Friday, February 27, 2009

it's been a while since i've done a personality test

it's been a couple years since i've done a personality test, i couldn't remember what i was a while back. i saw eddie's post and it got me to try it out again:

Introverted (I) 22% - preferred to Extroversion: INFJs tend to be quiet and reserved. They generally prefer interacting with a few close friends rather than a wide circle of acquaintances, and they expend energy in social situations (whereas extroverts gain energy.)

Intuitive (N) 38% - preferred to Sensing: INFJs tend to be more abstract than concrete. They focus their attention on the big picture rather than the details, and on future possibilities rather than immediate realities.

Feeling (F) 38% - preferred to Thinking: INFJs tend to rely on a personal, internal sense of right and wrong rather than external, objective criteria. When making decisions, they often give more weight to feelings and social considerations than to logic.

Judging (J) 56% - preferred to Perception: INFJs tend to plan their activities and make decisions early. They derive a sense of control through predictability, which to perceptive types may seem limiting.

so here's what i do know.
  • i know that i get very exhausted in big social groups. i hardly ever go to parties, and i love my group of friends.
  • i know that my criteria of right and wrong are poorly defined and i usually go with my feelings. that's not to say that i don't throw away reason, but i do go for a gut feeling (which i think "feeling" is).
  • i know when i do stuff on the fly, things fall apart. (i.e. when i try to improvise a presentation, it never works out...)
there are some things about the INFJ descriptions that i like. i think it's cool to be a poet (though i highly disagree with it). i enjoy poetry very much, and to write it. but there's nothing creative about it, it's simply just playing around on words without structure nor intention.

i don't know what really to think of it besides "cool."

1 comment:

  1. I'M AN INFJ TOO!

    ... or I was the last time I did a test (~2 yrs ago?). But I was very strongly so, I believe everything was +70% or so in one direction, one of them might have been 50%

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