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The Flourish Index

All sixteen Myers-Briggs personality types, scored 0-100 across four dimensions of a well-lived life: happiness, health, wealth, and love. Each type is then ranked by its combined total out of 400.

16 types · 4 dimensions · 400 points possible · a thought experiment, not a diagnosis

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01 · The headline

The Ranking

Each bar stacks a type's four dimension scores into its total. Sort by any single dimension to re-order the field. The chosen dimension keeps its color while the others step back.

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02 · Every number

The Score Matrix

The full grid, one blue ramp across all four dimensions. This table is the page's plain-text source of record. Everything the charts show is readable here.

03 · Four podiums

Dimension Leaders

The top five types on each dimension. Different podiums, strikingly different casts.

04 · Small multiples

The Sixteen

Every type's profile at a glance: same four bars, same order, same scale, so the shapes compare honestly.

05 · What the grid says

Observations

Wealth belongs to the strategists

NT (Intuitive-Thinking) and TJ combinations dominate Wealth: INTJ, ENTJ, ESTJ, and ENTP take four of the top five slots. Strategic thinking paired with either extraversion (execution, networking) or judging (structure, discipline) tracks with career and financial outcomes.

Love belongs to the Feeling-Judgers

FJ types lead Love: ENFJ, INFJ, and ESFJ take three of the top four slots, the types classically oriented toward nurturing and maintaining relationships. The interloper at second place: ENTJ, the rare Thinking type on this podium.

Extraversion buys reported happiness

The top of the Happiness column is almost entirely extraverted types and the bottom almost entirely introverted ones, which lines up with psychological research linking extraversion to positive affect.

The grounded stay healthy

The practical, present-focused sensing types ISTP and ISTJ lead Health, plausibly reflecting a hands-on, low-rumination temperament.

The total hides the tradeoffs

INFP finishes last overall (252), dragged down by the lowest Wealth score (48) and modest Happiness and Health, yet it still ranks in the top half for Love (82). A single number compresses tradeoffs it can't fully capture.

Opposites bookend the index

The extremes are near-exact functional opposites: ENTJ (extraverted, thinking, judging) tops the list on Wealth plus Love, while INFP (introverted, feeling, perceiving) closes it: strong on Love, last on Wealth.

06 · Read before quoting

Methodology & Caveats

These scores are illustrative estimates, assembled from common personality-psychology associations and trait stereotypes: extraversion's link to reported life satisfaction, thinking-judging combinations' link to career outcomes, feeling types' link to relationship satisfaction. They are not derived from a longitudinal dataset, and they should be read as a structured thought experiment, not a validated psychometric result.

MBTI itself carries well-documented scientific limitations:

Weak test-retest reliability: in some studies as many as half of retakers land on a different type within weeks.
Dichotomous categories imposed on traits that are more likely normally distributed: a person near the E/I boundary is typed the same as one at the extreme.
No neuroticism dimension, one of the strongest known predictors of mental-health and life-satisfaction outcomes.
Head-to-head comparisons find Big Five instruments roughly twice as predictive of real-life outcomes as MBTI-style tests.

For the scientific view, see Scientific American on personality-test validity. The underlying numbers live in the source document, life_success_scoring.md.