Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Online Personality Test - Pathway to Self-Discovery

More and more people prefer to complete an online personality test instead of going to a psychologist. New ways of testing are much more efficient compared to face to face on a paper type of testing. Plenty of visuals and graphs tailored on your personality that cannot but expand your awareness of how you really are. Answering a couple of questions plus a few clicks is what it takes these days in order for you to get a full profile of your temperament.
My personal road on studying human behavior began a few years ago when I got my hands on a book written by Carl Jung. Soon after I got more books and devoured them in a couple of days. Needless to say that I got very intrigued by Jung's theory of describing personalities and it offered me a tool to understand myself and others better. I'm an avid internet user and I'm pretty familiar with new technologies and the fact that you can find about anything but I was very presently surprised to see how accurate some online tests are, because my initial prejudice was that: "well it's an online test, it's too generic". I was so wrong to think that because by providing exact answers to the questions, you will get exacts meanings about yourself.
I find all this extremely fascinating mainly because what an online personality test offered was an answer to my questions about why some people are the way they are, why they seem to get along naturally with others and never seem to get along with somebody else. I just couldn't understand it. So I figured that it has to be something that is common, some generic traits that are shared by all people around the world, and some qualities that you are born with. It's called a temperament or a personality. People use these 2 terms interchangeably but in fact they have slightly different meanings. The traits that we are born with are composed in our temperament. These traits will never change but merely accentuate or minimize. The traits that we acquire during out life time are composed in our personality and they can be changed or eve completely eliminated. Traits like impulsiveness, holding things in yourself, natural enthusiasm are all temperamental traits and you are born with them. Traits like democrat or talking loud are acquired during life time and are all personality traits. Universally, English people have chosen that in conversations these 2 words to be equal. I can't but conform to the general attitude.
You have plenty of choices if you want to take an online test. You can choose from a Myers Briggs personality test, big 5 personality test, career personality test and many others. You can also chose from a paid test or a free test. You will have to complete a lot of free tests in order to obtain an accurate image of your personality, not just one and you will also have to read a lot about what each test result means. I personally had to take around 15 different tests and read hundreds of pages and articles in order to match what a paid test gave me. That is the reason why most of us have to get a professional online personality test in order to get a complete and correct image of ourselves.

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