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Was surfing around looking at things Jungian and came across this personality type test. So I thought I would share it.

You can find it here:
Free personality tests: find out your type

My result was INFJ 83% followed by INFP 81% which translates like this:

For INFJ the most important preferences are Introverted Intuition. Your 'dominant function' is Intuition, oriented towards the inner world. You use your imagination to create new and different ideas and perspectives. You observe the world around you, and use your imagination to consider what you have observed from a number of different perspectives. You dream up new ideas and insights, often producing radical solutions to problems. You have a long term vision, and demonstrate an apparent understanding of what (as far as other people are concerned) cannot be clearly known.


For INFP, however, the most important preferences are Introverted Feeling. Your 'dominant function' is Feeling, oriented towards the inner world. This means you give importance to particular thoughts, ideas, or beliefs. You are value driven, and you often bring a sense of priority that is derived from your strong convictions. You seize upon and emphasise ideas or thoughts that have the greatest import, bringing them to the fore and stressing their significance. You assess the inherent value or importance of new ideas and beliefs, focusing on those about which you feel most strongly.



Tao
 
I came up as 79% INFP and 75% INFJ but in other tests usually come out more strongly INFJ. It's hard for me to identify more with one than the other. I'm also very close to the cusp of introversion/extroversion it seems based on different tests I've taken. I promised myself that when I've gotten to the lessons on types in the Jung podcast: http://jungian.libsyn.com/ and understand a little better I'll go back and review. Right now I'm on the first part of two in the introduction to persona. I had been following the podcasts almost daily and taking notes but currently my girlfriend is here for a visit and I've only had time to review my notes.

A resource I like for reading about the types is:

http://www.typelogic.com/

Dauer
 
Hi Dauer and thanks for the links,

I followed them and have done 2 more and came out as INFP on both. Seems I am representative of less than 1% of the population and there are many precisely accurate descriptions of me within them. Is this like cynics would claim about astrology tho? Do I cherry pick what I like to hear?

Tao
 
76% INFP 71% INFJ

Interesting that we would have such similar results. I wonder if either of you, who appear to know much more about these things, are surprised by the fact that 3 guys interested in a search for a higher truth have such corresponding results.
 
cavalier said:
76% INFP 71% INFJ

Interesting that we would have such similar results. I wonder if either of you, who appear to know much more about these things, are surprised by the fact that 3 guys interested in a search for a higher truth have such corresponding results.
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Birds of a feather flock together :)
 
Tao,

I followed them and have done 2 more and came out as INFP on both. Seems I am representative of less than 1% of the population and there are many precisely accurate descriptions of me within them. Is this like cynics would claim about astrology tho? Do I cherry pick what I like to hear?
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Modern astrology is heavily influenced by Jung who had a very big interest in the "occult." He also got into alchemy, gnosticism, kabbalah (primarily the christian forms) and some other things along those lines. There's a website with some free drafts being prepared for an upcoming book on Jung's relationship to kabbalah here (it also covers to a lesser extent gnosticism, alchemy, and his relationship with nazism):

http://www.newkabbalah.com/jung.html

If you look at some of the major elements of the astrological chart you can see the relationships between Jung and that system. The signs and houses are archetypes. Each of the signs correspond with a planet and a house, having the same meaning applied to a different part of the equation, which means that when a sign is seen along with its planet and house we're able to see the way disparate aspect of ourselves come together. Then we can see the way that each of the signs interact with each other. When a sign appears with more than one planet we can examine if that aspect of ourselves is dominant. As our charts change over our lives it's like the teleological response to a one-sided ego stance. Our psyche is trying to balance itself out.

I think there probably can be some wishful thinking, that we'll pick things related to what we want to be. I read something on another site (don't recall which one) about some of the difficulties one can have in assessing his/her own personality type. One of the problems was picking what we want to be, but also our answers can change depending on our current mood, if we've been learning more about what each type means. When I do anything like this I try to focus on how well the negatives match up with me. And if there are no negatives I'm more likely to consider it bunk. When it matches up well I find some of the negatives end up being things that aren't only true, but which I take pride in. lol.

Interesting that we would have such similar results. I wonder if either of you, who appear to know much more about these things, are surprised by the fact that 3 guys interested in a search for a higher truth have such corresponding results.
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If any of you are on other forums with a very different focus, say, sports or technology or social activism or cooking or a television show, I think it'd be really neat to compare the results and see if there's a difference between the majority of responses there. I'm not really on any other types of forums.

Dauer
 
Ty Dauer,

I first came across Jung in my early teens when I read his autobiography Memories, Dreams, Reflections. I found it in a jumble sale and only seeing the name Jung thought it to be a Chinese book. I had at that time just recently read the Tao Te Ching and was fascinated by it. So I have long realised the importance of the esoteric in Jungs ideas.

Thank you for the link to that site, a quick scan of it assures my return.

It would be very interesting to see the results of this test from other types of forum. Maybe if we each find 1 and do the work we can all report back!!

Tao
 
Well if you 4 are birds then I must be a cow ........ erm is that what I meant?

