Myers-Briggs or Keirsey Temperment Sorter

[theseed]

Has anybody taken the Myers-Briggs or the Keirsey Temperment Sorter?
What was your score? Mine is INFP

[TuckEverlasting]

Some of us did it already here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43982&). I'm an ISTJ.

[themuzicman]

I'm usually on the border between Guardian (ISTJ) and Idealist (INTJ)

[spiritmech]

Infp :)

[learning]

Here's a link to prayers for myers-briggs types :)

http://soli.inav.net/~catalyst/Humor/mbprayer.htm

I just did the test real quick, and I'm an INFP, 'Questor' :)

I just went to the prayer for me, and that prayer is so me! ROTFL

"God, help me to finish everything I sta..." LOLOLOL

[Cello]

ESTP or ESFP on a quick online test...

I took this several years ago as part of a big psychological work up as part of the acceptance process for missionary service....think I;ll pull out the old file and see what it said.

[studyhound]

INFJ

:shy:

[Richbee]

ENFP

NF * NF love affairs are too hot.

[Xavier]

INTP/ENTP

I'm an Extroverted Introvert.

[TuckEverlasting]

Here's a link to prayers for myers-briggs types :)

http://soli.inav.net/~catalyst/Humor/mbprayer.htm

I just did the test real quick, and I'm an INFP, 'Questor' :)

I just went to the prayer for me, and that prayer is so me! ROTFL

"God, help me to finish everything I sta..." LOLOLOL

Wow, that is awesome, learning! The ISTJ one is so me, too!

ISTJ: Lord, help me to relax about insignificant details beginning tomorrow at 11:41.23 a.m. EST.

:lol:

[Richbee]

INTP/ENTP

I'm an Extroverted Introvert.

We all have mood swings.

And, indeed, during our day, or monthly we can swing or flucuate.

Ultimately, when we take the test, the best answer is the generally the most dominant state.

We all have our moods, of say, not answering the phone, and letting the voice mail catch it, and we can all show up at a party and in a down mood.

I am most often an Extrovert, so as an example, I generally gain energy from people and as a party goes through an evening, I get more and more energy.

Introverts actually get tired, and in contrast, actually gain energy by being alone.

I dated a Lady INFP - a caring Pediatrician, and we discussed the flip side of I/E.

[kofh2u]

YES!
YES! YES!

Man comes in only a dozen or so varieties.
The MBTT separates us, innately, into a dozen or so different predispositions.
One man's reality is different from another, all debatably "correct" in philosophical discourse.

This is why American mainstream Christianity has twelve different Churches. Our predisposition fuel opinion.

Those whole support Theistic Evolution, (TE), might be the only people ever able to make RATIONAL, non-metaphysical explanation of Genesis 11. And, the MBTT supports this view, as do the jubilant confirmations on this thread. That is, your personal testimonies here, concerning this Jungian Functional Psychology.

Gen. 11:1 And the whole earth (of mankind) was of one language,
saphah, [Hebrew: saphah/ meaning: "boundary"], (of one psychic, archetypal state of mind), and of one (way of thinking, of one manner of) speech (in the content of meaning). [Hebrew: dabar/ means: "content of what is bound"]).

Gen. 11:2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that, (these early forms of Homo sapiens), they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

Gen. 11:3 And they, (these early forms of Homo sapiens), said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick forstone, and slime had they for mortar.

Gen. 11:4 And they, (these early forms of Homo sapiens), said, Go to, let us build us a city (of Conscious understandings), [iyr, city], (a paradigm of reality), [Hebrew: iyr/ meaning: "a place guarded by awakening"], and a tower, [Hebrew: migdal/meaning: a rostrum, a platform for speaking, a strong place for reasoning by which to understand the world] whose top, (concerning reiligious assumptions), may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, (a memory of our doctrines), [Hebrew: shem/ means: memory], lest we, (this early form of Homo sapiens), be scattered abroad (by the breaking of our psyches into Freudian archetypal pieces: I,E,J,P,F,T,N,S), [Hebrew: puwts/breaking], upon the face of the whole earth.

