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I've been trying to type myself forever but whenever I decide that I'm an INTP or an INFP, something happens which makes me doubt again. So I've decided to join, fill the type form and ask for help at typing me. Hopefully, I'll figure it out...
1) What aspect of your personality made you unsure of your type?
I keep my feelings inside of me very much and never really share them. If I’m feeling down, I want to tell my friends or my family, but I never do because I feel extremely uncomfortable doing so. I’m very emotional inside but I have problems with showing that part of me. I sometimes think that I’m a Feeler because of the strong emotions inside, but I haven’t shown that part of me to people in a long time and am so uncomfortable with them and am wondering if that might not be more Thinker. I believe both feelings and logic to be important.
I believe I’m good at understanding why people I know act the way they do and I don’t really have any difficulties putting myself in their shoes. Yet I often end up annoyed by some of them anyway and some are still hard to understand.
When I make decisions, I try to rely on both the way I feel and the rational approach. However, it has happened to me to try to block my feelings when the decision is too hard to make because they sometimes seem to hinder me. When I block my feelings too much though, I become somewhat depressed.
I relate very much to both the INFP description and the INTP description. I could add a lot but I don’t want to write too much.
2) What do you yearn for in life? Why?
Unsure. To be happy with myself I guess. I think I’ve been struggling with depression for the past two or three years and I often feel lost with my life. I’m still not sure what my goal in life is.
3) Think about a time where you felt like you were at your finest. Tell us what made you feel that way.
Um… I don’t know. When I got my red belt in wushu (wushu is a Chinese martial art, btw) maybe. I threw up for the grading but I was really happy and proud when I got it and it felt really great.
I don’t know if that’s really the answer though. I can’t really think of a time when I felt like I was at my finest. I usually feel tired and run-down because of school and having to socialize with my classmates and do boring work.
4) What makes you feel inferior?
I don’t act very competitive but whenever I’m bad at something, it bothers me a lot, even if it’s something I don’t like (such as volleyball). I’m pretty good at everything I do, but when someone or several people are better than me at something and I’m not doing well, I feel inferior. I don’t show it though.
5) What tends to weigh on your decisions? (Do you think about people, pro-cons, how you feel about it, etc.)
I try to think about everything. I want to see what would be the logical approach, I think of how I feel about it and why I feel like that, I analyze other people to see how they would react, I think of everything I could do and think of the pro and cons of doing it all the different ways… If I’m having too many problems making my decision, I’ll decide to go for the logical approach… which doesn’t mean I’ll always stick with it. I’m very impulsive with my decisions and always second-guess myself. Really, I’ll think about it for hours, and then suddenly act completely impulsively without giving any thought to all that I considered or to the decision I finally chose.
6) When working on a project what is normally your emphasis? Do you like to have control of the outcome?
I don’t really think about it at all. The outcome doesn’t even cross my mind too much. If I’m doing it with other people and I trust them, we decide who’s going to work on what and I trust them and just focus on doing my part. If I don’t trust them, I make sure they don’t mess up while doing my own thing. If I’m alone, I just… do it, without thinking overly so of what I'm doing. I’m not sure what you mean by the emphasis.
7) Describe us a time where you had a lot of fun. How is your memory of it?
When I was a little kid and me and two of my sisters made stories up together and acted them out with drawing one of my other sisters made. I can’t remember being so happy doing anything else, but I probably wouldn't enjoy it so much now. I like writing stories alone better now that I'm older.
8) When you want to learn something new, what feels more natural for you? (Are you more prone to be hands on, to theorize, to memorize, etc)
I want to understand the concept, not just memorize it. I want to understand how it works and why it’s like that. I don’t care much for ‘hands on learning’ and I feel like memorizing is a very limited form of learning. I analyze what I’m learning, try to find flaws and try to understand every angle of it.
9) How organized do you think yourself as?
Depends. If someone wants me to be organized, I can be. My mother is always nagging at me and making sure that my room’s clean, so I try to keep as clean as I can and I don’t have too many problems with it. However, if no one cares, then I’m really messy and disorganized. It’s far from my priority.
10) How do you judge new ideas? Do you try to understand the principles behind it to see if they make sense or do you look for information that supports it?
As I’ve said above, I want to understand it. I want to make sure that it makes sense, that it doesn’t have flaws and if it does, I want to find ways to remove those flaws. I analyze it the best I can.
