The Myers & Briggs test: my inventor and fieldmarshal

One of the experience I've been looking forward, was to take the Myers-Briggs Test. It is one of the three theories that intend to explain success in a job, along with The Big Five and the Emotional Intelligence theories. At first I felt that the test was not fitted for me: it didn't felt accurate and aligned to my vision and explanation of the world. I really felt the answer may not be accordable with my ideaw. However the test was very accurate in the end.

There was a curious event however. I took it two times. The first time I came up as an inventor, because I answered mostly by historical behaviors. When I was a kid, I loved to break out problems, also studying software and math alike. I loved to read a lot, a thirst that hasn't disappeared along the years. My emotional center was towards loneliness, I always dreamt of a machine, being able to do whatsoever alone and focus what I like about more, because others really never mattered to me.

There is an event that changed all my life: The Wall Street Journal. I have always been a reflexive guy, liking to wonder why things happen, and how to control its effect. This has pushed me to research a lot of scientific majors, among them psychology. Psychology triggered an amusement for human behavior, especially, for human misbehavior. Among other information, I found I was a not-so-severe ezquizoid. I took this as a threat: ezquizoid people lack people-skills, thus they are regarded as simple, not-ambicious and incapable people. This make others hesitate and deny opportunities for success to ezquizoid. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is a journal dedicated to white-collar workers, which usually find in the journal a guide for lifestyle, vogue, wines, investments, and work success. It is not uncommon to find article about management, explained by psychology theories. I investigated more and ended up on literature about Emotional Intelligence. Fascinated by it, I began to change myself following the recommendation it had. Therefore, when I took it a second time, my test gave me as a Fieldmarshals. This probably takes into account my belief that knowledge should be useful, unbiased and as complete as possible. In every stage of my life, I always thought against irrational ideas and concept, from the existence of god, the sustainability of socialism and communism, the idea that free market is still based on the ideas of Adam Smith, and other irrationalities that appears along the way.

I am really happy of having what I think have two great personalities. Inventors are known for their creativity and smartness. At first, I confess, I felt very insecure: being half-half two personalities may make me more flexible, but it will not give me the ability to maximize my personality’s quality. However, I make up a plan. I will be an economic advisor, school dean, economic media reporter, economic minister or economic consultant and niches related. Let me explain myself: my inventor side makes me turn knowledge into product or ideas. At the same time, provides me with the knowledge, the character and the leadership for debate economic affairs. These two abilities combined make me perfect for taking very specialized knowledge and converting them into reforms. And my field marshal side makes me gather support and loyalty from different people to create the product. My inventor side again is able to upgrade and reform as needed, while my fieldmarshal helps me uniformize, communicate and push for my reforms ideas, as well as to stand against pressure to turn it down. What is good to point out is that I posses both the Judging and Perception Lifestyle. The judging makes me able to set the vision, the goals and resolve any conflict as well as crisis without hesitation that may destabilize the organization, important to inspire direction in an organization when there is a crisis or a shift. But my perception lifestyle, a more flexible and spontaneous image, let my organization feel free to try ideas, debates, and flourish their creativity to give value to the organization. Once I read why a city’s wealth to its population is bigger than a smaller town’s wealth to its populations: in a bigger city, there are more people interacting, communicating, inspiring, dreaming; all this energy and passion being released by every single person in contrast with a rigid, boring and stressful organization.