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BleedingHeartPatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 01:40 PM
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Meyers-Briggs type? ENFJ here.
MKJ
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 01:41 PM
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1. ENFP here.
Edited on Sat Jun-11-05 01:43 PM by mzmolly
:hi:

My daughter is an ENFJ
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gollygee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 08:48 PM
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44. I'm an ENFP too
:D

:hi:
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 01:42 PM
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2. ESTP
but I've tested ENTP before.
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BleedingHeartPatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 01:47 PM
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9. NT's and ST's are awesome, I'm glad to see you in the ranks.
MKJ
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 01:43 PM
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3. INFP
:hi:
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 01:44 PM
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5. Me too. "The Healer"
:hi:
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 01:46 PM
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6. You're an "I"? You're pretty outgoing!
:D
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 01:53 PM
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11. i'm borderline I/E
but leaning more toward I.
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SarahB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 02:31 PM
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24. Holy shittake mushrooms!
Not only do we have the same taste in men, we're both INFP (and borderline on the I/E). :hi:
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 03:48 PM
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33. wow.
i'm still processing that info about gothic sponge. 6'5" eh? mmmmmmmmmmmmm....

:hi:
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SarahB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 08:34 PM
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42. But I'm only a 5' 4&1/2" peanut.
Stuff is more difficult to line up properly with those types anyway I suppose. ;)

Now if I were as statuesque as you, it would be another story. :)
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Behind the Aegis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 03:59 PM
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34. Me too
I lean more toward "I" but, because I have to on occasion, I can appear as an "E." Many people mistake the "I" and "E" to mean "outgoing" or "shy." It is more accurate to say that the difference between the two letters is how the person "gathers reserves." "I" people 'recharge' in private; whereas the "E" people require groups to 'recharge.' Even though, I am close on the "I/E," I am very much a NFP person!
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yvr girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-05 12:35 AM
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59. We really are the same person
I'm INFP too (borderline I)
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-05 11:11 AM
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63. i'm really and truly not surprised
:pals:
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 01:44 PM
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4. INTP
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 01:46 PM
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7. SRNF here
Stark Raving Nucking Futs.

Actually, I've forgotten what my M-B is.
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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 01:47 PM
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8. INFP/ENFP. Depends on the day.
My Myers Brigg type is the only explanation for my being able to go to the same place every day, but be completely unable to tell anyone else how to get there.

:)
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BleedingHeartPatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 01:51 PM
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10. A fellow NF...I"m way out there on the E, but NF is where I really operate
from. MKJ
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SarahB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 02:37 PM
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29. Me too!
I'm usually more I than E (right on the line though), but I have taken the test a number of times and have gotten E before. Depends of my mood toward humanity that day. :)
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benny05 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 01:57 PM
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12. May I suggest you create a real poll
You will get better results.

Can you guess which one I am? :-)
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BleedingHeartPatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 01:59 PM
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13. LOL, ISTJ or ESTJ...I'd love to but there's only 10 choices and MB has 16
types. Any suggestions? MKJ
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benny05 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 02:00 PM
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14. Good point
ENTJ...systematic, strategic
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BleedingHeartPatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 02:01 PM
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15. I should have known. NT = truthseeker...the J is icing on the cake.
Edited on Sat Jun-11-05 02:02 PM by BleedingHeartPatriot
MKJ

edited to add: your type is the natural leader. Are you in a leadership job?
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benny05 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 02:03 PM
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16. But at work
I am an ENTP manager...which means I am adaptable and getting more used to ambiguity..
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BleedingHeartPatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 02:10 PM
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20. I'm a J who wants to be a P...I understand ambiguity due to the N
but my J wants to see a list of exactly how that ambiguity fits into day to day operations.

My synapses short circuit, albeit briefly, whenever a set schedule is disrupted. (I'm the nursing supervisor of a busy multi specialty clinic, so disruption is normal.)

I applaud your ability to move easily back and forth between the two.

MKJ
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benny05 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 02:08 PM
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17. I'm in a middle management position
And I like it...

I am being mentored for a leadership position within an Association I belong to, but I have to understand what drives it first, just as I do at work.

