'I'll give it a try...  - notoriously absent-minded - calm and quiet in the eyes of strangers - thoughtful, philosophical - strong (this is partly self-affirmation and in a lot of situations I...|||I dislike a radical juxtapositioning between Eastern and Western philosophies. Overall, they deal with different issues: broadly speaking, Eastern philosophy is philosophy of life, whereas Western...|||This.  I hate the combination of my need to please and my personal opinions. Often my need to please and my personal opinions are in conflict and I feel very heavy internally because of this. At...|||Good idea. I'll make a similar list.  From other peoples' perspectives about me:  - too intellectual - too slow - arrogant (in reality I'm not arrogant at all) - too quiet - too weird -...|||Btw, I like fake insults. But it demands that I know the person very well. I don't really like people who take everything oh-so-seriously and think that every funny fake insult is horribly mean. But...|||I rarely tell jokes or make sarcastic remarks. I don't find jokes or sarcastic remarks funny, either. Sometimes they may be insightful but they don't really make me laugh.  Sometimes I say things...|||Personally I don't feel strongly about natural disasters or any event where masses of people accidentally die. I don't like those things and if I could, I would make them go away, and I want to...|||I have a small nose. It's neither pointed/sharp nor wide. It's not straight, either. It has a little bump at the bottom... My nose looks circular if you look at my face in the position that you see...|||http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x169/hatsumomosheart/juhannus6-1.jpghttp://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x169/hatsumomosheart/P1040403-1.jpg  ^^ And there's my eyes... hopefully no one recognises...|||I'm not sure if I believe in eye-typing but there's a thread INFJ eyes? in the INFJ section and I've noticed that an awful lot of self-identified INFJs on the internet or famous people that are...|||I've had issues with self-esteem and I certainly couldn't say that I can honor and love myself, no matter what other people think about me. My self-esteem has been very much tied to how other people...|||Growing up is... taking responsibility for others and own actions. realising that you have to start making lasting choices instead of just dreaming up possibilities (at least for me).  Some of...|||Yeah! I actually rediscovered math when I was depressed... Math made me focus on something else than myself or other people which, at that moment, made me feel sick.  (The first time I discovered...|||I could visualise intuition as a giant machine that takes a while to really turn over, and then it hums and snarls and releases all kinds of strange noises and finally it spits out a product. The...|||type 1: 4 type 2: 3 type 3: 3 type 4: 7 type 5: 7 type 6: 5 type 7: 2 type 8: 0 type 9: 5|||Come on, someone reply... I would also love to know if someone had any idea of wether there has ever been a culture were introverted feeling is the norm? Perhaps the ancient Greek culture?|||I read on Vicky Jo's infjorinfp.com that the North American Native culture holds INFP as normal and standardised: INFJ or INFP? a closer look  That's very interesting. I would like to ask if you...|||:D Looks like provocation.|||What are the INFJ's social and emotional skills like?  Here are some qualities that I have understood to be factors of social/emotional intelligence. Could someone rate how good INFJs generally are...|||I find this concept rediculous.  Do you mean that you find the concept of being misunderstood ridiculous?  I don't. I have plenty of experience about being misunderstood. And unlike Isitso...|||Are there any other NFs here that are interested in science and math? Maybe you even have / had / are going to pursue one of these as your major or minor subject in college?  I am (I have math as a...|||I like Holidays and their message but I don't like it how commercialised Christmas etc has become. I used to make gifts for other people and stress out about the gifts... And I always felt like my...|||I'm certainly not an expert but ISFJ + teaching sounds like a good combo to me. Somewhere I read that the majority of education studies majors are ESFJs, which is almost ISFJ. I have an image that...|||Suigintou,  You really come across as an INFJ to me... I don't feel the presence of Fi or Te in your writing. Your thought processes seem pretty close to my own, but still just... different. ...|||It seems that we agree on this. But let me clarify that in my opinion fine-tuning opinions doesn't end in reasoning, either. Rather, it is a dialogue between reason and intuition. If my reason, for...|||PS. I do think it is possible for people to fine-tune and change their opinions via reasoning, but at least the starting point of forming a belief is intuitive. Or... so I believe.|||LeelooDallas,  so you're saying it's always wrong to hurt animals on one hand (that's what the period implies in your original statement) and on on the other saying that sometimes it's right......|||As a child: A Little Princess by F. H. Burnett Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Famous Five by Enid Blyton Sweet Valley Kids / Twins.  Now: A Little Princess by F. H. Burnett Little...|||Just for the record, my thoughts about ethics are still in process.|||Hmm, thank you for your insight. It is possible. It is also possible that other people sometimes intepret my random observations or associations as arguments. Sometimes I don't try to argue my point...|||My INFP sister was very much like what you have written but she wasn't very quiet. Sometimes my mom would say: Do you have to talk all the time, my dear? And my sister would reply: But I can't...|||Hmm... Well I've never been in a relationship but... I guess I would love to be noticed. Kissed and caressed... And I would love romantic moments, like candlelit dinners or a weekend together in a...|||I look for someone that I can respect and share my life with... and someone who respects and understands me. Also, someone that I really, really like, more than just as a friend. Also someone who...|||This is a really tough question. Firstly, I don't know many of my friends' personality types, and secondly, people within the same type can be very different. I know NFs that are really nice, and NFs...|||I would just say that hurting animals is wrong, period. I know that it could be reasoned like this: Hurting animals is wrong because hurting another being, when not necessary, is always wrong....|||Thank you for taking interest in my personality-typing myself:blushed: It is really difficult to answer a question like that about my own inner motivations. I really don't know if I can tell why I'm...|||I've read that Charles Dickens and his charater David Copperfield are ISFJs... How can people hate such lovely people/characters? I do agree, people shouldn't say such mean things about Ss.|||I haven't been in a serious relationship... but if I ever get in one, I'm probably going to be clingy and affectionate and still need my own time and space. I'm probably to build trust slowly, so at...|||I'm currently at college. The first few years of my studies were chaotic. I didn't get as much studying done as I should have, I was depressed, didn't know what I'm really studying for and was...|||Thank you, that is a very sweet thing to say! Especially when it feels like INFPs aren't very popular among other types, it's nice to see that someone appreciates them :)  I had an INTJ...|||I've been wondering about this. I'm not completely sure if I'm an INFP but if I am, then according to the description I should dislike hard logic and even be irrational.  I don't view myself...|||Ha, I tend to daydream, too. And I also read out loud. I've been reading out loud since I was a child, so it's never felt weird to me. I read out loud nearly always as long as my voice is strong and...|||Hee, one of the reasons I started this thread is actually that I've been unsure of wether I'm an INFP or an INFJ, and I've been hanging out at an INFJ forum, where I have enjoyed myself. However, I...|||Is there an INFP reading style?  Do you read slowly or fast? Do you feel like you need to read every word, or just get the general idea and skip a few sentences here and there? Do you finish all...'