Apparently I am an extroverted thinker - about right actually LOL

I was ENTJ 71% and ESTJ 70%

In the Differences I would say I use sensing by preference rather than intuition.

The Dominant Function

For ENTJ and ESTJ the most important preferences are Extraverted Thinking. Your 'dominant function' is Thinking, oriented towards the outer world. You introduce organisation and a logical structure into the way things are done. You organise and systematise the world around you. You make plans, use the correct procedures and make sure they are followed. You try to ensure that roles and responsibilities are properly defined and that the right resources or skills are available to carry them out.
Both your top-scoring types share the same dominant function. The characteristics of these two types are therefore very similar.

Preference Differences

ENTJ and ESTJ differ in Sensing/Intuition. This preference is about the type of information you like to deal with. If you prefer facts, what you know, to have clarity, or to describe what you see, then your preference is for Sensing. If you prefer to deal with ideas, look into the unknown, to generate new possibilities or to anticipate what isn't obvious, then your preference is for Intuition.


From another site: I am ESTJ

As an ESTJ, your primary mode of living is focused externally, where you deal with things rationally and logically. Your secondary mode is internal, where you take things in via your five senses in a literal, concrete fashion.


Wow I sound really boring!!!!
 
I think we've nattered about this before on here? I seem to recall cyberpi thought it was all a lot of poo.:p

I had it done years ago and came out as INTP. Can't remember the gory details of what it means; probably introspective, procrastinating, introverted and dull. Spot on really.

s.
 
Snoopy said:
I think we've nattered about this before on here? I seem to recall cyberpi thought it was all a lot of poo.:p

I had it done years ago and came out as INTP. Can't remember the gory details of what it means; probably introspective, procrastinating, introverted and dull. Spot on really.

s.
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lmoa Snoopy... dont wait for someone else to put you down do you!! You way to hard on yourself.

Tao
 
Muslimwoman said:
Well if you 4 are birds then I must be a cow ........ erm is that what I meant?

Apparently I am an extroverted thinker - about right actually LOL

I was ENTJ 71% and ESTJ 70%

In the Differences I would say I use sensing by preference rather than intuition.

The Dominant Function

For ENTJ and ESTJ the most important preferences are Extraverted Thinking. Your 'dominant function' is Thinking, oriented towards the outer world. You introduce organisation and a logical structure into the way things are done. You organise and systematise the world around you. You make plans, use the correct procedures and make sure they are followed. You try to ensure that roles and responsibilities are properly defined and that the right resources or skills are available to carry them out.
Both your top-scoring types share the same dominant function. The characteristics of these two types are therefore very similar.

Preference Differences

ENTJ and ESTJ differ in Sensing/Intuition. This preference is about the type of information you like to deal with. If you prefer facts, what you know, to have clarity, or to describe what you see, then your preference is for Sensing. If you prefer to deal with ideas, look into the unknown, to generate new possibilities or to anticipate what isn't obvious, then your preference is for Intuition.


From another site: I am ESTJ

As an ESTJ, your primary mode of living is focused externally, where you deal with things rationally and logically. Your secondary mode is internal, where you take things in via your five senses in a literal, concrete fashion.


Wow I sound really boring!!!!
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That result does not really surprise me but it is anything but boring. You bring a perspective here that no other could and you do so in the most logical and practical way so that dreamers like me are forced to wake up. As I implied above to Snoopy, never put yourself down, theres usualy a queue of folk lined up and ready waiting to do that for you.

Regards

Tao
 
Tao_Equus said:
That result does not really surprise me but it is anything but boring. You bring a perspective here that no other could and you do so in the most logical and practical way so that dreamers like me are forced to wake up. As I implied above to Snoopy, never put yourself down, theres usualy a queue of folk lined up and ready waiting to do that for you.

Regards

Tao
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Thank you Tao, always the gent. I just wanted to be in the gang, I am never in the gang, I always have to be different, it's not fair

{MW stamps off and slams her door in the huff}

Salaam
MW
 
Tao_Equus said:
lmoa Snoopy... dont wait for someone else to put you down do you!! You way to hard on yourself.
Tao
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OK so I found a description on the net and wow, I think it described me!

An INTP Profile

Or is it like reading a long astrological description and so some of it must chime (especially the nice bits!).

The section on musical preferences is so spot on I think the author must have been through my collection!

Anyway I'll leave you with this from the (very long) description:

"INTPs are about 1% of the general population, making this one of the rarest of types. For here is the central goal of the INTP: to understand and seek truth."

That'll do!

s.
 
OK so now I've read I'm most likely a Trekkie. I'm back with cyberpi - it's a lot of poo!:D

s.
 
Snoopy said:
OK so now I've read I'm most likely a Trekkie. I'm back with cyberpi - it's a lot of poo!:D

s.
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Hey Snoopy,

As I recall, Cyberpi didn't like the number of variables used to come to a conclusion in the MBTI. I think he came up with a system he liked better using more variables; twelve in all if memory serves.
 
See you are doing it again. You are all in the "simple" gang and I am a complex being. It's just not fair.

Can someone start a gang I can be in and can I have a badge? :p:D
 
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