Definitions
Terms & Brief History: What began with an adherence to the Jung/Myers-Briggs personality model, became a furtherance of, and a new set of terms—more neuroscientifically descriptive.
Brain Typing is not a form of conventional psychology. Rather, it's a brain and behavioral science devoted to identifying and understanding inborn traits and skills in people. Those include distinct mental (cognitive), physical (motor), and spatial (visual) characteristics. And, because each BT is most proficient in its unique brain region, people of each BT have similar tendencies in these three areas.
Brain Typing does not specifically measure one’s personality (or psychological bent), though it most certainly offers insight therein. Rather, it provides a “road map” of sorts for understanding what is considered inborn Nature (vs. Nurture).
BT Definitions & Personality Comparisons
Below, is the similar but distinct nomenclature that Brain Types uses to provide a deeper understanding of our inherent designs over traditional Jung-Myers terminology:
Front (F) similar to Extraversion (E): anterior, forepart, energy-expending, external, expressive, broad, many
Back (B) similar to Introversion (I): posterior, rear, energy-conserving, internal, reflective, deep, few
Empirical (E) similar to Sensing (S): observe, experience, literal, concrete, actual, realistic, 5 senses, pragmatic, what is
Conceptual (C) similar to iNtuitive (N): imagine, envision, figurative, abstract, theoretical, idealistic, sixth sense, visionary, what could be
Animate (A) similar to Feeling (F): living, persons, emotion, compassion, encourage, feelings, deductive, subjective, relational
Inanimate (I) similar to Thinking (T): non-living, things, logic, justice, critique, issues, inductive, objective, systematic
Right (R) brain-dominant similar to Perceiving (P): synthetic, holistic, universal, adaptable, multiple, graceful, artistic, spatial adeptness peripherally, etc., pattern-skilled, sufficient solution, welcoming of interruptions, skilled at drawing and sculpting, spatial and visual logic, play-oriented
Left (L) brain-dominant similar to Judging (J): analytic, divisible, local, ordered, sequential, mechanical, detailed, speech-skilled, exact solution, resistant to interruptions, skilled at reading and writing, numerical and verbal logic, work-oriented.
The Numbers
And for simplicity, the 16 types have also been assigned their own numbers (in a meaningful way, as explained in our material).
