Assignment Four#4: Discovering Your Pesronality and Touchstone

Exercise#1: What is your Touchstone?

Dream: To be an Urban Planner
Touchstone: To make a visible and permanent mark on the world around me
Role Model: I have read about many urban planners but the only one that sticks out right now is Jane Jacobs.
Target: Have a building named after me. I know this seems pretty silly but unless you are John Stroger, you have to be a big deal or have a lot of money to get a building named after you.

Exercise#2

My personality type is ENFJ, also known as "The Givers" and "The Idealists/Teachers".
Strength of preference:
Extroverted=11%
iNtuitive= 88%
Feeling= 25%
Judging= 67%
Popular and sensitive, with outstanding people skills. Externally focused, with real concern for how others think and feel. Usually dislike being alone. They see everything from the human angle, and dislike impersonal analysis. Very effective at managing people issues, and leading group discussions. Interested in serving others, and probably place the needs of others over their own needs.

According to www.keirsey.com, ENFJ's are idealists. They are best suited to be teachers. For a partial description of Keirsey's explanation of the ENFJ (idealist), click here.
The portrait of an ENFJ can be found here.
The personal growth section for ENFJ's can be found here.
For a listing of ideal careers for the ENFJ, click here.
What Joe But had to say about ENFJ's, click here.

I have found that the description of the ENFJ seems to be dead on for me. I just find it troubling that one of those personality tests has nailed me. Didn't think that it would be that easy to put me in a box. I was raised by a giver so I always knew that I was that. I really don't like when people remind me about the things that I have done for them. That is annoying because I don't give to get things in return. However, I believed I was more realistic than idealistic. According to the description, that was not true. Don't know how to process that information. This road to self-discovery will undoubtedly uncover more falsehoods that I have fed to myself.