Jung Typology Test

The Jung Typology test was fairly accurate about my personality. I am “Introverted, Sensing, Feeling and Judging”. I think I am a creative writer, but I get stuck trying to figure out what to write. I sometimes tend to look at the world in a different way than other people; at least I’d like to think so. I am a loyal person and believe I have good work ethics, as the test suggests and I hope they carry over into school. I try to do the best I can and sometimes I wear myself out with trying to get school and work done on top of everything else.

Like I said before, I have a hard time getting started. When giving a topic to write on I sometimes think and think and think about it until my brain hurts and my eyes feel like they are going to pop right out of my head. I read a lot of information during the day and with reading that much, one would think I would be able to process it and put it right down on paper but it is not that easy for me. I think being an “introvert” does not help. I am use to keeping to myself so putting a part of me down on paper for others to see takes more thought, time and energy. At the same time being introverted I am more likely to look inside myself than at the outside world. Many people have similar feelings and think fairly alike. Being able to identify myself as a person and what I think and feel allows me to look at things as others would see them.

The Jung Typology test says I am “sensing”, something I do not entirely understand yet. What do I sense? Do I sense the world around me as it moves and changes? Do I sense different people and their constant moving around with their own busy lives, some focused on themselves while others working together like a beehive? Do I sense people’s moods and meaning? What ever it is, I think having a good understanding of people and their habits is good for any writer to have. How can you write about people if you do not understand them? It would be like me trying to write about cars and how they work. It would not work. To understand people I believe you first need to understand yourself, which is not always an easy task.

“Feeling” is another word that could have different meanings. Is it the wind I feel on my arms and cheeks right now? Or the warm touch of the blanket on my legs? Or is it deeper? The feeling one has when a loved one has to go through pain, the happiness one feels at a wedding or the sympathy one has for a stranger who has lost a friend? I think the meaning of this particular “feeling” is more along the lines of the latter. “Feeling” what the other person is going through so you can, in a way, understand. This is helpful to have as a writer because how can you write about something you do not have a feel or an understanding for it?

“Judging” of fact or fiction is important to have not only in writing but in everyday life. I have never thought of myself as “judging”. Thinking about it now, I make judgments everyday. In writing my stories, writing essays, what is right and wrong and more. It is important as a writer to have the ability to judge. The writer can make decisions to make the paper he or she is writing better because revising requires judgment.

In writing this paper and taking the Jung Typology test I believe to have come to know myself better as a person and as a student. Having an understanding of my personality and how I deal with different situations will help in my writing. A good writer is able to look at the world around him or her and be able to perceive what is going on, why it is happening and he or she should be able to look at it from others perspectives.

As an Introverted, Sensing, Feeling and Judging type of person, I feel with practice this could be me.