Gen. 11:5 And the LORD, (the Immanent God within man), came down to see the city (of man's Consciousness), [iyr: city], (their paradigm of His pantheistic reality),
[Hebrew: iyr/ a place guarded by
an awakening], and the tower, [migdal], (their wooden platform cut from the language tree for speaking, a strong place for reasoning by which to understand the world), [Hebrew: migdal/ rostrum], which the children of (this evolving form of) men builded, [banah], (in their thinking), [Hebrew: banah/ meaning: to add to an existing structure and fashion a new object, i.e.; a new paradigm of mythological Ancient Babylonian astrological religion].

Gen. 11:6 And the LORD, (the Immanent God within man), said, Behold, [am: behold], the (evolving) people [Hebrew:am/ means: all the physical ancestors who lived previously], is one (species), and they have all one language, (one psychological, archetypal boundary to their thought), [Hebrew/ saphah: means boundary to way of speaking], and this they begin to do, (to misunderstand the pantheistic world): and now nothing will be restrained from them (even foolishness), which they have imagined to do (to their own detriment).

Gen. 11:7 Go to, let us, (Gen 1:26-7; we pantheistic natural laws that formed these evolving creatures), go down, and there (mix together and mingle), confound, [balal: "mix"], their language, (their psychological, archetypal boundaries of thinking; [saphah: a boundary]), that they may not understand one another’s (psychological language), speech. [saphah: a boundary].

(Note: "speech," interpreted here, is the same Hebrew word as used above for "language," saphah).
{This is an error, or weak choice, in the translation. Saphah is the same word as in 11:1 which was translated as "language;" it means roughly translated, "boundaries of their thoughts as evidenced by the
language universal to them"}

Gen. 11:8 So the LORD scattered, them, (these early forms of Homo sapiens), abroad (by breaking their psyches into Freudian archetypal pieces: I,E,J,P,F,T,N,S), [Hebrew: puwts], from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city, [iyr:city], (their erroneous paradigm of the pantheistic reality), [iyr/ a place guarded by an awakening].

Gen. 11:9 Therefore is the "name," [shem], (or memory) of it called "Babel," (confusion, mental confusion), [Hebrew: babel/confusion]; because the LORD did (then), there (mix together and mingle), "confound," [Hebrew: balal/ mix, mingle], the "language," [saphah], (the psychic, archetypal boundary of their thoughts) of all the (men of this early form of Homo sapiens on the) earth: and from thence did the LORD "scatter," [puwts/ break into pieces], them, (psychologically, these early forms of Homo sapiens), abroad (by
breaking the psyches of these early forms of Homo sapiens into Freudian archetypal pieces: I,E,J,P,F,T,N,S) upon the face of all the earth.

[theseed]

There are 4 main personality types, with 16 subtyptes. (When looking at this personality theory).

[Da Blonde]

Entj

[kofh2u]

There are 4 main personality types, with 16 subtyptes. (When looking at this personality theory).



Yes.
N, Intuition
S, Sensation
F, Feelings
T, Thinking

The "four winds" of our archetypal thinking functions are basic to the reasoning of Myers and Briggs in creating there MBTT system.

They reasoned that combinations of a dominant and auxillary Jungian Archetype would be "favored"
by every individual.

So, based on these four mental facilities, the possible combinations would mathematically permutate into 24 different possible sets.
But, Myers - Briggs assumed that certain combos seemed prohibited.
One either favored N or S, or T but not F.

This would have been very compatible with other psychological systems without such an assumption. In particular, the Luscher Functional Psychology uses twenty-four combos.

Luscher Functional Psychology is widely used in Germany, and throughout the EU in fact.
Certain commercial Industries have found Luscher's work applicable on a wide sociological basis. Volkswagon, for instance, and many household furnishing companies use Luscher to predict mood of consumers in order to estimate color preferences for cars and appliances and such.

Luscher gets twelve different possible perceptions/attitudinal postures as the inventory of types available to humans, genetically. Each of these has another side to it. It is what they call the Janus Syndrome, referring to the two-faced ancient mythological God.

One side is the person who is presented to us, while the other, inner person is hidden. In Max Luscher's Functional Psychology there are only (12) types, but twenty-four possible different perspectives are offered to the community.

IMO Luscher has the correct system, because Myers and Briggs made an arbitrary and, I believe, unfounded "assumption" that N and S can never be found in the same type. That is, there is no ESNP for instance. If that postulate is not correct, then MBTT reduces to Luscher's MLCT.

