Guest Post by Alyssa, INFP
I have always been a very self-aware individual. I know my strengths, weaknesses, emotions and thought processes extremely well, and I’m comfortable with who I am. I already KNOW that I’m a walking paradox. I’m a dreamer and yet I’m practical, I’m creative yet analytical, I love art and excel creatively, but I’m also a maths genius. I’m social yet shy, hard-working but a procrastinator, and organized but messy. There has never been a doubt that I am very much an INFP; however, these little contradictions between me and a stereotypical INFP used to concern me. This was before I realized that MBTI is about the way in which we think, not our personalities. Every person is going to have contradictions and conflicting qualities or tendencies, and that’s okay! That’s what makes us unique and human!
That being said, here are five ways in which I do NOT fit the INFP stereotype (in contrast to the many, many ways in which I do).
Guest Post by Anonymous, ENTP
Dominant Introverted Feeling (Fi): Lynch talks a lot about his personal vision when making movies and he stands by this vision, if a film cannot be made in the way he wants it then he will leave production. Lynch was given the chance to direct the Return of the Jedi by George Lucas but turned it down as he said that the film would more Lucas’ vision than his own. Lynch seems to understand his emotions well because he is usually able to talk about feelings he has experienced as examples to audiences during question time. He also made the comic series The Angriest Dog in the World at a time when he was personally feeling great anger. Lynch enjoyed painting and arts when in school and once considered it as a career choice before turning to films. Lynch never tells the meaning of his films as he wants people to have their own interpretation of it [FiNe]. David Lynch’s characters are usually individualistic in most ways as they all have their own quirks and are typically idiosyncratic to the viewers making them not relatable on a universal level and this makes his films hard to watch for some.
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Guest Post by Hogan, INFP
Calvin And Hobbes
Dominant Introverted Feeling (Fi): Calvin follows his own path at all times and doesn’t care what anyone thinks of him. He doesn’t seem very emotional at first, but this is just because he expresses his feelings in ways that aren’t generally socially acceptable. He despises anyone who tries to control him or allows themselves to be controlled. He never plays with other children not because he doesn’t want a companion, but because he sees them all as sheep (“Today for show and tell I’ve brought a tiny marvel of nature: a single snowflake. I think we all might learn a lesson from how this utterly unique and exquisite crystal. . . turns into an ordinary, boring molecule of water, just like every other one, when you bring it into the classroom. And now, while the analogy sinks in, I’ll be leaving you drips and going outside”). In his loneliness, he creates Hobbes, someone as independent as him.
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Guest Post by Andrea, INFJ
Dominant Introverted Feeling (Fi): Tyler appears to be aware and practising his personal values, often stemming from his Christian faith which teaches kindness to the disadvantaged. This value is illustrated when he momentarily stops showing to help those in need. As an example, he asked security to help out an audience member having a panic attack during a performance. He is unafraid to challenge the mainstream music scene in preference for his own unique style of musical composition. Tyler is also mindful of how his own emotions are affected by his internal thoughts and external environment.
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Guest Post by Andrew, ENTJ
Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling
Dominant Introverted Feeling (Fi): Professor Trelawney has a high and highly distorted opinion of herself. She sees and presents herself as a great seer who speaks prophetic words on a daily basis when in reality, she can’t really predict anything correctly while in a conscious state. From the beginning of her lessons, she makes it clear that she disdains most things that can be learned from books. Instead, Professor Trelawney holds her own opinions on her subject as sacrosanct. She marks her students up for agreeing with her, and when she is put on probation, she takes it so badly that she can barely function in her classroom.
