Hi Tony,
I was looking in the Staying Well section for another topic but was pleasantly surprised to find your thread. Whilst I take all such things with a grain of salt, I do find the Myers Briggs Type Indicator to be an interesting and useful framework (among many to peruse with a critical eye) for self-analysis.
I am an INTP ("Logician" I believe they called it, I tend to use the initials). I've come up as INTJ on occasion in the tests as I sit on the border between the two. For the most part the INTP description is quite accurate (with a few INTJ traits like being decisive and not endlessly procrastinating like the average INTP) so that's the ring I throw my hat in. My partner is an INTJ and there are subtle but definite differences that the MBTI accounts for and helped me understand how we are so alike yet approach some things very differently.
I've also found the personality type descriptions helpful in identifying why I react to certain people the way I do - for instance I gel well with other "intuitive" types and tend to butt heads a lot with "sensing" types (though interestingly my best friend is one of them).
Interesting about your mother in law. I smiled knowingly at that story - I can be similarly distractable (albeit not *quite* that bad). I have the double whammy of a distractable personality type *and* (recently revealed) ADHD. I don't stand a chance!
You mentioned you're a "Mediator". That was ISFP or ISFJ, I think? How have you found the information about it helpful?
Blue.
