Tell this to my career management teacher. She swears that the discovery of our own personality is the key to happiness.
Are there no INFJs here? I was scored as an INTJ, but the T preference was only by 1%, and I normally get an INFJ, so, yeah. --- About 1-3% of the population are INFJs. creative, smart, focus on fantasy more than reality, attracted to sad things, fears doing the wrong thing, observer, avoidant, fears drawing attention to self, anxious, cautious, somewhat easily frightened, easily offended, private, easily hurt, socially uncomfortable, emotionally moody, does not like to be looked at, fearful, perfectionist, can sabotage self, can be wounded at the core, values solitude, guarded, does not like crowds, organized, second guesses self, more likely to support marijuana legalization, focuses on peoples hidden motives, prone to crying, not competitive, prone to feelings of loneliness, not spontaneous, prone to sadness, longs for a stabilizing relationship, fears rejection in relationships, frequently worried, can feel victimized, prone to intimidation, lower energy, strict with self
I have my own test! Fonzie factor ~ 62% Geek, 38% Cool Smartie-pants factor ~ Know more than 51% of humans alive today, know less than the other 49% Natty dresser factor ~ 89% chance of catching me in jeans, tee-shirt and sandals, 11% chance of catching me in a button up and tie. TV viewing factor ~ 99.91% chance of watching science or science fiction, .09% chance of watching Grey's Anatomy. Yup, there's me!
Tell your career teacher that NaCl says personality profiles are nothing more than snapshots in time, subject to change based on one's life experiences. They fail to provide a strong basis for career planning. As often as not, they cause unhappiness by pigeonholing people into career paths that ultimately build tension and stress as people attempt to live up to some foolish expectation. IMHO -- many, if not most, high school seniors would be better served by advice to go experience as much life as possible BEFORE settling in on a career path. That can be done in college, vocational schools, traveling the world or through volunteering in civic organizations. It is the experiences in life that reveal our true vocational interests...not some silly psychometric test results.
I don't get the onions thing, lol. And no, emotional guys have been stressing me out lately. I need more T and less F, lol. Cool, Emily.
I said something similar to that (minus the coherence) and she got angry with me. We didn't even take the real myers-briggs test, which I offered to bring in (since we've got the book version) and she said our class was too stupid for it.
I took this test in highschool and got a VERY different result. I used to be an introvert. Something happened somewhere...
I found it to be scarily accurate. Of course, some things were off, but for the most part, I would describe myself as an INFP.
That's never happened with an online quiz It described be to a "T." It's like my mother wrote about me and gave me the link to the site. That is really friggen scary. Oh, I am a true INFP
I got INFP, too. the "questor"... but i wonder... I seem really down the middle on the FP part. Introverted (I) 66.67% Extroverted (E) 33.33% Intuitive (N) 64.29% Sensing (S) 35.71% Feeling (F) 52.78% Thinking (T) 47.22% Perceiving (P) 54.84% Judging (J) 45.16%
I didn't even pay attention to the numbers, I just read the appropriate description, and it was sooo me I was able to pick out recent events from my life
Yay Wreybies! I like your test! Fonzie factor ~ 82% Geek, 18% Cool Smartie-pants factor ~ 96.8% cracking jokes at everything, 3% taping "smarties" candy to my jeans, .2% completely inappropriate jokes Natty dresser factor ~ 84% chance of blue jeans, 6% chance of wearing my 'pretty clothes', and 10% chance of juvenile t-shirts. TV viewing factor ~ 76.2% chance of watching Psych, 22% watching Bones, .0000002% watching reality tv, especially the ones with 'models' or 'celebrities'. Yup, there's me
As was I. I was able to remember things I'd done even just yesterday --and even today, now, as I recall, how much it reminds me of me. MEMEMEME. I've created a ME-MONSTER.
I'm noticing that many of us are either INFP or INTP. Introverted, intuitive, and perceiving. This really interests me. All seem like good qualities of a writer to me, but then again each opposing quality can be argued as well. I propose the question, are there characteristics of a writer, in your opinion? What are they? What makes someone with this typical 'personality makeup' want to write? ... I love this. (Feel free to reply or just mull it over in your mind --I'm doing the latter.)
I used to think I was INFJ, then I went to INTP, and now I'm leaning towards INTJ. All I know for sure is that I'm introverted and intuitive.
As writers, shouldn't we know better than to try to pigeonhole people into sixteen categories? Every person is unique. Furthermore these tests are far from perfect. Why accept an arbitrary label stamped on your forehead? Have we learned nothing?
I'm not pigionholing myself, I just found it uncanny how spot on the description was. It wasn't exactly me, but it wasn't exactly my "evil twin" either.
I think personality typing is a great and fun way to understand others and build characters. I like Jung's types and the Enneagram. I don't think typing implies that people aren't unique, not at all, but how unique are we anyways? not as much as we like to think. No attempt at categorization is perfect. It's not science. It's human nature to label ourselves. We categorize and sort people according to internally or externally referenced compartments.
