You have been through a lot in your life. I don't need to have met you to know that to be true. There are a seemingly infinite number of things that have happened to you — decisions you have made, losses experienced, moments of betrayal. These events begin to construct a certain set of natural responses that we have in life. Some of these responses are helpful, some not so much.

This whole assessment is built on thousands of hours of peer-reviewed study, surveys, and focused attention on those responses. The knowledge of these loops we find ourselves in is meant to bring understanding and ultimately, through the grace of God, the ability to better recognize these patterns and achieve healthier relationships.

Three things to note as you begin.

1. You are not a static individual. You are complex and multi-faceted. In discovering some language that puts words to your experiences, you are not bound by those things. Every personality trait has a helpful side and a shadow side. It's not better to be one type of person than another. As scripture tells us in Romans 12, we are all members of a body that Christ has uniquely called and equipped us to be engaged in. It's not better to be outgoing than quiet and introspective — but both types will have different skills and potential pitfalls.
2. This isn't an online guess based on arbitrary trivia. We have all, likely, taken a “Which cast member of Friends would you be?” assessment before — where you tell the app your birthday and your favorite food and it guesses, from a few random data points, the totality of your personality. Take139 is built to synthesize your self-reported answers into digestible concepts and language you can look through. It isn't guessing what you could be — it's summarizing what you have reported. There will certainly be things that you may read that you wouldn't self-ascribe in any obvious way, but it is how you answered the prompts. Sometimes it's helpful to run that by someone close to you, and you will often find it may be truer than you think.
3. This isn't scripture, the Holy Spirit, your local pastor, or a personal counselor — and it's no substitute for any of those things. It's a helpful tool. It isn't a box you must live in or a limit you can't supersede. It's a look into your world through a lens that hopefully brings clarity and sheds light on some truth that we can process.