Check in Fellow INFP Personalities

[SPKrazy]

we might need a support group for us

:grouphug:

[wildhorses]

1. ---

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

14. hey horsey!

infp! :loveya:

[wildhorses]

28. yes, although on certain days i can test as an 'e'

i am always nfp...ALWAYS

i do not really understand judging at all...although i can come to the same conclusion as a 'judger' i took a whole nother process to get to that same conclusion

same with sensing...it is just that i process the information as 'feeling'

:shrug:

i think about this shit WAY too much:P

[fizzgig]

2. how on earth did i miss this thread?

:hug:

[SPKrazy]

15. too busy?

:rofl:

[fizzgig]

32. doing what?

:rofl:

gods, why did i stay up so late? :hangover:

[SPKrazy]

34. LOL

:shrug:

:rofl:

[CBHagman]

3. Yes, I counted a few of us on the Myers-Briggs thread.

And as for being an INFP, I'd say we need all the support we can get!

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

16. Yes!

:pals:

[NewWaveChick1981]

4. Here!

:hi: :hug:

[SPKrazy]

17. Hey NWC!

:hug:

:hi:

[lizziegrace]

5. Me too

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

18. Cool!

:hi:

:hug:

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. Pffft - Fs. How sad.

:evilgrin:

But, at least you aren't one of those asshole Js who can't call 911 to help a man bleeding to death, until he (the J) knows what's being served as a beverage for his supper four days from now.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

12. Hey! Nothing wrong with a little J.

:P

Though I myself am pretty close to P for a J--I like closure on issues, but I don't mind entertaining many ideas, and I can deal with open-endedness for a time.

[SPKrazy]

43. I seem to recall

having more J in the past

:shrug:

[SPKrazy]

19. *snort*

:rofl:

[crim son]

7. I'm not an INFP.

Just so everybody knows. :hi:

[SPKrazy]

13. attention much?

:rofl:


:hi:

[mikeargo]

8. Another INFP

I'm so "I," I've been here for years, but I have fewer than 100 posts.

[SPKrazy]

20. It's Okay!

:pals:

[boston bean]

9. I'm one letter off.... I can't join..

:cry:

B-)

[SPKrazy]

21. It's Okay!

:grouphug:

we don't judge :rofl:

[mentalsolstice]

10. That's me!

Maybe we need to ask Skinner to start a new group for us!

[SPKrazy]

22. Mebbe?

INFP group

you know we'd have people spying on us, judging us, etc.
:rofl:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

11. NFs. Psssshhhhaaaaw.

:P

Actually, NTs and NFs are natural mates, apparently. So it's all good.

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

23. That's COol!

:hi:

[Kajsa]

24. Hiya, Southpaw.

Hmm- not knowing what an INFP was, I checked this out.

http://www.personalitypage.com/INFP.html

I do match many of the traits described here.
Teaching is my first love in career choices.

Soo--I may very well be an INFP.

Do you think so?

:hi: :hug:

[SPKrazy]

25. take this test, not myer's briggs, but based on it

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm

[Zookeeper]

26. Well, I'm a weirdo INTP, but....

the "T" is only 25%.

I'm glad I know some INFPs!

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

29. hey zookeeper

:hi:

[Throwing Stones]

84. don't feel bad, Zookeeper ..

I've pretty much always been I, N and P, but I test T sometimes and F sometimes - I guess it depends on my mood, current outlook, or maybe I have a partially split personality?

[unsavedtrash]

27. me too

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

30. yayyy!

:hi:

[Radical Activist]

31. Support group? How about a revolutionary task force!

We're supposed to be righteous advocates for a good cause after all.

[SPKrazy]

33. sounding better!

let's get righteous and start a revolution!

:hi:

[CBHagman]

39. Bingo!

Name your cause. I can get myself in a lather about health insurance, littering on public transportation, or use of those #@*&!! walkie-talkie phones on city buses.

[SPKrazy]

42. Me too!

:shrug:

[otherlander]

76. I'm in. :)

[SPKrazy]

80. Yayyyy!

:woohoo:

:hi:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

35. Meeee!

:-)

[SPKrazy]

36. yayyyyyyyyyy!

:hi:

[cwydro]

37. YO!

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

38. Hey!

I knew it!

:hi:

[zingaro]

40. This may shock you but

me too.

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

41. Nope!

I already saw that on the other thread!

But even that didn't shock me...

:hug:

[Guava Jelly]

44. INFJ

The Portrait of the Counselor Idealist (iNFj)
The Counselor Idealists are abstract in thought and speech, cooperative in reaching their goals, and enterprising and attentive in their interpersonal roles. Counselors focus on human potentials, think in terms of ethical values, and come easily to decisions. The small number of this type (little more than 2 percent) is regrettable, since Counselors have an unusually strong desire to contribute to the welfare of others and genuinely enjoy helping their companions. Although Counsleors tend to be private, sensitive people, and are not generally visible leaders, they nevertheless work quite intensely with those close to them, quietly exerting their influence behind the scenes with their families, friends, and colleagues. This type has great depth of personality; they are themselves complicated, and can understand and deal with complex issues and people.

