Learning Style
None of the 3 learning styles have a large difference for me. This means that I don’t remember better in one specific way versus the other. I would agree with this result because sometimes it will be the image of something that makes me remember it. Other times it will be a sound or a memory of how I did something that is retained.
Myers-Briggs Personality Profile
I was in the second grade when I read the book Stone Fox. I immediately wanted to get some dogs and a dogsled. It took until I was in fifth grade before I finally was able to fulfill this interest. However, by this time I had many new interests. The ENTP personality type is known for a fondness of “toys”, the more sophisticated the better. Often they tend to tire of them and move on to new ones. Bored by routine, ENTP personality types jump from one interest to the next often. Being very good at problem solving and arguing it makes it somewhat easier for them to fulfill their interests
Throughout my life so far I have gone through many interests, of which all still interest me, but there is always the new interest that gains priority over all other interests. I can see in myself how ENTP’s have a fondness for “toys”, and especially the more sophisticated the better. I always had a love for flight, and some of my main interests as a kid reflect that. More importantly though, is how my interests constantly change reflect my ENTP personality. The thought of having a dirt bike never entered my mind until the day I rode one. Immediately that was my newest interest, with the biggest priority. It wasn’t long after I got one that my interest changed to a new “toy”. Next I wanted a snowmobile, and again, after figuring out a way to get that, my interests changed. Next I wanted a car, and as one can see, the “toys” were getting more sophisticated as the interest with priority changed.
How sophisticated the “toy” was often wasn’t initially as important. For example, when I became interested in paintball I went ahead and figured out a way to purchase a paintball gun. Soon I got bored with that one and wanted a better and more sophisticated one, and not long after accomplishing this the interest to play paintball was almost none. The same thing occurred with my interest in remote controlled airplanes.
I say that I had to “figure out” ways to accomplish these interests because at the age I didn’t have any kind of job to go ahead and purchase these toys such as the paintball guns or R/C airplanes. I would see them as a problem and figure out a way to make the money to buy them. Often times the argumentative side and being able to read other people that is common with ENTP types helped me. Being able to convince my parents to co-sign my first loan took a lot of manipulative arguing. These personality traits are still recognizable in me now but on a larger scale since being old enough to have a regular job.
I often have thought that this was just me. Apparently though, these are a few of the traits that are common with all ENTP personality types. I was amazed at how well I could connect the descriptions of my personality type to my actual life. Upon writing about it I realized even how each characteristic linked into another, all playing a role in my history.