Category: not a typing post

Just out of curiosity, what led you to type Luke Hemmings as an ISFJ? Many people have typed him as an INFP, so I wonder how you came to your conclusion. Thanks! ☺️

Seemed like an SFJ, but a quiet one???  I mean.

Take any four people living in each others pockets with full heads of hair and a somewhat professional interest in their image, and ask them who spends the most time styling their hair. 

I can guarantee you if all four point immediately to the INFP, then that person is not an INFP.

Hm..

There was kind of a thing he was saying about being overwhelmed by bus travel as a kid and needing to shut it all off with headphones and music that sounded a lot more like hyper-sensitive Si (and maybe Fe too) than anything else. 

I did a lot of traveling as a kid, and I can tell you that more than anything I spent a lot of time bored out of my mind.  The Ne not being into process sort of applies here, where the time spent moving yourself from one place to another is a lot like waiting for dial-up to load a new web page, but 5-10 minutes would be a blessing.

Travel is pretty much only acceptable if there’s something nice to look at (it helps to be in a front seat), or if you’re doing something like navigating or keeping the driver awake or actually driving.  School buses were terrible because you couldn’t see very much.  City transit was more fun, but also I’d get distracted because I didn’t use it often (also why it was more fun) and would get off at the wrong stops all the time.

For those of you into HSP, I’m pretty sure the IJs who qualify most likely fall into the straight up HSP category, where the IPs are probably more likely to also qualify as High-Sensation-Seeking.

Are intps hard to type because the thinking function can halt the intuition function mainly during interviews

I am… not entirely sure what you’re asking, but I don’t actually type by functions, if you’ll recall, so the short answer is… no.

I don’t particularly find INTPs that hard to type, at least comparatively to other types, mostly because I’ve already found a large range of them.  My main problem with typing INTPs is other types.

With ENTP: the E/I line is tricky to find across the entire mbti spectrum, especially since I’m typing a lot of performers of one kind or another.

With ISTP: a lot of the ISTPs I typed in the beginning were the stonewalls-during-interviews kind.  At that point, the intellectual/academic ISTPs seemed to have more in common with the INTPs I’d typed.  I’m in the process of (slowly) migrating those ISTPs to their correct tag.

With INTJ: this is an INTJ vacuum problem, where if I don’t find an INTJ every now and again, I start thinking every other type is an INTJ. 

I would say that most of the INTPs that don’t get stuck in the INTJ tag are actually in the INTP tag though.  There just might be a couple of extra ISTPs and ENTPs in there, too.