Taking one of those 16 personalities tests
July 4, 2026.
The first time I heard about the 16 personality types test was in 2020, when my group of friends at the time started taking it. I took it on this famous website called 16personalities—the one where the personality types are divided into groups of four with distinctive colors, so distinctive that back then we’d identify each other by our colors: “Hey! You’re the yellow one,” or “the green one,” and so on.
The first time I took it, I found out I was an ISFP.
Then I took it again because I wasn’t sure about the result, and it came out as INFJ.
Anyway, I spent some time accepting that I was an INFJ, but I didn’t really feel comfortable with the result. So I started digging a little deeper beyond the inaccurate tests and began researching cognitive functions. The first time I heard about these cognitive functions was on the Personality Database website, a site where users discuss the MBTI types of celebrities, fictional characters, and so on. It caught my attention that several users, beyond simply saying whether characters were INTJs because they were quiet or ESFPs because they talked a lot, were discussing more complex issues beyond just being extroverted or introverted—in this case, cognitive functions.
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