INFJ, making up less than one percent of the population
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Days ago, my colleague showed me this site and suggested me to take the personality test. He said, I quote, "insanely accurate". Well then I took it, skeptically (like I mostly do), without knowing that being understood by a website could be so... Not sure what's the right word... Deliberating, for a "very rare" personality like the one I have. And hey, maybe you too are just as rare! xD
As for those who aren't familiar with Myers-Briggs Type Personalities Indicator, may don't know about those four letters I put in the post title, INFJ. According to the test, I am an INFJ (Introvert Intuitive Feeling Judging). Like I told you before, I'm a full-of-doubt person because all my whole life, and by 'all my whole life' I mean, all my whole life, I find it really hard to fit myself in. It's not like I'm an outcast or somewhat drowning in a lonesome kind of person. Faking smile is as easy as breathing, I have my friends (though I can't say they're a lot), and activities, but still, I had never felt comfortable being in my own skin. Constantly thinking "Why can't you all see what I see? Why is the way I think is so goddamn different from yours? Am I really a freak?". Gotta tell you, years of living in an "alone-in-the-mind" way lead me to stressful times at some points. Any chance that you might ever feel exactly the same?
So after I took the test and discovered, then read the profile of my Myers-Briggs' personality, at first I felt kinda offended lol. Never in my life I felt so "naked" in front of cellphone screen. And the important part comes, I no longer have to feel bad about being hard to understand. It's not like I now feel a bit cooler or something, no, not at all. It's just because now I figure that I am one of the people whose kind is "making up less than one percent of the population."
As for those who aren't familiar with Myers-Briggs Type Personalities Indicator, may don't know about those four letters I put in the post title, INFJ. According to the test, I am an INFJ (Introvert Intuitive Feeling Judging). Like I told you before, I'm a full-of-doubt person because all my whole life, and by 'all my whole life' I mean, all my whole life, I find it really hard to fit myself in. It's not like I'm an outcast or somewhat drowning in a lonesome kind of person. Faking smile is as easy as breathing, I have my friends (though I can't say they're a lot), and activities, but still, I had never felt comfortable being in my own skin. Constantly thinking "Why can't you all see what I see? Why is the way I think is so goddamn different from yours? Am I really a freak?". Gotta tell you, years of living in an "alone-in-the-mind" way lead me to stressful times at some points. Any chance that you might ever feel exactly the same?
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"In the 1920s, Jung’s theory was noticed by Katharine Cook Briggs, who later co-authored one of the most popular personality indicators used today, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®). Briggs was a teacher with an avid interest in personality typing, having developed her own type theory before learning of Jung’s writings. Together with her daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers, they developed a convenient way to describe the order of each person’s Jungian preferences – this is how the four-letter acronyms were born. There were four possible pairs of personality traits:
- Introversion (I) or Extraversion (E)
- Intuition (N) or Sensing (S)
- Thinking (T) or Feeling (F)
- Judging (J) or Perceiving (P)"
(Source: http://www.16personalities.com/articles/our-theory)
And here are the 16:
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I now live my life as how it should be. I still constantly have my anxieties, but I handle it much better than before. I'm not really sure if this post is being helpful or not, but what I'm trying to say is, despite the psychological theories, you are what you are (I know, call that cliche). But honestly, get what I'm saying?
You are what you are. It's okay :)
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