My personality ~ myers/griggs personality test
ESFJ Profile
Value, above all, harmonious human contacts. Best at jobs dealing with people and in situations where needed cooperation can be won by good will. Friendly, tactfull, sympathetic, able almost always to express the feelings appropriate to the moment. Sensitive to praise and criticism, anxios to confrom to all legitmate expectations. Judgment outwardly directed, liking to have things decided and settled. Perserving, conscientious, orderly even in small matters, and inclied to insist that others be the same. Idealistic and loyal, capable of great devotion to a loved person or institution or cause. Thinking-judgement may occasionally help in appreciating and adapting to points made by a thinker, but is never permitted to oppose feeling aims.
The extraverted feeling types radiate warmth and fellowship, and they have a vital need to find corresponding feelings in others and to meet a warm response. They are particualrly warmed by approval and sensitive to indifferences. Much of their pleasure and satisfaction comes not only from others warm feelings but from their own; they enjoy admiring people and so tend to concentrate on a person's most admirable qualities.
They are remarkably able to see value in other people's opinions, and even when the opinions are conflicting, they have faith that harmony can somehow be achieved and they often manage to bring it about. Their intense concentration on other people's viewpoints sometimes makes them lose sight of the value of their own. They think best when talking with people and they enjoy talk.
All their mental processes seem to operate best by contact. Their thougths take shape while being expressed. However, thoughts arising through and during the process of expression often seem lengthy and clumsy to a rapid abstract thinker. There is probably an advantage for lecturers and orators in this blending of thought with speech, but it hinders extraverted feeling types form being brief and businesslike, and it often slows them down on the job. They tend to spend a great deal of time in conferences and committee meetings.
Their well-known idealism works two ways. They try hard to acieve their own ideals, and they idealize those persons and institutions they prize. In both instances, extraverted feeling types are bound to repress and repudiate everything in themselves and in others that conflits with feeling; this proceeding gives rise to a lack of realism wherever feeling is involved. (The extraverted sensing types resemble the extraverted feeling types in their ease and sociability; but when faced by the same cold,inharmonious fact, extraverted feeling denis its existence, and introverted feeling condemns its existence, whereas extraverted sensing accepts its existence and lets it go at that.)
Since the dominant process, feeling is a judging process, these extraverted feeling types naturally prefer the judging attitude. It is not so much that they consciously enjoy settling things, as the extraverted thinkers usually do, but that they greatly like to have things settled, or at least to feel that thigns are settled. They tend to regard the whole world as a place where most of the decisions have already been made. The desirability or undesirability of most varieties of conduct, speech, opinion, and beleif seems clear to them, a priority. They hold these truths to be self-evident. Thus, they are likely to have an imeediate valuation of eveyrhting and an impulse to express it.
To have any validity, these judgements must be must be based on well-developed a pereceptive process. If intution is well developed as the auxiliary process, it will supply insight and understanding. If sensing is well developed as the auxiliary, it will supply first-hand, realistic knowledge of life. Either can furnish genuine grounds for feeling-judgements, but if neither has been cultivated, there are no individual grounds to speak of.
Extraverted feeling types without a balancing auxiliary have, nonetheless, an urgent need to base their feeling-judgements on something. They have no recourse but to adopt the forms of feeling-judgement that the community sanctions as suitable. Accordingly they adapt to the collective community, but their deficit of perception prevents them from adapting to other individuals.
In the absence of adequate perception, the extraverted feeling types are prone to jump to conclusions and to act on assumptions that turn out to be wrong. They are especially likely to be blind to the facts when there is a disagreeable situation or painful criticism. IT is harder for them than for other types to look squarely at things that they wish were not true; actually it is even hard for them to see such things at all. If they fail to face disagreeable facts, they will ignore their problems instead of finding good solutions.
Extraverted Feelings Supported By sensing...
ESFJs tend to be matter of fact and practical, conventional, copiously and factually conversational, and interested in possessing, beautfiul homes, and all the tangible adornments of living. ESFJ;s are primarily concerned with the details of direct experience----their own, and that of their friends and acquaintances, even the experience of strangers whose lives happen to touch theirs.
In a 1965 study, ESFJs were the one type that chose "an opportunity to be of service to others" as the most important feature of the ideal job. They are more attracted to pediatrics than to any other medical specialty, and they are more strongly attracted to it than any other personality type. Their compassion and concernt for physical conditions often take them into health professions, particularly nursing, where they provide warmth and comfort as well a s devoted care. (Together with their counterpart, ISFJ, they had the lowest drop-out rate in a 1964 study of nursing students.)
Even in office jobs their feeling plays a prominent role and they manage to inject an element of sociability into any work they are assigned. OF all the types, they make the best adjustment to routine. They may not care too much what kind of work they do, but they want to be able to talk while they do it, and they want to work in a friendly admospher. A telephone company employee opposed a transfer to another unit, until she was assured that she would be given a farewell party by her old associates and a welcoming party by hew ones. Raised to the level of a social event, the change became acceptable to her feeling.
