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lawyers are a more diverse group of people,coming from a broaderrange of backgrounds than ever before.Yet despite this socioculturalbreadth,within the the realm of personality lawyers are more alike thanthey are different.Moreover,the most commonly found traits also happen to bethose most ideally suited to the effective practice of law.  \nEvidence for these conclusions comes from a nationwide survey of lawyers’personality styles I conducted last summer.For the survey,3,014 practicingattorneys—allABA members—were asked to complete an instrument called theMyers-Briggs Type Indicator,or MBTI,a widely used measure of the differentpersonality styles found among all individuals.  \nLarry Richard,JD,PhD,a former trial lawyer,is the principal consultant withLawyerBrain LLC,a consulting firm specializing in the legal profession.Dr.Richard,who holds a Ph.D.in psychology,is certified in the MBTI.  \n1940s by Katherine Cook Briggs andIsabel Briggs Myers.Building on CarlJung's theories about normal person-ality differences among people,Briggsand Myers distilled Jungian conceptsinto a simple series of either/or ques-tions designed to indicate people's pre-ferred ways of focusing mental energy,gathering data,making decisions,anddealing with the world around them.  \nFor lawyers,these preferences showup in communication style,researchtechnique,brief writing,office organi-zation and interaction with colleagues.  \nIt is not a clinical test—that is,it doesnot measure whether you are mentallyhealthy.Rather,it is designed prima-  \nmore about themselves,and to understand and appreciatedifferences between themselves and others.It is frequentlyused in business and professional settings where people workin groups and need to deal constructively with differences.Increasingly it is being embraced by the legal profession.  \nIf you take the MBTI,you will receive a scoring profilethat shows your preferences on four scales:  \n1)Extraversion(E)vs.Introversion (I);  \n2)Sensing(S)vs.Intuition(N);  \n3)Thinking(T)vs.Feeling(F);and  \n4)Judging(J)vs.Perceiving(P).  \nEach of these scales represents dichotomous ways of per-forming mental tasks.According to Jung,when perform-ing such a task,each of us is more comfortable with one ofthe two “preferences”described in each scale.Over time,we will more often prefer to use the mental strategy that'scomfortable for us,since it takes less effort,uses less men-tal energy,and feels more natural.This results in habitualpatterns of thinking and behaving.  \nE  \nxtraversion(E)vs.Introversion(I):This scale mea-sures one's comfort with the two psychological  \nworlds we all inhabit—the world outside our own psy-ches,including people,places and events,and the innerworld of thoughts,feelings and sensations.Extraverts pre-fer to focus their awareness and obtain their mental stimu-lation primarily from the world around them,while intro-verts prefer to focus their awareness and obtain their mentalstimulation primarily from within.(Jungian psychologistsretain the original spelling of “extraversion”to distinguishit from the more vernacular “extroversion.”)  \nExtraverts tend to be more gregarious,enjoy being thecenter of attention,and like a lot of action.They also like tothink out loud,and typically have a large network of friends.Introverts,on the other hand,prefer more intimate one-on-one relationships,are typically more reserved,prefer to thinkthrough ideas alone,and usually shy away from excitement.  \nWhile most adults in the United States prefer extraver-sion,the majority of lawyers prefer introversion.The offi-cial user's manual for the MBTI estimates 75 percent of alladults prefer extraversion.My research showed that only43 percent of all lawyers prefer extraversion.See Table 1.The manual also indicates that the 75 percent proportion  \nholds true for both men and women in the population atlarge.In contrast,Ifound that only 41 percent of 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