'This is an interesting topic, and I'm grateful you brought it up.  I don't have much useful to add necessarily, but for better or worse this specific subject has been on my mind of late. Let me...|||I give money to homeless people all the time.  You people are assholes.  :)|||Thanks for bearing with me to reply.  The English word meditation tends to cover a lot of different words in various East Asian cultures. Personally I practice something called zazen, which is...|||I'm not sure if this is an exclusively INFJ question, or, indeed, if this is going to be an exclusively INFJ answer. For what it's worth, I think I would agree that this is also something which...|||I've always enjoyed customer service work, and I still get to engage directly with people often enough for my own tastes now.  What is best in life? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo9buo9Mtos No,...|||Try taking up cittanupassana, basically observe your mind in relation to the defilements and maintain a degree of heedfulness throughout the day.  A great suggestion. Personally I might replace...|||A remarkably bold opening gambit in chat up line topics, certainly.  :)  HAVING TO DEAL WITH IT, and all the time, is taxing and tedious.  As a wiser man than me once said, it's healthy to...|||Shan,  I've just finished my first course in counselling. Apparently I got a Distinction, so whilst I really want to underline that this is very early days in the process of qualification and I...|||Whilst it may not always seem very Fe to say things like this, surely we might all find it's nonetheless a very J thing to know the answer to?  I say The Shark is, literally, the coolest poster...|||We can all remember stuff. I really don't think Si is memory, or relates to strength of memory per se - any more than someone without Se in the main stack (like INTJ, for instance) literally can't...|||We were discussing some of the pros and cons of information technology-access, especially for younger people, only the other week on my course.  One of the pros we identified was about it...|||Shark,  Hey boss, as ever with the interesting queries.  Not sure I might immediately be able to help. If you had to draw it in a square, I guess I would go in the Instrumental over Vocal but...|||55 male /60 female /56 'neutral'.  Male, INFJ. Available for children's parties, weddings, and bar mitzvahs.|||Apparently this is a pretty deep vein to mine for INFJ; presumably other Fe types too, but here we are.  For me, not too dissimilarly from others, it seems like a kind of combination of two factors...|||I would second Leonard Cohen. For what it's worth I also think DJ Shadow is an INFJ. I expect there are more.  I make a lot of music. Since I was about 16 or so, so near-on half my life I suppose....|||Nice thread.  Does this excerpt apply to you?  I found myself agreeing with nearly all of it. There are some interesting observations about the way in which INFJ tendencies towards preferring a...|||I stare into space lost in my thoughts, sure - same as the next INFJ. Most people don't seem to especially peg me as a stoner, but it would be hard for me to defend myself from that label over the...|||T/K,  Whilst I respect that here we are on an INFJ subforum of an MBTI board, so to a certain extent it probably wouldn't be helpful for you to hear advice or input from people banging on about Si...|||'Lioness,  I'm never really sure how useful people really it when strangers on the internet tell them what type they are. If it helps, you sound perfectly INFJ to me. I posted here recently that...|||I'm afraid I saw where it was going almost immediately, certainly at the point of Dr R insisting they initially refrain from sharing - but only, of course, because of my familiarity with the...|||I assumed you weren't. I wondered if I ought to have included a :) after that or something, but felt at the time that may be unnecessary because of the 'inherent comedy' in the phrase trust me, I'm...|||I couldn't really hope to better what has been said here already - Winegums and Antipode should write a book together - but in terms of achieving a resolved feeling of certainty about one particular...|||impala39,  Your other thread: http://personalitycafe.com/whats-my-personality-type/455042-typing-unstable-teen-cringe.html  The way you post there sounds very INFJ. I'm never sure if being told...|||It can annoy sometimes  Whilst you're quite right that this is how Fi can come off, don't lose sight that it's *not* other people's Fi which is annoying you - you're effectively annoying...|||(Jeeze, when one of the most *textbook* INFJs here can't tell if they're INFJ or not, what hope for the rest of us?)  