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.
RE: On Intellect, Emotion And Feeling
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On Intellect, Emotion And Feeling
(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.