Counselors can be hard to get to know. They have an unusually rich inner life, but they are reserved and tend not to share their reactions except with those they trust. With their loved ones, certainly, Counselors are not reluctant to express their feelings, their face lighting up with the positive emotions, but darkening like a thunderhead with the negative. Indeed, because of their strong ability to take into themselves the feelings of others, Counselors can be hurt rather easily by those around them, which, perhaps, is one reason why they tend to be private people, mutely withdrawing from human contact. At the same time, friends who have known a Counselor for years may find sides emerging which come as a surprise. Not that they are inconsistent; Counselors value their integrity a great deal, but they have intricately woven, mysterious personalities which sometimes puzzle even them.

Counselors have strong empathic abilities and can become aware of another's emotions or intentions -- good or evil -- even before that person is conscious of them. This "mind-reading" can take the form of feeling the hidden distress or illnesses of others to an extent which is difficult for other types to comprehend. Even Counselors can seldom tell how they came to penetrate others' feelings so keenly. Furthermore, the Counselor is most likely of all the types to demonstrate an ability to understand psychic phenomena and to have visions of human events, past, present, or future. What is known as ESP may well be exceptional intuitive ability-in both its forms, projection and introjection. Such supernormal intuition is found frequently in the Counselor, and can extend to people, things, and often events, taking the form of visions, episodes of foreknowledge, premonitions, auditory and visual images of things to come, as well as uncanny communications with certain individuals at a distance.

Mohandas Gandhi and Eleanor Roosevelt are examples of the Counselor Idealist (INFJ).

[SarahB]

45. Add another one!

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

46. added!

to the roles
:hi:

[Orrex]

47. I'm a MBIN--anyone else?

Myers-Briggs Is Nonsense.

Come on, I can't be the only one, can I?

[SPKrazy]

50. It's remarkably consistent though

nonsense or not?

:shrug:

[Orrex]

63. Sure, just like tarot or astrology

Hey, I don't care if people take the test themselves for amusement's sake, but when it's used by employers to assess employment/advancement potential (and it is used that way), then I call bullshit.

[SPKrazy]

65. One difference though

is it has been looked at scientifically for test re-test reliability and validity, can't say the same about tarot and astrology.

I do however agree with the whole concept of personality tests or profiling for employment, just because the test may be reliable and valid, does not guarantee that the interpretation of what is puported to be measured is correct

I mean, if 100 scientists get together and decide that the measure is X, and they are ALL wrong, then does that make the test wrong? If X is wrong to start with then garbage in-garbage out.

I think the MB is more of a test that should be used to help people discover characteristics in themselves, and to discover the kinds of jobs they might like..

that is not to say that someone who didn't fit the profile of MB for a certain job wouldn't be an excellent employee for that job.

MB is a lot less dangerous in my view than using the hard core personality diagnostic tests like the MMPI2, or others in that genre, to me that is truly taking something that is only a "tool" of diagnosis and not a diagnosis maker itself and using it to screen people out of opportunity. That isn't right in my opinion.

:shrug: KWIM?

[Orrex]

68. Not quite true!

The Myers-Briggs Test Instrument, as formulated by its owners, encourages the user to modify the test's results (possibly working with a counselor) if those results seem way off base. This little escape clause has the dual effect of making the test more marketable and also invalidating it entirely as a scientific tool. It would be like saying "here's a scale, but if you don't like your weight, feel free to tweak the numbers as you see fit."

Granted, someone can choose not to tweak the test's results, but then the person isn't using the MBTI; he or she is using a derivation of the MBTI--a very different prospect.

I'd like to read more about how the test was "looked at scientifically," because on its face it's classic pseudoscience, from its development to its execution.

However, if we're interested in evaluating the test scientifically, here's what I propose (from a post I wrote elsewhere a few years back):

Administer the MBTI to a group of subjects without telling them what it's about
or how the results will be used or analyzed. Upon completion, isolate one example of each of the 16 permutations of MBTI results, and discard the rest.

Have a team of psychologists evalute the corresponding 16 subjects to develop reasonably detailed psychological profiles on each. The psychologists' assessments are subjective, of course, but one would hope that teamwork would yield some kind of "less" subjective profile.

Have a second team of psychologists attempt to match the 16 MBTI results with the 16 psych profiles, and see how many successful "hits" you get. The way to do this is to "refresh" the field after each selection, so that for each subject you must choose between 16 MBTI results.

The probability of any one person being randomly matched to his MBTI result is 1/16. Nominally, a success rate exceeding that might be an indication that the test has a better-than-chance predictive/descriptive value, but I'm a little more picky; a 6.25% success rate doesn't impress me. If I'm seeking to evaluate a test for its predictive/descriptive value, I'd want a success rate of at least 50%, wouldn't you? I mean, if a test is right only one time in fifteen, I'd
call it a pretty lousy test.

