Breaking Down Myers Briggs: What Is Judging vs. Perceiving?

Andrea Lawrence
7 min readMay 17, 2022
Judging vs. perceiving has to do with how you perceive time and how you prioritize deadlines. Those with a preference for judging prefer things to be tidy, for rules to be followed, and for there to be organization. Perceiving types are more relaxed. | Source: Created using Canva.

According to Myers Briggs, our personalities are configured based on four different spectrums. The last letter of your Myers Briggs personality score comes from the judging and perceiving scale. This can be one of the easier expressions to find in people, partly because it is generally expressed externally.

  • Judging personalities tend to care more about being…

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Andrea Lawrence

Poet, creative writer, loves a bit of satire, food and wine journalist, relationship writer, interior design maven, Midwestern background.