Finding My Blog Voice
The Myers Briggs Analysis
Thanks to the commenters that have offered suggestions for this blog. If you have additional suggestions, the giveaway runs until May 9th. One suggestion thread is to have more personal stories and to talk about how the financial decisions I’ve made have impacted me. I would agree and have found that I’ve enjoyed both writing and reading the posts that have more personal reflections. Finding my blog voice and writing more authentically is my primary goal for posting for my next 100 posts.
Interestingly, I have found the writing authentically to be particularly challenging. As I had mentioned, right after the launch of this blog, my husband revealed the blog to the father-in-law. This started the gentle, concerned questions over money troubles and finances and made me a bit gun shy to write more about them. Interestingly, in our society, we seem comfortable revealing all kinds of gory details of our private lives, but discussions of money make people uncomfortable. I think I am getting past these reservations and have started to blog more about my own experiences, especially with respect to financial issues and life path decisions, in a very personal voice.
So, I was a bit surprised when I ran the typealyzer diagnostic on my blog (the site seems to be down) recently and it told me that my blog Myers Briggs type is ESTJ. ESTJ’s are detail oriented, organized, and rather mainstream. They tend to be financial planners, consultants or PR people.
While I have no problem with ESTJ’s, that’s not me. I have taken the M-B test several times and clearly come up as an ENFP. ENFP’s are disorganized, spontaneous, and like to be unconventional. Interestingly, one of the least favored careers for ENFPs are things like financial analyst.
Going forward, I am trying to make my personal finance posts a bit less like the personal finance posts that I see on other blogs and more on personal introspection and looking at some of the less than conventional things that I’ve done. I hope that this makes the posts less clinical, and more personal and resonates with at least a handful of readers. In the meantime, please continue with the comments and feedback, we ENFP’s get energy from talking with those around us.
For the test, be aware that people can be fairly well “trained” to give responses that don’t reflect who they really are e.g. an introvert working in sales will start responding with his extrovert persona. ESTJ is a typical American middle-manager position, and so a lot of round pegs will be hammered into that square hole. The best way to find out is to first find out which quadrant: NT, NF, SJ, SP … then determine E-I … and then the final dimension. Just read all the descriptions. I’m INTJ by the way. I don’t know what type my blog is ;-P
ERE, the questions themselves were not that indicative, I was X instead of I or E; and although I am P, I trained myself to operate in a very J like environment. However, I find the full descriptions to be shockingly accurate, which firmly establishes me as ENFP.
I am not surprised you are INTJ, that seems to fit.