Once more, with less Feeling

[yendi]

So, I'm still an INFP. I'm even more extreme on the I and the N than previously. Since I have a habit of associating the introvert/extrovert scale with actions, I keep thinking I'm less introverted than I used to be. I'm not. Introverts are people who simply get drained from being around other people. It doesn't prevent them from teaching classes or speaking to a large group (the N types all seem very good at that). They just go insane when they don't get any alone time (which I pretty much never get, hence the insanity). Extroverts thrive on other people, even if they're shy. My boss (who's unlike me in every way except the I/E scale) and I agree that Extroverts are social vampires, feeding on the juicy brain waves of the introverts. :-)

The big surprise is that my Thinking/Feeling ratio has slipped towards the middle. I used to be about a 16 on the scale towards Feeling (considerable, but not extreme). I'm now at 4, practically on the border. It's the only one that appears to be near the middle, although since this test was geared towards the workplace, it may have been skewed (people do tend to have different types for different aspects of their lives). I suspect I'm more towards F outside of work, as well as more towards the middle on the N/S scale.

Interestingly, of the nine people in the room, there were no duplicate types (not even if we add the tenth, the facilitator). That means that our team has either a diverse set of strengths and talents that complement each other, or that we're too fucking different, and will never agree.

Comments

[bookslacker.livejournal.com]

Bury those feelings deep and come over to the other side... (from an INTP)

[kiwitayro.livejournal.com]

i'm secretly an INFP tho i often test as an ENFP b/c i'm a really well-socialized I. i like people, i need people to feed the N and the F part of me, so i feed my social life and emotions for other people. i'm a very extroverted, social I, but an I nonetheless. i come back to *me* at the end, i need to write, think and process first. then bounce ideas off others *after* i finish my own processing.

also, i can do theatre, teach and public speak just fine.

very interesting.

[fornorald.livejournal.com]

They just go insane when they don't get any alone time

Too. Durn. True.