11) You find harmony by making sure everyone is doing fine and belonging to a given group or by making sure that you follow what you believe and being yourself?
I think it’s both. If not all of my acquaintances or friends are doing fine, then it really bothers me. I can usually fix their problems easily enough, given that they actually talk to me. I guess I have problems finding harmony if people around are not doing fine. As for ‘belonging to a given group’, if they’re happy but not within a group, then that’s their business. It won’t disturb my 'harmony'.
On the other hand, I want to follow what I believe and be myself. I’m somewhat conflicted with this though, maybe because I’m conflicted with myself. I have problems letting go and being myself. I want to fit in with people, but not if I have to sacrifice being myself, so I often attempt to compromise and end up neither fitting in nor being myself.
12) Are you the kind that thinks before speaking or do you speak before thinking? Do you prefer one-on-one communication or group discussions?
I definitely think before speaking.
I like being with two other people at the same time, provided I know both of them. I almost never talk if there’s more than that, but the conversation is often lacking if it’s just me and someone else (unless I’m really close with the other person). One-on-one communication often ends up being a long silence while both of us try to find something to say that would interest the other. Of course, that depends on who I’m with too. I have no problems with one-on-one communication with my ESFP friend, for example.
13) Do you jump into action right away or do you like to know where you are jumping before leaping? Does action speaks more than words?
I need to know a bit about where I’m jumping, otherwise crucial mistakes could be made, but I don’t require too much information to go into action.
Both actions and words are necessary. It seems to me that a lot of people are fond of talking and talking and talking and doing nothing, while some other people take action without even trying to talk first. A balance is good.
14) It’s Saturday. You’re at home, and your favorite show is about to start. Your friends call you for a night out. What will you do?
Stay home and say ‘maybe next time’, without any intention to go next time.
15) How do you act when you’re stressed out?
I want to be left alone and if I’m not, I’ll snap at the people around me or simply ignore them. Everything I do will be rushed.
Although that’s only sometimes. Other times I’ll appear very slightly more tense than usual but not act much different, which doesn’t mean that I’m not stressed out.
16) What makes you dislike the personalities of some people?
I find some people to be very self-absorbed. They reject the perspectives of other people and the fact that some people see and think differently than they do. They are focused solely on themselves, what they think, what they believe, what they feel, what they did and do not ever think about what’s around them.
I also dislike people who, say, are aware of the plight of people in other countries, while using that knowledge to appear better than everyone around them. Basically, people who spend all their free time talking about ‘the poor children in Africa’ and look down on everyone because other people don’t talk about it all the time (in fact, I only know one girl who sometimes act like that but it gets on my nerves SO much).
I dislike stupidity and I dislike people who are aware that they are acting stupidly and are proud of it.
17) Is there anything you really like talking about with other people?
I like talking about kung fu and writing since they are both my hobbies. I like debates very much but I have yet to find someone who’s willing to debate with me endlessly. I usually have momentary obsessions such as a certain book, and then I’ll talk about it endlessly to everyone who’s willing to listen to me ramble on about it.
18) What kind of things do you pay the least attention to in your life?
I don’t pay much attention to the way I dress. I dress casually, not flashy at all and I don’t wear makeup. I like fashion and I admire people who use makeup as an art, but I think it’s just not for me.
I feel as if one reason I don’t pay attention to some things (such as house renovation, prices on the market, etc) is because I’m only fourteen so I don’t want to name those things (but I just named them anyway).
19) How do your friends perceive you? What is wrong about their perception? What would your friends never say about your personality?
Not quite sure how my friends perceive me to be honest. I asked one of my friends to describe me in one word and she answered ‘intellectual’ so I guess that would be it. I have another friend who always calls me a goof and hilarious because I’m always lost inside my own world and I apparently say really funny things with a straight face and a serious voice, which just makes it even funnier.
I’m not sure what’s wrong about their perception since I don’t see myself the way they do. I do think a lot of them see me as confident however, which isn’t really true.
They’d never call me outgoing, stupid, flirty… eh, there’s a lot of stuff they’d never say about me.
20) You got a whole day to do whatever you like. What kind of activities do you feel like doing?
I’d stay home and write, listen to music, surf the Internet, read… Honestly, I don’t know, but something that involves being alone.
