'English and French! :D I get a lot of happiness from the mere fact that I speak/write/comprehend French, hehe.
I'm starting a new job hunt. I could use some advice about what (if anything) I can do to deal with a bad spot in my job history. I was let go last summer from a temp. agency position at a call...
You're not alone, Oh_no_she_DIDNT. I have the same moral opposition to animal testing (in addition to human testing but that's a given). How I look at it...we humans suffer and die as a part of...
Hell yeah! Thank you for posting this, original poster. George Orwell is one of my heroes. I have mad respect for him. He saw some of the worst sides of humanity and did not shrink from it or...
Like other INFPs have said, I also don't get mad very often, like a few times a year. Whereas I get upset a lot. Anger for me is a unique state and it's impossible to miss when I get it. It's...
My father is ENFJ and my mother is (probably) INFP. They've been happily married for over 25 years. I think I'm pretty familiar with how ENFJs express love. My mom describes her husband as...
INFP here - I studied French in college and did a study abroad semester in Paris. Foreign languages = pleasure. A steady stream of pleasure because each word, whether it's heard, read, or spoken,...
In public school I tried to appear as smart as I possibly could as a way of compensating for low self-esteem and social anxiety. IQ of 136 in sixth grade, supposedly my vocabulary was college-level...
There's an easy solution, in my opinion. Go after careers and educational settings where you find the very smartest people. That way you won't have to worry about suppressing your intelligence. ...
Really fascinating analyses here. My vote is ISFX. My basis for saying that is that he had a similar personality to a friend of mine who is ISFX. Same kinds of ideals and desires and S-type...
Lexie - INFP (a social one) Mark - ESFP (although he's a hedonist, you can see the auxiliary Fi depth flashing through...not too much F there, though) Derek - ESFJ Cristina - INTJ...but what...
Today, an ISFJ friend and I were talking about how much we love MBTI. She said, If you ever buy me a present or make me a present, please make it related to personality psych. And I thought that...
I will be sure to never, ever, ever watch that movie now. I cannot typically watch gore. Personally it makes me upset that people can get so good at un-emotionally watching gore. Tolerance of gore...
When it comes to ENFJs and firing people, I have one IRL example. My dad's an ENFJ and a business owner. His business partner (who eventually came to rank below my dad in the business) merited...
I have a hard time figuring out how people perceive me. An ENFP told me I was very polite, a surly INTJ told me I was happy (too happy for her, essentially) , and many people have told me I'm quiet...
Whhhhhhy is that!? I really would like to know why INFPs tend to have so little confidence in their correctness. I bet there's a ton of reasons.
I probably shouldn't be adding my two cents per se because I'm an INFP male... still, Romantically, I'd like to be with: - someone who has tons and tons of good will for others...so that I can be...
We just happen to grow up in a certain kind of culture and some people are better at hacking it than others. I let out a reflexive AAAAMEN to that sentence. I think you have lovely, lovely...
Oh wow...ENTJ indeed! XD I'm a periodically-lazy-frequently-distracted-perfectionist-procrastinator (a really winning combination), so I'd pay GOOD MONEY for some ENTJ rearing and taming when it...
Oh wow...ENTJ indeed! XD I'm a periodically-lazy-frequently-distracted-perfectionist-procrastinator (a really winning combination), so I'd pay GOOD MONEY for some ENTJ rearing and taming when it...
A girl who I'm fairly certain is ENTJ is into me. I think the relationship could work out great (if I was attracted to her, which I'm not, unfortunately :( ). Her ENTJ ways would have a lot of...
Icarus Dreams: How do you find NYC lets you live happily as an INFP? Funny...at the same time as most INFPs lament most countries, and where they live, I have heard us characterized as very good...
If you've been laughed at, I think you can pretty much be sure you're on the right track! I oppose routine infant circumcision (which is genital mutilation) -- and I've been laughed at for that.
Great idea! I'm thinking about teaching French, actually. (And I love the language.) I'm doing a semester abroad in Paris right now...(ughhhh gotta study for finals...) And yes, Minneapolis is...
