One of the mishaps of the INFJ kind is dealing with the little things from day to day... either it being grounded and in the moment, or handling details. Here's some common INFJ sensor traps:
When Studying or Doing an Assignment:
Ni's primary urge is to come up with your own personal assessments of what you perceive in the world, and sometimes it might lose relevance to what is actually going on around you. Ni understands concepts from a gestalt perspective, and under stress, INFJs will find while studying for an exam, there will be much focus on memorization and getting trapped into the details. As an INFJ, I am quite guilty of this... I end up focusing too much on minutia because I know it is an inherent weakness of mine. I am terrible at factual recall, and I am lucky that I can remember the specific date that an event happened. Details can be overwhelming for me, and I feel stressed to memorize every single one of them, or to write about every single one of them in a paper. What is best for the INFJ is to synthesize the information... see the causal relationships between the concepts and their own personal examples of each concept. This is a much more natural process for the INFJ to absorb information.
Motor Coordination/ Judgment:
The mishaps of inferior Se can lead us INFJ folk to spend way too much time doing something that requires motor skills and judgment in the here and the now. For instance, while making food and mincing up an onion, I tend to take way too much time focusing on making the right cut to avoid taking off a couple of fingers. I tend to be slow and deliberating in those movements. It's more of my natural inclination to contemplate concepts, so bringing my focus to doing motor skills requires a great deal of energy. Driving is a challenge as well... when I am in the passenger seat, I am fine, but when I am in the driver seat, there's a lot of coordination involved and having to be aware of the physical environment, it can pose a challenge. It takes a TON of concentration and energy input in order to judge where someone is going, distance between my vehicle and the sides of a parking spot, reaction time, and merging into traffic. Knowing that I have a slower reaction time, I tend to compensate for it by leaving adequate distance between me and the vehicle in front of me, and approaching slower at merges, wait for the area to be all clear before proceeding.
Any of the rest of you find yourselves in these situations or similar ones?
When Studying or Doing an Assignment:
Ni's primary urge is to come up with your own personal assessments of what you perceive in the world, and sometimes it might lose relevance to what is actually going on around you. Ni understands concepts from a gestalt perspective, and under stress, INFJs will find while studying for an exam, there will be much focus on memorization and getting trapped into the details. As an INFJ, I am quite guilty of this... I end up focusing too much on minutia because I know it is an inherent weakness of mine. I am terrible at factual recall, and I am lucky that I can remember the specific date that an event happened. Details can be overwhelming for me, and I feel stressed to memorize every single one of them, or to write about every single one of them in a paper. What is best for the INFJ is to synthesize the information... see the causal relationships between the concepts and their own personal examples of each concept. This is a much more natural process for the INFJ to absorb information.
Motor Coordination/ Judgment:
The mishaps of inferior Se can lead us INFJ folk to spend way too much time doing something that requires motor skills and judgment in the here and the now. For instance, while making food and mincing up an onion, I tend to take way too much time focusing on making the right cut to avoid taking off a couple of fingers. I tend to be slow and deliberating in those movements. It's more of my natural inclination to contemplate concepts, so bringing my focus to doing motor skills requires a great deal of energy. Driving is a challenge as well... when I am in the passenger seat, I am fine, but when I am in the driver seat, there's a lot of coordination involved and having to be aware of the physical environment, it can pose a challenge. It takes a TON of concentration and energy input in order to judge where someone is going, distance between my vehicle and the sides of a parking spot, reaction time, and merging into traffic. Knowing that I have a slower reaction time, I tend to compensate for it by leaving adequate distance between me and the vehicle in front of me, and approaching slower at merges, wait for the area to be all clear before proceeding.
Any of the rest of you find yourselves in these situations or similar ones?
