RE: On Intellect, Emotion And Feeling
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I just took the test again, and this time it says I'm an INFJ-A . Reading through the descriptions so far it does look more closely aligned to myself than the one before. I do think that my life experiences forced me many years ago to analyze more carefully whenever emotions are involved, not feeling but emotion.
(notice the intp is "hiding" behind the sunglasses)
Zoiks.
inFj.
This video captures my essence well. While I do have a love for people, I've only had a couple of people I've considered friends in my life. I am an introvert, and have a hard time relating to others need for others as deeply as most seem to need it. I very much don't mind being alone, and often find myself wishing I were when circumstances force me not to be.
This video (and subsequent videos and articles I've been reading in the last hour or so) help explain a few things to me. It definitely explains how I know that feeling is not emotion, and is in its own right what seems to me a more natural way of being than even intellect.
Thank you for sharing.
There have been a couple of points where I have been approached by near strangers or very casual acquaintances who inexplicably felt comfortably compelled to "open up" to me without my conscious initiation.
Perhaps I was exhibiting INFJ characteristics at the time.
I can see why that would happen to you. I would guess it's the Wa thing I mentioned. That coupled with folks need to constantly be sharing for validation would make you a path of least resistance to many I'm guessing. Your energy isn't confrontational (at least here). A classic example is when someone states something, you rarely imply they are wrong, you instead ask what about this.
As for characteristics, I think while they might be good as a general tendency map, they can't be so rigid as to exclude folks from at times exhibiting behavior that could be a stronger calling/map for another type.
Certainly it's not, and shouldn't be thought of as a purely procrustean framework.