subject: Can Your Myers-Briggs Type Change? [print this page] So why is this significant? For one, you may natural preferences (of innate tendencies) that are not fully utilized or have been suppressed that can be tapped into now which can bring about a more fully functioning self. Or, you may have facets of your personality that you would like to modify so that you don't fall into the same bad patterns time and time again. The elegance of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator instruments is that it is a dynamic system that acknowledges and encourages an individual to change as a part of healthy type development (even as one'sbasic type theoretically does not change). There is emerging evidence from the neuroplasticity studies that either the environment or deliberate intention can indeed bring about these changes. As a life coach, this is very good news indeed!