I'm sorry, but I think NFPs are rather characterized by their black and white thinking, whether healthy or unhealthy. It is just something I have observed in the type.
I'd have to disagree, Fi can certainly lead to black/white judgements (just as Fe can) but Ne and dichotomous thinking are practically mutually exclusive. In INFPs especially it's a pretty fundamental aspect of our development that improving our Ne brings it more under our control, which allows us to avoid using it solely to gather evidence that
supports our Fi judgements, and instead allows us to use it to gather information that
informs our judgements.
This is what lets us see things very well from other people's perspectives, as PersonalityPage puts it:
INFPs who have developed their Extraverted iNtuition to the extent that they can perceive the world about them objectively and quickly will find that they enjoy these very special gifts:
* They will have a great deal of insight into people's characters. They will quickly and thoroughly understand where a person is coming from by assessing their motives and feelings. These well-developed INFP individuals make outstanding psychologists (such as Isabel Briggs Myers herself) and counselors. They might also be great fiction writers, because they're able to develop very complex, real characters.
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http://www.personalitypage.com/INFP_per.html)
A similar situation exists for ENFPs, but for them I think that it's more that by developing their Fi they bring
it under concious control more, and so its judgements become less knee-jerky and more balanced, restrained and refined.
Be careful not to confuse our (*NFPs) natural tendency to have strongly held internal values with an inability to bend, compromise or see things from other people's points of view. We're Feelers just like you Fe types, and as such we too place a lot of value on things like harmony, peaceful conflict resolution and understanding others.
I never suggested that individualism is the same as dichotomous thinking, nor would it make any sense to do so. I only argued individualism because Miyzaki's films have a characteristic collectivism theme to them. The whole, "we are in it together" concept can be found in several of his films.
Hmm, yeah, I can see that. But there is still that common trend in a lot of his films about doing your own thing no matter the opposition, such as in Kiki's Delivery Service, or Porco Rosso ("A pig's gotta fly.").
Rather than being fact or detail oriented, the films largely move in tune to certain underlying values. Furthermore, the relationships between the characters tend to a driving force behind all the action.
Yeah that's definitely implies NF-ness, but not IMO specifically Fe.
I would say the fact that he has excelled so well in a profession which requires a great deal of extroversion is strong evidence that he is an extrovert, but I will agree that profession alone is not enough to decide or even a particularly good indicator.
IMO
success in a profession is no indication whatsoever of a particular personality type, any type can succeed in any profession, certain types are just less likely to be attracted to certain professions in the first place. Also, Miyazaki didn't set out to become a director, IIRC it's a role he only stepped into because he grew tired of working on other people's projects and wanted to get some of his own ideas out instead.
Furthermore, I disagree that animators are necessarily introverted given the large quantities of teamwork that are required to pull together a project.
Well, you can see for yourself from the career recommendations on the various description websites that animator comes up overwhelmingly more often for intraverts than for extraverts. Animation
does require a certain amount of teamwork, especially in the planning and finalisation stages, but the
vast bulk of the work itself involves sitting on your own for hours on end drawing stuff, something that in general is much more appealing to an intravert than an extravert.
I think where we can agree is that he seems to be an NF of some sort.
Yes, I dabbled with ISFP as a possibility earlier in the thread but the arguments for him definitely being an iNtuitive have (so far) been very convincing.
