I’m an INTP

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is, I believe, the most widely used personality type categorization currently used. It identifies 16 types of personalities, according to factors like introversion-extroversion approach for decision making, etc.. It basically checks whether you are more of an introvert or extrovert, intuitive or sensing, perceiving or judging and feeling or thinking. I first took this test a few years back, and quite recently again. I found the results very interesting.. Here’s what I got..

INTP

Rodin’s Thinker is introverted. Here these thinkers ponder the apparent chaos of the world in order to extract from it the universal truths and principles that can be counted on. These principles, once extracted, will provide the logical structure on which to build strategies.

They have a finely nuanced ability to analyse situations, find root causes and foresee consequences. They distrust action taken too quickly without the necessary investigation. They are usually levelheaded, objective, impersonal yet intensely involved in problem solving. They are fiercely independent, seeking input and comments from a chosen few. When reporting to others, they need to establish credibility first: their own and that of the person they are reporting to. If the gap in knowledge and expertise is too great and their own proficiency dismissed, belittled or ignored, they will lose interest and motivation.

They are less interested in running the world as they are in understanding it. They are curious and capable of explaining complex political, economic or technological problems, taking great pleasure in explaining all the factors and intricacies. They are rigorous with their thoughts and analysis, choosing the exact words that convey precisely what is meant. They may spend a lot of time defining words, concepts and systems in order to define a problematic solution.

They are armchair detectives, scientists and philosophers, spending most of their time in quiet reflection to ponder truth, and solve mysteries. They may tend to neglect social requirements and responsibilities, finding many relationships to be too superficial to be of much interest.”

Well, the description is not very far from the truth, i guess.

The important thing about these kinda tests is that they help our self discovery a lot. It’s not only about finding out who ywe are.. but also finding out where we’re good at.. and where we can improve. We can see the basic assumption or values that we build up on, and most importantly would help understanding the other personality types. I have a good friend of mine who is a complete opposite to me in the personality type (an ESFJ), but knowing that we have very different personality types helped a lot in improving our friendship..

You also can check your personality type by answering the questions here.
To find out about your personality type, thisis a good source.