Why Learn the Myers-Briggs and Your Famous Type	Why learn the types of people from fiction (movies, TV shows, novels, etc.)
Why learn the types of famous people	Advice to visitors of FamousType.com

Why learn the Myers-Briggs and your Famous Type?

Most of us don’t really know who we are.  We have a vague idea of it, but typically it is not as thorough, complete, or accurate as it should be.  Often, we get our sense of self from an organization we belong to, our job, a sport we play, our school grades, an instrument we play, our nation, our religion, our family, or who we hang out with.  While these can often be indicators of interests or maybe even morals, they can be very fallible and are onlypartial indicators of one’s personality.  None of the aforementioned gets to the root of what makes a person tick - they don’t tell us how one thinks or approaches life.  You can hardly get to know someone truly by using these as your basis of understanding. To come closer to truly understanding yourself or someone else, learning their personality type can be a quick and reliable way to really learn who they are.

Open a world of understanding and revelation

So, wouldn’t it be helpful to have a definitive way to understand others and ourselves?  We would understand people much better if we knew their personality type and what that type encompasses.  But what really makes people tick?  How can we set people apart from one another, to see clearly their differences and their similarities?  How can we get a sense of how they will react or why they reacted in a certain way? How can we learn to understand them?  How can we learn to understand ourselves?  This is the key to success, the key to happiness, the key to everything.  And now you’re in luck because the Myers-Briggs personality test, with the help of FamousType.com, gives you this knowledge!

The most trusted source for this knowledge has been the world’s most popular and widely used personality test, the Myers-Briggs.

Why Learn the Myers-Briggs?

• The Myers-Briggs (MB) test results are organized and divided into 16 groupings of common traits and behaviors, or personality types.  The MB also provides a way to look into some of the deeper aspects of the psyche as well.  When a true understanding of the MB is in play, one starts to see why people do things, how they think, and what drives them.  The MB doesn’t just explain the “how,” but the “why” as well.
• The Myers-Briggs helps us get along with others.  The knowledge that the Myers-Briggs provides helps us realize the best way to approach and communicate with others for win-win situations (who doesn’t want that!).
• Once you know your type and the types of others, you can seek out those of the same or similar types.  Like-minded people are likely to understand you better.  People who know where you are coming from and will be likely to respond in the way that you deem best.  (Knowledge of the temperaments and functions also increases our likelihood of finding people similar to us.)  You will find that these people have the same strengths and weaknesses, like to talk about the same kinds of things, and often have the same interests as you.  Even Introverts who find another of the same type will often feel a strong connection with the other person and find that they can typically sit down and talk with that person for hours at a time.
• Knowledge of the Myers-Briggs also helps you seek out those who are of different types.  Getting to know someone of a different type will give you the opportunity to see things from a different view, get you using preferences you wouldn’t typically use, gain new insights, and try out new ways of acting and looking at things that you may not have thought of before.  This helps us expand our horizons and grow.  It is also intriguing.
• The Myers-Briggs gives us a better idea of what will make us uncomfortable or what we may have problems with, and tells us how we can overcome these obstacles if we have to face them.
• The Myers-Briggs gives you an idea of how to better approach people. You’d approach a Feeler, for example, emphasizing how the situation makes you feel and how it affects others.  You’d approach a Thinker emphasizing logic and principles.  You’d approach someone with the SP combination emphasizing fun and excitement; while you’d approach an SJ by emphasizing duty, structure, and practability.  These examples go on and on.
• In group or work situations the MB gives us an idea of what people’s strengths and weaknesses are, in order to help the team reach its goals.
• Learning the Myers-Briggs is an ongoing, evolving process.  There are new studies out there all the time, and new input for understanding and using the Myers-Briggs.  There are many different books, publications, and newsletters providing a plethora of information and new things to learn and think about.  Learning the Myers-Briggs is a fun and useful hobby.

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Why Learn the Types of Characters in Movies and in Fiction?

