Category: not a typing post

Sam Smith talking about how emotional he is but never actually getting emotional on the outside is an indicator of Fi. Kristen Stewart does the same thing.

Anonymous said to mbti-sorted:
Honestly, I’m curious why do you type Jesse as INTJ. I think he is an INTP.

Okay, I’m going to answer these both together.

If you watch Sam in every interview he’s kind of at a baseline state of… polite but nervous energy, I guess. It doesn’t change no matter which interviewer is asking him questions.  He’s emotionally steady.

Jesse is pretty steadily anxious, but his anxiety levels rise and dip depending on who he’s talking to.  Sometimes he’s enjoying himself and sometimes he’s calm and thoughtful and sometimes he looks desperate.

Kristen is… okay, I’m honestly surprised anyone thinks she’s unemotional.  I think you’re all confusing emotional with emotive.  Not one of these three are particularly emotive, but Kristen in interviews is sometimes angry and sometimes passionate and sometimes playful and sometimes completely shut down.

Are there names on your request list who really confuse you? Can you share some of them?

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(Okay, seriously though, I have over 1000 asks.  If someone doesn’t make sense to me within a couple of minutes, I just go to the next person.  I figure eventually I will find someone like that first person who will make it clearer the next time I go back.  I get more confused about people I’ve already typed and in general where the lines are between types.)

since you switched Zooey from istp are you going to switch Marilyn Monroe as well? or does this not discount your “istp’s performing femininity” theory?

Uuuugh.  No, I’m pretty sure Marilyn’s an ISTP.

Okay, 1. grain of salt anything I say with the Ne running wild tag.  Everything in there’s just speculation, and I don’t always think it through as long as I probably should.  What Ne’s good for (other than the slightly more entertaining blog posts) is directing my focus – pinpointing a couple of people with a potential specific similarity – so that I can narrow down a group of people to recheck.  Sometimes rechecking proves me right, and sometimes it’s way off.

2. I think I got pretty oddly specific with this one.  I’d say there’s definitely a costuming-style-identity thing that often gets into crossing gender norms for a lot of ISTPs. 

There are a bunch of other types that do performance-identity things as well, (ESTPs, ESFPs, ISFPs, INTPs, probably ENTPs), gender oriented or not, but ISTPs have a particular flavour to them.  I think the public perception tends to be a lot more confused about how much more ISTPs mean the persona than other types – where and if it stops and the ‘real person’ starts.