So... any questions? Thoughts? Comments? What do you guys think about my personality type?
1) What aspect of your personality made you unsure of your type?
I keep my feelings inside of me very much and never really share them. If I’m feeling down, I want to tell my friends or my family, but I never do because I feel extremely uncomfortable doing so. I’m very emotional inside but I have problems with showing that part of me. I sometimes think that I’m a Feeler because of the strong emotions inside, but I haven’t shown that part of me to people in a long time and am so uncomfortable with them and am wondering if that might not be more Thinker. I believe both feelings and logic to be important.
I believe I’m good at understanding why people I know act the way they do and I don’t really have any difficulties putting myself in their shoes. Yet I often end up annoyed by some of them anyway and some are still hard to understand.
When I make decisions, I try to rely on both the way I feel and the rational approach. However, it has happened to me to try to block my feelings when the decision is too hard to make because they sometimes seem to hinder me. When I block my feelings too much though, I become somewhat depressed.
I relate very much to both the INFP description and the INTP description. I could add a lot but I don’t want to write too much.
2) What do you yearn for in life? Why?
Unsure. To be happy with myself I guess. I think I’ve been struggling with depression for the past two or three years and I often feel lost with my life. I’m still not sure what my goal in life is.
3) Think about a time where you felt like you were at your finest. Tell us what made you feel that way.
Um… I don’t know. When I got my red belt in wushu (wushu is a Chinese martial art, btw) maybe. I threw up for the grading but I was really happy and proud when I got it and it felt really great.
I don’t know if that’s really the answer though. I can’t really think of a time when I felt like I was at my finest. I usually feel tired and run-down because of school and having to socialize with my classmates and do boring work.
4) What makes you feel inferior?
I don’t act very competitive but whenever I’m bad at something, it bothers me a lot, even if it’s something I don’t like (such as volleyball). I’m pretty good at everything I do, but when someone or several people are better than me at something and I’m not doing well, I feel inferior. I don’t show it though.
5) What tends to weigh on your decisions? (Do you think about people, pro-cons, how you feel about it, etc.)
I try to think about everything. I want to see what would be the logical approach, I think of how I feel about it and why I feel like that, I analyze other people to see how they would react, I think of everything I could do and think of the pro and cons of doing it all the different ways… If I’m having too many problems making my decision, I’ll decide to go for the logical approach… which doesn’t mean I’ll always stick with it. I’m very impulsive with my decisions and always second-guess myself. Really, I’ll think about it for hours, and then suddenly act completely impulsively without giving any thought to all that I considered or to the decision I finally chose.
6) When working on a project what is normally your emphasis? Do you like to have control of the outcome?
I don’t really think about it at all. The outcome doesn’t even cross my mind too much. If I’m doing it with other people and I trust them, we decide who’s going to work on what and I trust them and just focus on doing my part. If I don’t trust them, I make sure they don’t mess up while doing my own thing. If I’m alone, I just… do it, without thinking overly so of what I'm doing. I’m not sure what you mean by the emphasis.
7) Describe us a time where you had a lot of fun. How is your memory of it?
When I was a little kid and me and two of my sisters made stories up together and acted them out with drawing one of my other sisters made. I can’t remember being so happy doing anything else, but I probably wouldn't enjoy it so much now. I like writing stories alone better now that I'm older.
8) When you want to learn something new, what feels more natural for you? (Are you more prone to be hands on, to theorize, to memorize, etc)
I want to understand the concept, not just memorize it. I want to understand how it works and why it’s like that. I don’t care much for ‘hands on learning’ and I feel like memorizing is a very limited form of learning. I analyze what I’m learning, try to find flaws and try to understand every angle of it.
9) How organized do you think yourself as?
Depends. If someone wants me to be organized, I can be. My mother is always nagging at me and making sure that my room’s clean, so I try to keep as clean as I can and I don’t have too many problems with it. However, if no one cares, then I’m really messy and disorganized. It’s far from my priority.
10) How do you judge new ideas? Do you try to understand the principles behind it to see if they make sense or do you look for information that supports it?
As I’ve said above, I want to understand it. I want to make sure that it makes sense, that it doesn’t have flaws and if it does, I want to find ways to remove those flaws. I analyze it the best I can.
