Category: not a typing post

What is Fe charisma? What is Fi charisma? Te and Ti don’t have charisma so skip them, ha! ;)

I think I’ve mentioned before about ISFJs and ISTPs kind of being alike… Fe comes across to me as physically occupying space sometimes.  Like being smothered by a blanket, or like… the hush in an aquarium, or the calm before a storm.  It’s heavy.

Fi is not really about charisma so much as it is about charm.  When turned on, it’s a little more light and sparkly.

T-types also have Fe or Fi, as well… just sayin.

Hey, I’ve been trying to figure out Christopher Nolan’s type for a while now. How did you get to ISTJ? (I would of guessed INTJ but I really wasn’t sure) I’m really curious.

1. Gave up on the idea that he had to be an N-type.  (Doesn’t hurt that he looks a little like my cousin, who I’ve been thinking was maybe an E or an ISTJ.)

2. Noticed that while I didn’t have any ISTJ examples that were instantly comparable, he was kind of ISFJ-like, and also kind of ISTP-like, but not at all ISFP-like and lacking the Fe charisma to actually be an ISFJ or an ISTP.  He’s just sort of quiet and gentlemanly.  Very serious.

3. Briefly wondered if he were a really quiet ESTJ, but his brother Jonathan is one, instead.  Chris is definitely an introvert by comparison. 

How do you identify a female intj? what traits do you look for?

Ooooh, no.  Okay.  I can tell you it’s not by looking for traits.

There isn’t a single INTJ in the tag (with maybe the exception of Jesse Eisenberg and Margaret Atwood) who I didn’t find with some sort of combination of luck and perseverance.  Luck being sent asks, or accidentally watching INTJs in other videos.  Perseverance being picking a job I thought INTJs might occupy
(or targeting people INTJs might work with or be related to – the point of desperation, let’s be real)

and scouring it for possible INTJ candidates by image search and/or by watching videos.  Same for the INFJs.  To a lesser extent, also the INFPs and INTPs, and the ENFJs.  I suspect I’ll have to do some of this to fill out the ISFJ men as well.

Looking for traits kind of implies that if I put together a list, I’d be able to pick a group of people and find a person in that group who embodies them.  My experience is that this is not totally unreasonable when thinking of ESFJs, but INs are not equally represented in so many groups – particularly in entertainment, which is where it’s easiest for me to look.  It’s hard to type the people who aren’t there.

There are four INTJ (white, male) actors in my tag, and trust me, it’s not because I haven’t been looking.  On the other hand, I haven’t really been looking for ESFJ men, but I can think back through every tv show I’ve watched, and expect to find one in most of them, if not as main cast, then as supporting cast or a guest star.  I’m not especially running through the ESFJ men traits’ list I made up, but it would probably work ok to smoke some out.

I can tell you that INTJs (there’s not a whole lot of difference between the men and women as far as typing goes, except for societal expectation) are quiet people with big hearts and a bigger work ethic.  They’re very measured, collected speakers with organized, steady speech patterns and understated humour. 

But all that’s just a description and has very little to do with how I’m actually typing any potential INTJs I find, which is… ugh, tension around the arms and neck, the way their body and face moves, the rhythm of their arm when they speak, the quality and regularity of their smile, their interactions with others.  And yes, okay, also the speech patterns.

Do you still not type using functions? If so, why? Is your priority in typing people accuracy?

You make it sound like I’m the last hold-out desperately clutching on to the old ways.  (“You can pry behaviour typing from my cold, dead hands, sonny!”)

I can tell you that it honestly never occurred to me to type with functions before someone asked me why I wasn’t doing it.  I guess my question for you is: why don’t more people type like me?  (And if anyone knows how functions got to be the typing method of choice, hook me up!  I’m curious about why this is such a thing.)

I think accuracy is a good endgame and I strive in that general direction, but my main priority here is entertaining myself.