This is a personal timeline log describing how MBTI entered my life in 2022 and gradually shaped my thinking, curiosity, and interactions.
It was a usual day in my 4th semester in my hostel with my hostel mates. It was around 6 to 6:30 PM, and as I was scrolling Instagram, I saw a psychology-based ad: “Find your personality.” I only remember clicking it, and I’m not out of it yet. Yeah, that’s where the MBTI journey started.
I simply took the test on website. It was cool, and finally I got the result: INTJ. Actually, the description and explanation were good, so I asked one of my roommate friends to take it. He got ENFJ.
Then 7:30, it’s dinner time. After returning to the room, I made another roommate take it. He’s ENFP.
Next day, as usual, college. I had given the test link to my closest female friends to take the test. Some even took it. Two got ESFP, one got INFP. Likewise, I don’t know why I was obsessed with that.
That week, when I gave it to all my hostel roommates (8 people), the one thing I noticed is: everyone who got ENFP asked me a question – “Which type is best?” I was like, why only ENFP asked it? Anyway, life was going.
By April 24, I was deep into MBTI. I was learning about other types in detail.
Usually I wake up faster than my roommates, like 5 to 6 AM. Usually I would be scrolling my mobile, but since MBTI, I would go out to the ground for a walk and I would be learning about MBTI, Google searching and YouTube video referrals.
But some of my friends told me this is not necessary, that I should understand a person by talking to them. But that person didn’t know how effective this tool was, because this only boosted my confidence in the future.
I even took the test for like 4 people in my class, and it boosted my confidence.
So I was more obsessed with MBTI. I wanted to access the premium content on mbti. I needed to pay in USD, but my card was a domestic one, so I stopped there.
It was like May month then. Daily I was doing things, college busy.
June came: studies and problems.
But on June 27, when I was watching a video about INTJ, a girl commented, “I’m an INTJ female and I’m proud of it.”
The one great thing is the girl’s display picture in the comment was a picture of space, galaxies. The same pic was my wallpaper during that time. So I was crazy because same type, same liking, same pics – that’s cool.
July month I got the semester holidays. Just 10 days holiday, so I was doing a data science course and I even took MBTI as my sample dashboards. After that 10 days:
August 1, 2022 – some of my roommates vacated, so we were only 5 in the room. It was free, so during that time only I was learning about the cognitive functions.
August 10, 2022 – it was during my lab session. The next person to me was a girl, so I was talking about MBTI and told her to take the test after going home. She’s introverted, and by just talking about basic F vs T, P vs J, I simply told her, “You are an ISTP.”
The following day night, 7:50 PM, she texted me: “Here u go. U were right.”
So after having dinner, I was near the polytechnic hostel building, and I was screaming in joy. A few boys saw me like I’d gone mad.
That girl also told that she is also interested in personality things.
October month, I was searching for friends apps. I found apps like Boo and urMyType, and I was hoping I’d make a friend who is like-minded like me, but it never happened. Nobody replied.
So I even tried Omegle and found people who talk about MBTI, but no one continued it.
That month we had a college trip to Karnataka. After returning from my trip, the next day my grandmother passed away. She had cancer though. After the funerals were over, I even talked about MBTI to my cousins and family. A few encouraged me, a few told me, “Don’t waste your future,”.
Then that month end, one of my female friends told me she’s in love with a person. I told her, “I see, then carry on,” but inside my mind it was hard, because if she goes with that person, I’ll lose her. I don’t love her, I’m her friend only, so I wanted a change.
During that month I was in a course with the ENFJ friend I mentioned earlier, but others were different, so I took the test for all of them. One girl called me are you astrologer?.
Then I texted a person from my high school. She too texted back and she even took the test. She’s INFJ though. She was giving me the small change I expected, so I felt I got a new friend.
Actually, that is the first person who told me the website’s name. I’ll keep this only.
This is the end of 2022.
This log reflects personal experiences and interpretations from 2022. Personality frameworks mentioned are for self-reflection only.