My boss thinks I'm pretty strategic though.
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 02:08 PM
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18. I can't remember the letter squence
But the wee title thingy that it gave was "the Architect" - which is ironic as I find architecture terribly interesting, perhaps I should start a new screen-name of Vitruvius or maybe even Palladio.
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 02:10 PM
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19. ESTJ = me.
"-- Likes making decisions on the basis of logic, using objective considerations

-- Is concerned with truth, principles and justice

-- Is analytical and critical, tending to see the flaws in situations

-- Takes an objective approach"

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BleedingHeartPatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 02:16 PM
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21. The physician director of the clinic I supervise is ESTJ...perfect
description.

Thankfully, we recognize the differences in our perceptions and interpretations, so we can balance each other.

St's comprise a majority of my staff, and he communicates with them effortlessly.

MK
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 02:21 PM
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22. I do think a balance is a good thing.

I once read a book on the Myers-Brigg indicators in the workplace and it was fascinating.

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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 02:27 PM
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23. INTJ here!
Masterminds unite. The few and the proud.
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TheCentepedeShoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 02:35 PM
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27. INTJ here, too. n/t
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 04:21 PM
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36. Same here
:)
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Metatron Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 04:38 PM
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40. Me, too. n/t
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specimenfred1984 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-05 12:06 AM
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54. Me Too
I was just talking about it last night with an extroverted friend of mine. Those darn people just say whatever's on their mind!
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Cyndee_Lou_Who Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 02:32 PM
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25. I am an ENTP
had a blast when a previous employer did a workshop!
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 02:36 PM
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28. I'm either ENTP or ESTP
we had Myers Briggs at work several years ago, and all the salespeople were ES/NTP Os ES/NTJ
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 02:32 PM
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26. I don't know how it compares to Myers-Briggs, but my Minnesota
Multiphasic personality test results (the result of a paired down version of the MMP I took last year to help a friend of mine finish her Master's training) designate me a SIAT (Submissive Introvert Abstract Thinker). Refered to jokingly by said friend as the "Evil Mastermind" personality type.
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 03:08 PM
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30. INFJ
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Orangeone Donating Member (395 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 11:39 PM
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51. INFJ too!

I've read that only 2% of the population are INFJ. I guess we're odd.
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CrownPrinceBandar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 11:50 PM
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52. INFJ, as well.
The Counselor Idealists are abstract in thought and speech, cooperative in reaching their goals, and directive and introverted in their interpersonal roles. Counselors focus on human potentials, think in terms of ethical values, and come easily to decisions. The small number of this type (little more than 2 percent) is regrettable, since Counselors have an unusually strong desire to contribute to the welfare of others and genuinely enjoy helping their companions. Although Counsleors tend to be private, sensitive people, and are not generally visible leaders, they nevertheless work quite intensely with those close to them, quietly exerting their influence behind the scenes with their families, friends, and colleagues. This type has great depth of personality; they are themselves complicated, and can understand and deal with complex issues and people.

Counselors can be hard to get to know. They have an unusually rich inner life, but they are reserved and tend not to share their reactions except with those they trust. With their loved ones, certainly, Counselors are not reluctant to express their feelings, their face lighting up with the positive emotions, but darkening like a thunderhead with the negative. Indeed, because of their strong ability to take into themselves the feelings of others, Counselors can be hurt rather easily by those around them, which, perhaps, is one reason why they tend to be private people, mutely withdrawing from human contact. At the same time, friends who have known a Counselor for years may find sides emerging which come as a surprise. Not that they are inconsistent; Counselors value their integrity a great deal, but they have intricately woven, mysterious personalities which sometimes puzzle even them.

Counselors have strong empathic abilities and can become aware of another's emotions or intentions -- good or evil -- even before that person is conscious of them. This "mind-reading" can take the form of feeling the hidden distress or illnesses of others to an extent which is difficult for other types to comprehend. Even Counselors can seldom tell how they came to penetrate others' feelings so keenly. Furthermore, the Counselor is most likely of all the types to demonstrate an ability to understand psychic phenomena and to have visions of human events, past, present, or future. What is known as ESP may well be exceptional intuitive ability-in both its forms, projection and introjection. Such supernormal intuition is found frequently in the Counselor, and can extend to people, things, and often events, taking the form of visions, episodes of foreknowledge, premonitions, auditory and visual images of things to come, as well as uncanny communications with certain individuals at a distance.

