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The most effective tool for identifying personality type is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). This is a personality inventory developedby Katherine Briggs and her daughter Isabel Myers. The MBTI is basedon the work of the Swiss analytical psychologist Carl Jung. The MBTIidentifies eight different personality ‘preferences’ that we all use atdifferent times – but each individual will have a preference for one particularcombination over the others.These eight preferences can be paired as set out below.Where individuals draw their energyExtraversion is a preference for drawing energy from the external world,tasks and things, whereas Introversion is a preference for drawingenergy from the internal world of one’s thoughts and feelings.What individuals pay attention to and how they receive data andinformationSensing is concerned with the five senses and what is and has beenwhereas Intuition is concerned with possibilities and patterns and whatmight be.How an individual makes decisionsThinking is about making decisions in an objective, logical way based onconcepts of right and wrong whereas Feeling is about making decisionsin a more personal values-driven and empathic way.What sort of lifestyle an individual enjoysIndividual changeJudging is a preference for living in a more structured and organizedworld which is more orderly and predictable, whereas Perceiving is apreference for living in a more flexible or spontaneous world whereoptions are kept open and decisions not made until absolutely necessary.So for example, a person who has a preference for Introversion, Intuition,Thinking and Judging (an INTJ, in the jargon) will have certain characteristics.Likewise an individual with a preference for Extroversion, Sensing,Feeling and Perceiving (ESFP) will have quite different characteristics.51