I LOVE being able to see my friends or family in each of the types so I can better understand them!  My mom and I were just having this conversation about putting a specific  person with each type so we could understand them better as an innate person and not someone with “faults”.

These descriptions are in my book, Live Your Life from the Front Seat, so it might be a refresher for those of you who have already read my book but being delivered to you in a different way may help you “see” it in a different way as well. 🙂 That is my hope.

For the next 16 weeks I will be sending you the cars of the 16 different personalities so you can get an a visual of each of the personalities “best” and “worst”.  Their Driver, co-pilot, drunk uncle and baby in the backseat.

I would love to hear from you about which one is YOU. 🙂

ISTJ – The Duty Filler

Driver: Your best self

INTROVERTED SENSING IN THE INTERNAL WORLD/IN YOUR HEAD: 

  • You have an internal library of detailed personal knowledge, facts, feelings, sensations and information gleaned from experiences
  • Your mind is like a vast internal storehouse of data, details and impressions (internal file cabinet)
  • You enjoy rituals and traditions like holidays and birthdays
  • You feel comfortable and happy with a day-to-day routine
  • You’re big on details and data

Copilot: What the world sees of you, your second-best self

EXTROVERTED THINKING IN THE EXTERNAL WORLD: 

  • Order is important to you
  • You enjoy organizing both people and things to achieve a purpose
  • You use logic and reasoning with others
  • You direct action and make decisions
  • You are an impersonal decision maker
  • You collect information in an orderly way
  • You solve problems in a systematic manner

Drunk Uncle in the Back Seat: Things you suck at and should NOT be doing

INTROVERTED FEELING IN THE INTERNAL WORLD/IN YOUR HEAD OR HEART: 

  • Dealing with other people’s feelings
  • Having to explain/explore your values, beliefs and sense of self
  • Having to deal with or be sensitive to other people’s emotions and inner sensations
  • Working in a capacity that requires you to be conciliatory or to create harmony with others
  • Doing work which requires you to work with deep internal feelings (yours or anyone else’s)
  • You need to have people in your life to help you see others’ feelings since this is an area you are going to struggle with

Baby in the Back Seat: Where you go under deep stress or when someone has hurt you

EXTROVERTED INTUITION IN THE EXTERNAL WORLD YOU GET LOUD:

  • You express your worries out loud
  • Every little thing becomes a huge deal
  • If you have a fight with your spouse, you think you are getting a divorce
  • You tell everyone what you imagine is going to happen next; the worse your expectation, the more you talk and the louder you get