INFP What??
So I finally took the infamous Myers Briggs Test… Turns out that I am (at the time I took the test) an INFP (Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving)
eh, whatever… Here’s what TypeLogic.com had to say about that…
INFPs live primarily in a rich inner world of introverted Feeling. Being inward-turning, the natural attraction is away from world and toward essence and ideal. This introversion of dominant Feeling, receiving its data from extraverted intuition, must be the source of the quixotic nature of these usually gentle beings. Feeling is caught in the approach- avoidance bind between concern both for people and for All Creatures Great and Small, and a psycho-magnetic repulsion from the same. The “object,” be it homo sapiens or a mere representation of an organism, is valued only to the degree that the object contains some measure of the inner Essence or greater Good. Doing a good deed, for example, may provide intrinsic satisfaction which is only secondary to the greater good of striking a blow against Man’s Inhumanity to Mankind.
INFPs live primarily in a rich inner world of introverted Feeling. Being inward-turning, the natural attraction is away from world and toward essence and ideal. This introversion of dominant Feeling, receiving its data from extraverted intuition, must be the source of the quixotic nature of these usually gentle beings. Feeling is caught in the approach- avoidance bind between concern both for people and for All Creatures Great and Small, and a psycho-magnetic repulsion from the same. The “object,” be it homo sapiens or a mere representation of an organism, is valued only to the degree that the object contains some measure of the inner Essence or greater Good. Doing a good deed, for example, may provide intrinsic satisfaction which is only secondary to the greater good of striking a blow against Man’s Inhumanity to Mankind.
Extraverted intuition faces outward, greeting the world on behalf of Feeling. What the observer usually sees is creativity with implied good will. Intuition spawns this type’s philosophical bent and strengthens pattern perception. It combines as auxiliary with introverted Feeling and gives rise to unusual skill in both character development and fluency with language–a sound basis for the development of literary facility. If INTPs aspire to word mechanics, INFPs would be verbal artists.
Sensing is introverted and often invisible. This stealth function in the third position gives INFPs a natural inclination toward absent- mindedness and other-worldliness, however, Feeling’s strong people awareness provides a balancing, mitigating effect. This introverted Sensing is somewhat categorical, a subdued version of SJ sensing. In the third position, however, it is easily overridden by the stronger functions.
The INFP may turn to inferior extraverted Thinking for help in focusing on externals and for closure. INFPs can even masquerade in their ESTJ business suit, but not without expending considerable energy. The inferior, problematic nature of Extraverted Thinking is its lack of context and proportion. Single impersonal facts may loom large or attain higher priority than more salient principles which are all but overlooked.
Famous INFPs:
Homer Virgil Mary, mother of Jesus St. John, the beloved disciple St. Luke; physician, disciple, author William Shakespeare, bard of Avon Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Evangeline) A. A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh) Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie) Helen Keller, deaf and blind author Carl Rogers, reflective psychologist, counselor Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood) Dick Clark (American Bandstand) Donna Reed, actor (It’s a Wonderful Life) Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis Neil Diamond, vocalist Tom Brokaw, news anchor James Herriot (All Creatures Great and Small) Annie Dillard (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek) James Taylor, vocalist Julia Roberts, actor (Conspiracy Theory, Pretty Woman) Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap) Terri Gross (PBS’s “Fresh Air”) Amy Tan (author of The Joy-Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife) John F. Kennedy, Jr. Lisa Kudrow (”Phoebe” of Friends) Fred Savage (”The Wonder Years”)
Fictional INFPs: Anne (Anne of Green Gables)) Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes) Deanna Troi (Star Trek - The Next Generation) Wesley Crusher (Star Trek - The Next Generation) Doctor Julian Bashir (Star Trek: Deep Space 9) Bastian (The Neverending Story) E.T.: the ExtraTerrestrial Doug Funny, Doug cartoons Tommy, Rug Rats cartoons Rocko, Rocko’s Modern Life cartoons
That is one of the sillier things I’ve heard recently. If you are introverted then I am Mary Poppins. Now where is my umbrella…
Hilarious website…I’m a ISFJ. Introverted, Sensing, Feeling, Judging person. smirk Whatever.
I think that unless you take a full version of the test (like 400 questions), you can get a very mood-biased result.
The introverted part I think came from the fact that I had just spent an entire day programming… The description of INFPs, however, was, I think, fairly accurate, minus the introversion.
I am an INTJ (Introverted iNtuative Thinking Judgeing).
http://typelogic.com/intj.html
and your right matt it makes a lot of difference the time of day and the mood you are in when you take such a short quiz. I mean me..? Thinking? Right I don’t think so… I am the most feeling emotional person I know. btthhh!!!
hahaha– Matt I’ve tested as INFP the last three years… now I’m INTP–
oh well.
im a INFP, that’s what is show on my test.
but i don’t think im a INFP.
im trying to find if there’s something that fits me.
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