Personal Narrative: Myers-Briggs Personality

I believe you can achieve anything you want in life with hard work, dedication, and passion. There are many experiences I have gone through that have helped shaped who I am today. I may not have control over certain situations, but I have a choice on how it affects me.

After taking the Project 2 assessment, I found that I have an agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience personality (Project 2 Assessment, 2017). At times, I can sympathize with people’s feelings. Usually, I can have a better understanding of why someone is thinking a way if I understand what they think. I am completely a conscientiousness person. I always want to do well with any task that is in from of me. Also, I am always thinking and planning things to do.

The 6 point grading scale along with my erratic home life has made it challenging to get good grades. My mom is an alcoholic. Her drinking became really atrocious in 8th grade through my junior year. She went to get help at a treatment center at the beginning of my sophomore year. When she got back, she relapsed several times during the next year, but in the middle of my Junior year she drank for the last time and has not touched alcohol since. The drinking and having an autistic brother put an enormous amount of stress on my parents marriage and they ended up getting a divorce in 10th grade. I lived with my mom and saw my dad just a few hours a week maybe less for the next few years. I was forced to grow up quicker than most kids because

When I mastered the twelve scales on my alto saxophone, it taught me the challenges I could face later in the music business. Learning scales can be a difficult feat, it takes months of practice hours of dedication to learn over thirty different finger placement and techniques for dexterity and agility. Furthermore, over the span of three months, I would stay after school three times a week to further increase my technique in playing scales. I remember one time, after practicing for over 1 hour, being frustrated because I couldn’t play the scales at a steady pace and my lip was hurting.I bailed out that day and accepted defeat.That same night when I arrived home, I felt ashamed and sheepish not because I couldn’t play the scales, but because I gave in and gave up.

Since the day I was born, it was determined I was going to be extraordinary. Doctors resolved my genetics and decided for me that I was not going to live an average life.

An important part of every humans life is having something they believe in. Having something to care about is essential for people to reach their full potential in life. People need a special person in their life, or a great job that sparks passion in them to bring them happiness. There are many of these types of passions in my life but to better understand who I am, there isn't just one, there are three people who have shaped the young adult I am today. My two little sisters and my little brother. However they aren't exactly normal siblings, they were given to us by the City of Cincinnati for temporary care, while their mothers tried to recover from heroin addiction and battled in court to explain why their child was hospitalized because of a lack of food.

I was twelve when my sister went “mad”. The hidden family suspicions confirmed as I sat watching her write across her bedroom walls in colored sharpies. She would ramble one thing or another, as if to explain the meaning of each equation or symbol. She was a mathematician, and a brilliant one at that. Her autistic tendencies rubbed off on me growing up and together we studied the people around us in bewilderment. More socially apt as I was, I became the psychologist, she the mathematician. Together we dreamed of all the great things we would do.

I use common sense and logic for almost everything I do, rather than my imagination etc. I also like to have things done, work earlier than the due date, with plans to avoid rushing at all costs which make me of the judgemental characteristic. The Myers-Briggs website describes a judgmental person as preferring to have a planned or orderly way of life like to have things settled and organized, and feel more comfortable when decisions are made. I normally plan work to avoid rushing and also make lists of things that I need to do with an orderly time frame for each job. I strongly agree that I am the judgemental characteristics as I fit into most of the categories from what is expected from a judgemental person. The personality assessment, therefore, states that I have a judgemental personality because I plan and like to get things done earlier than usual, a thinker because I explore both sides of an option before taking a decision, and an extrovert because I am very outgoing and not socially

In my personality assessment I learned I’m a, introverted, intuitive, thinking, and Judging (INTJ) type person. The most accurate description is that I’m only marginal (3%) introvert, which means, I can have more characteristics that apply in my world. I usually don’t volunteer to stand up and give a presentation, however, if asked to; I’m comfortable with doing so as long as I have time to prepare. I do find myself as one who prefers to be quieter while working. I enjoy pursuing perfection in all my work and tend to come across sometimes as over confident. At the same time, I am happy to share the glory of hard and success with others, and try to be as fair minded as possible. I do demonstrate an intuiting trait often. For example, I like

The night leading up to the role play, I was studying my theory. I was a bit insecure in the Narrative approach. So, I spent my time watching videos on Narrative therapy, and reading text about the theory. I was a little anxious, because I kept questioning myself and how much I knew about the theory that I was going to use for the role play.

Although, my motivation to pursue a career in the medical field arises from intrinsic motivations; My personality has a part in my career choice because it was gained through the nurturing of family and extrinsically of course. The summary of my Myers-Briggs Type Indicator concluded my type as ISFJ. The “I” stands for introversion, and it means one focuses on inner world of ideas and impressions. Being an introvert applies to me and my life because I prefer to work alone, dislike social outings, and I am self-motivated. For example, I had to do a group project in my english class, and I disliked it. I wanted to work alone, but most of the work I wanted to commit too to make sure it got done. I researched the topic and got all the information

There are four imporant attributes I am currently developing. First is physical strength. I understand that there is rigorous physical training to be an astronaut; I take ballet 4 days a week, and last summer, I attended a ballet intensive in Nashville where I danced about 42 hours per week for 5 weeks. Ballet demands immense strength, and building that strength requires mental strenth, the second attribute. Traveling to Mars takes a lot of perseverance, and every time I keep dancing when I want to stop, my tenacity builds. My perseverance also expands with every challenging problem I encounter, since I always want to find the answer; I keep going until I can solve the challenge, which sides by the third attribute, creative problem solving.

I believe my attributes that I have possessed over the years are the ability for me to look beyond a person’s limitations and try not to past judgment. As a person who is nurture to everyone and one who strongly believes that everyone is important no matter their physical appearance, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, class, and race no one is neither weak or inferior to me. I believe it is important to everyone to feel love and appreciate regardless of their limitations.

We all have commitments, such as school, work, family, and extracurricular activities; however, many of us are inclined to prioritize one aspect, reducing the amount of time we have for others, causing imbalance. In the visual, the author depicts a man standing on chairs above a chimney covered by a desk, with buildings in his vicinity. The man is struggling to sustain his balance, but he knows he must do so; otherwise, he will undoubtedly fall. This is a metaphorical representation of how difficult it is to maintain balance in our lives, but it is critical to do so; otherwise, it negatively impacts our well-being, causing stress and dissatisfaction.