'Hugs are great, except when they're given by someone I don't really like at all. I won't initiate them, though, because I realize people get uncomfortable about being hugged sometimes. But I like...
I tend to have three or four separate lines of chatter going on at the same time, though they operate at different volumes. I'm a pretty anxious person, so one of the lines is usually criticizing...
I'm in college now, but I'm actually working at a 6 month internship instead of going to classes right now. I'm working for an advocacy group which writes legislation and works with state senators...
I don't think I'm cynical, necessarily, but I absolutely see the darkness in people, and I think that darkness is necessary. I get bored easily with people who are too bright and don't let some of...
My writing tends to take things from a very general point. I'm not interested in discussing concrete details, and I find myself skimming over them in other people's writing - I want to get to the...
I'm mainly attracted to men, and I tend to go for the ones who are intelligent critics. They're people who stand apart from others because they just can't really relate to them and find a lot of what...
I like watching the trailers for Mad Men episodes just because they tend to make fun of the whole idea of in the next episode! trailers. They'll have things like two second clips of someone walking...
Birds in the dumb water. I'm the sky, the water said, and I've generally tested above average on intelligence tests. But the birds knew better. The birds knew that birdbrain was an...
I'd probably dress myself up in a suit and appreciate how dapper I look, then go to a cafe with a bunch of gay girls and flirt with them. It's kind of counterintuitive, but I feel like I'd be a lot...
Yeah, this has been one of the more irritating parts of working in an office environment for the first time. I always feel constrained by the idea that I'm at work, and no one really expects to...
I'm not sure I'd use the word schizophrenic to refer to MBTI theories... that seems like a more appropriate label for a theory with wild deductive leaps. I think I've seen a theory like that...
I have no idea if he's an INFP, but Jens Lekman's lyrics definitely connect with the exaggerated, grand sense of melancholy I feel sometimes. Bats are sucking on cherries Dangling from the trees...
I have a lot of trouble finding STP types very interesting, most of the time. I'm generally interested in talking about ideas and beliefs, while I find the tendency of STPs to love talking about...
There's puppies. We're in a world which is full of experience and love, of which we haven't even consumed a percentage. Every day there are new connections we can make, new ways to see things, and...
I wanted to be a spider. It didn't work.
You can't ridiculously broad generalizations about gender and use them to fuel your sexual frustration. Well, I mean, you can, but it's childish and not in the fun way. Women do not all act in the...
I wish for a really good burrito.
I always thought this was the defining characteristic of Fe, and that's why I felt so ambivalent about typing myself as INFP: I feel like I'm constantly adjusting my personality to other's...
Oftentimes, I'll take small-scale leadership roles just to quell uncertainty and lost-ness in a group. If there's a project to be accomplished, I'm generally the person who starts asking the...
Steve Roggenbuck gives me the carpe diem inspiration I need to get through the day. (Language in the video is NSFW.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bR6uOsDn-Q
First, I think that there's no way to find a really meaningful conclusion about nature vs. nurture in personality type given the limited data available, especially under Jungian theory. We can throw...
I'm good at making people laugh.
I used to consider I had a schizoid personality, but I found that I was only using that sort of self-diagnosis as a defense mechanism to avoid reckoning with the loneliness I didn't know how to...
I think it's hard for people to see areas where they might be seen as idealistic. People will generally choose to be around people who don't challenge the way they see reality - and if you're around...
I'm perfectly able to be practical, and I'm often going to try to keep the future sustainable. It doesn't mean that I don't have strong feelings or passions, but it means I'm going to keep myself...
I don't think it'll surprise anyone that Six Feet Under was this for me. It's ultimately a show about what it means to be a vulnerable introvert with love and passion but without the courage to ask...
Other people's lives seem more interesting 'cause they ain't mine. I'm a sociology major, so I tend to do this - though it tends to be more that I'm looking at how people are grouping together and...
I really admire ISFPs because they see the world in a way that's just inaccessible to me. Everything still has deep meaning, but for them it doesn't seem to be made into a narrative: experiences...
I try to look for friends who can join me in a crusade against the rest of the world - people who get upset in the same way that people don't try to dig deeper beyond surface impressions. And usually...
I ended up building a facade of sarcasm and loathing for the world around me in order to hide my actual sensitivity. Now I'm trying to tear that front down in hopes that it'll let me be a more...
I'm definitely much more passive-aggressive than literally aggressive. I think it's because every time I started to verge on aggressive as a kid, people tended to find it comical instead of...
I spent most of high school infatuated with an ENFP. You guys have a magic about you - an inner deepness and an outer charm that's hard to stay away from.
I don't think anyone enjoys being told who they are. I could be projecting, but I think most people vastly prefer being able to choose what they can call themselves or what categories to apply to...
I keep trying to beat the mess back, but somehow the floor always ends up strewn with clothes and my desk is full of things that I picked up in my pockets throughout the week.
I've already spent a good deal of time looking at the cognitive functions and thinking about them, but I feel like self-examination really doesn't give you a complete picture with this sort of thing....
So I've had a few different types suggested for me on the What's Your Type forum. I'm pretty sure I'm an INFP (maybe one with more Fe than usual), but I've also had INFJ and ISFJ suggested. I...
It's okay to have people think you're weird. It's even okay to have people think you're obnoxious, because these things are better and more fulfilling than having people think you don't exist. You...
You guys are pretty intimidating, but you've been some of the best people for me to have around. I had a fantastic ENTJ teacher who believed in me, and winning her respect made me feel like I'm a...
I've recorded a video challenge, just to see if that gives you any more insight into the N vs. S question: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxThRgc7vk0
I tend to process things on a very conceptual level - almost entirely in words. Usually there's something like 4-5 layers of language in my head, shifting over each other and changing their...
Head to the library, pick up a bunch of different books and read a few pages of each one. In my experience, it's easy to get turned off of reading because of one book which is totally on the wrong...
I swear I have way too much difficulty with the how are you? interaction - as soon as I respond fine, how are you? I feel like I'm wasting the person's time and I'm a failure at interacting like...
Dear ESFP best friend, I love you and I hate that you're sad and anxious - and I wish I could do more for you. You've always been my rock when I've felt fed up with life and routine, and when you...
I think the system is largely a set of socialized beliefs we have about what we can and can't do. And it's also the structural factors that make some of these beliefs untenable. For instance, there's...
That's really interesting, actually: gives me a whole new perspective on Si. Still, I'm not sure it's my dominant method of perception. You talk about the way I responded to the picture, but to be...
I guess that's possible, but I really don't see the other parts of Si. I'm fairly spontaneous, and I get bored easily with routine and doing the same things. (I'm the kind of person who orders...
Usually yelling or confrontation, I think - at least, I tend to go far out of my way to avoid it. I don't necessarily like passive aggression of course, but it's something I can tolerate and know...
That's very possible, I think, especially since Si doesn't seem to come into play for me at all.
I can get jealous that other people are having more fun than I am, but I realize it's a silly feeling and one that's sort of ridiculous. That said, I often find the laughter of strangers really...
I just never want to bother anyone with my presence, so I try to drift around and just look invisible. I'm working on it, though.'
