'Movies: No Country for Old Men, Pulp Fiction, The Big Lebowski, Once Upon a Time in the West, I heart Huckabees  Books: Personality Type: An Owner's Manual, Lenore Thompson; Catcher in the Rye,...|||I used to test as an ISTP. Now I think I fronted as an ISTP because of circumstances and wanting to fit in. I used MBTI to understand myself better and am pretty sure I'm INFP now.|||I'm giving it a shot this year. I tried before once but couldn't finish. I started fresh yesterday and I'm basically working off the cuff. I can't really plan where a story is going to go ahead of...|||I think ESTP or ESFP, due to their inferior Ni. Thoughts?|||Welcome!! Sounds similar to how I got into MBTI/Enneagram. I might be an INFP too.|||I love ENTJs. Nobody is more In-Your-Face, and they are very loyal friends.|||Too many people--Americans especially--see introversion as almost a personality disorder. The first post didn't do justice to the social reality. As many real-life extroverts expend their energies...|||A year and a couple of months since I was dating anyone. Almost seven years since I really had a girlfriend. Some of it's admittedly due to apathy since I don't want to give up the freedom.|||...assertive.|||...no, decisive.|||...no, more organized.|||...when your most commonly broken resolution is to be more outgoing.|||Then it sounds like being inauthentic is worse than being aloof? Sounds like aloofness does not piss you off but maybe being inauthentic or disingenuous does. Or is it being judged as intolerant of...|||ENFJs: What is a good way for introverts to coexist with you without irritating you due to our aloofness? Is coexistence possible??|||I suspect so, and while I found interacting with them to be engaging, we were both pretty aloof and had little enough in common that deep communication was not likely.|||To other INFP males: How do you feel about celibacy? Is there a value to living an abstinent lifestyle?|||I think John Rayburn from the show Bloodline is ISFJ.|||A bit anxious about working 4:30 to midnight in an hour and a half. Going to try to not let the stress wear me down tonight.|||Me(1st)-ISTP (per tests, but I truly believe INFP ;)) Dad-INFJ (!!) Mom-INTJ (sometimes ISTJ, but nonetheless the mastermind) Younger brother (2nd)-INTJ (SUPER INTJ, but often ESFP; a highly...|||So many things. I'm angry most of the time.|||When I take the tests I get ISTP more often than anything. After researching, I was satisfied that this was a mistype and that I'm INFP, because my major preoccupations are philosophical and ethical,...|||Can anybody confirm from experience that the ENTJ match works for INFP? I know Keirsey favored matching types that have the same perceiving function, and then all other preferences being opposite. I...|||Morbid Angel - Secured Limitations|||I agree GRRM seems very INTP.|||That makes a lot of sense. I can be flexible or rational/critical, when required. When Fi is involved though, buddy, look out! Either that or implosion and identity-crisis.|||Same here.  According to Thomson, you can't develop the inferior function (Personality Type, 80)??|||I'm actually not allowed to.... Uh, long story.|||There is a proverb that illustrates this point: with one straw, one cannot cover a roof.|||My earlier post was in reply to emberfly.  Sorry, I did not include the quotation.    Anecdotal or theoretical, its all good for me.  I know nothing whatsoever so any information is a plus.|||Right.  Me, I normally assume that my mundane experiences betoken universal realities.  I thought if there were a place for this question, this would be it.  Plus I know most on this site are more...|||I am new to MBTI, so my question is, is it common for people from the same family to have the same type as each other?  INTJ seems over-represented in my family, with mom and two brothers getting...|||What seems to be the trick to kill a thread?|||Yeah.  Been taking notes all day, though.  Just about to get back to the fun :rolleyes::ninja:|||I would have expected more type 1s|||5w4 4w5 9w1 so/sp|||Classic case of foot in mouth.  Maybe lead off with the vibrant inspiring stuff next time.  I (male INFP) do tend to feel friction with INTJs, that they see themselves as intellectually (or...|||8. When you reflect on social interactions and play them in your mind over and over again before you fall asleep, regretting what you should have said and what you shouldn't. And you realize from...|||Good one. INFP (my type) INTP ISFP ISFJ|||No way that this situation could be improved|||Sounds like INFP to me.  I am INFP and my dad is INFJ, and the most obvious difference between us is the extroverted decision-making.  We have most of the same interests otherwise and can often read...|||The Empire Strikes Back The Big Lebowski I Heart Huckabees The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Gladiator|||ONES:  w2 Apdenoatis: 1w2 2w1 5w6 sx/so (probably) Giga Blender: 1w2 2w1 5w6 Vaan: 1w2 3w4 7w6 sx/so Garbanzo: 1w2 4w3 5w4 sx proudtobeme: 1w2 4w5 5w6 sp/sx Arkendale: 1w2 6w5 4w5 sp/so...|||My favorite of the list|||I definitely can relate to that one.|||What odds do you give a 5 and 2??  Seems like there's some potential there.|||There's only one type that really tends to rub me the wrong way, in real life.  Just so happens that type (which shall remain nameless) is in my Tritype.|||In every other part of life--school, your job, family, religion, work, sports--there's a mold for how to be and it's fit in or get left out.  Seeing that people belong to different types instead of...|||unhealthy 9w1  inferiority stemming from national humiliation in WW1 exhibiting negative 6 behavior interest in philosophy/the occult/failed artist|||Hello.  I come before you today believing in acceptance of all personality types.  After self-testing and reflection, I am an ISTJ, 6w5.  Look forward to interacting with folks on this...'