This is really interesting and yet still somewhat confusing. I have always tested as INFP on tests, but my J/P scale is always very close to central. (On one test I even got 50-50, though it still said INFP for me.)
I think I am probably an INFP, but even the talk of structure or flexibility confuses me. I love that I work in a different workplace each day of the week and I am not a person to plan everything with lists and can be (& enjoy to be) spontaneous. But on the other hand, if for example I am going somewhere for a weekentd, I will print off maps to every location I am going to if there might be no wifi, laminate them in case it rains, plan out everywhere else I might go including maybe googling cinema timetables and so on and I will be very prepared, particularly if I am going somewhere alone - I will have all my times and where I am going and when planned out exactly. If I'm with a group of people I won't be a planner, but I can be the planner if I need to be. And it certainly doesn't bother me if there are plans. If I have some kind of project to complete on the other hand, there will be no plan. I'll just (procrastinate and then) dive in.
In terms of empathy, I relate to the INFJ description. I feel like I just feel the emotion of the other person. I definitely don't always understand it first. I don't feel like I mirror it. I feel like I feel it. It can sometimes be disconcerting as to feel the feeling without processing it can be overwhelming and it definitely means that it is harder to know how to help the main feeler than if I understood what was going on for them more from a more distanced and logical viewpoint.
In art, I don't care if something is objectively good - if I don't feel it, it has failed, so emotion is at my core of what matters deepest to me. And in rationalising my thoughts about The World and issues of justice and fairmindedness, logic as well as emotion both matter. I have strong principles and not necessarily the same as the main all the time, but I think I am open-minded to anyone's different point of view. I hope to make decisions from how I feel, but I definitely don't make decision without logic. I don't like making decisions, but once my heart is set on a decision, I am no longer conflicted - I have made my decision.
On the other hand, as a child I was creative, but also great at science topics. I did a maths degree and have a logical mind that sees patterns instinctively. I also play instruments and in my job I improvise so that's very spontaneous I guess - I never know what any day will be and even emotionally, every work day is very different. Now, I prefer fiction and have a big fantasy world in which I daydream in ways 100% unconnected to reality. And I always loved fiction and fantasy worlds in my own mind. I love fantasy on TV and in books. But I also love documetary programmes on science and history and I love biographies and delving deep into the past - historically and scientifically and I am interested in the deep connections (for example between maths and music - two of my passions.)
I feel like I am very much both analytical and driven by emotion!!?! And that's probably why I score close to central on this scale in every test. (For the INF parts I am always a lot more certainly in the zone!)
我知道别人认为我更多的器官ized than I actually am as they have told me and in the privacy discussion I relate more to the INFP description.
Carolyn JWX (not verified)says...
This is really interesting and yet still somewhat confusing. I have always tested as INFP on tests, but my J/P scale is always very close to central. (On one test I even got 50-50, though it still said INFP for me.)
I think I am probably an INFP, but even the talk of structure or flexibility confuses me. I love that I work in a different workplace each day of the week and I am not a person to plan everything with lists and can be (& enjoy to be) spontaneous. But on the other hand, if for example I am going somewhere for a weekentd, I will print off maps to every location I am going to if there might be no wifi, laminate them in case it rains, plan out everywhere else I might go including maybe googling cinema timetables and so on and I will be very prepared, particularly if I am going somewhere alone - I will have all my times and where I am going and when planned out exactly. If I'm with a group of people I won't be a planner, but I can be the planner if I need to be. And it certainly doesn't bother me if there are plans. If I have some kind of project to complete on the other hand, there will be no plan. I'll just (procrastinate and then) dive in.
In terms of empathy, I relate to the INFJ description. I feel like I just feel the emotion of the other person. I definitely don't always understand it first. I don't feel like I mirror it. I feel like I feel it. It can sometimes be disconcerting as to feel the feeling without processing it can be overwhelming and it definitely means that it is harder to know how to help the main feeler than if I understood what was going on for them more from a more distanced and logical viewpoint.
In art, I don't care if something is objectively good - if I don't feel it, it has failed, so emotion is at my core of what matters deepest to me. And in rationalising my thoughts about The World and issues of justice and fairmindedness, logic as well as emotion both matter. I have strong principles and not necessarily the same as the main all the time, but I think I am open-minded to anyone's different point of view. I hope to make decisions from how I feel, but I definitely don't make decision without logic. I don't like making decisions, but once my heart is set on a decision, I am no longer conflicted - I have made my decision.
On the other hand, as a child I was creative, but also great at science topics. I did a maths degree and have a logical mind that sees patterns instinctively. I also play instruments and in my job I improvise so that's very spontaneous I guess - I never know what any day will be and even emotionally, every work day is very different. Now, I prefer fiction and have a big fantasy world in which I daydream in ways 100% unconnected to reality. And I always loved fiction and fantasy worlds in my own mind. I love fantasy on TV and in books. But I also love documetary programmes on science and history and I love biographies and delving deep into the past - historically and scientifically and I am interested in the deep connections (for example between maths and music - two of my passions.)
I feel like I am very much both analytical and driven by emotion!!?! And that's probably why I score close to central on this scale in every test. (For the INF parts I am always a lot more certainly in the zone!)
我知道别人认为我更多的器官ized than I actually am as they have told me and in the privacy discussion I relate more to the INFP description.
How confusing!