Anyway, two problems present themselves to me immediately:

16 MBTI results is clearly far too few to provide a usefully specific description of any test subject. Proponents of the MBTI might still laud it as "specific enough," but that just doesn't cut it for me.

The psychologists' assessments may be well-informed, but they're subjective even if they work as a team. With this in mind, the best you can ever say is "according to these psychologists..." and that still doesn't count as anything more than professional testimony.

How does that sound to you?


Anyway, we're pretty much on the same page re: the danger of misuse of personality tests.

[cedahlia]

48. Here! And I think I really could use a support group!

It's not easy, being an INFP...

Thank you for the support! :hug:

[SPKrazy]

49. I Hear ya!

:hug:

hang in there!

[GenDem]

51. So that's what it is.

I'm and INFP

About 5 months ago I met someone that said I was an Indigo Child.

[SPKrazy]

60. Hey Indigo Child!

:pals:

:shrug:

[GenDem]

82. I always just thought I was 'right brained'

[MedleyMisty]

52. I'm a hardcore INFP

and proud of it! :)

[SPKrazy]

59. Great!

:woohoo:

:hi:

[u4ic]

53. Borderline I/E, NFP here

:toast:

[SPKrazy]

58. I believe the borderline part!

;)

and the I/E NFP

funny thing is not too long ago I took some other similar test and it's even on my journal I think here, that scored me higher on the extroverted scales. But I'm much more of an I than an E.

:toast:

[u4ic]

70. Whaddaya mean?

:spank:

[SPKrazy]

71. eh, just messing with you

hoping you'd get around to spankin' me sooner or later, it's been a while ;)

actually i was just playing with your words "borderline" as in borderline personality disorder :shrug:

of which i seriously doubt that you are a person who has this disorder.

never mind really....

:boring:

:crazy: (shhhh spk has gone to sleep and we the overly excited alter egos are posting in his place)

[u4ic]

74. I know what you were referring to

:P

[SPKrazy]

75. because you are a brilliant hoser beaver!

:rofl:

and you deserve many :hug: for that!

now be nice and watch those spankin's (i like them)

[u4ic]

77. For old time's sake...

:spank: :spank: :spank:





:hug:

[SPKrazy]

78. ahhhh, I feel lurved and better now!

:hug:

[S n o w b a l l]

54. hokay!

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

56. I knew it!

:hi:

[femmedem]

55. Me too! Me too! A true story:

A few years ago I was wondering if I was getting a little old to be a spikey-haired cashier at the health food store. So I take out this book from the library about fitting your job to your personality. I take the Myers-Briggs test. INFP! Great! So I flip through the book to the INFP section to get the answer to my career questions, and what do I see? A drawing of a spikey-haired cashier at the health food store.

Edited because geesh, I'd forgotten how to spell the test.

[SPKrazy]

57. No, Really!

:rofl:

so do you still have spikey hair? :shrug: might be c00l ;)

:hi:

[femmedem]

61. Nope. Grew it out a little.

But you never know, I just might go spikey again. It's the one haircut I can do reliably on my own. :)

And I'm not working at the health food store anymore either. Now I make soap, paint harpsichords and make jacks, which is the part of a harpsichord which plucks the strings. In between I taught art history, which is a very INFP thing to do.

[SPKrazy]

62. spikey is cool!

and your work all sounds very INFP, way cool!

:pals:

[FloridaJudy]

64. INFP Here

You know this could replace astrology as a pick-up line. Instead of asking, "What's your sign?", we could all start asking "What's your Myers-Briggs type?"

I'll try to stay away from the J's. I was married to a J for almost 20 years, and enough is enough.

[SPKrazy]

66. Gotta watch those J's for sure!

;)

that's why we got us an INFP group here! :woohoo:

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

67. INFP Checking In!

:salute:

RL

[SPKrazy]

72. d00d!

:patriot:

who knew?:shrug: :rofl: ;)

[RetroLounge]

86. Yeah, big surprise, I know...

:rofl:

RL

[GoddessOfGuinness]

69. Sometimes I'm INFP

Others I'm ENFP. And it seems I can change from one to the other in short order.

[SPKrazy]

73. wow, that's really

SCARY :scared:

:rofl:

you are merely bipolar, take a guiness and call me in the morning, or call me after you've had a bunch of guiness and tell me stories...:P

[GoddessOfGuinness]

79. Nah...I'm borderline

But I'll take the Guinness anyway! :beer::hug:

[SPKrazy]

81. that's a wide open statement

i don't think you are "borderline"

but take the guinness!
:rofl:

[nuxvomica]

83. I'm always INFP on those tests

And I'm supposedly in the wrong field for an INFP, IT, but you should see how pretty my database designs are. ;-)

[slutticus]

85. Yo.

INFP and an Engineer. Is that weird or what?