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May 13, 2019 18:05:16 GMT
Post by Mātōnya on May 13, 2019 18:05:16 GMT
What's the worst MBTI thing to be?
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gab
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May 13, 2019 18:15:19 GMT
Post by gab on May 13, 2019 18:15:19 GMT
ISTP. Not even human.
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May 13, 2019 19:37:29 GMT
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Post by Mātōnya on May 13, 2019 19:37:29 GMT
I just took the test again and got INFP instead of INFJ. The last three times I did it over the years, I got INFJ, so I guess I've been in more of a "perceiving" mood lately, not a "judging" one?
I read the descriptions and they are actually both pretty apt for me. I could be convinced that I'm INF as a constellation of personality traits (I scored 99th percentile on F), but with the P vs. J thing, that seems like more based on context, not as an essential aspect of my personality. Like, it seems that the determination between those two is just a question of whether you're more methodical or more haphazard, and I'm capable of being both methodical and haphazard depending on my mood or what it is we're dealing with, specifically, probably falling somewhere between them more generally. Anyone who has seen my office or my itineraries on vacation can attest to how spontaneous and disorganized I can be, but anyone who has watched my compositional process for music or literature can attest to how good I can be at process and planning. For my church job, I wrote a handbook and created organized resources for the diocese, including liturgical guides for the clergy, and yet I show up every week as a parish cantrix (singer) and pretty much wing it, often reading the sheet music off of my phone because I forgot to download it and print it out, and 90% of the time I'm sight-reading because I didn't bother to look at it first. So, it just depends on whether or not something seems important to me enough to seek that kind of control over its implementation, or how confident I am that I can get away with being careless. It's a conflict of what I decide to be conscientious about, you might say. I'll never be late to work or a formal event or a doctor's appointment, but I will probably be 20 minutes late to your cookout and get lost on the way there because I didn't plan my trip and had to stop to buy sunscreen because I forgot mine at home. I will come up with a great idea that I never write down and will forget later.
To put into perspective this conflict over methodicalness versus haphazardness, a tweet I posted yesterday pretty much sums it up:
"Me writing a tetralogy: I finished the first book, but then I went on to complete the third. Then I wrote half of the fourth book, spent another two months rewriting much of the first book, and I just started the second book today. I am very organized in my narratives, as you can see."
So I'm both "P" and "J" at the same time, kind of.
I found this interesting: "In his 1990 PhD dissertation, C.F. Gibbons of the University of Arkansas found that the INFJ type was one of the four most common among musicians, with INFP being the most common."
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