My Quick and Easy Way to Discover Anyone’s MBTI!

With so many personality types it can be daunting to try and figure out your own MBTI. Figuring out someone else’s can be even harder! Tests can be time-consuming and not everyone may want to take one. No need to worry! I have a quick and easy method of typing anyone, including yourself.

If you’ve checked out my Communication Styles page, you will notice that the 4 styles can each be subdivided 4 ways, making 16 categories. Noticing that there are 16 Myers-Briggs Types, I set out to see if they matched, and they did! Both Communication Styles and MBTI are grounded in similar theories, and other researchers have found how they coincide as well.

I created a chart plotting the Myers-Briggs Types with the Communication Styles and I discovered some cool things! The first is a very easy and quick method for typing anyone. It only requires two primary questions.

Question 1: Is this person more emotional or logic-based? Meaning, do they lean more into their feelings or their logic?

Question 2: Is this person more assertive or passive? An easy way to answer this question is are they the kind of person who will stop a waiter at a restaurant to speak up about something?

Once you have the answer to these questions, you can place them into one of the communication styles below.

More feeling types (F) will end up on the bottom of the chart as either Amiables or Expressives. Logical types (T) are on the top as either Analyticals or Drivers.

Assertive types (E) are Drivers or Expressives, and Passive types (I) are Analyticals and Amiables.

After answering the two questions, you should have 1 Communication Style leaving you with 4 types. See, we already narrowed down 16 types to 4!

At this point, it requires a little bit of investigation and analysis. You can start by answering the same two questions again but only for the 4 types you’ve ended up with. For example:

If someone is passive and more emotion-based, they’ll most likely be an Amiable. If you know they are very passive, they are probably an INFP or ISFJ. If you know they are very in touch with their feelings, they are probably an ISFJ or ISFP. This concept can be applied to anywhere on the chart.

For the people you are more unsure about, they might be in the middle: ISTP, ESTJ, INFJ, ENFP. For these types, they are more likely to act circumstantial based on the situation or environment they are in.

If you are still unsure, my next go-to is to take the 4 types I’ve narrowed down and head over to the 16 Personalities website to explore the strengths and weaknesses of those types. Usually when I’m typing someone I’ve generally narrowed it down to 3 or 2, so this extra step doesn’t take very long.

Typing yourself or others is a process, but can become a quick one once you have some basic familiarity with the Communication Styles and MBTI. Typing is not a precise science and there is room for uncertainty. The best purpose for typing anyone is to simply gain a better understanding of them. Since a lot of the types have similarities, simply using this process and getting in the ballpark of someone’s personality type can be useful.

I hope this method helps!