I have an email Luscher Color Preference Test available in anyone wishes to "take" the "test."

kofh@gis.net

Rev. 4:4 And round about the throne, (the Cerebrum), were four and twenty seats, (twelve paired Cranial Nerves): and upon the seats, (these nerves), I saw four andtwenty elders, (the 24 cranial nerves) sitting, clothed in (nerve sheaths of) white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold, (the symbol of spiritual enlightenment).

[Barbell]

ENFP - yep, that's me not only that but a champion! (whatever that means)
We make up 3 percent of the world's population...that could be why I always feel like a weird duck! Then champions make up 1 percent. This makes me a weirder duck among weirdo ducks.

[theseed]

Idealists are NF's

[tiffanyh]

ENFP ... and those prayers linked above were funny. I think my signature line should read "look, a bird!" because it's sooo true.

[Solly]

INTJ. Don't stand on ceremony, just bow low.

"Lord, keep me open to others' ideas, WRONG though they may be."

[Zeluvia]

ISTP... what am I doing here? = p

[Abigail]

I am ISTP - Engineer - 5.4% or population

This is the ISTP prayer 'ISTP: God, help me to consider people's feelings, even if most of them ARE hypersensitive'

[Richbee]

I am ISTP - Engineer - 5.4% or population

This is the ISTP prayer 'ISTP: God, help me to consider people's feelings, even if most of them ARE hypersensitive'

I am an ENFP, and here is my prayer for you.

Dear Jesus replace the stone mental constructs inside Abigail, and give her a new heart!

1 Cor. 13

In my book, 16 Ways to Lover your Lover, the advice for the Thinker is spot on.

:haha:

When making love remember that your partner is a human being.

:outtie:

Ooops, gotta GOOOOOooooooo!

[gryphon]

I am ISTP - Engineer - 5.4% or population

This is the ISTP prayer 'ISTP: God, help me to consider people's feelings, even if most of them ARE hypersensitive'ROFL! I'm an ISTP and this certainly describes me.

[Taran Wanderer]

I'm an INFJ.

"Lord, help me not be a perfectionist. (Did I spell that correctly?)"

And I proofread things for a living!

[Solly]

Introverted (I) 58.62% Extroverted (E) 41.38%
Intuitive (N) 51.72% Sensing (S) 48.28%
Thinking (T) 65.63% Feeling (F) 34.38%
Judging (J) 54.55% Perceiving (P) 45.45%
INTJ - "Mastermind". Introverted intellectual with a preference for finding certainty. A builder of systems and the applier of theoretical models. 2.1% of total population.

[BeHereNow]

I don't like the Myers Briggs test. I think it's too sheer, easily seen through by people hoping to justify an image of themselves. In addition to that, it asks questions which sometimes may be irrelevant. Like, what if I don't go to parties? How am I to know what my energy level would be?

The MB Test has been criticized also for its ambiguity and similarity to astrology. http://skepdic.com/myersb.html

[theseed]

I think it's too sheer, easily seen through by people hoping to justify an image of themselves

Are you saying that people don't view themselves accurately? That may be true.

In addition to that, it asks questions which sometimes may be irrelevant. Like, what if I don't go to parties? How am I to know what my energy level would be?


Every question is relevant, if you understand the assessment. Both of those questions relate to being extraverted or intraverted. Why do you think the MB is so long? They ask many questions on the same traits. A personality test can't be reliable on a few questions.

The MB Test has been criticized also for its ambiguity and similarity to astrology. http://skepdic.com/myersb.html (http://skepdic.com/myersb.html)

It is also similar to things found it The Bible, should we criticize it for that? Also, Kiersey has developed the work even further. He offers explicit measurable contructs

[theseed]

I thought Engineer is INTP or something like that?

[BeHereNow]

Are you saying that people don't view themselves accurately? That may be true.

Yes, it is difficult to view yourself objectively, or as others view you. For example, think about how the actor Eugene Levy often plays characters that would think of themselves as funny or witty, but no one else does.

Every question is relevant, if you understand the assessment. Both of those questions relate to being extraverted or intraverted. Why do you think the MB is so long? They ask many questions on the same traits. A personality test can't be reliable on a few questions.

