Q1. Which is your most natural energy orientation?
Every person has two faces. One is directed towards the OUTER world of activities, excitements, people, and things. The other is directed inward to the INNER world of thoughts, interests, ideas, and imagination. While these are two different but complementary sides of our nature, most people have an innate preference towards energy from either the OUTER or the INNER world. Thus one of their faces, either the Extraverted (E) or Introverted (I), takes the lead in their personality development and plays a more dominant role in their behavior. Extraverted Characteristics: •Act first, think/reflect later•Feel deprived when cutoff from interaction with the …show more content…
What is your "action orientation" towards the outside world?
All people use both judging (thinking and feeling) and perceiving (sensing and intuition) processes to store information, organize our thoughts, make decisions, take actions and manage our lives. Yet one of these processes (Judging or Perceiving) tends to take the lead in our relationship with the outside world . . . while the other governs our inner world.
A Judging (J) style approaches the outside world WITH A PLAN and is oriented towards organizing one's surroundings, being prepared, making decisions and reaching closure and completion.
A Perceiving (P) style takes the outside world AS IT COMES and is adopting and adapting, flexible, open-ended and receptive to new opportunities and changing game plans. Judging Characteristics:•Plan many of the details in advance before moving into action.•Focus on task-related action; complete meaningful segments before moving on.•Work best and avoid stress when able to keep ahead of deadlines.•Naturally use targets, dates and standard routines to manage life. | Perceiving Characteristics:•Comfortable moving into action without a plan; plan on-the-go.•Like to multitask, have variety, mix work and play.•Naturally tolerant of time pressure; work best close to the deadlines.•Instinctively avoid commitments which interfere with flexibility, freedom and variety