Category: not a typing post

If you don’t type by functions, how did you manage to type yourself?

…I find your lack of imagination disturbing.

How about this: here are some possibilities to consider.  Reblog and tag yourself with all that apply.  Feel free to add more as they occur to you.

1. Take an online test!

2. Read some type profiles and identify with one.

3. Watch some videos of typed people and identify with them.

4. Identify with a function stack.

5. Pull scrabble tiles
(or DIY some letters onto pieces of paper) out of a bag.  Let the universe decide!

6. Likewise, flipping a coin is an old standby.  Once for each letter.

7. Hold a seance.  Contact the spirits of Isabel Myers and Katherine Briggs.

8. Have someone who is always right type you instead.

9. Ask the people around you how they think about you until you arrive at a group consensus as to your MBTI-specific character traits.

10. Have your brain mapped as part of an MBTI psych experiment.

11. Acting exercise: treat each profile as a character.  Try embodying each until you find the one that doesn’t feel like acting.

Is it weird that as an ENTP female, I’m not attracted at all to INTJ or INTP guys who I’m supposedly compatible with? I feel like they’re the types to rely on me too much to provide entertainment, comic relief or lead in social situations and honestly that gets pretty tiring after a while and I get bored and move on quickly. I prefer guys that are a bit outgoing and doesn’t keep me guessing

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Not weird at all. 

My thoughts on mbti relationship compatibility are over here: clicky!

Why do you think so many websites (like the celebrity types one) mistype infjs so frequently? I noticed that every single celebrity they had as an infj you have typed as something else. Also, do you know of a celebrity who you think is really a quintessential infj? They seem to be very difficult to type. Thanks!

To quote an earlier post:

My thoughts on people confusing other people for INFJs are mostly that
they’re rare, most people only see the part of the INFJ that they’re
comfortable sharing, and INFJs like to fume silently instead of
correcting people when they’re wrong (joking/not joking).  There’s a
huge space the INFJs are not loudly claiming, so it gets filled with the
likeliest candidates.

I don’t know who put together the original list (I’m assuming there’s one set that got passed around, as it is pretty much the same from site to site) or how they did so, so I can’t comment on their process.

And I’ve sort of answered the second part as well – I don’t really like setting one person up as representative of their type.  The perfect version of a type is a concept, or the profile.  It’s imaginary.  People have an infinite range of variation, and holding one person up as an example for the others says more about what you think about a person or a type than it does the actual person or type.