Read Your Ex-Boyfriend Will Hate This for Free Online Page A

open.” Put simply, “judging” people consider answers to be most important, whereas “perceiving” people focus on the questions. [xiii]
    Taking the official Myers-Briggs test would cost sixty dollars and about an hour of your time, if you contemplate your answers. For a free alternative, you can go to www.humanmetrics.com and take a seventy-two question version that closely mirrors the Myers-Briggs test and gives results using the same terminology. Here are three examples of questions taken from Humanmetrics’ “Jung Typology Test”:
     
    You tend to be unbiased even if this might endanger your good relations with people: Yes or No?
     
    Often you prefer to read a book rather than go to a party: Yes or No?
     
    A thirst for adventure is close to your heart: Yes or No?
     
    I’ve personally taken both the official Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Humanmetrics’ version, with the same result. Both identified my personality as ENTP, which stands for “extraversion/intuition/thinking/perception.” Among the main traits of someone with my personality type are outspokenness, creativity, and a quick wit. ENTPs are also likely to overlook the day-to-day necessities of life while putting undue emphasis on more exciting projects. If you ask people who know me well, their description of me would almost exactly match my personality type description. If you ask my father, he’d especially laugh about my predilection to neglect menial but important tasks.
    If all this sounds intimidating and confusingly technical, I encourage you to take the free test and find out for yourself. The questions are easily understood, and if you think about each one and answer as honestly as you can, you may be astounded at how well the results reflect your own personality. Additionally, the test suggests your ideal careers and notes the famous people who share your personality type.
    The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator has sixteen basic personality types. Very few people fit exactly into any one of them, but it’s a rough outline that has become so widely accepted that many corporations will or won’t hire someone based on the results. You can’t “flunk” it like a test in school, however. There are no right or wrong answers. As the name suggests, it merely sketches a person’s core personality.
    So why is this test important to our discussion? Have all of these pages been a build-up to one master pitch for some test invented in the 1940s? No. I value you and your impeccable taste in reading material too much to waste your time. I want to examine the core of the questions on this test. According to our most respected psychologists, what are the most valid factors in determining who we are?
    Having examined the two mainstream tests, I think the questions can be distilled into four of primary importance:
     
    1) Do you prefer the company of a group, or do you prefer to be alone?
     
    2) Do you trust your “hunches” (an inexplicable inner sense of what to do in a given situation), or do you distrust what you can’t see, hear, and feel?
     
    3) When faced with a problem, does your mind or your heart most often make the decision?
     
    4) Metaphorically speaking, which is more important, the journey or the destination?
     
    You may notice that none of these questions has to do with career, leisure activities or favorite bands, movies, restaurants, and places to vacation. I’m embarrassed to admit that my primary requirement for a girlfriend, when I was much younger, was that she despise the same rock bands I did. (I was the sort of surly young man whom I’d shudder to meet now.) That I managed to date a few wonderful women during that period was a result of either divine providence or blind luck, depending on your beliefs.
    The simple questions above give you a pretty good read on almost anyone you meet, and how the answers compare with yours will almost certainly be a better indicator of your compatibility with someone than your previous