Mohandas Gandhi and Eleanor Roosevelt are examples of the Counselor Idealist (INFJ)

http://keirsey.com/personality/nfij.html
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Duncan Grant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-05 12:56 AM
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60. One more INFJ.
Any other INFJ's grateful for their elevated intuitive/empathic abilities? I sure am. :thumbsup:

(And a shout out to one of my favorite DU mountaineers! :hi:)
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Orangeone Donating Member (395 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-05 01:42 AM
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61. Yes I'm grateful


One time my husband and I were planning to ride the bus to San Francisco and I suddenly changed my mind about going. My husband went anyway. Later on when he got back he said: "The bus got into an accident with a car on the Bay Bridge!" Luckily, it wasn't a serious accident, just shook my husband up.

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NorthernSpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 03:09 PM
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31. INTP, always
Never scored as anything else.

In contrast to INTJs, an INTP will often make controversial, speculative points of argument, often annoying the discussion-partner, and make them in such a way as to leave the impression that he is very serious about what he says. In reality, the INTP is not actually even certain himself whether he really stands by what he is saying, but his Ne strongly suggests that there must be a core of truth there. The purpose then of his outspoken style of argument is to sharpen his own intuitive understanding by testing the reaction of the listener, and indeed to examine the logic of his own arguments in real time while speaking them out. On occasion, INTPs may seem brash and tactless, but for themselves it is part of their way of getting closer to the truth. This is another aspect of the Ne grappling with the external world (in this case discussion with another) to understand it.


This Paul James fellow totally gets it. I wind up in some of the worst misunderstandings with J types for exactly this reason.
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neebob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-05 12:16 AM
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56. He does hit quite a few nails on the head
but he's really just yammering on about himself. How's that for a typical INTP reaction?

Neebob (INTP from hell)
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Dervill Crow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 03:14 PM
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32. ISTJ
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mcar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 04:31 PM
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37. Me too
And I totally agree with the classification. :hi:
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Dervill Crow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 09:19 PM
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46. Yep, it's spot on for me, too.
I find it interesting that the three supervisors and the manager I work with are ESTJs. I am pretty sure the reason I haven't moved up any further is because I don't have that "E" thing going for me.
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njdemocrat106 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 08:47 PM
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43. ISTJ here, too
Every year in high school we took the Myers-Briggs test in our health class. I was always the only one with ISTJ (and one of the few I-types as well). In reality, I'm quite the introvert.
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 04:06 PM
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35. infp
Edited on Sat Jun-11-05 04:07 PM by sundog
well, i took this test once in 10th grade & the answer is now the same... so there ya go :)

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm
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LeftPeopleFinishFirst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 04:32 PM
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38. Guess.
INFP.
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 04:37 PM
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39. ENTJ
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 05:19 PM
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41. INFP
Another proud weirdo here.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 08:57 PM
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45. I'm an ISFJ.
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blue neen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 09:35 PM
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47. ESFP
I forget what it really means, though. Does anybody know?
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Insider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 09:38 PM
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48. INFP in an ESTJ environment
:shrug:
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all.of.me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 10:01 PM
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49. INFP changing to INFJ
i've gone through some profound personal changes in the last year, so my test results have changed, too. is that normal?! i think that once things settle down, INFP will dominate again.
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 10:14 PM
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50. INTP/INTJ
different result depending on when I've taken the test...
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nickgutierrez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 11:52 PM
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53. I've taken the test a few times, but I always forget the results.
Except for that it always begins with an I. That much is always, always the case.
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solinvictus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-05 12:07 AM
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55. INTJ here..
It fits well with my personality.
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-05 12:25 AM
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57. INFP
Less than 2% of the population is INFP (or so I was told). We're the oddballs who try to cope with the rest of the world. :)
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yvr girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-05 12:32 AM
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58. INFP
Extrovert vs. Introvert (Borderline I)
iNtuitive vs. Sensing (Very strong N)
Feeling vs. Thinking (50/50)
Judging vs. Perceptive (Very strong P)
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-05 02:17 AM
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62. INTJ
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