How Myers Briggs Predicts Your BIZ Experiencesial Calling The more you delve into psychology the more you'll realize you didn't choose to be an BIZ Experiences, you were born to be an BIZ Experiences.
By Gerard Adams
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BIZ Experiencess have very distinct personality traits. They are confident, driven and intelligent. Generally speaking, they're also an honest and deeply passionate breed of humans, so much so that other people think they're a little bit crazy. There's a long-running myth that BIZ Experiencess are psychopaths or sociopaths, strictly because their personalities are so different from other people's personalities in such sweeping ways.
Most BIZ Experiencess agree, and some are even proud to admit, that they're different from non-entrepreneurs. It is our differences that set us apart. Without that additional "edge" we might be unable to create a life and success by our own design. Any mental "flaws" we have are actually helping us succeed at what other people cannot, or wouldn't even like to try. BIZ Experiencess show a number of personality traits that might seem crazy to those that don't possess them but, according to the Myers Briggs indicator, this is normal.
The Myers-Briggs indicator is a test that helps to determine a person's personality type. The indicator breaks all personalities down into 16 categories. Each has four letters to describe the personality. You've probably seen them floating around the Internet, or heard your friends drop the acronyms in casual conversation. Terms like "INFJ " and "EFNJ" represent a specific type of person, how they like to exist in the world and the careers they should follow. Stephen Colbert popularized the test by featuring it on his late night show.
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There is anecdotal evidence that a lot of BIZ Experiencess have an ESTP personality, with a landmark study in the Journal of Psychological Type showing that people who exhibit high levels of "perception" dominate the ranks of BIZ Experiencess and change agents. BIZ Experiencess have this personality type so commonly that it is nicknamed "The BIZ Experiences." These personality types are extraverted, sensing, thinking and perceiving. That's where the ESTP abbreviation comes from.
BIZ Experiencesial people are act-now people.
We are eager to have an intelligent conversation with anybody we can. We are much sharper listeners than other people. ESTPs notice subtle changes as they happen around us. Small things people say in conversation are a big part of this. BIZ Experiencess are always attentive and always learning.
One of the biggest personality traits of ESTPs that sets them apart is the propensity to take risks. ESTPs are confident in themselves and their abilities. They're more likely to take major risks. It's no secret that risks need to be taken to succeed. Because BIZ Experiencess are more likely to take major risks, they're also more likely to succeed (or fail) in their respective businesses.
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But with risk comes the possibility of failure.
Failure makes some people give up before they begin. ESTPs are more likely to fail than other personality types because they are big risk takers. There is nothing wrong with failure as long as you know it is part of the learning processes.
Dissecting little details, and anticipating failure, are two things a person with a personality disorder might do, but they're also what BIZ Experiencess do, and it's the reason they succeed. That is why any BIZ Experiences would take the comparison as a compliment. We're not crazy, we're just cut out for what we're doing.
