Discovering Your Individual Preferences

During this section of Discovery Forum, you will employ the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator™ (MBTI) to help you discover and better understand your personal interests and decision-making style. It is an analysis tool which is widely used in pastoral counseling, business and religious organizations, and cross culturally.

The MBTI is useful in identifying your behavioral preferences for gathering information, processing information, decision-making, and relating to the world. While you most likely are capable of using several different ways to accomplish these things, every person has a preference for one or the other or a "default"way of working within the world. Similarly, the MBTI helps to identify a range of preferences that appear to be your favorites. These behavioral preferences give insight into your leadership style, work style, and communication style.

The behavioral preferences are organized into four bipolar scales. When you take the MBTI analysis, the four preferences that you identify as most like you (one from each scale) are combined into what is called a "type." The four pairs ask and answer four questions:

The four pairs ask and answer four questions:

1. Extroversion / Introversion
Where do you focus your attention in order to get energized?

2. Sensing / Intuition
How do you prefer to gather information?

3. Thinking / Feeling
How do you prefer to make decisions?

4. Judging / Perceiving
How do you prefer to live life?

To assess your individual preferences, you may click on the following link to get a "FREE Personality Assessment" provided by another organization not affiliated with Second Half Ministries or The Navigators: TypeFocus.