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This last week I stumbled upon a Human Metrics test that I took while I was procrastinating at work… you know, the Meyers-Briggs Jungian Psychology type that is supposed to tell you what you should be doing with your life based on your personality. I thought it sounded really nice to click a YES or NO box on a website and have the computer spit out an analysis that would point me in the right direction in this crazy world. If it were only so easy! Anyways, I’ve since become obsessed with this, and I’ve made some good friends take it and have been amazed at what comes back. I've since also met people who have had to take similiar tests as parts of job interviews and applications to management programs. (if you ever want a job at Enterprise Rent-A-Car, you will thank me)

So… I know that many of you read my blog as a distraction while you should be working/computing/producing or learninghowtocurethehumanracefrominfectiousdiseases (that’s you Emily Wroe! And get back to work!! I feel a sickness coming on) Lets see what you guys get, though. I’ve attached my profile below, which is creepily accurate, even in the bad ways – I’ll admit! I’d love to hear what you all get back.Here's the link, when you get your results, go to the "Keirsey temprement sorter" and get your profile.

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

In anticipation,
your favorite “Champion Idealist”

The Champion Idealists are abstract in thought and speech, cooperative in accomplishing their aims, and informative and extraverted when relating with others. For Champions, nothing occurs which does not have some deep ethical significance, and this, coupled with their uncanny sense of the motivations of others, gives them a talent for seeing life as an exciting drama, pregnant with possibilities for both good and evil. This type is found in only about 3 percent of the general population, but they have great influence because of their extraordinary impact on others. Champions are inclined to go everywhere and look into everything that has to do with the advance of good and the retreat of evil in the world. They can't bear to miss out on what is going on around them; they must experience, first hand, all the significant social events that affect our lives. And then they are eager to relate the stories they've uncovered, hoping to disclose the "truth" of people and issues, and to advocate causes. This strong drive to unveil current events can make them tireless in conversing with others, like fountains that bubble and splash, spilling over their own words to get it all out.

Champions consider intense emotional experiences as being vital to a full life, although they can never quite shake the feeling that a part of themselves is split off, uninvolved in the experience. Thus, while they strive for emotional congruency, they often see themselves in some danger of losing touch with their real feelings, which Champions possess in a wide range and variety. In the same vein, Champions strive toward a kind of spontaneous personal authenticity, and this intention always to "be themselves" is usually communicated nonverbally to others, who find it quite attractive. All too often, however, Champions fall short in their efforts to be authentic, and they tend to heap coals of fire on themselves, berating themselves for the slightest self-conscious role-playing.

ENFPs are both "idea"-people and "people"-people, who see everyone and everything as part of an often bizarre cosmic whole. They want to both help (at least, their own definition of "help") and be liked and admired by other people, on both an individual and a humanitarian level. They are interested in new ideas on principle, but ultimately discard most of them for one reason or another. ENFPs often have strong, if unconventional, convictions on various issues related to their Cosmic View. They usually try to use their social skills and contacts to persuade people gently of the rightness of these views; this sometimes results in their neglecting their nearest and dearest while flitting around trying to save the world.