Here are a few of the tests that I have found to be better than others

More serious tests
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm
http://personal.ansir.com/
http://similarminds.com/personality_tests.html

Interesting tests that may be accurate
http://www.colorquiz.com/
http://users.rcn.com/zang.interport/personality.html

Remember to take all tests with a grain of salt. Not everything is going to be true, and results should be considered to be educated guesses. Good luck in your never ending quests to find yourself :)
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Post by JadedMortality » Sat Apr 24, 2004 11:38 am

I've found a couple of those tests before and tried them
And I have to agree..some of them can be freaky at how accurate they are.

I'll take a look at some of the ones you posted.

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Post by darkrose » Sun Apr 25, 2004 5:46 am

Yeah...doing quizes and such is a good way to distract myself...plus it's just a good way to waste time on the interent! lol! I'm going to check out all of those links...thatx for posting!

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I wonder how many people are saying "fine" when they're not.

I think that from now on I'm going to look a little bit deeper...because I'm not the only one.

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Post by Antenna » Tue May 18, 2004 11:33 pm

http://www.socionicstypeassistant.com/stc/sta.html?0:::

This is a really cool test that helps you figure out what personality type you are by what words you identify yourself with. In normal mode, you click on the words that describe you. In reversed mode, you click on the words that don't describe you. Then go look in your profile. Way cool. I was an ENF J/P. I was right in the middle for J and P.
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Post by snowangel_03 » Wed May 19, 2004 7:14 pm

Antenna wrote:http://www.socionicstypeassistant.com/stc/sta.html?0:::

This is a really cool test that helps you figure out what personality type you are by what words you identify yourself with. In normal mode, you click on the words that describe you. In reversed mode, you click on the words that don't describe you. Then go look in your profile. Way cool. I was an ENF J/P. I was right in the middle for J and P.
Will try that out...
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Post by Antenna » Sat May 22, 2004 2:43 am

snowangel_03 wrote:
Antenna wrote:http://www.socionicstypeassistant.com/stc/sta.html?0:::

This is a really cool test that helps you figure out what personality type you are by what words you identify yourself with. In normal mode, you click on the words that describe you. In reversed mode, you click on the words that don't describe you. Then go look in your profile. Way cool. I was an ENF J/P. I was right in the middle for J and P.
Will try that out...
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Post by Orange Crush » Tue Jun 01, 2004 10:23 pm

ooooh I'll try some of them out.
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