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Biff_Justice
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The REAL personality test which all the others are based on
Here's a link to a version of the Myers-Briggs personality test, which is used in many businesses and by many psychologists today. This particular site has sort of an anime swing to it, but this is not a test to determine which anime character you are, it's a (shortened)version of the honest to goodness Myers-Briggs test.
It takes about 10 minutes to complete, so give yourself some time if you wish to take it.
[url]http://www.geocities.com/bobminkanime/MB/test.html [/url]
My type:
INFP
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Chichiri from Fushigi Yuugi, Hitomi from Vision of Escaflowne, Hotaru from Sailor Moon, Nausicaa from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Van from Vision of Escaflowne, Quatre from Gundam Wing, Kermit the Frog from Muppets, Luke Skywalker from Star Wars
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INFPs are driven by their deep, personal values on their lifelong quest for meaning and harmony. They always make sure their actions follow their beliefs, their need for integrity is so strong that they are physically unable to do something they believe is wrong. If they ever do go against their values, they will atone for it without telling anyone about it. Sensitive and caring, INFPs are very empathetic and nurturing to their friends, but they are selective about who they allow to get close. They seem cool and a bit apathetic at first and it takes a long time to get to know an INFP. They often take things personally, and their feelings are hurt easily. INFPs also usually keep negative feelings to themselves, and would rather stop talking to a close friend than confront them. They also tend to idealize relationships and become depressed if they don't work out as well as they envisioned. Because INFPs dislike confrontations so much, they are likely to procrastinate until people forget, or just say 'yes' and then go do whatever they want.
INFPs are creative and imaginative, with a strong interest in the arts. They are especially gifted writers and poets. INFPs are open-minded and accepting of anything as long as it doesn't interfere with their values, then they become rigid and unforgiving. They are usually very interested in spiritual and religious aspects of life, and the search for their true self. They are often so preoccupied with self-awareness that they fail to notice outside activities, giving them an almost other-worldly quality. INFPs are the most idealistic and least practical of all the types. They 'march to the beat of a different drummer.' Thoughtful and soft-spoken, INFPs make excellent counselors and advisors. They are drawn to psychology and the arts, and have an almost mystic understanding of life and the universe. INFPs believe strongly in a balance between light and dark, good and evil. Despite this preoccupation with finding evil, they are able to recognize the good in anyone or anything.
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Extraverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving
by Marina Margaret Heiss
Profile: ENFP
Revision: 2.2
Date of Revision: 7 Dec 99
Hmmm.. all scarily true..
[The following comes partially from the archetype, but mostly from my own dealings with ENFPs.]
General: ENFPs are both "idea"-people and "people"-people, who see everyone and everything as part of an often bizarre cosmic whole. They want to both help (at least, their own definition of "help") and be liked and admired by other people, on bo th an individual and a humanitarian level. They are interested in new ideas on principle, but ultimately discard most of them for one reason or another.
Social/Personal Relationships: ENFPs have a great deal of zany charm, which can ingratiate them to the more stodgy types in spite of their unconventionality. They are outgoing, fun, and genuinely like people. As SOs/mates they are warm, affectionate (l ots of PDA), and disconcertingly spontaneous. However, attention span in relationships can be short; ENFPs are easily intrigued and distracted by new friends and acquaintances, forgetting about the older ones for long stretches at a time. Less mature E NFPs may need to feel they are the center of attention all the time, to reassure them that everyone thinks they're a wonderful and fascinating person.
ENFPs often have strong, if unconvential, convictions on various issues related to their Cosmic View. They usually try to use their social skills and contacts to persuade people gently of the rightness of these views; his sometimes results in their negle cting their nearest and dearest while flitting around trying to save the world.
