ISFP Helpline- The way of the Sensor

Let me the forum's resident ISFP help you understand the secretive creatures known as ISFPs. So ask anything you'd like to know, I can also try and help you understand your oppressive Sensor overloads a wee bit better.

First of all an ISFP type description I quite like:

Fire away.​

 

I relate to that word so much more than leader of follower.

 

I don't mind rules as long as I can see reason to them, "that's just how we do things/have always done them" doesn't usually cut it for me.

Yeah, we tend to take the values of those close to us as our own, which can be confusing particularly when they conflict. I had an ISFJ mother and I can relate that, these days I still have a conflict between an SJ like need for security/structure and an SP need for freedom.

 

It depends, focusing on what?

 

We have tremendous focus when it comes to something we're interested in, we will become completely absorbed by it. When I'm really into something I can lose hours that feel like minutes. We're just not really cut out for school, we see most of it as just regurgitation of facts and playing by the rules. What we need is to get our hands on something, that's how we learn best, practical uses, tactile experience, that all helps. Also school doesn't allow us the freedom that we thrive in, I found university was a much better fit for my learning style as I could come and go as I pleased and could learn whatever I want, however I want. I was a much more successful university student than high school student.

Of course, we are most alive when following our impulses.

 

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