Monday, December 29, 2003
INFP
If you don't know what those letters mean, read on. You might be exposed to some more letters, likely E, S, T and J, which, when they are all together, is the total opposite of INFP. Are ya with me now?
The secret code is the outcome of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, or MBTI. There are numerous places around the 'Net where you can get tested and claim your very own letters of description, that of your personality type. The test is based on the works of Carl Jung and Isabel Myers.
I am an INFP, that is to say, an Introvert, iNtuitive, Feeling, Perceptive sort of person. The opposite letters are Extroverted, Sensing, Thinking and Judging. You might be somewhere inbetween, and not at the extremes of these letters.
I am writing this tonight because INFPs are rarer than hen's teeth, and with their propensity to be introverted, you'd expect them to be rare in the blog world. A web site, Bloginality, can use a modified and very shortened version of the MBTI to test your web personality. I did it, and was surprised to see that it matched my expensive MBTI test findings to the letter (and number.) That is why, in the sidebar, I am giving them a bit of credit by displaying my Bloginality.
And the other reason I am writing this is because tonight, I have been cross-blogging, that of checking out the web logs in the sidebars of some of the blogs I read. And lo and behold, many, may of them are INFPs too! Now this may not seem strange to you, but suppose you were in a room of 100 people, and told that a certain number of them match your personality type exactly. You are an INFP. How many people do you think would match up with you?
Only 1, that's right, 1. The actual figure is 1 1/4% of the populace will be an INFP. So, what are the chances that I run into four blogs in a row that are all INFPs? Wow.
I began at Clear Lake Reflections, where Mark writes in a thoughtful and meaningful way. I picture him writing while looking across at those clear lake reflections. *That's important, because INFPs tend to be in a search for self; the individual becoming a person means that the individuak moves towards being, knowingly and acceptingly, the process which he inwardly and actually is. He moves away from being what he is not, from being a facade. He is not trying to be more than he is or less than he is. (*Carl Rogers, "On Becoming A Person." Houghton Mifflin, 1961, p. 176)
I went from Clear Lake to Causin' A Kimmotion, then to Down a Country Road, which I enjoyed tremendously; Becky is a gifted writer. And over and over again, some web logs declaring their "bloginality" out front, some revelaing it through the paragraphs of carefuly chosen words. For the NF part of the INFP is characteristic of most writers. *Novelists, dramatists, television writers, playwrights, journalists, poets and biographers are almost all exclusively NFs. Technical and scientific writers tend to be NTs (intuitive thinkers) but writers who wish to inspire and persuade, who produce literature, most often are NFs. (*Kiersey/Bates, "Please Understand Me." Prometheus Nemesis Book Company, 1984, p. 60)
So, it may be true that many if not most bloggers, who declare their thoughts and feelings through writing may be NFs or the rarer INFP. A pondering thought for this evening.
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The secret code is the outcome of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, or MBTI. There are numerous places around the 'Net where you can get tested and claim your very own letters of description, that of your personality type. The test is based on the works of Carl Jung and Isabel Myers.
I am an INFP, that is to say, an Introvert, iNtuitive, Feeling, Perceptive sort of person. The opposite letters are Extroverted, Sensing, Thinking and Judging. You might be somewhere inbetween, and not at the extremes of these letters.
I am writing this tonight because INFPs are rarer than hen's teeth, and with their propensity to be introverted, you'd expect them to be rare in the blog world. A web site, Bloginality, can use a modified and very shortened version of the MBTI to test your web personality. I did it, and was surprised to see that it matched my expensive MBTI test findings to the letter (and number.) That is why, in the sidebar, I am giving them a bit of credit by displaying my Bloginality.
And the other reason I am writing this is because tonight, I have been cross-blogging, that of checking out the web logs in the sidebars of some of the blogs I read. And lo and behold, many, may of them are INFPs too! Now this may not seem strange to you, but suppose you were in a room of 100 people, and told that a certain number of them match your personality type exactly. You are an INFP. How many people do you think would match up with you?
Only 1, that's right, 1. The actual figure is 1 1/4% of the populace will be an INFP. So, what are the chances that I run into four blogs in a row that are all INFPs? Wow.
I began at Clear Lake Reflections, where Mark writes in a thoughtful and meaningful way. I picture him writing while looking across at those clear lake reflections. *That's important, because INFPs tend to be in a search for self; the individual becoming a person means that the individuak moves towards being, knowingly and acceptingly, the process which he inwardly and actually is. He moves away from being what he is not, from being a facade. He is not trying to be more than he is or less than he is. (*Carl Rogers, "On Becoming A Person." Houghton Mifflin, 1961, p. 176)
I went from Clear Lake to Causin' A Kimmotion, then to Down a Country Road, which I enjoyed tremendously; Becky is a gifted writer. And over and over again, some web logs declaring their "bloginality" out front, some revelaing it through the paragraphs of carefuly chosen words. For the NF part of the INFP is characteristic of most writers. *Novelists, dramatists, television writers, playwrights, journalists, poets and biographers are almost all exclusively NFs. Technical and scientific writers tend to be NTs (intuitive thinkers) but writers who wish to inspire and persuade, who produce literature, most often are NFs. (*Kiersey/Bates, "Please Understand Me." Prometheus Nemesis Book Company, 1984, p. 60)
So, it may be true that many if not most bloggers, who declare their thoughts and feelings through writing may be NFs or the rarer INFP. A pondering thought for this evening.
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