I do understand the assessment, too much so, really. I could answer the questions and give you any personality type you want to see, ya know? It's too easy to figure out.

For one thing, the questions should have more options. To stay with my party example, there should be an option to say, "I don't attend parties". That would more accurately determine introvertedness, imo.

Also, more of the questions should be hard to figure out the purpose of to the average test taker.

It is also similar to things found it The Bible, should we criticize it for that?

I'm not sure what you meant by this, but I do not recommend the Bible for finding out things about your personality.

Also, Kiersey has developed the work even further. He offers explicit measurable contructs

I don't like the test. Sorry. :shrug:

[theseed]

I do understand the assessment, too much so, really. I could answer the questions and give you any personality type you want to see, ya know? It's too easy to figure out.

This doesn't make sense. There is no "wrong" personality on the MB. There is no personality/termperment that should be looked for. Also, why would you deliberately lie on the MB? Why would you not want to know how you perceive yourself?


For one thing, the questions should have more options. To stay with my party example, there should be an option to say, "I don't attend parties". That would more accurately determine introvertedness, imo.

When you have lots of test items, you don't need alots of options to chose from. True, one test item doesn ot mean anything, it is the sample of all of them that matters.

Also, more of the questions should be hard to figure out the purpose of to the average test taker.

If the questions are too hard, then most people won't understand the test. Also, there are test for social desirability, if that is what you are thinking of.


I don't like the test. Sorry.

What psychological tests, if any, do you like?

[BeHereNow]

This doesn't make sense. There is no "wrong" personality on the MB. There is no personality/termperment that should be looked for. Also, why would you deliberately lie on the MB? Why would you not want to know how you perceive yourself?

People do all sorts of things to project and affirm a desired self-image. This includes believing that they are the life of a party, when maybe they aren't. Or believing that they love to be around people. Not everyone that takes these tests is mentally healthy.

When you have lots of test items, you don't need alots of options to chose from. True, one test item doesn ot mean anything, it is the sample of all of them that matters.

If the questions are too hard, then most people won't understand the test. Also, there are test for social desirability, if that is what you are thinking of.

Won't understand the test? I don't mean "hard" questions, I mean questions that are not as easy to figure out what part of your personality they are measuring, and what result your answer would produce.

What psychological tests, if any, do you like?

This is a link to the only personality test I appreciate. The results are highly accurate.

EDIT: Took out the link because I remembered you can't link to things with "cursing". But the link was to a fake test that no matter the result, it says you are a * idiot, and goes on about how silly personality tests are. It's funny and sardonic. If you want the link, PM me.

[kofh2u]

I don't like the Myers Briggs test. I think it's too sheer, easily seen through by people hoping to justify an image of themselves. In addition to that, it asks questions which sometimes may be irrelevant. Like, what if I don't go to parties? How am I to know what my energy level would be?

The MB Test has been criticized also for its ambiguity and similarity to astrology. http://skepdic.com/myersb.html

1) The MBTT is a tool useful in accessing a general assessment of the personality. It is useful in voational counseling, education, and other applications. It is not really a test.
It ought be used to help people discuss themselves in concrete terminolgy. The MBTT helps teachers, counselors, advisors, and such get to know you more quickly. Answering the questions without second guessing, without guile, and without reservation is merely helping to describe you general disposition and social behavior to people who do not know you and to whom such information will be useful in understanding how you relate or will relate in certain social
environments.

For instance, teachers can better develop lesson prrsentations based on the style of learning indicated by thd MBTT.

2) The idea that modern thought in our secular society has found human DO fall into a set number of types does confirm that the ancients in their classifications about personality types werd right. There are omly @ 12 types of people.

3) This growing understanding about us does not mean astrology as a tool utilizing this fact about us is confirmed as the proper w
y to apply such insight. Perhaps the rationale ought be that we should be more aware of our inner nature, or we might be manipulated by those who understand us better than we understand ourselves.

[BeHereNow]

I know I'm being lazy, but here is a description of something called The Forer Effect (http://skepdic.com/forer.html). I found the link in the original article I linked earlier, and it helped affirm what I had long suspected.

