Or a "melange" as they say, instead of one?
I've been wondering for a while how to maneuver the INFJ typology. Since typing can encourage stereotyping or lead to the enactment of the self-fulfilling prophecy, I'm wondering how accurate it is to keep to this idea that we are all just or need to identify as one type.
We change and evolve over a period of time, and there are qualities which we can all identify with in various types. Tbh, being stuck in the idea that I'm one type has only encouraged complacency, or lead to the belief that we are so special and so different, encouraging this belief in our specialness, and leading us to question why we aren't recognized as such. It also encourages isolationist tendencies.
This is one of the reasons why I'm not a fan of this idea that anyone should define themselves singularly as one thing or another, since we continuously fill different roles in our lives everyday.
(Although, one big annoyance I have is with the idea that F is inferior to T, and P is inferior to J.) Or that they are mutually exclusive for that matter. I strongly disagree with the belief that you need to be one or the other. Why can't you identify with both?
On average I feel myself a cross between an INFP and an INTJ, which makes sense when I compare both typologies.
So, do you feel as though you may be a mix of types rather than just one? Which ones?
I've been wondering for a while how to maneuver the INFJ typology. Since typing can encourage stereotyping or lead to the enactment of the self-fulfilling prophecy, I'm wondering how accurate it is to keep to this idea that we are all just or need to identify as one type.
We change and evolve over a period of time, and there are qualities which we can all identify with in various types. Tbh, being stuck in the idea that I'm one type has only encouraged complacency, or lead to the belief that we are so special and so different, encouraging this belief in our specialness, and leading us to question why we aren't recognized as such. It also encourages isolationist tendencies.
This is one of the reasons why I'm not a fan of this idea that anyone should define themselves singularly as one thing or another, since we continuously fill different roles in our lives everyday.
(Although, one big annoyance I have is with the idea that F is inferior to T, and P is inferior to J.) Or that they are mutually exclusive for that matter. I strongly disagree with the belief that you need to be one or the other. Why can't you identify with both?
On average I feel myself a cross between an INFP and an INTJ, which makes sense when I compare both typologies.
So, do you feel as though you may be a mix of types rather than just one? Which ones?
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