• It enhances your investment in the characters - you understand them better, you know what makes them tick, and feel more for them, thus having a more enjoyable experience.
• You get to see the different types (especially interesting when it’s your own type) in different lands and worlds from our own (whether it’s a cartoon world or in outer space) or in our own world.  Either way we get to see them in unique, dangerous, loving, exciting, funny situations, and how they react.
• Its fun to try to figure out the types of the different characters.  As the movie or book plays out and unfolds, you start to notice characteristics and motives that help us figure out the person’s type.  Figuring out the types of others enhances the experience of good movies; and it gives you something to do in bad movies - making them not as bad by keeping you somewhat interested and entertained.
• You get to see how the different types interact with each other.
• You get to see extreme versions of the different types (this can be comical, scary, or even empowering). 
• Seeing the types played out helps our understanding of the type and helps us type others better in the future.
• Studying character types tells you what kind of leader you can be.  Clearly there are many similarities between the leaders/heroes of the same type.  For example, Peter Pan and Hans Solo are in different atmospheres and roles, but both have many of the same attributes: being hard-nosed, confident, impulsive, living by the moment, taking chances . . . they are clearly nothing other than ESTP.  They both ended up being great leaders, but they could never have pulled off the things they did if they had needed to do so in a careful, deep, and imaginative way - like, say, Harry Potter, who is INFP.  Likewise, a great ESFP hero isn’t going to be a strict rule-enforcer; while a ISTJ isn’t going to be impulsive or an attention-grabber.  We see this same type of comparison in the bad guys.  A bad ENTJ (Darth Vader, for example) is going to be very different from a bad ESFP (Ursula from The Little Mermaid, for example).
• We get to better understand and know the (sometimes unseen) weaknesses, blind spots, and vulnerabilities of characters.
• You can compare characters in movies and books with acquaintances that you actually know in real life who are of the same type (this can be very enjoyable, but don’t take it too far!).

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Why Learn the Types of Famous People?

• It just plain feels good to know that someone who is so well known and who has made a large impact sees things the way you do and is similar to you.
• It’s interesting to see how the famous person’s personality plays into the decisions they make in everyday life.
• Seeing how people have used their personality traits to make them successful, you can identify and use your similar strengths to do the same.
• You can understand that person better. Simply by knowing someone’s type, you have a sense that “I know that person far better than most.”
• Knowing a person’s type gives you a better idea of the person behind the image you typically see, and helps you understand them better.  For example: “I disliked Barry Bonds until I found out he was ISTP.  Knowing how ISTPs think, I realized how he was viewing things and he made more sense to me.”  “No wonder I think John Travolta is great; and no wonder I’m so intrigued with his interviews; he’s also an INTP!”
• You can watch and root for those of certain types. (Do this with caution.  Just because someone is a certain type, it doesn’t mean that they are “good” or “bad.”)
• It’s fun to see their personalities come out according to type; you can get personal confirmation and satisfaction from this as you watch what they do.

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Advice to the Viewers of this Site

• Go over the site with a friend or family member, and see if the characterizations seem accurate. Have fun with it!  Don’t be afraid to laugh at yourself and others, as you engage in the process as a fun challenge.
• Don’t get discouraged if you don’t grasp all the concepts right away.  In order to grasp the full nature of the Myers-Briggs, and to type others accurately, it is important that the different theories and concepts are understood.  This takes time; but you will constantly see encouraging signs of improvement, and gusts of realization, as the pieces of the puzzle start to be put together.
• Don’t try to learn it all at once.  That will just end in frustration.
• Knowing the theories of the MB doesn’t do any good if you don’t apply them to yourself and others. So make sure you think about yourself and people you know while reading through the site.
• Explore the entire site.  You may find some sections more captivating than others.
• Keep an open mind, yet analyze.
• If this is your first time taking the test and you end up with a type that doesn’t seem to be correct, please look over the eight preferences, functions, Keirsey temperament groups, and different profiles.  Test results are not 100% accurate.
• If you like the site, email the link to a friend or put the homepage or your description in your I.M. profile.
• There are a lot of advantages to membership.  Check it out!

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Personal growth, self help, and self improvement guided by the myers-briggs and mbti. The 16 personality types: INFP, INTJ, INFJ, INTP, ENFP, ENFJ, ISTJ, ENTP, ENTJ, ISFJ, ESFJ, ISFP, ESTJ, ESTP, ISTP, ESFP.