Fruiteloop
Newbie
- MBTI
- INFP
I once found an online test that said I was INFJ
I realized that we cannot get any clarity of who a person is simply by asking general questions that have nothing to do with how we relate to ourselves and the world around us. Forced choice methodology is not telling us the actual boundaries. It is only by personal experience of what happens that we can even begin.
INFP is my type because I have deep reactions and attachments that I happen to me emotionally. So Introverted feeling is adverse to bad things and really drawn to appealing things. The difference between it and Extraverted feeling is in the nature of Extraversion. Extraversion takes in whatever it can no matter what it is. Introversion on the other hand accepts or rejects, its discriminatory. Not in a moral way but in preferences.
Going with this model it happens that we can get at core understandings rather than misconceptions about MBTI in the Jungian sense.
You can ask yourself questions then about yourself and others you wish to explore rather than narrow pre-set pairs.
For me I came up with these:
Is a person emotionally reactive and under what circumstances?
Fe will be calm most times but reactive more so by conflict in Ti (introverted thinking)
Does a person look at things more than they contemplate?
Se has greater vision than both Intuitive processes.
(Si is going to have more focused interoception discrimination where Se can adjust to anything practically)
Will a person examine the world around them logically or build their own logical model extensively without outside feedback most of the time?
(Te studies the world more as Ti is going to build a inner structure to which they must make perfect, flaws to it is unrelated to outside contexts but requires logical consistency)
Is the person coming up with leaps in ideas or not?
Intuitive extraverts get all kinds of ideas from everything. A big web of ideas.
Intuitive introverts have them from within, an idea they never had before can be unrelated to anything previously known.
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As far as me being INFP and not INFJ it is in the Te that I can be differentiated in.
I study everything, this does not mean I learn good or am higher in intelligence than others IQ wise. It simply means when I make something the structure can be inconsistent with errors and not thought out that well. I cannot think of everything. Ti would be able to get it right because it sees all angles all approaches focuses on what criteria's are absent. INTP and ISTP do just that. The first has Ne to guild them where the second has Se - both exhaust all options.
Therefore Fi is what I have as a way of feeling good or bad about something. Ideas people places moods. Sometimes its ok sometimes its not.
Third Ne comes in and Fi has its field day: all the pretty colors all the non pretty ones but in ideas. ISFP actually are the ones who have real colors do this.
I feel ideas and ISFP feels colors. I study them with Te - with Si I have the hardest time, I disconnect from my body often yet am aware of it. I can like what happens or not and this sense of emotion I have seeps into me. Unlike ISFJ I cannot pay attention to the inside a long time. I am distracted by ideas studying things and feeling good or bad about them. Si is not memory exactly but memory is tied to emotion and thus the body has attachments to it.
Last to mention is INTJ - Ni can almost see the future because unlike Ne as a web the Te in INTJ plans and organizes in future directions. I happen to have things in my life as organized chaos so its all nonlinear and spread out in different areas as can be seen in how this thread was just from the top of my head being INFP and everything came out this way at once.
I realized that we cannot get any clarity of who a person is simply by asking general questions that have nothing to do with how we relate to ourselves and the world around us. Forced choice methodology is not telling us the actual boundaries. It is only by personal experience of what happens that we can even begin.
INFP is my type because I have deep reactions and attachments that I happen to me emotionally. So Introverted feeling is adverse to bad things and really drawn to appealing things. The difference between it and Extraverted feeling is in the nature of Extraversion. Extraversion takes in whatever it can no matter what it is. Introversion on the other hand accepts or rejects, its discriminatory. Not in a moral way but in preferences.
Going with this model it happens that we can get at core understandings rather than misconceptions about MBTI in the Jungian sense.
You can ask yourself questions then about yourself and others you wish to explore rather than narrow pre-set pairs.
For me I came up with these:
Is a person emotionally reactive and under what circumstances?
Fe will be calm most times but reactive more so by conflict in Ti (introverted thinking)
Does a person look at things more than they contemplate?
Se has greater vision than both Intuitive processes.
(Si is going to have more focused interoception discrimination where Se can adjust to anything practically)
Will a person examine the world around them logically or build their own logical model extensively without outside feedback most of the time?
(Te studies the world more as Ti is going to build a inner structure to which they must make perfect, flaws to it is unrelated to outside contexts but requires logical consistency)
Is the person coming up with leaps in ideas or not?
Intuitive extraverts get all kinds of ideas from everything. A big web of ideas.
Intuitive introverts have them from within, an idea they never had before can be unrelated to anything previously known.
*
As far as me being INFP and not INFJ it is in the Te that I can be differentiated in.
I study everything, this does not mean I learn good or am higher in intelligence than others IQ wise. It simply means when I make something the structure can be inconsistent with errors and not thought out that well. I cannot think of everything. Ti would be able to get it right because it sees all angles all approaches focuses on what criteria's are absent. INTP and ISTP do just that. The first has Ne to guild them where the second has Se - both exhaust all options.
Therefore Fi is what I have as a way of feeling good or bad about something. Ideas people places moods. Sometimes its ok sometimes its not.
Third Ne comes in and Fi has its field day: all the pretty colors all the non pretty ones but in ideas. ISFP actually are the ones who have real colors do this.
I feel ideas and ISFP feels colors. I study them with Te - with Si I have the hardest time, I disconnect from my body often yet am aware of it. I can like what happens or not and this sense of emotion I have seeps into me. Unlike ISFJ I cannot pay attention to the inside a long time. I am distracted by ideas studying things and feeling good or bad about them. Si is not memory exactly but memory is tied to emotion and thus the body has attachments to it.
Last to mention is INTJ - Ni can almost see the future because unlike Ne as a web the Te in INTJ plans and organizes in future directions. I happen to have things in my life as organized chaos so its all nonlinear and spread out in different areas as can be seen in how this thread was just from the top of my head being INFP and everything came out this way at once.
