[MENTION=19719]Forever[/MENTION], I'm curious - as a 9 - if you find your results vary much with the same test and/or with different tests. Does mood matter? Or who you've been hanging out with? Or do you find your sense of self fairly stable and easy to access?
I only ask - and not to pick on you, any 9 can chime in here - because of the ideas about 9s like that they can be self-forgetting, merge with others, sees the points of view of others more easily than their own, etc.
I'm curious if that's something you are aware of, especially when taking personality tests.
Thanks.
Sorry for the delay! It's a complex answer as some things stay static for me like factors of intuition or perceiving/judging, and most of the time I'll find myself introverted (although towards the middle) but what can go by mood ironically is my thinking/feeling when I am positive and upbeat or prideful about my work, I tend to think I am a thinker more. On normal days, I see myself as a feeler generally.
Depending on the test who I really admire may change my results a little bit. So early on when I valued top DJ's like Armin Van Buuren I really went with an extroverted approach. When I valued Carl Jung I certainly stayed very fixed in my letters. Now I am valuing people like mija and skrillex and it makes me wonder if I am more of a sensor and a perceiver?
I think a 9 does change often, I find it hard to find an example of my parents because they keep putting me as their "better self" which gives me feelings of confusion on how I should proceed with life. Like my parents have different philosophies on what is supposed to be valuable in my life: my mom says god, health, self-love, and responsibility, while dad will tell me success, stability, innovative is what I should pursue. Then there's me with either high creativity, lots of respect, and doing what little else anyone can do, and the mysterious.
It's a HUGE conflict for me. As I started out in biochemistry and took philosophy concurrently (to do med school), then dropped out of biochem major to go to psychology and philosophy, now it's not even about med school anymore and more towards commercial music, but then I worry too "entertainment" will null my life with purpose. At least a doctor feels that he has done the world or at least his community a huge favor. While I do think music is quite favorable and can pump people up, sometimes people just only want the pump up to only pump up some more. :\ I have a bunch of other concerns that may already further delve outside the necessary bounds of your question lol.
So yes mood matters, but it doesn't change as much as you might assume. I certainly can say, I know myself A LOT more than had I known myself like 2 years ago starting mbti where I was a little more shaky. I would've answered your question a whole lot differently had you asked me when I was a new member on this forum.
That and the test doesn't look any different, since I have no remembrance of how they were previously.
