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How to Use Your Personality Type for the Best College Experience Possible!

Everything about college life can be enhanced through knowledge of Myers-Briggs personality type.

How you interact with fellow students, professors, college staff, and all interactions can be maximized so you gain the utmost from you college experience.

Knowledge of Myers-Briggs personality type can help you pick a major and minor course(s) of study.

You can achieve and perform wonderfully in the classroom because each of the 16 personality types has a learning style all their own!

You read, write, study, think, have fun, speak to others, and manage stress in a way that is unique to you because of your Myers-Briggs personality type. Understanding the list of personality traits that are yours can promote success in college and give you confidence in every area of college life.

Choosing Majors and Minors In College

The ”core” of your personality is how you take in information and then make decisions about what you just became aware of. In other words, the two middle letters of your four letter Myers-Briggs personality type will indicate how people usually end up choosing what to study….you college major and minor. For example:

Sampling of Majors/Minors by Type Preference
Sensing Thinking	Sensing Feeling	Intuitive Thinking	Intuitive Feeling
Business/Management	Health Care	Research	Education
Skilled Trades	Community Service	Management	Behavioral Science
Banking/Accounting	Teaching	Physical Science	Art/Music
Law Enforcement	Office Work	Computers	Writing/Journalism
Engineering	Religious Service	Law	Counseling/Psychology

Natural “Learning Style”

In addition your learning style is driven by personality type. Consider the following:

Natural Learning Style by Preference
Extraversion	Introversion
Learn best from studying with others	Learn best by studying alone
Learn best with action	Learn best by reflection
Sensing	Intuition
Learn best with detailed information	Learn best through insight
Great with facts	Go beyond facts with imagination
Thinking	Feeling
Learn best with logic	Learn best through personal values
Learn best through debate/argument	Learn best with support and harmony
Judging	Perceiving
Learn by planning	Learn spontaneously
Need deadlines	Do not “need” deadlines

Writing

All types write and can write well, but they won’t all write in the same way. Knowledge of your preferred writing style can put you light-years ahead in college where you will be doing a lot of writing!

Basic Writing Style Per Preference
Extraversion	Introversion
Will write from experience	Will write from ideas
Sensing	Intuition
Write relying upon facts	Write relying upon concepts
Thinking	Feeling
Will organize writing logically	Will organize personally with feeling
Judging	Perceiving
Will pick narrow subjects	Will pick flexible subjects

Studying

Intuitive types will naturally better understand the concepts to be learned at the cost of missing the specifics and the details. The Sensors will better understand the details and the reality of the subject matter at the potential cost of missing the overarching concepts.

The Judger will more naturally better use the time available for study than the Perceiver. The Perceiver will use time but in a flexible way many time able to study powerfully at the last moment! This is a great skill indeed!

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For a more precise description of how your Myers-Briggs personality type can be used in college link below on your type.

If you don’t know your Myers-Briggs type take the Myers-Briggs test then return to discover the power you can release in your college life.

Link on your personality type here:

ISTJ ISFJ INFJ

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