In essence:

"[Psychologist B.R.] Forer gave a personality test to his students, ignored their answers, and gave each student the above evaluation. He asked them to evaluate the evaluation from 0 to 5, with "5" meaning the recipient felt the evaluation was an "excellent" assessment and "4" meaning the assessment was "good." The class average evaluation was 4.26. That was in 1948. The test has been repeated hundreds of time with psychology students and the average is still around 4.2.

"In short, Forer convinced people he could successfully read their character. His accuracy amazed his subjects, though his personality analysis was taken from a newsstand astrology column and was presented to people without regard to their sun sign. The Forer effect seems to explain, in part at least, why so many people think that pseudosciences "work". "

______________________________


I realize a lot of people like the test, and it is fun to take. I'm not trying to argue about its validity or rain on anyone's parade here, I was just stating my opinion. My view of life is that you can learn from anything, so I'm not saying the tests are useless. I enjoy astrology, tarot reading, I-Ching, etc., even though I realize their lack scientific verificability.

[kofh2u]

Behere,
You point out an interesting fact.

The credibility of these type tests rest upon two things. Both are subjective.

1) The person reading his own report is the sole critic concerning the validity of most of the commentary. Essentially, does the person agree and accept the statements made? Does he like it, claim it as rather on target.

2) Associates familiar with, and involved in social interaction with that person also can evaluate the results.

In the second case, educators do agree that personality and these MBTT evaluations specifically, separate students into four distinct groups that inform as regards their Style of Lesson Learning. Kiersey's work with the MBTT is largely accepted as useful in this application.
The students taking the tests do not confirm nor deny the test validity. The teachers are the sole judge in this regard. They determine if such insight helps them educate the particular student, simply by altering their presentation format of the planned lesson.

In the first case, you will find upon reading these test reports that, they are mostly positive feed back.
They are uncritical, portray the disposition in positive light, and cater to usefulness of the personality traits in vocational and educational or social environments.

It has been my experience that you will encounter denials and defenses when utilizing these test results as a basis to insist on behavioral changes.

Using a person's MBTT to negatively critique how they interact with others, or with educational materials, or on the job, that does not meet with the easy acceptance of what you point out.
The study you offer us proves only that people are vain, reaily flattered, and similar enough that they accept complimentary but inaccurate Personality Classifications.

I find they love to hear about themselves in positive terms.
Everyone does have the same twelve personality factors, too. These factors are inherently in a heirarchy of ordered Dominance and Recessiveness.

When we pick a few of these catagories to focus on, though perhaps not dominant in that person's Personality, they DO experience behaviors therein to which they can/do relate. They will engage you concerning their perception of themselves in that particular trait.

What I am saying is that the opinion of the subject doesn't matter. Doesn't matter in either case. Whether people affirm or deny the results presented to them, and whether or not those results actually are phoney or a true test result. Their subjective opinion of the test validity is immaterial.

Are they outgoing? Are they introverted, quiet, retiring, etc. We all use informal "personality testing" with one another. We just haven't formalized our own methods. MBTT has.

What does seem true is that they ALL agree that we live among people who are both different in personality, and yet classifiable. We are no so diverse as to preclude Classification. The question is, are the really zTwelve Tribes of Personality? It essentially will always be a matter of faith. Do you believe it?

"Joan is like this," two people might say to one another. They will develop their own classification of "Joan" without any logical or organized examination of the observable behavior. But, in essence, they do admit de facto to a validity for examining the characteristics of personality in a formal and well devised methodological inventory of traits.

[D. Medvedev Fan]

I am almost always an F. Everything else of more variable.

[rightlyso]

enfp

personality tests are fun :teeth:

[Ben Franklin]

INFP - I'm a mess...! :blush: Actually, I like "Please Understand Me", because it recognizes that people do hold specific (?) psychological traits. Now, if we can only pin down the root cause of these traits (parents, stellar influence). Did you know that Japanese generally feel that personality depends on blood type...? :tongue:

[David Hayward]

INTP

Introverted (I) 75.76% Extroverted (E) 24.24%
Intuitive (N) 57.14% Sensing (S) 42.86%
Thinking (T) 56.67% Feeling (F) 43.33%
Perceiving (P) 58.33% Judging (J) 41.67%


INTP - "Architect". Greatest precision in thought and language. Can readily discern contradictions and inconsistencies. The world exists primarily to be understood. 3.3% of total population.

