Is your personality sabotaging your business?
While not exactly the same as the "official" version, you can take a pretty accurate version of the test online, right here.
There are some interesting insights from this test. A quick Google of your four-letter identifier will give you a lot of resources that describe your personality type and the effects it has on your business.
For example, I'm an INTJ.
I prefer to work by myself, prefer intellectual pursuits, tend to observe people, perfectionist, skeptical, hard to impress, analytical, not spontaneous, ruthlessly self-critical, strives for competence.
More than any other style, my type lives in our work. Work is work, and play is work. Idleness is the worst kind of punishment. I tend to focus on the future, regarding the past as already gone, all that matters about the past is using it to find directions for the future. Repeating an error is unforgivably stupid. I'm very self-confident, and easily able to make decisions, a natural brainstormer, but everything has to pass the critical, "Does it work?" test.
Under stress, I become a perfectionist, stuck in my compulsive routines and generally planning too far ahead. With my type, I'm very prone to make detailed, long-range plans and be prepared for every contingency, but not as likely to just spontaneously make something happen.
I have to be careful about singlemindedness, and I need to make a conscious effort not to come off as cold or distant, both online and offline. Under stress, I also focus on tiny little details that I ordinarily wouldn't have. The more extreme the stress, the more I'll act impulsively and start many different projects, research lots of irrelevant information, and express my emotions in ways that harm my personal relationships. That's just the extreme, though -- I don't usually let things get that bad, and my personality type is great at finding a vision and achieving it.
Others may see what is and wonder why; INTJs see what might be and say "Why not?!"
With this knowledge, I know that I need to work on loosening up and being more spontaneous, and need to stop planning so much. Plans are useless if you don't follow through with them! I need to check up on myself frequently so I don't find myself wasting time lost in thought. I think I'm going to start setting hourly or half-hourly timers when I work so that I'll be interrupted if I'm wasting time, and I'll have a chance to take a breath and refocus.
It's easy to see how all this stuff is gold for those interested in self-improvement.
Note: I'm not providing links to any specific sites with descriptions, because I don't want people being lazy and just posting their type or copy-pasting a description. Before replying, take some time to actually think about whether it describes you, and how you can use the information to benefit your business.
So, what's your type?
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OK, so I did it, I finally got over myself.
Christian
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