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"I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven."
— Barbra Streisand

  • Each type has a cognitive functions stack that denotes a descending order of dominance and conscious awareness. So combined with the primary E/I function these are: Ne/Ni Extraverted/Introverted Intuition, Fe/Fi Extraverted/Introverted Feeling, Te/Ti Extraverted/Introverted Thinking and Extraverted/Introverted Sensing. Depending on the order of the stack each personality type will lead with one primary function working in tandem with the second auxiliary position. The tertiary function has less influence and the fourth functions is an opposite of the first.

    This can all get a bit confusing so included below is a visual graphic of how all the functions fit into the matrix.

    By Original concepts by Katharine Cook Briggs (1875-1968) and Isabel Briggs Myers (1897-1980) Author of the referenced image is Jake Beech - I recreated File: CognitiveFunctions.png from scratch in vector form. Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53416244
    By Original concepts by Katharine Cook Briggs (1875-1968) and Isabel Briggs Myers (1897-1980) Author of the referenced image is JakeBeech – I recreated File:CognitiveFunctions.png from scratch in vector form. Public Domain, Link

    More in-depth information can be found here on the official Myers Briggs website. And if you fancy finding out what your personality type might be there’s a quick and easy online test that you can take at the 16 Personalities website.

    Want to go deeper still..? Then Socionics might be the rabbit hole for you…

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“In Budapest, surgeons operated on printer's apprentice Gyoergyi Szabo, 17, who, brooding over the loss of a sweetheart, had set her name in type and swollowed the type.”
— Time Magazine 1936. From the book
  Just My Type, by Simon Garfield.