Hi Reid! I may have some advice for you! First things first though... Ditto! Personality Cafe gives me peace. And you're right, it is exciting! My first bit of advice is to work on...
I've done the chameleon thing in the past and I still sometimes do it. The other half of the time, I use an indirect method that I'll call principled socializing to make first impressions -- when...
While I'm both an INFP and a fairy by some peoples' estimation (meanwhile another friend thinks I'm very masculine?)...I gotta give it to you, that poetry is hilariously awful. I'm cracking up!!!
I wonder why I haven't yet died in a car wreck. It's objectively a little frightening how much I zone out when I'm driving on a boring stretch of highway or interstate in the country. I start...
So that I understand, Kaetastrophe, what do you mean when you say you used to believe you were transgendered? Are you saying you went through a phase where you thought of yourself as a boy, or...
I don't know...what do you guys see? (fyi I'm 21 years old) expressionless (below): http://personalitycafe.com/members/arc72-albums-eyes-picture24543-expressionless.JPG smiling (below):...
Ha! What a terrible typo! I meant NORTH Korea as an example of hell on Earth.
I totally identify with this! Well first of all, ANYONE who doesn't put their partner on at least a short pedestal and make them feel special (babying) is bad at dating and needs to learn the...
An INFP world: - VERY SPIRITUAL - very artistic - more physically affectionate - slow-paced - full of emotional problems - romance would be fraught with idealization and therefore sudden and...
Are you talking about highly sensitive people? It can be very difficult to live as a highly sensitive person, but I am convinced that highly sensitive people often can do better than cope -- they...
So, out of curiosity, where do you stand now? A searching agnostic? If so, I'm agnostic too but I haven't yet gotten a strong urge to set out to find a higher form of spirituality/meaning. Sure, I've...
Hehe, it always goes back to semantics. The definition of cult I've been taught involves a charismatic and controlling leader. And I can't imagine an INFP being that. As a side note, I think...
I think what I wrote applies more to feelers who have been treated decently for most of their lives, and then are hit with a rogue wave of cruelty...not so much feelers who've had to distance...
I LOVE this. It's true that many religions tell us to attribute humanity's worst shortcomings to ourselves, and to attribute our finer moments to faith. Is this instruction just a scheme to make...
When finally someone does something to really, truly, MALICIOUSLY hurt you (we're talking something really serious) ...you don't feel an ounce of anger, just pity. Why? Because you believe that...
I think science has de-mystified religion to some extent. For instance, some parts of the creation story are (literally) unbelievable these days. But I think science has only made a minor dent, in...
I'm going to disagree with you vehemently. Yes, an INFP might find himself or herself a leader of a somewhat wacky group (like, hypothetically, a group devoted to the universal right to go to work...
Same here. Reality, the world, the universe, and humanity already blow my mind. It makes me wonder who along the line was so difficult to impress that they needed to dream up an extra, supernatural...
Amazing paragraph. It's as if you've summarized all of my inner reasons for doubting a supernatural spiritual reality and for abhorring (much of) religion. I wonder if it's not entirely...
I think that's both rational and courageous! I'd like to meet someone in real life who lived by this principle.
How about people with strong empathetic abilities? I sometimes think they do things for others so that they can enter the mind of the person for whom they're doing something and experience that...
I agree that morality is defined by popular sentiment, and that individuals can come up with their own moral codes. But the public errs, and individuals err. I believe there is a valid,...
Excellent, excellent point snail. And I think it's significant that people who follow their personal consciences and fight the system tend to go after the same kinds of evils (say cruelty or...
Doctor-assisted suicide (euthanasia) in medical circumstances involving extreme pain and no hope of recovery is not only okay, but far more responsible, noble, honest, and humane than letting nature...
Lucem: I'm not sure if I'm supposed to rebut here, but I'd like to say that, yes, it's not that big a deal when it's used to justify foolish military decisions BUT...the loss of...
I apologize beforehand if I extend the topic past odd things that arouse me to things that I generally find erotic. Dark smouldering bedroom eyes. Cute faces, male or female. Blonde hair! ...'