Work Environment: ENFPs are pleasant, easygoing, and usually fun to work with. They come up with great ideas, and are a major asset in brainstorming sessions. Followthrough tends to be a problem, however; they tend to get bored quickly, especially if a newer, more interesting project comes along. They also tend to be procrastinators, both about meeting hard deadlines and about performing any small, uninteresting tasks that they've been assigned. ENFPs are at their most useful when working in a group w ith a J or two to take up the slack.
ENFPs hate bureaucracy, both in principle and in practice; they will always make a point of launching one of their crusades against some aspect of it.
Famous ENFPs:
Franz Joseph Haydn, composer Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Will Rogers, humorist
Buster Keaton
Theodor "Dr." Seuss Geisel, children's author (The Cat in the Hat)
Mickey Rooney, actor
James Dobson, "Focus on the Family"
Andy Rooney, television news commentator
Carol Burnett, comedian
Paul Harvey, radio announcer
Elizabeth Montgomery, actress (Bewitched)
Bill Cosby, comedian, actor (Ghost Dad)
Dom Delouise, actor
Dave Thomas, owner of Wendy's hamburger chain
Lewis Grizzard, newspaper columnist
I. King Jordan, president of Gallaudet University
Martin Short, actor-comedian
Meg Ryan, actress (When Harry Met Sally)
Robin Williams, actor, comedian (Dead Poet's Society, Mrs. Doubtfire)
Sandra Bullock, actress (Speed, While You Were Sleeping)
Robert Downey (Heart and Souls)
Alicia Silverstone (Clueless)
Fictional:
Dr. Doug Ross (ER)
Balkie (Perfect Strangers)
Ariel (The Little Mermaid)
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Steve Irkle
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matthy
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posted May 28, 2002 10:22 PM |
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what am i, what am i?
im not looking at my score atm but i bet im superman!  lets see now:
Extraverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving
by Joe Butt
Profile: ESTP
Revision: 2.1
Date of Revision: 7 Dec 99
ESTPs are spontaneous, active folks. Like the other SPs, ESTPs get great satisfaction from acting on their impulses. Activities involving great power, speed, thrill and risk are attractive to the ESTP. Chronic stifling of these impulses makes the ESTP feel "dead inside."
Gamesmanship is the calling card of the ESTP. Persons of this type have a natural drive to best the competition. Some of the most successful salespersons are ESTPs. P.T. Barnum ("Never give a sucker an even break") illustrates the unscrupulous contingent of this type.
Almost unconsciously the ESTP looks for nonverbal, nearly subliminal cues as to what makes her quarry "tick." Once she knows, she waits for just the right time to trump the unsuspecting victim's ace and glory in her conquest. Oddly enough, the ESTP seems to admire and respect anyone who can beat her at her own game.
"If I was any better, I couldn't stand it!" To an ESTP, admission of weakness feels like failure. He admires strength in himself and in others.
"Shock effect" is a favored technique of this type to get the attention of his audience. ESTPs love to be at center stage, demonstrating feats of wonder and daring.
Functional Analysis
Extraverted Sensing
These are the ultimate realists. Extraverted Sensors are at one with objects and experiences now, in the only living, pulsing moment that ever really exists. The Sensor is compelled to see, touch, taste, smell and feel all that moves, wafts, tingles, tinkles, scintillates, vibrates or resonates. Some ESTPs are keenly discriminating; only those elements of singular quality and experience will suffice. Others revel in earthiness. If baseness can elicit shock from more squeamish observers, so much the better.
Introverted Thinking
Even a consummate Sensor needs to decide which hand to grasp the gusto with; Introverted Thinking is her preferred yardstick. Introverted, and auxiliary to Sensing, the T function maintains a low profile, keeps its opinions mainly to itself, and readily yields to allow Sensing to savor a special moment. The ESTP preference for mental, physical and emotional toughness surely can be traced to this detached, rational function.
