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(Don't) Blame it on the MBTI
Cosmopolitan India
|July - August 2024
Your personality test isn't a get-out-of-jail-free card. Just saying!
Much like Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City's Samantha), I hate Ma to be in a 'situation'.
However, whenever I find myself in one more often than not a selfinflicted mess that's hard to talk my way out of I simply blame it on my MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) personality type. According to the MBTI test, I'm an ISFP (Introverted, Sensing, Feeling, Perceiving), and I feel obligated to mention that so are Lana Del Rey (American singer) and Jungkook (Korean singer). We're supposed to be adventurous, kind, passionate, and unpredictable, among other things. It is almost comforting to have these labels to fall back on, as if they provide an explanation for our quirks. Let's find out if they really do.
This story is from the July - August 2024 edition of Cosmopolitan India.
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