Sometimes I like to look through old posts to see what was going on and where my head was. Between LiveJournal and this blog, I’ve had some space up online for five and a half years or so now. And now that I’ve restored my LiveJournal this past year (as I discussed in Reflecting on Recovery) it’s a lot easier to look at old postings.
So I’m looking through my posts from January 2007 and it’s an interesting read. I was going through some changes in my personal life and at work and going through one of my retrenchment phases where I purge people and pull back (kind of like what I’m coming out of once again now). But perhaps most interestingly, I see that I took a quiz that showed my type as an ENFP for the first time which I titled “Hmm….changing types?“. Very interesting how that was presaging some more discovery and learning that I would go through these past three years.
Most interestingly, though, the fact that the quiz in question is about love styles means that I answered the questions as I was ultimately told to answer MBTI questions: answer as yourself at home, not as you are at work.
It reinforces my belief that my testing in the past as an ISTJ, the exact opposite type in fact, reflected the outer persona I developed to protect myself and to cope with school and later work.
Interesting bit of personal archaeology.