Extraverted Feeling
Though only a minor character, Feeling plays an important role in a favorite pastime of ESTPs. This is not to say that ESTPs don't care deeply for others, yet Feeling is such a ready hand-puppet, expedient in disarming the "victim" and exposing the jugular. Sincere Feeling is tertiary and thus relatively simplistic in this type. As such, it can be the undoing of ESTPs at the hands of those they (perhaps unconsciously) come to trust.
Introverted iNtuition
In the inferior (fourth) position, intuition may be virtually absent much of the time. Haziness of inner, symbolic vision is the psychic price of the clarity of sensory awareness. As do other SPs, ESTPs reserve a certain "gut" sense of timing and luck. When repression and stress empower the Shadow, it likely finds expression through intuition in stereotypic perceptions of groups and individuals whom it perceives and hostile or hurtful.
Famous ESTPs:
Jacob (Esau's brother)
Simon Peter (Christ's disciple)
U.S. Presidents:
* James Buchanan
Mae West
Ernest Hemingway
Lucille Ball
Roy Rogers
Chuck Yeager
Jack Nicholson
Eddie Murphy
Ann Jillian
Jimmy Conners
Madonna
Cybil Shepherd
Bruce Willis
Michael J. Fox
Fictional:
Heathcliffe
Louie DaPalma (Taxi)
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posted May 28, 2002 10:50 PM |
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Give me this
Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging
by Joe Butt
Profile: ISTJ
Revision: 2.2
Date of Revision: 7 Dec 1999
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"It is in keeping with tradition throughout our history that I should express simply and directly the opinions which I hold concerning some of the matters of present importance." --Herbert Hoover, Inaugural Address, Monday, March 4, 1929.
ISTJs are often called inspectors. They have a keen sense of right and wrong, especially in their area of interest and/or responsibility. They are noted for devotion to duty. Punctuality is a watchword of the ISTJ. The secretary, clerk, or business(wo)man by whom others set their clocks is likely to be an ISTJ.
As do other Introverted Thinkers, ISTJs often give the initial impression of being aloof and perhaps somewhat cold. Effusive expression of emotional warmth is not something that ISTJs do without considerable energy loss.
ISTJs are most at home with "just the facts, Ma'am." They seem to perform at highest efficiency when employing a step-by-step approach. Once a new procedure has proven itself (i.e., has been shown "to work,")the ISTJ can be depended upon to carry it through, even at the expense of their own health.
ISTJs are easily frustrated by the inconsistencies of others, especially when the second parties don't keep their commitments. But they usually keep their feelings to themselves unless they are asked. And when asked, they don't mince words. Truth wins out over tact. The grim determination of the ISTJ vindicates itself in officiation of sports events, judiciary functions, or an other situation which requires making tough calls and sticking to them.
His SJ orientation draws the ISTJ into the service of established institutions. Home, social clubs, government, schools, the military, churches -- these are the bastions of the SJ. "We've always done it this way" is often reason enough for many ISTJs. Threats to time-honored traditions or established organizations (e.g., a "run" on the bank) are the undoing of SJs, and are to be fought at all costs.
Functional Analysis
Introverted Sensing
Si is oriented toward the world of forms, essences, generics. Time is such a form, a quantifiable essense of exactitude, the standard to which external events are held. For both of the IS_J types, the sense of propriety comes from the clear definition of these internal forms. An apple "should" have certain qualities, against which all apples are evaluated. A "proper" chair has four legs, (and other qualities this poor INTP can only guess). Jung viewed introverted sensing as something of an oxymoron, in that the natural direction of senses is outward toward the object, rather than inward and away from it. One has the sense that Introverted Sensors are drawn more to the measure of the concept of the perceived object than to the experience of that perception.
Extraverted Thinking
The moderation of the Te function serves to socialize the expression of these forms. When the Si function is ready to relinquish the data, Te may speak. Otherwise, silence is golden. ISTJs seem to have a few favorite forms (the tried and true) which may serve for most occasions. My ISTJ dad woke me every morning with the same phrase for more years than I care to remember. Asked, "How are you?" he answered with the same stock phrase. ("As well as my age and habits will permit" was used for about two decades.) "It's a good form, a sound form--it's the form for me."