[VFarris01]

Introverted (I) 67.74% Extroverted (E) 32.26%
Sensing (S) 50% Intuitive (N) 50%
Thinking (T) 64.71% Feeling (F) 35.29%
Perceiving (P) 58.33% Judging (J) 41.67%

ISTP - "Engineer". Values freedom of action and following interests and impulses. Independent, concise in speech, master of tools. 5.4% of total population.

This is the new ISTP prayer 'ISTP: God, help me to consider people's feelings, even if most of them ARE hypersensitive and HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO clue as to what they are talking about.'

With a tie between S & I

Second test...


Introverted (I) 70% Extroverted (E) 30%
Sensing (S) 55.26% Intuitive (N) 44.74%
Thinking (T) 70% Feeling (F) 30%
Perceiving (P) 50% Judging (J) 50%

ISTJ - "Trustee". Decisiveness in practical affairs. Guardian of time- honored institutions. Dependable. 11.6% of total population.

With a tie between P & J

[spiritmech]

Introverted (I) 67.74% Extroverted (E) 32.26%
Sensing (S) 50% Intuitive (N) 50%
Thinking (T) 64.71% Feeling (F) 35.29%
Perceiving (P) 58.33% Judging (J) 41.67%

ISTP - "Engineer". Values freedom of action and following interests and impulses. Independent, concise in speech, master of tools. 5.4% of total population.

This is the new ISTP prayer 'ISTP: God, help me to consider people's feelings, even if most of them ARE hypersensitive and HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO clue as to what they are talking about.'


I think that fits you quite well, VF. It makes it impossible to debate with you, (lol) but ohwell. :grin:
sm

[VFarris01]

I think that fits you quite well, VF. It makes it impossible to debate with you, (lol) but ohwell. :grin:
smIt must be the reason I prefer discussions. Interestingly, I am an (industrial) engineer.

[SteveF]

Extroverted (E) 54.84% Introverted (I) 45.16%
Sensing (S) 63.33% Intuitive (N) 36.67%
Thinking (T) 61.29% Feeling (F) 38.71%
Judging (J) 56.25% Perceiving (P) 43.75%

ESTJ

"Administrator". Much in touch with the external environment. Very responsible. Pillar of strength. 8.7% of total population.

Yay me!

[spiritmech]

It must be the reason I prefer discussions. Interestingly, I am an (industrial) engineer.

I'm a software engineer. Which means: I'm not really an engineer at all. Or if I am, I'm the worst kind of engineer of all.
sm

[VFarris01]

I'm a software engineer. Which means: I'm not really an engineer at all. Or if I am, I'm the worst kind of engineer of all.
smSeems we are both I.E.s (Imaginary Engineers) lol.

[silasjones]

Has anybody taken the Myers-Briggs or the Keirsey Temperment Sorter?
What was your score? Mine is INFP

INFJ, just a step away.
Counselor Idealist. :smile:

[Adam]

ESTJ
"Administrator". Much in touch with the external environment. Very responsible. Pillar of strength. 8.7% of total population.
Yay me!

Ten years ago they called ISTJ the "Administrator". But you are barely on the "E" side, maybe they say now that a virtual tie goes to the ISTJ type.
ESTJ I was told is the "Boss" type. There are lots of ESTJ people, so there is an excess of people launching small businesses and failing. You would enjoy bossing people, but you wouldn't enjoy going belly-up from not resisting the urge to start you own small business. The failure rate is something like 85%.
Note: there are more than 8.7% ESTJ. You probably picked the figure for ISTJ.
Adam

[candistyx]

INFP or INTP depending on my state of mind.

[Augusta]

The Myers-Briggs test swept through our workplace several years ago -- it was a huge fad. Everybody was tested and encouraged to attend temperament workshops.

Two take-aways I remember to this day:

1) I am INTJ.

2) I have a difficult time with the ESTP type (real-life examples, not just the type description). It has something to do with their being "performers" and putting on a show. Can't remember all the details.

After attending a couple of workshops, several of us were able to predict which of the 16 types our co-workers would test in advance of their taking the test.

I found the concepts helpful in better understanding myself and my co-workers.

[GhostDog101]

I'm a INFJ something I didn't know about myself