Brad's Type

I remember taking an aptitude test when I was younger to help me identify a career path. The test informed me that I would make a great lawyer or business executive because I could walk and chew gum at the same time, or something to that affect. Needless to say, my expectations for the Jung typology test were pretty low. However, after taking the test and analyzing the results, I was impressed by the diagnosis.

I was labeled an ENTJ. Apparently only two percent of the population has this cognitive makeup. People that are ENTJ are great with situational organization. In the Teaching/Learning Styles reading I especially related to the ENTJ’s ability to, according to the author, “Solve new problems, learn new skills hate busy work-like problem why oriented-what does it mean?” (138).

For a few years, I directed the recruiting department of a small therapy management company in New England. There was a lot of cold calling and busy work that I utterly despised, but I was also able to address some on going problems with the company’s new hire process. I don’t know quite how to explain it but I excelled at breaking the problem down and reorganizing the process to the company’s benefit.

I also thought it was interesting in the Writing Process Inventory section of the reading when the author states that, “They may even “write” better by speaking their first drafts into a tape recorder.” (Jensen and DiTiberio, 148). There have been several times in my high school and college careers when I found myself much more productive when I would pace

back and forth with a tape recorder in hand. However, there were few things about my ENTJ status that I found rather disheartening. Although I am a very direct person and I do have strong opinions I consider myself to be an equally good listener and will rarely dominate a conversation. But despite all that I suppose I can take solace in knowing that I share the same learning and writing styles as Napoleon Bonaparte, Hillary Clinton, and the Godfather of all Nerds, Bill Gates.