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seeker:
Hello again,

For another "take" on your MB profile, go to www.typelogic.com.  It will give you another explanation or profile of your type, plus some fun stuff like famous people who share your type, as well as fictional characters!  For some reason they go on and on about Moby Dick on the INFP page (yawn!) but the writeup and list are good.  

Also, I had read that the difference between E and I wasn't necessary how many friends or how personable you are in a group, but how you recharge your batteries.  This made tons of sense to me, since our culture (U.S. of A.) insists on glad-handing everyone and slamming our pals on the back.  Hail-fellow-well-met!   :roll:  So I can yuck it up for a couple of hours (for an INFP that means smiling broadly while listening and sipping the chardonnay) and then head back to my cave to recover.  That makes me an I, for sure.  

This whole thread makes me smile (and Portia, you crack me up by analysing the test that supposed to analyze us  :D ).  I can just imagine all of us at a cocktail party with a mixer of MB cards to find similar/compatible types and then reciting a string of recovery acronyms.   That's me over there rearranging the cheese cubes into a bust of Freud.  What are you guys doing at this party?  Refilling the glasses, helping the hostess in the kitchen, starting a conga line?  
8)  8)  8)  :shock:  :D  Seeker

Wildflower:
Hi Portia,


--- Quote ---I'm not an E after all, I want to sing: I'm an introvert after all - great!
--- End quote ---


If you’re an introvert and you know it, clap your hands.  :D
If you’re an extrovert and you know it, clap your hands.  :D  

(Do you guys know the “Happy and You Know It” kid’s tune over in the UK?)

I took my little 1% E last night and I used it like a flashlight on the rest of my life, and you know what?  I’m an E.  I really truly am.  I feel like singing it out, too. :D  :D   I’m an E who was stuffed in a duffle bag and made to think that my E-ness was bad.  I’m just so dumb-struck right now with how powerful labels are, and how damaging they can be when you’re vulnerable and they’re determined by people who just don’t know you.

I think you’re right, R, that a true M-B test would be more complicated and rigorous, but this little one has given me a little more confidence to re-define myself.  Or maybe un-define myself. :wink:  :)

I want to thank you so much for sharing your confusions about those questions, Portia.  I was going through similar mental flip-flops answering them, and I may come back and talk more about that later, but work beckons.  Rrrg.  Anyway, I just wanted to say that this is reminding me of a conversation I had over and over and over growing up that went roughly like this:

Me [tugging on some adult’s coat tails] – I don’t get it.  What’s wrong with me?  This doesn’t make any sense.  People tell me I’m smart, but I don’t get it.  (Of course, what I actually said on these occasions was so much more stuck in the muck than that).

Adult – Don’t be too hard on yourself.  You’ll figure it out.  Everyone struggles with this.  It’s hard.

Me [now completely baffled] – If everyone struggles with this, why does it look so easy for everyone else? They don’t LOOK like they’re struggling.  They’re not bugging everyone they can find for answers.

Adult – Most people just don’t talk about it.  They hide the fact that they’re struggling.

Me [frustrated and confused to the point of tears] – But...if everyone is struggling – with the same things – why is it so hard to talk about it?  If we’re really ALL going through this, why can’t we work on it together?  And what’s wrong with me that I’m the only weirdo talking about this?  (Let the downward spiral begin).

I’m starting to understand more about how important it is to be able to keep the important parts of you private and safe, instead of dangling them out in harm’s way (like Jacmac’s post about knowing when to step out into the street), but man was that frustrating.

Thanks again for sharing that.   :D

Wildflower

Portia:
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rosencrantz:
I'm not an E after all, I want to sing: I'm an introvert after all - great!

LOL That's exactly how I felt when I discovered I was an E!!  Such freedom!!!

Try www.theintrovertzcoach.com for more fun!!

Oh and what we choose to be doing at that party will naturally lump us together in our 'types'!!!!!  :lol:  :lol:  :lol: I'll either be hiding in a big chair with a drink being my 'shy' side or at the door welcoming everyone in!!!  But if you're all introverts you'll probably all go and hide from me - any more extraverts out there, please??? I need someone to play with! :wink:

R

write:
lots of INFJ/P here then!
I suspected as much!!!
We're attracted to narcissists I fear, sensing their enormous potential...


Recognising the introvert/ extrovert thing in oneself is very liberating isn't it.


S'ok Portia (((((())))))))))


Don't worry if you don't 'get' the whole MBTI thing- it's like everything else, just a tool, and as someone pointed out Myers & Briggs ( a mother and daughter if I remember correctly ) would not have reduced it to such a simple test.
( interesting- conversely others have complicated their typology with enneagram detailing )

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