While the MBTI provides valuable insights into your core personality preferences by assessing your tendencies across four dimensions — Extraversion-Introversion, Sensing-Intuition, Thinking-Feeling, and Judging-Perceiving—it doesn’t capture the full complexity of how you interact with the world and process your emotions in different contexts. By taking the additional PPPI questions, you can deepen your understanding of your personality by identifying your Planet Phase Personality. This framework builds on your MBTI results, providing a more dynamic and nuanced perspective on how your cognitive, emotional, and social tendencies evolve across different situations.
One key difference in the PTTI is the replacement of the traditional Judging-Perceiving (J-P) dimension with the Convergence-Divergence (C-D) scale. While the Judging–Perceiving (J–P) dimension in traditional models primarily describes how individuals organize and manage tasks in the external world, it tends to overlook developmental and emotional aspects. In contrast, the Convergence–Divergence (C–D) scale offers a more nuanced framework, capturing how people process ideas, emotions, and complexity along a dialectical continuum.
Convergence, whether conscious or unconscious, reflects a focused and structured approach aimed at achieving clarity, resolution, and direction. In contrast, Divergence embodies flexibility, openness, and the intentional exploration of multiple possibilities. However, Divergence can also manifest in unconscious defensive forms, such as avoidance, distraction, or compulsive shifting of attention—especially in individuals with early developmental arrests. Thus, the C–D continuum captures both the adaptive and defensive expressions of how people engage with complexity and uncertainty. This model goes beyond the binary of being merely organized or spontaneous, allowing for a deeper understanding of how individuals engage in both problem-solving and emotional processing. By integrating the C-D scale, the PTTI and PPPI offers a more holistic view of your personality, adding layers of depth to your MBTI results.
