Lots of people are fun to type!  I enjoy the surprising ones – usually people I know about peripherally who turn out to be a completely different type from what I was expecting from media perception.  I think the last one of these was Jared Kushner, and before him, Bobby Kennedy.  INFJs with comparable career trajectory (presidential campaign managers for ESTP family members)!  Finding an INFJ is a bit like winning a treasure hunt, anyway – they always manage to turn up in the weirdest places (like John Graham, Bachelor contestant.  Kind of thought they would avoid that show forever!).

Realizing that a show I’m watching has two or three N-types in the main cast is kind of surprising, too.  Doesn’t happen too often.  Person of Interest still has the most unusual cast I’ve ever noticed (ISTP and INTJ leads with an INFJ regular in later seasons).

Typing people who are just like someone else is entertaining.  Last one of these I picked out was Joe Lieberman – his face moves just like Harrison Ford’s, and he sounds a lot like him, too.

I like typing groups where I can find all or most of the types.  In families: British Royals, Kennedys and Jacksons.  In sports: long distance running  figure skating.   And in music: harp!  It is just a particularly useful thing to do.  It makes it easier to distinguish between closely related types (if you know two family members are not the same type), and it makes it possible to see how type manifests physically (philosophically?  artistically?) in a specific task, or similar tasks.

On a personal level, I like watching video of people who’ve led interesting lives, but it can be counter-productive when typing, since I’ll get stuck watching one person for an hour or so instead of chugging through asks.  I’ve learned a lot, though, so fair trade-off!  I don’t really mind watching most people, since it tends to be interesting in an mbti sense, but certain things are becoming a little exhausting.  For instance, if I never hear the words “As an actor,…” again it will be too soon.

I have 1783 asks, which actually translates to 1572 individual people to type.

Welcome!

I have about 60 not a typing asks right now (yikes!) which are

a) 90% I think [person] is actually [yyyy] type or

tell me why you think [person] is type [xxxx]. 

— I have about 50 people to recheck in this way, but have marked off about 100 more, myself, that I should also probably look at on my giant spreadsheet of tracking everything.  So… I am procrastinating a lot on this.

b) 8% Please describe the characteristics of type [xxxx] or

please contrast type [xxxx] with type [yyyy] or

I think I am type [xxxx] or type [yyyy].  How do I know which?

— My brain unfortunately slithers away from these since I tend to type from a subconscious place more than an active cataloguing of characteristics.  Usually when I answer these I end up kind of annoyed by my answers.

c) 2% Other or

New!

— Other is pretty much that one time my sister sent me an ask and I talked to her about it in person.  New will be answered!