Why I Hate Myers-Briggs

After last week's post you would have thought I was the biggest Myers-Briggs fan ever. I'm here to tell you, "That is incorrect."

Sometimes I am so frustrated with that stupid thing that I never want to hear about it ever again - like it could get sued or something and I'd be happy. 
Well... I don't quite hate it that much... but...

First. The thing is so overrated.

"I finally know me! And you, too!" I'm sorry to break it... but what's so great about knowing yourself??? Seriously... we aren't called to know ourselves.

And if we are being honest... most people into Myers-Briggs aren't in it to get to know another person better. It's just another fandom. Another way we can talk about me and get away with it - and others laugh along!!!!

It's a great way to keep loving me and not the other person. By the way, we aren't even called to understand the other person before loving them. Just love.

Know what else frustrates me?

How people use MB to get away with being a jerk. Like seriously, I don't care if Myers Briggs says you are a sociopath. Get over it. 

A believer of God isn't meant to be stuck in a box, but to grow. To say things like, "Well... I can't connect with people because I'm introverted. I'll just love people at home - introverts unite!" is not the way to be.

God never put a barrier said, "Love people - as long as you get your energy from them."

No - our energy source must be from God. Not ourselves, not people. 

I'm not saying that some of us rejuvenate differently.


I'm saying we're allowing how we feel to determine our actions. 
I'm extroverted - so? That gives me no right to force others to spend 24/7 with me.

I am a J - I like plans. But if God says wait in life... well, I'm just going to have to learn some patience.

I like facts - but sometimes I'm just not going to get them.

I am a leader - but often God is going to tell me, "Follow. Submit. Forget."

And it's going to be hard - because it's against me.

Another thing that frustrates me about MB is that I don't always get the same results - I say I'm ENTJ. But I also get ENFJ, ESTJ, ENTP, ENFP ------ and several times recently I was even an ISFP, a complete opposite from my normal ENTJ result!

Wow. Sometimes I think this whole getting-to-know-me business confuses my mind even more.



*sarcasm in*

Like.... maybe I should try a little harder to know me? Maybe I'm not taking the right test... or answering the questions correctly.... *gasps* maybe I don't know me well enough!!!!
*sarcasm is out*





Is it just me, or are you tired of trying to understand yourself?


I understand me well enough... this is me:

I don't need to know anything else about myself... Condone any more of my faults.

I don't need to be told who I shouldn't be friends with:

God told me to love everyone. He told me to love Him - pursue Him, not me. I'm supposed to grow, not become more set in my ENTJ ways.

Perfection is not being the perfect Myers Briggs type, but loving God and others despite EVERYTHING.


Just so you don't get me wrong... I am not saying give up your MB obsession. I mean, in my last post I confessed that I have a pinterest board devoted solely to MB. 
I still like Myers Briggs. But I don't want to discuss this thing 24/7. And I'm not going to let it tell me who I am or am not. I am me - not ENTJ. I belong to God - not ENTJ tendencies. I am so much more than what Myers Briggs says I should be.
And so should you be, Myers Briggs' fan or not.