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Reaction Paper on MBTI and CCAI

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was very helpful in giving me a verbal understanding of what kind of a person I am. It highlighted my strengths and weaknesses with an amazing degree of accuracy. Initially, I was doubtful whether it would really be an exercise worth the time and money, but, after seeing the results and analyses I got to know what kind of a person I am from a third-eye perspective. The MBTI came up with the personality type ESTP or Extraverted Sensing with Thinking for me. After reading the description I was surprised to notice the number of aspects that I actually relate with and of what I always thought about myself as a person. It associated me as a “friendly, adaptable realist, unprejudiced, open-minded and tolerant” person with the ability to pull conflicting factions together. After dwelling on it and trying to relate it to past events and to what I thought about myself, I totally agree with the verbal description of my personality.

One aspect that I felt the need to work on was me being labeled as a person who gives lot of value to materialistic possessions. This tendency of mine leads to greater want of things, at times which are even beyond my reach. Being spiritually disjoint, I do not believe in the universal truth of life and pursue materialistic desires. Now that I am aware of these tendencies, I will keep them in mind subconsciously and hope that in future they don’t get the better off me.

The Cross Cultural Adaptability Inventory (CCAI), on the other hand gave me an idea about how competent I can be at a workplace consisting of people from different cultures, different countries and different schools of thought. The CCAI measures your competence in four basic areas. (1) Emotional Resilience is the ability to tolerate and cope with people from different cultures and backgrounds, (2) Flexibility/Openness is an indicator of your ability