'Never. I had a negative self-image for most of my childhood and early adulthood, mostly because I was different than most everyone else, and subconsciously accepted the perception that *I* was...
You're welcome. Sorry so long in responding, but I haven't been here in a few months. :smile:
The poetry bug comes to me every few years or so, and then I seem to lose the knack for it until it comes back. Here's one that was posted on my personal website for years: Three months ago the...
An opportunist who appeals to the lowest common denominator. (And I say that as someone who still thinks he's better than the alternative. I'm more disappointed in my fellow Americans for creative...
Honestly? I think who the hell gives anyone else the right to decide what people and personality types are needed in this world and which ones are not? Maybe some ESTJ thinks I'm not needed or...
In the last few years, you could probably say that I am. What's actually happened is that I have made a handful of close friends independently of one another, and to the extent that they're a...
I've debated that one many times myself. Senna was and is the only racing driver I ever tuned in just to watch, and in my opinion he was a better man off the track than on it. He sounded like an INFP...
This has been my view on Hitler all along. Hitler was such an unstable person that I don't think you can nail him down to any MBTI profile at all. Logically, what ENTPness said a few posts back makes...
I've been called that before, most recently by a close friend who is 63 and an ISFP. Throughout my life, most of my friends and even my relationships have been with people older than me, and this has...
If I had to guess: My girlfriend is another INFP. No doubt in my mind. That's one reason I didn't give up on a relationship with her when she moved away three years ago, and stayed in touch until...
I wasn't talking about you in particular. And I'm all in favor of imparting a positive perspective to someone who struggles with their identity as an INFP. I've been there before, and I've offered...
Don't care about race. I've dated outside my race before, and was perfectly fine with it. Personality, honesty, and shared values are the most important things to me.
Did you even care about being popular? I never did. I always marched to the beat of my own drummer, and if I marched by myself, I was fine with that. I wasn't interested in being someone I wasn't...
I'm amazed that there are so many responses to someone's self-loathing, and that some of the INFP's on here actually feel the need to justify their existence to someone like that. I'm about as...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hIkAFQjNWI
Oh yes, definitely. In my case, I spent years of my life either defending my values or being extremely private about my thoughts and beliefs. I finally got to a point in my life (actually after...
One of my best friends is an ISFP. I always suspected she was one, and then one day she read one of my profiles where I mentioned I was an INFP. She got interested in the subject after reading an...
Depends on the situation. If it's something friendly and not competitive on the part of the other party, then I don't really care much. But if the person is pulling out all of the stops to try to...
I like my music loud...what do you get when you combine ancient Celtic music with Gothenburg metal? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQo0fMUdiGg
Actually, if I remember correctly from a staff development session a year ago, the guy I work for is an ENTJ. We all had to take an MBTI test, and I told them from the get-go that I already knew what...
Take your time. This is the INFP forum, not the ESTJ forum. ;-) Seriously, I'm sure it's like that for a lot of us. I just got back on here the other day after not having had a chance to...
Bjork and Kid Cudi, definitely INFP. Probably Kurt Cobain was, too. The person who wrote the lyrics in my sig, Tuomas Holopainen of Nightwish, is about as obvious an INFP as you can get.
Send her a letter, and in that letter, tell her to respond when she is ready to do so. You absolutely have to give an INFP their space, or you'll just make things worse. The worst fights I've had,...
No, I don't consider myself weird at all. I'm an INFP. My normal may not be someone else's normal. I think ESTJ's are weird, but I'm sure they're perfectly normal to other ESTJ's or similar...
This works for me. If I wait a few days and it still is something I think I want/need, then I get it. Impulse buying is what always gets me in trouble.
Stick around. You are the one here with meaningful insight into INFP-ENTJ relationships. Where INFP people have mentioned being bored with the person they're with is something I can relate to....
Welcome! Your story is a lot like mine. I tried to be what the rest of the world thought I should be, until I was 38 years old and doing considerable soul-searching of my own after what my life had...
You have to draw the line sometimes. If you don't, it will destroy you emotionally and even physically. I know what you're dealing with. I have friends who know they can count on me and always...
I always figured I would have a family at some point, like pretty much everyone else does. For many reasons, it never happened, and I'm glad it didn't, because when I was in my 20s and 30s, I would...
For a time, when I got to junior high school, I was. Same old story with certain other personality types; they see an INFP (even if they don't understand MBTI at all, they know the type), and they...
Based on how you described yourself, it's extremely likely that you are an INFP. The part about not being comfortable in a large group of people is classic INFP. INFP's more than any other...
If someone says no one wants to be INFP, it's because they're not one and can't (or more often, refuse to) understand the ones they come into contact with. Sometimes it's hard being an INFP,...
You are generalizing. As an INFP, I can be what people call emotionally needy. I try to keep from putting undue emotional stress on others by internalizing whatever is affecting me and working it...
No. I'm too impulsive and too quick to make a move, not seeing all the possibilities. I can beat most people playing chess in a casual setting, but against a good player in a competitive game, no way.
Always. I can live with the consequences of any decision I make, so long as I know I based it on the knowledge I had at the time and made the decision that I knew I could live with. Sometimes you...
Well, I never voluntarily smoked any. I don't believe in affecting my moods or feelings with any chemical substances, including alcohol or marijuana. However, when I was a teenager, I did...
That's definitely an INFP poem.
As am I. I had an interesting conversation with a friend last week, who commented on how I was different than anyone she knew, in the feelings and emotions that I convey, in the numerous...
That's me alright. I honestly think I intentionally do certain things in order to make it clear that I am an individual. One thing I have said to people many times is that just because everyone...
It sounds like it would be an awful match, but it depends on the people involved. I know from experience that it's possible for an INFP to have a successful relationship with an INTJ, but I think...
Yes, absolutely. I have to have a significant amount of time where I am left to myself, or it drives me nuts. If someone violates my space or interferes with my time to myself, rest assured they...
No way. I've been accused of it by a SO before, but I never, ever cheated on anyone and I never will. It would go against everything I believe and every fiber in my being.
I can't speak for all INFP's, but I would imagine it's fairly common for an INFP to also be a heavy metal fan. Heavy metal runs the gamut of human emotions, and INFP's tend to view everything through...
I'm surprised that there are churches like that in Germany. I thought those kinds of things were confined to American religious fanatics. We have people over here who are basically Christian...
I think there's just something about the INFP personality that makes verbal communication difficult. I am terrible at it. I either don't get out the words to accurately convey what I am trying to...
Couldn't have said it any better myself! Seriously, there was a time when I felt like I wanted to be someone else. Being an INFP is very tough sometimes; I really don't think there's a personality...
I don't like the term, but as someone who had a dream about the 1985 Mexico City earthquake two days before it happened, and then saw the exact same images on TV that he had dreamed two nights...
I think if you look up INFP in the dictionary, there is a picture of Tuomas Holopainen. The first time I heard Nightwish, I immediately connected with the music, like nothing I had ever heard before...
I think I have known my share of both types. I tend to agree with what Adasta said; ESTJ's are much more difficult to deal with than ENTJ's. I try to avoid ESTJ's whenever I can, because I can't...
I would say that your brutal honesty probably works in your favor with him. INFP's value truth, honestly, and loyalty. We're a sensitive lot, but we can forgive someone saying things that are hurtful...'