Introverted Feeling
Since Fi is turned inward, it is rarely expressed. Perhaps this enables the ISTJ to resolutely accept that "we are all doomed." When told that Lazarus had died, Thomas said, "Let us go and die with him." (He could just as well have said something like, "I knew this was bound to happen sooner or later.") Only in times of great distress is the Introverted Feeling expressed (as I witnessed in my dad when a neighbor's son was killed in a hunting accident). Otherwise, feeling is inferred, or expressed nonverbally, through eye contact, or an encouraging smile.
Extraverted iNtuition
The Ne function of an ISTJ does not serve her very well. It needs a lot of help. She was surprised, for example, to find that someone she had talked with only by phone had red hair, because she "didn't usually like" people with red hair! This inferior Ne seems to be a major source of, and a natural breeding ground for, stereotypes. Failure of the banking system is but one bogeyman which arises from the fear which feeds on the ISTJ's mistrust of real world possibilities. The shadow inhabiting the inferior Ne strikes at the precious forms and standards in the heart of the dominant Si function.
Famous ISTJs:
Thomas (Christ's disciple)
U.S. Presidents:
George Washington
Andrew Johnson
Benjamin Harrison
Herbert Hoover
George H. W. Bush
Paul Coverdale (U.S. Senator, R-GA)
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (U.S. Olympic athlete)
Evander Holyfield, heavyweight boxing champion
Jack Webb (Joe Friday)
Fictional ISTJs:
Mr. Martin (hero of James Thurber's Sitting in the Catbird Seat)
Eeyore (Winnie the Pooh)
Fred Mertz (I Love Lucy)
Puddleglum, the marshwiggle (Chronicles of Narnia) Cliff (Cheers)
Copyright © 1996-1999 by Joe Butt
Type Relationships for ISTJs:
Identity Pal Complement Contrast
Supplement Anima Suitemate Cohort
Companion Tribesman Advisor Pedagogue
Enigma Novelty Neighbor Counterpart
More information about Type Relationships.
Portrait of the Inspector (iStJ)
Copyrighted © 1996 Prometheus Nemesis Book Company.
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posted May 28, 2002 10:57 PM |
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posted May 28, 2002 11:00 PM |
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Well you take all those presidents aswel 
WTF? Why i'm like so much presidents?
Maybe I will become president oneday? Hmmm Or is it about that I didn't understand about ½ of the asked questions and just answered them with NO?
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posted May 28, 2002 11:03 PM |
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Eeyore is good. He would never sell out and become president.. I love Eeyore.. this can't be!!
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posted May 28, 2002 11:14 PM |
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INFJ
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Belldandy from Oh My Goddess, Kasumi from Ranma 1/2, Mitsukake from Fushigi Yuugi, Rei from Sailor Moon, Taiitsukun from Fushigi Yuugi, Yaten from Sailor Moon, Koganei from Flame of Recca, Yuriko Star from Irresponsible Captain Tylor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda and Leia from Star Wars
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Integrity, originality, vision and creativity are all very important to INFJs. Excellent listeners, people of this type are patient, supportive, perceptive, empathetic and gentle. They are soft-spoken and generally prefer to work behind the scenes. INFJs are thoughtful, gentle and calm and work hard to maintain harmonious relationships. However, they can be very independent and will do what they believe is right, no matter what. It is very difficult to get them to change their minds. Because INFJs believe so firmly in their vision, they can seem stubborn or single-minded. This confidence also makes most people trust and respect them immediately. Their goal is often to make the world better for all people. INFJs are perfectionists, they are decisive and organized, good planners who like to set goals and achieve them. INFJs are almost completely run by their values and convictions, they can sometimes take things too personally and once their feelings are hurt they can become defensive and will write off a person or idea. Sometimes INFJs need to be reminded not to take themselves so seriously.
