Sunday, November 30, 2008

Typealyzer

I've just read about the Typealyzer tool. It assesses your general personality type based on the writing style of your blog.

I seem to be an ESFP - A Performer, along with a bunch of other bloggers I submitted for analysis. In fact initially I thought the tool didn't work because everybody was getting the same result. But it does, I do have other types on the blogroll.

So just about everybody I read has been diagnosed as the ESFP - The Performer:
The entertaining and friendly type. They are especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their surroundings with soft fabrics, bright colors and sweet smells. They live in the present moment and don´t like to plan ahead - they are always in risk of exhausting themselves.
The enjoy work that makes them able to help other people in a concrete and visible way. They tend to avoid conflicts and rarely initiate confrontation - qualities that can make it hard for them in management positions.

I also read two doers (a musician from Brooklyn and a journalist from Asia):
ESTP - The Doers: the active and playful type. They are especially attuned to people and things around them and often full of energy, talking, joking and engaging in physical out-door activities.
The Doers are happiest with action-filled work which craves their full attention and focus. They might be very impulsive and more keen on starting something new than following it through. They might have a problem with sitting still or remaining inactive for any period of time.

Then there's an inspirer (a TV presenter from the UK):
ENFP - The Inspirers: the curious and insightful type. They are especially attuned to possibilities that involves peoples potential. They usually have a lot of relations and are very perceptive and often unconventional.
They enjoy working together with people and to make use of their enthusiasm. Lonely work and environments with many distractions make them scattered and often gloomy feeling overwhelmed withdraw further.

And finally, an artist (the longest LTR on my blogroll, Connecticut):
ISFP - The Artists: the gentle and compassionate type. They are especially attuned their inner values and what other people need. They are not friends of many words and tend to take the worries of the world on their shoulders. They tend to follow the path of least resistance and have to look out not to be taken advantage of.
They often prefer working quietly, behind the scene as a part of a team. They tend to value their friends and family above what they do for a living.

2 comments:

travelling, but not in love said...

Quelle surprise - I'm a performer...

I'm drawn to pretty, shiny, colourful things. Not sure we needed a typealyzer to tell us this, but it is good fun nonetheless....

Nico said...

Perhaps it's more fun to scan other people rather than yourself.. I wonder what method they're using, searching for certain words? I am impressed by how their results are quite accurate. I might do some more random scanning - I am curious what other types they list.