Welcome to Willow Tree Training's Type Transformations,
a video series to help you learn more about
yourself and transform your world.
In this video, we will explore one of the
dichotomies of personality type theory.
What do we mean by that?
Well, the definition of a dichotomy is a difference
between two completely opposite ideas or things.
Your personality type is made up of four preferences,
chosen from the four dichotomies of extraversion
or introversion, sensing or intuition, thinking
or feeling, and judging or perceiving.
You have a natural, in-born preference for
one or the other options of the four dichotomies.
So let's explore these preferences, and while
you're watching, see if you can figure out
which one fits you best.
Ready?
Let's go!
The final preference pair in your personality
type is Judging or Perceiving.
But those words can be misleading.
Judging does not mean judgmental, and perceiving
does not mean perceptive.
The terms actually relate to how you live
your daily life.
When Carl Jung first described his type theory,
he called our middle two letters, which are
our sensing or intuition and thinking or feeling,
our “mental functions."
He said that one of those functions is used
in our outer world, so he called it our extraverted
function.
This is what you use in your daily life.
It's what people typically see about you.
Some of us use our judging function, our thinking
or feeling, in our daily lives, and some of
us use our perceiving function, our sensing
or intuition, in our daily lives.
So the mother-daughter team of Katherine Briggs
and Isabel Briggs Myers, who created the four
letter code that make up the Myers-Briggs
Type Indicator, added this last letter just
as a pointer to indicate which of your mental
functions is used in your daily life.
This means that judgers show the world their
decision-making function, thinking or feeling.
So they just tend to be more decisive.
They feel better once a decision has been
made, and they tend to come to conclusions
pretty quickly.
Perceivers, on the other hand, show the world
their information gathering function, their
sensing or intuition.
They prefer to take in information as long
as possible before making a decision, so they
tend to put off making decisions until they
have all the information they need.
Judgers prefer closure and to feel like they
are in control of their lives and schedules.
They like to be organized, make a plan, follow
it through, and get everything done, often
before the deadline.
Perceivers don’t necessarily feel the need
to control their lives.
They prefer to experience life as it happens.
And because they are perpetual information
gatherers, they would rather just make a tentative
plan, because if new information comes in
that indicates they should change course,
they are willing to adapt at the last minute.
Judgers like to separate their lives into
work and play.
They want to get all their work done before
they can relax and go play.
If they try to play and they don’t have
everything done, they will be worried about
all the stuff they should be doing.
Perceivers like to mix work and play.
They feel like they can be more productive
if they are allowed to have fun while they
work.
Probably the biggest difference between judgers
and perceivers is how they view time.
Judgers see time as finite and something to
be managed.
They structure and organize their day, preferring
to stick to their planned schedule.
And if they don’t have a deadline for a
project, they will usually give themselves
a deadline so that they can feel that sense
of accomplishment when they finish.
Perceivers see time as fluid and feel restricted
if they are stuck to a set plan or schedule.
They tend to do most of their work at the
last minute because most of their time is
spent in the information gathering mode, and
they prefer to use all the time they are given.
This gives them a reputation as procrastinators,
but for perceivers, it’s not really procrastination.
They just don’t want to finish something
too soon because there is a danger that they
might have missed something.
And if you don’t give a deadline to a perceiver,
the project might never get completely done
because closure is uncomfortable for them.
They will want to keep fiddling with it, continually
perfecting and improving it.
So are you a judger?
Judgers like to have a sense of control over
their lives and schedules.
They prefer to make a plan and follow it through.
They like the feeling of closure that comes
with making a decision or finishing a task.
And they want to get all their work done before
they play.
Or are you a perceiver?
Perceivers are flexible and spontaneous, preferring
to experience life as it happens.
They find agendas and schedules confining,
and would rather go with the flow.
They like to gather information as long as
possible before coming to closure.
And they can play and work at the same time.
So whether you are a judger or a perceiver,
you have unique strengths and blind spots.
One is not better than the other.
They are both valid ways living your daily
life.
Be sure to watch more of our videos to discover
your other three preferences.
These other preferences are extraversion or
introversion, sensing or intuition, and thinking
or feeling.
And remember, the best way to discover your
personality type is to take the Myers-Briggs
Type Indicator with a certified practitioner
to go over your results.
Visit our web site at www.willowtreetraining.com
for more information about having one of our
certified MBTI practitioners assess your personality
type.
Until next time, keep leading, learning, and
transforming.