INFJs are difficult to get to know, and they are often uncomfortable in social situations. They prefer to get to know people in one-on-one situations, but they usually seem more outgoing than they actually are. INFJs have complex, deep feelings, and these come out in their speech, which is often thoughtful and filled with meaning, but sometimes hard to follow. Coming up with solutions to problems is something that most INFJs enjoy, but they would generally rather leave it to someone else to carry out their plans. A great strength of INFJs is their dedication to causes, their work must have meaning for them, but they often get other people's feelings mixed up with their own.
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Famous INFJs:
Nathan, prophet of Israel
Aristophanes
Chaucer
Goethe
Robert Burns, Scottish poet
U.S. Presidents:
Martin Van Buren
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter
Nathaniel Hawthorne, author, poet
Fanny Crosby, (blind) hymnist
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Fred McMurray (My Three Sons, various movies)
Shirley Temple Black, child actress, ambassador
Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, martyr
James Reston, newspaper reporter
Shirley McClain, actress (Sweet Charity, ...)
Piers Anthony, author ("Xanth" series)
Michael Landon, actor (Highway to Heaven, Little House on the Prairie)
Tom Selleck, actor (Magnum, P. I., Mr. Baseball)
Oprah Winfrey, talk show host
John Katz, critic, author
Paul Stookey, folk singer (Peter, Paul and Mary)
Angela Lansbury, actress (Murder, She Wrote)
U. S. Senator Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL)
Richard Gere, actor (Pretty Woman, Sommersby)
Billy Crystal, actor, comedian
Carrie Fisher, actress (Star Wars)
Mohandas Gandhi
Eleanor Roosevelt
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...hmm, I think there may have been a mistake somewhere...there's no way...but then again, I seem to have been matched with Yoda again
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posted May 29, 2002 12:16 AM |
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Hmmm...
How did they test the personalities of all those fictional characters...
...or those ancient historical figures.
Anyway...
This is me...
INTJ = Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging
[url]http://typelogic.com/intj.html[/url]
others...
Quote:
Famous INTJs:
Dan Aykroyd, actor (The Blues Brothers)
Susan B. Anthony, suffragist
Arthur Ashe, tennis champion
Augustus Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus), Emperor of Rome
Jane Austen, author (Pride and Prejudice)
William J. Bennett, "drug czar"
William F. Buckley, Jr., conservative political advocate
Raymond Burr, actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides)
Chevy Chase (Cornelius Crane), actor (Fletch)
Phil Donahue, television talk show host
Michael Dukakis, governor of Mass., 1988 U.S. Dem. pres. candidate
Greg Gumbel, television sportscaster
Hannibal, Carthaginian military leader
Veronica Hamel, actress (Hill Street Blues)
Orel Leonard Hershiser, IV, major league baseball pitcher
Peter Jennings, television newscaster
Charles Everett Koop, former U.S. surgeon general
Ivan Lendl, tennis champion
C. S. Lewis, author (The Chronicles of Narnia)
Joan Lunden, television talk show host
Edwin Moses, U.S. olympian (hurdles)
Martina Navratilova, tennis champion
Charles Rangel, U. S. Representative, D-N.Y.
Pernell Roberts, actor (Bonanza)
Maria Owens Shriver, television newscaster
Josephine Tey (Elizabeth Mackintosh), mystery writer (Brat Farrar)
U.S. Presidents:
Chester A. Arthur
Calvin Coolidge
Thomas Jefferson
John F. Kennedy
James K. Polk
Woodrow Wilson
Fictional:
Cassius (Julius Caesar)
Mr. Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)
Gandalf the Grey (J. R. R. Tolkein's Middle Earth books)
Hannibal Lecter (Silence of the Lambs)
Professor Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes' nemesis
Ensign Ro (Star Trek--the Next Generation)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Hamlet)
George Smiley, John le Carre's master spy
Clarice Starling (Silence of the Lambs)
Gandalf or Hannibal Lecter two sides of the same coin...? lol
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posted May 29, 2002 12:50 AM |
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I´m INFP..