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Guest Post by E. J., INTJ
Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
Dominant Introverted Feeling (Fi): Smeagol is primarily motivated by self-interest. He does think about some moral concepts, such as fairness and kindness, but mainly when they apply to himself in some way. If he breaks some aspect of this moral code, he finds a way of justifying it (e.g., claiming the Ring was his birthday present and that he is therefore the rightful owner). Smeagol, unlike his alter-ego Gollum, can feel personally responsible to people who have helped him (although not to people in general). Gollum does not even care about people who have helped him, reacting viciously toward anyone who stands in his way. Smeagol cannot empathize with other people unless they have had similar experiences–specifically in relation to the Ring. While he understands something of how Bilbo and Sam think because he is a Hobbit himself, he has little sympathy for either of them. On the other hand, he knows that Frodo has experienced something like his own struggle while staying wiser and retaining a strong moral code. Smeagol admires Frodo, but he betrays Frodo anyway because he cannot be loyal to Frodo while fulfilling his own desires.
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Guest Post by Emily, INFP
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
Dominant Introverted Feeling (Fi): Skeeter is one of the only people bothered by how the maids are treated. When Mrs. Stein asks her to write a list of things that bother her but don’t seem to bother anyone else, it ends up being a long list. When interviewing Aibileen, she tells her that she is tired of the rules. When she was a kid, visiting Constantine, her mom told her to be nice to Constantine’s neighbours, but Skeeter didn’t know why she wouldn’t be nice to them. When Hilly tells her to write the health initiative for the newsletter, Skeeter eventually tells her she won’t write it. She also paid Pascagoula’s brothers to put the toilets in Hilly’s yard. She has almost no interest in dating and broke up with Stuart after their first date because he said she was writing the Miss Myrna column to get a husband. Although she is writing a cleaning column, she has no interest in learning how to clean. She buys banned books off the black market because “if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.”
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Guest Post by Andrew, ENTJ
Pokémon Anime Franchise
Dominant Introverted Feeling (Fi): Harley lives in a reality where feelings are paramount – and only his own, not anyone else’s. In fact, he has a tendency to blow trivial hurts out of proportion and to hold grudges for ridiculous reasons. He doesn’t only hate the girl who stole his snack in school, but also the girl who looks exactly like her (May). He has a vendetta against May for no other reason than this; he does everything in his power to humiliate her in public and derives pleasure from her embarrassment. Harley gives captivating contest performances which engage the emotions of the audience, but he opts to work with their fear and shock rather than their wonder and admiration. He is individualistic in both his clothing style (derived from his favorite Pokemon, Cacturne) and his effeminate mannerisms.
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Guest post by annesophie, INFJ —http://socraticmbti.wordpress.com
Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand
Fi: Cyrano doesn’t adopt the morality of the people around him but instead has his own ideas of right and wrong. He is absolutely sure that the unconventional combination of his poetry and Christian’s voice is the way to go when Christian wants to pursue Roxane. When the theater crowd wants Montfleury to perform, he disagrees vehemently and has no problem making his opinion known. Cyrano is unapologetically true to self, valuing authenticity to the point of takin Continue reading →
Official typing, by Arvid Walton
Fi: Connor is a genuinely nice person who is deeply affected by acts of cruelty or unkindness. He cares about other people and has a sincere desire to help them, and this is part of the reason that he shares much of his personal life with the public. Furthermore, he has pursued many a project to help people in developing countries (Ex. his Thirst Project to help fund water wells for people in Swaziland). Connor stays true to his own beliefs and principles regardless of what other people think o Continue reading →
Guest Post by Andrew, ENTJ
Pokémon Anime Franchise
Introverted Feeling (Fi): More than anything, Dawn feels the need to stay true to herself. She cares little for what others tell her to do, always brushing off her mother’s words of caution with a cheerful “No need to worry!” Dawn can take minor slights personally; when Paul doesn’t remember her when they cross paths for the second time, she is highly insulted. It can take time for Dawn to warm up to people (especially her rivals and the crass Paul), but once she understands them and gets to know them better, she will hear them out when they voice opinions contrary to her own, and will be more gentle in her criticisms of them. However, she immediately befriends Ash and Brock, whose morals align closely with her own, upon meeting them. Continue reading →
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