INFJs sometimes...
A. Have strange eating habits.
B. Are stubborn.
C. Tend to trip alot.
1. Like to do things their own way even when it might be an inconvenience.
2. Become overly self conscious and worry compulsively about what others are thinking about them.
3. Are terrified of looking stupid or incompetent.
4. Do things in a tedious way out of fear of making a mistake.
5. Dismiss an idea before getting all the facts.
6. Be overly idealistic when they should be realistic and be overly cynical when they should be optimistic.
7. Have an inflated sense of self importance.
8. Procrastinate.
9. Resist doing something just because others want them to do it.
10. Obsessively fear being controlled by others.
D. Tend to be freedom fighters.
A. I will go through phases where I eat the same thing everyday for the same meal for weeks, then not eat it again for years. I'm also very fussy about what I won't eat until I get an intuition to try something new, at which point it becomes my favorite meal for a few weeks.
B. Stubborn is too weak of a word. I am intractable.
C. I tripped a lot when I was younger, but always managed to catch my footing before I actually fell, even on the ice. I often joked that I was the world's most graceful klutz. I would constantly drop or knock over things, but catch them before they hit the ground. I didn't pay a lot of attention to my surroundings, but had the reflexes to get away with it. Now that I'm older, I move slower and pay more attention to my surroundings. I don't create my own accidents nearly as often, and usually catch people or the things that they drop or knock over. I've still got that Ni spidey sense and Fe reflexes.
1. I
insist upon doing things my own way, and get quite bent out of shape when I cant. My way is usually a much better way, and if it isn't, I need to experiment so I can understand it better.
2. I am more inclined to worry if people like me, or if I've done something to make people not like me. I probably ask people what they think about me far more than I should.
3. I have no fear of this that I know of (happens too often to bother worrying about), but
love to look cool and extremely competent, and have been known to go out of my way to appear so by secretly practicing a skill or task for days.
4. If I don't feel especially competent at something or there is a great risk involved, I will do it the tedious way to make sure it gets done right. Usually, at some point, a better way just hits me in the middle of it.
5. Why get all the facts when you have the answer? Sheesh. Hehe. You gotta love Ni.
6. I couldn't word this better. However, I'm usually proven right when I pick an 'unrealistic' extreme. They can't be too unrealistic if they are the truth, can they? However, I could
really do a better job of not polarizing my feelings on the subject, and especially do a better job of not vehemently pouring them on the people around me who are trying to stay balanced toward the issue.
7. I feel that my inflated sense of self importance is at the proper air pressure. I'm the only person I know who is always right, the voice of morality and reason, empathy and compassion, wisdom and insight. If I wasn't constantly saving the world around me, can you imagine how terrible things would be? Oh wait. They get along just fine without me... though when I show back up they're seldom in as good a state as when I left.
8. I'm procrastinating now!
9. Only if the motivation is to control me. If someone genuinely needs me to do something, I'm more than helpful.
10. I think I trust people, as well as my ability to see through people, too much to fear being controlled. I always see it coming, and either deflect it gracefully, or directly confront them if they make me unable to deflect.
D. I do my fair share of standing up for justice, even at risk of great personal harm, especially for those who are victims of deliberate wrong doing. However, the desire to be an advocate for the less fortunate is more of an INFP trait. INFPs and ENFPs seem to have a strange ability to overlook personal accountability. More often than not, I've seen them get mired in a quest to help people that won't help themselves. I'll fight to the end against injustice, but I won't fight for someone's right to continue to do the wrong thing. I'll help anyone who sincerely seeks my help, but I won't force it on people, and certainly won't waste my time on people who don't want it. Someone has to express a need for me to help them. For example, I've broken up a fight between complete strangers when someone was getting beat up and clearly not fighting back, but I wouldn't break up a fight between strangers who were actively attacking each other. As another example, I volunteer at the literacy council and believe in free educational access for anyone who wants it, but I won't stand up for compensations for people who refuse to seek education. To me, it is just as much of an injustice to expect others to take care of you (unless you are disabled) when you are unwilling to take care of yourself as it is to deny someone help when they sincerely need it to become self sufficicent and eventually help others.
It's funny, people tell me I'm such a graceful point dancer, but in person I'm always tripping and bumping into things Anyone else like this?
