Why MBTI Matters and is Worth Learning

Personally for me, I am somewhat obsessed with MBTI because when I started learning about it for real, it changed my perspective of how I saw people and the world. It gave me peace.

Now I knew about MBTI before when I was a teen. I took the test a couple of times and found it fun when I got a few different results. It was like horoscopes to me. Nothing serious, just another fun test to take. So what if I scored INTJ a few times?

It was only years later until I came across it again during the summer of 2015. By this point, I had grown frustrated with the general population. I did not understand why so many people were the way they were. I began festering the seeds of resentment towards others because almost none of them seemed intelligent, competent or shared any of the other values I had.

Then, I came across MBTI and I read about everything to understand people better. It was quite an epiphany. It changed my perspective on people completely, as I began to understand that not everyone necessarily cares about being intelligent or competent. Some people want to respect feelings of others more than they did about being right. Some people want to organize parties and make sure everyone has a good time.

MBTI let me understand that other people have values that are very intrinsic to their nature, and that my values are not necessarily more or less right than theirs. There was also a holistic epiphany, that if everyone had the same values as me, then the world would be very stale.

I respect MBTI because it taught me to respect people for their values, and for the value we all add to the world with our individual strengths and weaknesses. It gave me a framework to understand why people do the things they do and to respect them for their strengths rather than their weaknesses.

There is a quote by Aristotle:

‘The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.’

MBTI helped me understand the meaning of synergy and people coming together to create the diversity of this world that we have.