Category: not a typing post

Whenever you’ve been asked why someone is a Ti-user and not a Fi-user, you tend to use their clear linear thinking as evidence. Can you have a strong dose of clear linear thinking and still be a dom/aux Fi user? Because, I have found quite a few ENFPs and INFPs who use linear thinking and yet still clearly have higher order Fi. I think linear thinking doesn’t necessarily equal Ti.

That is a good point – I kind of regretted saying that immediately after posting.  I was thinking of it as an INFP vs. ENTP thing, not so much ENFP vs. ENTP, but I should probably take back the linear thinking for all the Ne-types, since I’m not sure that’s actually an accurate way to describe it.  My brain works on a series of Ne connections that are all tied up in Fi and Si – basically it’s all in-jokes, all the time, but very few people have all or any of the information to understand them.  I noticed once with an ENTP friend, that she’d sometimes tell the same stories more than once, and I’d end up replying with my same stories because of the connection hers would spark.  We’d kind of have the exact same conversation over again by following the same paths.

I think INFPs can be clear speakers, but our processing time is slower and we have less energy in the first place.  I can’t see keeping up the kind of fast pace speech that the ENxPs are capable of without at some point making little to no sense.

ENFPs vs. ENTPs, when they’re close, I’m mostly just going off whatever hunch I have.  I think it’s generally going okay, but there’s probably some specific people that aren’t right.

John Green ENTP? Why?

I would kind of like to ask the same thing about John Green, INFP?  (I mean, within a couple of minutes of watching video of him, I found his parents telling a story about how he had an existential crisis in an airport as a kid.)  But, I can see why that happened, because it is pretty classic “things you do“ over “how you think about them.”

The test was like: oh, a socially anxious person who spends a lot of time working alone in a room (that’s an introvert, right?) figuring out character motivations, many of which are highly emotional (must be an F!).

The thing is, he has no INFP body language or speech patterns.  None!  Sticks out like a sore thumb in that category. 

He has a huge workload that spans a wide range of things (Ne-splosion in every direction), and that he adds to himself, presumably whenever his schedule isn’t booked 24/7 (seriously, I find his life exhausting to think about, but he is clearly feeding on the energy of other people).  I wrote a post about Jennifer Lawrence vs. Kristen Stewart which I think also applies here if you substitute ENTP for ENFP:

ENFPs have Ne as a first function.  They love possibilities and sharing
them with others above all other things.  INFPs will consider the same
possibilities, but won’t share or try to make most of them happen.  With
Fi as our first function, we want emotional stability/honesty first. 

I’ve typed a bunch of authors lately, and most of them are at the introverted end of their type, whether they’re introverted or not.  It’s kind of an occupational hazard when you spend that much time alone.

As for why T, not F: he’s a linear thinker who explains things really quickly and clearly – I
mean, sure he’s heavily edited and potentially scripted, but he doesn’t
actually come across much differently in live interviews.

Hi! Can you please explain how you concluded that Ezra Koenig is an INTJ?

Well, not really because I haven’t concluded anything, but okay:

When I realized I’d been typing ENTJs as INTJs and moved them to the appropriate tag, there were suspiciously few INTJs left. I figured I’d probably mistyped a bunch as INTPs, took the most likely candidates and retagged them.

I haven’t checked either the entire INTJ or INTP tag since for accuracy since it usually eats up a couple hours to watch that much video, but I’m feeling good about the move, generally speaking.

Good news is, some of you are really concerned about Ezra’s mbti, so I have a post already about why I originally typed him as an INTJ, which probably still stands, and a post about why I switched him to INTP, which you can ignore.