Value, above all, harmonious human contacts. Best at jobs dealing with people and in situations where needed cooperation can be won by good will. Friendly, tactfull, sympathetic, able almost always to express the feelings appropriate to the moment. Sensitive to praise and criticism, anxios to confrom to all legitmate expectations. Judgment outwardly directed, liking to have things decided and settled. Perserving, conscientious, orderly even in small matters, and inclied to insist that others be the same. Idealistic and loyal, capable of great devotion to a loved person or institution or cause. Thinking-judgement may occasionally help in appreciating and adapting to points made by a thinker, but is never permitted to oppose feeling aims.
The extraverted feeling types radiate warmth and fellowship, and they have a vital need to find corresponding feelings in others and to meet a warm response. They are particualrly warmed by approval and sensitive to indifferences. Much of their pleasure and satisfaction comes not only from others warm feelings but from their own; they enjoy admiring people and so tend to concentrate on a person's most admirable qualities.
They are remarkably able to see value in other people's opinions, and even when the opinions are conflicting, they have faith that harmony can somehow be achieved and they often manage to bring it about. Their intense concentration on other people's viewpoints sometimes makes them lose sight of the value of their own. They think best when talking with people and they enjoy talk.
All their mental processes seem to operate best by contact. Their thougths take shape while being expressed. However, thoughts arising through and during the process of expression often seem lengthy and clumsy to a rapid abstract thinker. There is probably an advantage for lecturers and orators in this blending of thought with speech, but it hinders extraverted feeling types form being brief and businesslike, and it often slows them down on the job. They tend to spend a great deal of time in conferences and committee meetings.
Their well-known idealism works two ways. They try hard to acieve their own ideals, and they idealize those persons and institutions they prize. In both instances, extraverted feeling types are bound to repress and repudiate everything in themselves and in others that conflits with feeling; this proceeding gives rise to a lack of realism wherever feeling is involved. (The extraverted sensing types resemble the extraverted feeling types in their ease and sociability; but when faced by the same cold,inharmonious fact, extraverted feeling denis its existence, and introverted feeling condemns its existence, whereas extraverted sensing accepts its existence and lets it go at that.)
Since the dominant process, feeling is a judging process, these extraverted feeling types naturally prefer the judging attitude. It is not so much that they consciously enjoy settling things, as the extraverted thinkers usually do, but that they greatly like to have things settled, or at least to feel that thigns are settled. They tend to regard the whole world as a place where most of the decisions have already been made. The desirability or undesirability of most varieties of conduct, speech, opinion, and beleif seems clear to them, a priority. They hold these truths to be self-evident. Thus, they are likely to have an imeediate valuation of eveyrhting and an impulse to express it.
To have any validity, these judgements must be must be based on well-developed a pereceptive process. If intution is well developed as the auxiliary process, it will supply insight and understanding. If sensing is well developed as the auxiliary, it will supply first-hand, realistic knowledge of life. Either can furnish genuine grounds for feeling-judgements, but if neither has been cultivated, there are no individual grounds to speak of.
Extraverted feeling types without a balancing auxiliary have, nonetheless, an urgent need to base their feeling-judgements on something. They have no recourse but to adopt the forms of feeling-judgement that the community sanctions as suitable. Accordingly they adapt to the collective community, but their deficit of perception prevents them from adapting to other individuals.
In the absence of adequate perception, the extraverted feeling types are prone to jump to conclusions and to act on assumptions that turn out to be wrong. They are especially likely to be blind to the facts when there is a disagreeable situation or painful criticism. IT is harder for them than for other types to look squarely at things that they wish were not true; actually it is even hard for them to see such things at all. If they fail to face disagreeable facts, they will ignore their problems instead of finding good solutions.
Extraverted Feelings Supported By sensing...
ESFJs tend to be matter of fact and practical, conventional, copiously and factually conversational, and interested in possessing, beautfiul homes, and all the tangible adornments of living. ESFJ;s are primarily concerned with the details of direct experience----their own, and that of their friends and acquaintances, even the experience of strangers whose lives happen to touch theirs.
In a 1965 study, ESFJs were the one type that chose "an opportunity to be of service to others" as the most important feature of the ideal job. They are more attracted to pediatrics than to any other medical specialty, and they are more strongly attracted to it than any other personality type. Their compassion and concernt for physical conditions often take them into health professions, particularly nursing, where they provide warmth and comfort as well a s devoted care. (Together with their counterpart, ISFJ, they had the lowest drop-out rate in a 1964 study of nursing students.)
Even in office jobs their feeling plays a prominent role and they manage to inject an element of sociability into any work they are assigned. OF all the types, they make the best adjustment to routine. They may not care too much what kind of work they do, but they want to be able to talk while they do it, and they want to work in a friendly admospher. A telephone company employee opposed a transfer to another unit, until she was assured that she would be given a farewell party by her old associates and a welcoming party by hew ones. Raised to the level of a social event, the change became acceptable to her feeling.