I am Obi-Wan Kenobi

Using the Myer Briggs character test to find out what we are really like.

Posted: Tue 05 May, 2015, 13:45
A friend at work just pinged me the Myers Briggs test as a bit of laugh at lunch-time. I had never actually heard of it, but it is basically a personality test (first published in 1962) to identify your key character traits and strengths. I highly recommend trying it out as it only takes 5-10 minutes. There are sequence of 70 or so statements that you answer Yes or No to - that's it. Some of the statements are quite amusing, such as e.g. 'I would rather read a book than go to a party.' Ah yes, that is a quandary I often find myself in.

So it turns out that I am INFJ, which is explained below. For me, this is no real surprise - kind of what I expected. The site gives you specific scores, mine were:

  • Introvert (33%) - moderate preference for Introversion over Extraversion
  • I N tuitive (62%) - distinct preference for Intuition over Sensing
  • Feeling (38%) - moderate preference for Feeling over Thinking
  • Judging (1%) - marginal or no preference for Judging over Perceiving

There are basically 16 different personality types and some ingenious person has mapped them onto the Star Wars characters, and this is why I am Obi-Wan Kenobi.

What a relief, if I had turned out to be Jar Jar Binks, I am not sure what I would have done.

On the Game of Thrones equivalent my character traits align with those of Daenerys Targaryen. I am only on 'A Feast for Crows' so not completely sure this is good or bad yet. (Although I categorically not amassing a freed slave army to launch an attack on anyone.)