I'm not sure about these but I'll post them anyway. Feel free to mention me if they are INFP, not INFJ traits:
- cry watching sad movies or emotional moments, but be wondering why I feel so strongly. What just happened? This is crazy. But keep watching on and crying away.
- Be annoyed with a typo on a sign "It's 'Midwest', not 'Mid-West' if you're trying to keep up with the marketing lingo." *writes a note that surely no one who can do a thing about it will read, but can be read by those who surely can't.*
- Develop story characters, imagine their personalities, then look up 16 personalities (and other sites), test as each character, read the results, then spend hours of research, days wondering if you got them right. Start wondering if their behavior fits even if they contradict. If they contradict, then look up reasons for that contradiction. The focus seems to be wondering if they are realistic/believable. Then realize days went by. You're still stuck wondering and no writing has been done for a while.
-For me it seems the ENFJ guy with the ENTP/ ESTP type deviations is giving me the most trouble. I'm in a Ni Te rut looping trying to search stuff, read up on functions, shadow functions, and that to find justifiable reasons for him to be like that. Again, just because I want it to be logical. No particular emotional reason. Just I like it to be believable for my potential readers. Also trying to figure out how an ENFJ can realistically be a war general in a fictional army, is causing me many loops back and forth researching to analyzing to researching to analyzing...
Meanwhile no writing is getting done with all that searching, reading, questioning and analyzing....
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Possibly more INFP in these below?:
Make friends/ acquaintances with a diverse group of people with different religions/ cultures and see the commonalities in them over the differences. I don't have to agree with everything of a particular religion/ culture, but I respect it and I see it as a form of personal identity. I don't desire to change or take away something that a person identifies with unless...
Their belief is to harm another person, try to change their beliefs, or lump a culture as "evil". There is no such thing. Circular reasoning (pointing to a book as proof of its own truth gets tiring and annoying) I may state something as an effort to stand up for those I feel the person is dissing, and try my best to be polite, but I will end up door slamming those who keep it up and can't see the broader picture (we are all human, and at our best we are trying what we can to do the right thing. And the most important thing is to treat others with respect like you deserve to have treated.) Those who violate that concept of respecting one another I want to break away from. If anything I wish could be made more aware in the Earth is mutual acceptance. I realize it is next to hopeless, but I dream on and hope for shifts in cultures to be more open to it, rather than drift into the idea that one is "better" or more "truthful" than another.
- When I am judgemental and sense that I hurt someone, I feel a sting of guilt and try to focus on modifying my behavior to not hurt the next person.
- When I get home from work, I feel great relief, to just be at home by myself, with all my plants... I can spend days being happy by myself.
, but the exact opposite when it comes to relating with the people around you.
