'It sounds like you need to connect with your body (hellooo inferior Se). Fearing touch, personal invasion, invalidation, and feeling better when you can go on the offensive all sound like they might...|||I love this thread, we need more like it. I feel like this is what being an NF is about.  The problem is that the material world is limited, and most people never bother to look deeper at...|||I agree with finding the root cause. Being angry is a defense, sensation seeking is a distraction from the restlessness. Ask the angry part of yourself: what are you defending? When you get restless...|||I have both been praised for my child-like wonder and dismissed for my childishness. If someone doubts me though over something important, I simply have to prove them wrong. If it's not...|||Believe me I know how lucky I am, but I would be miserable if I felt trapped. And I would have to give up on some things that I'd been focusing on. I've been looking at teaching abroad programs for...|||Hello ENTJs!! Today I come with a story about something that I could see possibly turning into conflict, and would appreciate your insight on what my dad might possibly be seeing in this situation,...|||Finally a board for me :tongue:  What is Passion But a Current That Runs  from the head to the heart and out through the fingertips: Electricity needs an outlet, a path and a purpose;...|||It was 95F today and people still came to class dressed in fall boots and scarfs (albeit very light ones). Truly a cultural phenomenon.|||There are so many good poets here! :blushed:    My Days, My Nights, My Ruminations  At night I live in a bright world, a shifting spectrum of shape and color, blinding me to reality, leaving...|||In a lab class recently I got randomly partnered with a guy who gave off some pretty strong SJ vibes.  At first I approached with my normal open, relaxed attitude where I just talk to the person...|||I'm trying to get my life on a healthy schedule. Like waking up at the same time every day, not using technology in bed, making a daily time/place to sit and work, actually carving out the time to...|||YES! In school I ALWAYS got so many points taken off because every paragraph was a run on sentence! Now I over-use periods since I became so conscious of it.|||I think the first thing to consider in the compatibility of any two people would be whether or not those people are steering their lives in the same direction. I mean, if you're going to chain...|||If Dont Ask Me Why by Great Ceasers this isn't the most XNFP song I've ever heard I don't know what could be|||Why not try taking an entrepreneurship class?|||oh man, this is me exactly. The problem is that, as ENFPs, our needs and desires often stem from values we built in our Fi, which is not a function that lends itself well towards expression. I feel...|||I love writing, but hate grammar so much that it basically turned me off from trying to write anything for my academics. I feel like writing is such a good way to lay out my thoughts though, as long...|||maybe we could assign one ENFP per personality :wink:     I'm just imagining a huge tsunami of ENFPS, about to crash over the one person who is standing, arms outstretched, willing to be swept...|||All of us at once??? :shocked:|||I have the opposite problem to most people here, I usually come off as really friendly. Sometimes I'm caught off guard when I realize someone considers me a friend when I only think of them as an...|||Sometimes bodies are such a burden. You have to feed it and wash it and rest it and what do you get in return? an obnoxious set of physical rules you have to follow and a means by which people can...|||That sounds like an interesting book! Are you enjoying it?  I had a similar thing happen to me too a couple years ago.  I guess quite a few of my not-close friends seem to think I do everything I...|||When I first started reading about the differences between Fe and Fi I was sure that I had myself mistyped because I had always recognized in me a strong, sometimes overwhelming, ability to pick up...|||u200bBurn  And here is where I must admit to my failings: For all that I have tried to see into myself and past myself my eyes continue to be drawn to this this, this, this thing in my life with...|||We cannot see the future, or change the past. The moment you live in is the only thing you’ll ever know. It may not make sense to love it, but, God, what a waste to do anything less.|||Top 5 Characteristics  1. Sure of themselves 2. calmer than me 3. inspires me to improve myself 4. not beholden to any dogma (but their own) 5. intelligent  Top 5 Physical Features|||The guys who live above me have been playing guitar and singing and laughing all afternoon and it's so cute that I don't want to leave and go to class. I'm having too much fun basking in the positive...|||when you turn into a tidying tornado in the minutes before your Judger friend gets there just so that they won't make that face|||Charles Manson is an enfp I believe. Look up some of his videos- they're all very interesting. He's very charming as well, and inspired his followers even after he was jailed.  I remember watching a...|||I was wondering why this sandwich tasted so dang good but then I remembered that I haven't eaten anything else in over 24 hours :frustrating:|||Some of the most ENFPish songs I know and relate to:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5I19hNzDgs   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQu7udjsins ...|||I'm pretty effected, unless I have time to emotionally prepare for it. It depends on the bond I have with my pet though.... Our last family dog and I had a pretty strong bond, and he died of heart...|||I'd say my sex drive is above average but I don't have sex itself that often because I only like sleeping with people I make a strong connection with, which only happens every once in a blue moon. ...|||Dear ISTPs  I've really enjoyed reading this thread for the sheer lack of fucks given. I mean, I almost went back and censored the fuck in that last sentence but then I realized that would be so...|||I always write everything by hand, even if it's in the powerpoint because   1) studies have shown that you remember it way better if you write it down 2) if you get bored or start zoning out...|||I'm not INFJ but I just need internet hugs right now and the ENFP hug thread is too bubbly for how I'm feeling :unsure:|||I think it's pretty common for intuitive's to feel like this. You just have to wait because as you grow into adulthood you really get to choose who you keep close to you, so you can surround yourself...|||From the soles of my feet to the base of my throat I feel myself fill with white snow Not the pure, cold kind The T.V. kind. The static on the screen which I’ve come to recognize as the...|||A rock! No responsibility, can go with you everywhere, and you can paint whatever silly face on it you'd like.....  ok, also maybe a rat. I love rats, they're as smart and as social as most dogs,...|||401642 feelings, man. I got too much of 'em.|||helloooo zombie board!   Aang from Avatar is the purest ENFP hero I know of. Even his meltdowns fall right in line with Ne/Te overdrive or Fi/Si depression. Denise from The Paradise Mabel from...|||Look for Ne-dom give aways: casual use of hyperbole, generalizing (about concepts -never people), easily side-tracked, able to carry a conversation about anything, able to talk to anyone, and of...|||Thats a harsh situation, and how I would deal with it depends a great deal on just how unbearable it may be.  The things that would make it more unbearable are:  A) if it's brought up at times when...|||I'm really sorry to hear about your loss.  When I lost my grandpa I never wanted to talk about it- people told me I should but it didn't make me feel better to so I avoided it. Definitely became...|||Yup. I used to date people just because they seemed fun/gave me the opportunity to do interesting things but I would get bored of them within a couple of weeks because I never really connected with...|||People already said this in their own way, but I'll say it again: I hate how hard it can be to explain my inner world of ideas to people sometimes. Teach me an over-complicated concept and I can...|||When you're forced to hang out with someone who is being so fake with themselves and everyone else but you A) don't see any reason to start drama and B) don't think you can explain just why they...|||Was walking around my room, play-acting imaginary scenarios while I was supposed to be studying. Realized that my curtains were open and my neighbors sitting on their balcony had been watching me. We...|||Sorry, no bells rung! You've lost me :'T    Well I always wake up about 5am (its an insomnia thing) so I usually either watch my shows or play video games until about 7. Then if I have classes...|||Hello lovely ENTJs!  I need advice in how to make my ENTJ dad understand that shaming my INFP sister is not a way to get her motivated! She's generally morose and perhaps a bit depressed, and has...'