More seriously, yes. Not often, perhaps, but at least from time to time. And...|||It's always interesting to find these 'common ground' threads.  It would be dull to just tag in and agree with the main view, although I do of course, so let's try a little further at why? - at...|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHZ4VGwJmKk  This is the link from Introvert Power. That guy's pretty good in general. Not that I'm necessarily endorsing the suggestion to our selachimorphian...|||(I liked it better when this thread was about knickers ... a more original discussion round here at any rate)|||I qualified as a lawyer; I now work in a charity legal advice centre specialising in employment law for employees and social security benefits. I got into law because it seemed like a good way of...|||I think this is the sort of thing you mean, right?   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw4r0yUmXVg|||From your other thread, I think you're happy about this now anyway. But for what it's worth you sound perfectly Fe-Ti to me. Overall I'm not sure you sound like an INTJ either.  I know even less...|||No. I would say it's certainly not that black and white.  I'm sure it's easy to overthink these things, but for what it's worth I've always found the virtue ethics position preferable to the...|||perhaps I am mistaking harmony for good  Far be it from me to add to any confusion. I wondered a little about the example you gave specifically, though, because of the way you phrased it. ...|||As Edmund Burke said of the French Revolution la plus ca change, la plus ca meme chose - the more things change, the more they stay the same. Or, as some level of western self-help book would say,...|||I enjoy DJ-ing, though only in an amateur capacity. I think you put it very nicely.  The only thing I can add is that I also enjoy the sense of 'linking' and 'connecting' songs with one another -...|||ellio,  I'm not sure it doesn't add to confusion mixing-and-matching Socionics and MBTI/JCF letters, functions, and descriptions ... I know you're correctly swapping the end letters around, so...|||Like a boss.:cool:  And you?|||I think this is a common enough experience in general, though presumably it 'occurs' to INFJs perhaps differently because it appears to be led by the dark goddess Ni - one might imagine that an INTP,...|||An old thread, but I always enjoy being told what I am like so ...  52% INFJ 18% INFP 10% ISFJ 08% ENFJ 03% INTJ  Even with *my* Tx, I can see that doesn't add up to 100% exactly. Guess I'm...|||Robin,  I thank people for their time a lot, it's just something I do. My boss pointed out to me I even thank people for their time when they've phoned me! Just grateful if what I offer is ever any...|||ISTJ. He is the greatest single human being I have ever met. Having very different access to cognitive functions doesn't seem to get in the way ... Other close friends, as far as I can tell, are...|||Le rouge-gorge bleu,  This link should work: http://personalitycafe.com/whats-my-personality-type/423730-help-my-self-typing-correct-my-understanding-ni.html.  From what you posted there you...|||Shark,  I'll probably try and answer this in more depth at some point, but just for now:  invariably the variations are lies  Really? Invariably? I'm going to go ahead and suggest you can...|||Apparently the answer to your question is yes, we all know exactly what you're talking about.  :)  For what it's worth, one of my major issues in talking is falling into a lot of spoonerisms...|||Out of interest, what do you think would happen if you had this conversation with your friend directly?  I don't know if this is going to sound at all helpful, but let's try anyway. It seems like...|||Always here. Kudos on your idea and hard work taking off; absolutely agree with you about minimum wage - and I come from Europe, don't forget, where we have (at time of writing) better social...|||(isn't this going to tell us more about enneagram than type? I'm not super-sure, but apart from indirectly I wasn't sure that function necessarily played into this sort of thing ... let's find out) ...|||treschanna,  The 'pode isn't trying to be unhelpful, but apparently that's not working so let's try a different tack.  There are really 2 questions to be addressed here: (i) are you INFJ, as...|||I'm not sure if this is a specifically INFJ thing, or how much it seems to apply to anyone with Fe over Fi in general. Fi is where making internal judgements on Feeling would take place, and if...|||Short answer is all the J - taking into account what J really refers to - and then the Ni, then the absence of Fi.  Longer answer, because that's where it gets more complicated, I thought I might...'