FOUNDATIONS OF CAREER DEVELOPMENT
<blockquote>The MBTI identifies four different preferences that affect the ways people develop and act. We’ll discuss them in detail in a moment, but first let’s look at the term “preferences.”
To better understand the concept of preferences, clasp your hands together, noticing which thumb is on top. Then clasp them together again, putting the opposite thumb on top. Most people find that they are most comfortable or prefer to have either the left or right thumb on top. While they can certainly do it the opposite way, it is not as natural or comfortable.
It is the same way with personality preferences. While we can, for example, get and use energy from both ends of the preference continuum, one way feels more natural and comfortable than the other. So the first concept to remember is that:
The MBTI measures our personality preferences–those ways that we naturally and comfortably prefer to handle life. </blockquote>
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