Sunday, April 24, 2011

Mayers-Briggs evaluation and self-audit

Today we did a short version of Mayers-Briggs test, and I thought about the importance of self-audit in working environment and in life. The Mayers-Briggs test says something about a person's disposition, habit and propensity according to the person's dispositions. I believe is it vital for an individual to understand his/her dispositions and know what they are tend to do in certain situations. I think some situations are neutral in nature meaning they do not have bias toward any disposition, and therefore people with various dispositions all have equal opportunity of succeeding in those situations. However, some situations have characteristics that are advantageous to certain dispositions. For example, when socializing, introverts are less likely to be heard by people and get people's attention than extroverts. Some people would say that introverts have their own ways of getting people to know them and getting people to be on their side, and I agree with that. But I believe since one can understand hiss own dispositions and propensity of actions in situations and realize that some time the propensity is disadvantageous to himself, he should rationally modify his behavior in situations to turn things around. Same situation, in a socializing environment, and introvert could force himself to seize the initiative to talk to people and speak up. It is hard to get out of one's comfort zone but it is worth of the pain. Maybe it is nearly impossible for one to alter his/her innate disposition, but I believe actions of people with certain disposition in certain situations can be learned. And that is when self-audit comes in to play. By self-auditing one can see that what has worked for him and what has not. And by analyzing things that have not gone right for him, he can think of what should work in those situations, memorize it and try to act that way if ever get into similar situations again. Gradually, one can form a "conditioned reflex" so that he would automatically respond to situations in a way that he had trained himself to respond. And in that way actions of dispositions "can be learned".

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