11) You find harmony by making sure everyone is doing fine and belonging to a given group or by making sure that you follow what you believe and being yourself?
I think it’s both. If not all of my acquaintances or friends are doing fine, then it really bothers me. I can usually fix their problems easily enough, given that they actually talk to me. I guess I have problems finding harmony if people around are not doing fine. As for ‘belonging to a given group’, if they’re happy but not within a group, then that’s their business. It won’t disturb my 'harmony'.
On the other hand, I want to follow what I believe and be myself. I’m somewhat conflicted with this though, maybe because I’m conflicted with myself. I have problems letting go and being myself. I want to fit in with people, but not if I have to sacrifice being myself, so I often attempt to compromise and end up neither fitting in nor being myself.
12) Are you the kind that thinks before speaking or do you speak before thinking? Do you prefer one-on-one communication or group discussions?
I definitely think before speaking.
I like being with two other people at the same time, provided I know both of them. I almost never talk if there’s more than that, but the conversation is often lacking if it’s just me and someone else (unless I’m really close with the other person). One-on-one communication often ends up being a long silence while both of us try to find something to say that would interest the other. Of course, that depends on who I’m with too. I have no problems with one-on-one communication with my ESFP friend, for example.
13) Do you jump into action right away or do you like to know where you are jumping before leaping? Does action speaks more than words?
I need to know a bit about where I’m jumping, otherwise crucial mistakes could be made, but I don’t require too much information to go into action.
Both actions and words are necessary. It seems to me that a lot of people are fond of talking and talking and talking and doing nothing, while some other people take action without even trying to talk first. A balance is good.
14) It’s Saturday. You’re at home, and your favorite show is about to start. Your friends call you for a night out. What will you do?
Stay home and say ‘maybe next time’, without any intention to go next time.
15) How do you act when you’re stressed out?
I want to be left alone and if I’m not, I’ll snap at the people around me or simply ignore them. Everything I do will be rushed.
Although that’s only sometimes. Other times I’ll appear very slightly more tense than usual but not act much different, which doesn’t mean that I’m not stressed out.
16) What makes you dislike the personalities of some people?
I find some people to be very self-absorbed. They reject the perspectives of other people and the fact that some people see and think differently than they do. They are focused solely on themselves, what they think, what they believe, what they feel, what they did and do not ever think about what’s around them.
I also dislike people who, say, are aware of the plight of people in other countries, while using that knowledge to appear better than everyone around them. Basically, people who spend all their free time talking about ‘the poor children in Africa’ and look down on everyone because other people don’t talk about it all the time (in fact, I only know one girl who sometimes act like that but it gets on my nerves SO much).
I dislike stupidity and I dislike people who are aware that they are acting stupidly and are proud of it.
17) Is there anything you really like talking about with other people?
I like talking about kung fu and writing since they are both my hobbies. I like debates very much but I have yet to find someone who’s willing to debate with me endlessly. I usually have momentary obsessions such as a certain book, and then I’ll talk about it endlessly to everyone who’s willing to listen to me ramble on about it.
18) What kind of things do you pay the least attention to in your life?
I don’t pay much attention to the way I dress. I dress casually, not flashy at all and I don’t wear makeup. I like fashion and I admire people who use makeup as an art, but I think it’s just not for me.
I feel as if one reason I don’t pay attention to some things (such as house renovation, prices on the market, etc) is because I’m only fourteen so I don’t want to name those things (but I just named them anyway).
19) How do your friends perceive you? What is wrong about their perception? What would your friends never say about your personality?
Not quite sure how my friends perceive me to be honest. I asked one of my friends to describe me in one word and she answered ‘intellectual’ so I guess that would be it. I have another friend who always calls me a goof and hilarious because I’m always lost inside my own world and I apparently say really funny things with a straight face and a serious voice, which just makes it even funnier.
I’m not sure what’s wrong about their perception since I don’t see myself the way they do. I do think a lot of them see me as confident however, which isn’t really true.
They’d never call me outgoing, stupid, flirty… eh, there’s a lot of stuff they’d never say about me.
20) You got a whole day to do whatever you like. What kind of activities do you feel like doing?
I’d stay home and write, listen to music, surf the Internet, read… Honestly, I don’t know, but something that involves being alone.
So... any questions? Thoughts? Comments? What do you guys think about my personality type?