While I have some amount of pride in my type, I have heard it said -- but been too lazy and/or busy to verify it myself -- that Jung believed that a personality type is not an ideal, but an indicator of imbalance. He and I both believe [I heard] that one cannot be a complete person while maintaining an imbalance in personality. I prefer to allow a nice balance of both of each set of dichotomies to occur. Things seem to work out better in myself and in the world when I don't try to adhere to any model.
| I | N | x | P |
| Introverted | iNtuitive | Thinking/Feeling | Perceiving |
| 89% | 50% | 1% | 44% |
Do you know someone who needs hours alone every day? Who loves quiet conversations about feelings or ideas, and can give a dynamite presentation to a big audience, but seems awkward in groups and maladroit at small talk? Who has to be dragged to parties and then needs the rest of the day to recuperate? Who growls or scowls or grunts or winces when accosted with pleasantries by people who are just trying to be nice?
If so, do you tell this person he is "too serious," or ask if he is okay? Regard him as aloof, arrogant, rude? Redouble your efforts to draw him out?
If you answered yes to these questions, chances are that you have an introvert on your hands -- and that you aren't caring for him properly.
A Description of the INTP Personality Type by Paul James -- Excellent read. Bear the jargon if you can, or read around it. It's well worth it.
Architects often seem difficult to know. They are inclined to be shy except with close friends, and their reserve is difficult to penetrate. Able to concentrate better than any other type, they prefer to work quietly at their computers or drafting tables, and often alone.
INTPs are pensive, analytical folks. They may venture so deeply into thought as to seem detached, and often actually are oblivious to the world around them.
Precise about their descriptions, INTPs will often correct others (or be sorely tempted to) if the shade of meaning is a bit off. While annoying to the less concise, this fine discrimination ability gives INTPs so inclined a natural advantage as, for example, grammarians and linguists.
I list only the ones I have knowledge of because I don't want a bunch of shit here that doesn't mean anything to me.
Healers present a calm and serene face to the world, and can seem shy, even distant around others. But inside they're anything but serene, having a capacity for personal caring rarely found in the other types. Healers care deeply about the inner life of a few special persons, or about a favorite cause in the world at large. And their great passion is to heal the conflicts that trouble individuals, or that divide groups, and thus to bring wholeness, or health, to themselves, their loved ones, and their community.
INFPs never seem to lose their sense of wonder. One might say they see life through rose-colored glasses. It's as though they live at the edge of a looking-glass world where mundane objects come to life, where flora and fauna take on near-human qualities.
INFPs have the ability to see good in almost anyone or anything. Even for the most unlovable the INFP is wont to have pity.
Again, only the ones I know.
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