Yes, you read the title right. With the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or MBTI, your entire personality and its complexities can be boiled down to four letters. If you take it one step further, the entire world can be divided into 16 personality types.

Katherine Cook Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers, sought to do this when Isabel Myers published the MBTI Instrument in 1962. After the bloodbath that was World War II, Briggs and Myers believed that war was avoidable if people could understand each other. If they could identify their “psychology” type, the process would become much easier. However, in the modern-day, it is used to make communication and teamwork easier in the workplace.

Despite science not backing up the Myers-Briggs personality test, the assigned four-letter code does succeed in making general assumptions about your career choice, strengths, weaknesses, parenting style, choice in friends, etc. You see, the test assigns you a letter based on if you are extraverted or introverted, sensing or intuitive, thinking or feeling, judging or perceiving. For example, I am an INTP, so I am introverted, intuitive, feeling, and perceiving.

You can take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator for yourself at https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test.