If u only knew what it´s like..
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Integrity, originality, vision and creativity are all very important to INFJs. Excellent listeners, people of this type are patient, supportive, perceptive, empathetic and gentle. They are soft-spoken and generally prefer to work behind the scenes. INFJs are thoughtful, gentle and calm and work hard to maintain harmonious relationships. However, they can be very independent and will do what they believe is right, no matter what. It is very difficult to get them to change their minds. Because INFJs believe so firmly in their vision, they can seem stubborn or single-minded. This confidence also makes most people trust and respect them immediately. Their goal is often to make the world better for all people. INFJs are perfectionists, they are decisive and organized, good planners who like to set goals and achieve them. INFJs are almost completely run by their values and convictions, they can sometimes take things too personally and once their feelings are hurt they can become defensive and will write off a person or idea. Sometimes INFJs need to be reminded not to take themselves so seriously.
INFJs are difficult to get to know, and they are often uncomfortable in social situations. They prefer to get to know people in one-on-one situations, but they usually seem more outgoing than they actually are. INFJs have complex, deep feelings, and these come out in their speech, which is often thoughtful and filled with meaning, but sometimes hard to follow. Coming up with solutions to problems is something that most INFJs enjoy, but they would generally rather leave it to someone else to carry out their plans. A great strength of INFJs is their dedication to causes, their work must have meaning for them, but they often get other people's feelings mixed up with their own.
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...there should be links on the same page, or if you didn't close the other page, go back to there and scroll down and fine the one you match and click on the image link.
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posted May 29, 2002 05:06 AM |
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ENFP
Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving
http://typelogic.com/enfp.html
i like to emotionaly help people, which is true! in reallife, damn sacrifices, noone ever takes notice!
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Profile: ISFJ
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Date of Revision: 7 Dec 1999
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ISFJs are characterized above all by their desire to serve others, their "need to be needed." In extreme cases, this need is so strong that standard give-and-take relationships are deeply unsatisfying to them; however, most ISFJs find more than enough with which to occupy themselves within the framework of a normal life. (Since ISFJs, like all SJs, are very much bound by the prevailing social conventions, their form of "service" is likely to exclude any elements of moral or political controversy; they specialize in the local, the personal, and the practical.)
ISFJs are often unappreciated, at work, home, and play. Ironically, because they prove over and over that they can be relied on for their loyalty and unstinting, high-quality work, those around them often take them for granted--even take advantage of them. Admittedly, the problem is sometimes aggravated by the ISFJs themselves; for instance, they are notoriously bad at delegating ("If you want it done right, do it yourself"). And although they're hurt by being treated like doormats, they are often unwilling to toot their own horns about their accomplishments because they feel that although they deserve more credit than they're getting, it's somehow wrong to want any sort of reward for doing work (which is supposed to be a virtue in itself). (And as low-profile Is, their actions don't call attention to themselves as with charismatic Es.) Because of all of this, ISFJs are often overworked, and as a result may suffer from psychosomatic illnesses.
In the workplace, ISFJs are methodical and accurate workers, often with very good memories and unexpected analytic abilities; they are also good with people in small-group or one-on-one situations because of their patient and genuinely sympathetic approach to dealing with others. ISFJs make pleasant and reliable co-workers and exemplary employees, but tend to be harried and uncomfortable in supervisory roles. They are capable of forming strong loyalties, but these are personal rather than institutional loyalties; if someone they've bonded with in this way leaves the company, the ISFJ will leave with them, if given the option. Traditional careers for an ISFJ include: teaching, social work, most religious work, nursing, medicine (general practice only), clerical and and secretarial work of any kind, and some kinds of administrative careers.
