Wednesday, March 12, 2014

All INFJ up in here!

With all of the recent hullabaloo over personality types, I thought I'd share a little bit about mine: INFJ.

"The INFJ type is believed to be very rare (less than 1 percent of the population) and it has an unusual set of traits. Even though their presence can be described as very quiet, INFJ personalities usually have many strong opinions, especially when it comes to issues they consider really important in life. If an INFJ is fighting for something, this is because they believe in the idea itself, not because of some selfish reasons."

Hmm... interesting. A lot of that is actually really true to me. It seems like I'm either super passionate about an idea or concept or not passionate at all about it.

"INFJs are masters of written communication, with a distinctively smooth and warm language. In addition, the sensitivity of INFJs allows them to connect to others quite easily. Their easy and pleasant communication can often mislead bystanders, who might think that the INFJ is actually a very sociable person."

Also very true...

"INFJs take great care of other people’s feelings and expect others to return the favor. Unsurprisingly, people with this personality type are very sensitive and vulnerable to conflicts – even the most rational INFJs may find it quite difficult to not take criticism personally. This is the INFJ’s Achilles’ heel – if someone with an INFJ personality cannot escape the conflict, they will do their best to deal with it head on, but this will result in a lot of stress and may also potentially lead to health problems or highly irrational behavior."

OK, someone tapped my freakin' mind. 

3 comments:

  1. You know, with your 1% of the population personality and my 2% of the population personality types, Ariel and Austin should feel so privileged to be around us.....or is it the other way around?!?!??!! :D

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  2. I'm the lower 3-4% so maybe we are all just a really weird friend group...lol

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  3. Our personality types are actually really closed related. We all have the N (intuition) and F (feeling), but Val is extroverted and Ariel and I are introverted (no surprise there), and Val and I have the judging trait and Ariel has the perceptive trait.

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