Which type is the 'best' type?
Are you left-handed or right-handed?
Not a question that most of us have to think hard about before answering. If we have two hands, we use both hands, every day, and we can use them pretty well. But, for example, we do each have a preferred hand for writing. We may have a very strong preference for one hand, and rarely use the other. A few of us may be more even in our preferences, and verge on being ambidextrous. Generally speaking, though, we prefer to use one hand for writing, or using a toothbrush, or turning a key in the front door.
It's simply more comfortable and "natural" and less stressful when we use our preferred hand.
There is no "right" or "wrong" hand to use. Most of us reach for things naturally, without stopping to figure out which hand to use. We just reach out. And we say — without feeling bad or in any way "wrong" about it — that we're left-handed or right-handed. We are that way, and we stay that way. We may learn to use our non-preferred hand well. But (short of losing an arm) once a right-hander always a right-hander; once a left-hander, always a left-hander.
It's just the same with psychological type.
There is no wrong type or right type, no good type or bad type, no best type or worst type, no "normal" type and no "abnormal" type.
The best type to be is the type you are.
We all have and use facets of all 16 psychological types every day, but each of us has our preferences. And our individual collection of preferences we call our own psychological type. It becomes a vital influence in how we live our lives.
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