While their work ethic is high on the ISFJ priority list, their families are the centers of their lives. ISFJs are extremely warm and demonstrative within the family circle--and often possessive of their loved ones, as well. When these include Es who want to socialize with the rest of the world, or self-contained ITs, the ISFJ must learn to adjust to these behaviors and not interpret them as rejection. Being SJs, they place a strong emphasis on conventional behavior (although, unlike STJs, they are usually as concerned with being "nice" as with strict propriety); if any of their nearest and dearest depart from the straight-and-narrow, it causes the ISFJ major embarrassment: the closer the relationship and the more public the act, the more intense the embarrassment (a fact which many of their teenage children take gleeful advantage of). Over time, however, ISFJs usually mellow, and learn to regard the culprits as harmless eccentrics :-). Needless to say, ISFJs take infinite trouble over meals, gifts, celebrations, etc., for their loved ones--although strong Js may tend to focus more on what the recipient should want rather than what they do want.
Like most Is, ISFJs have a few, close friends. They are extremely loyal to these, and are ready to provide emotional and practical support at a moment's notice. (However, like most Fs they hate confrontation; if you get into a fight, don't expect them to jump in after you. You can count on them, however, run and get the nearest authority figure.) Unlike with EPs, the older the friendship is, the more an ISFJ will value it. One ISFJ trait that is easily misunderstood by those who haven't known them long is that they are often unable to either hide or articulate any distress they may be feeling. For instance, an ISFJ child may be reproved for "sulking," the actual cause of which is a combination of physical illness plus misguided "good manners." An adult ISFJ may drive a (later ashamed) friend or SO into a fit of temper over the ISFJ's unexplained moodiness, only afterwards to explain about a death in the family they "didn't want to burden anyone with." Those close to ISFJs should learn to watch for the warning signs in these situations and take the initiative themselves to uncover the problem.
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Functional Analysis
by Joe Butt
Introverted Sensing
As for ISTJs, the dominant Si is oriented toward the world of forms, essences, generics. Again, "for both of the IS_J types, the sense of propriety comes from the clear definition of these internal forms. ... A 'proper' chair has four legs," etc. (Jung saw IS as something of an oxymoron: sensing, which is a perceiving function, focused inward and thus away from that which is perceived (the "object"). In this light, he described this sensing as something removed from reality, full of archetypes/mythical figures/hobgoblins; sensing of one's own set of forms.)
Extraverted Feeling
A kind of "regression toward the mean" provided by the Fe auxiliary function serves to socialize the expression of these forms. I suppose it's the auxiliary nature of this Feeling, coupled with the balancing effect of {detachment from the internal idiosyncratic view of free-floating data perceptions} that makes ISFJs tentative, conservative, and reticent to boldly state the rights and wrongs in the relational world. (Loosely translated, ISFJs like to keep their perceptions to themselves, and aren't sure enough that what they "see" as Introverted Sensors has any relevance to the outside world. Thus the perception, based on unworldly data, may not be true. The obedient Extraverted Feeling function must therefore refrain from strong statements expressing these opinions.)
Introverted Thinking
Introverted Thinking is turned inward and is largely invisible. It is only with great difficulty, if at all, that the ISFJ could willingly commit anyone to their doom. Perhaps this explains why ISFJs are loyal to the end; there is no sense of purely objective (i.e., impersonal) judgement of anyone but themselves (and that only by their own standards). Here is this type's achilles heel that makes many of them so vulnerable to the scoundrels and ne'er-do-wells who often use and abuse them.
Extraverted iNtuition
ISFJs are easily undone by Extraverted iNtuition, their inferior function. Believing in the fantastic, and disbelieving the technologically extant, are errors that my guide the gullible (or unfoundedly sceptical) ISFJ off a precipice of mis-conclusion. (One of our co-workers' mothers adamantly refused to believe that Dave Letterman's mom was actually at the olympics in Norway talking with the athletes and handing out hams! She suspected technological trickery.)
This childlike Ne is, however, the likely source (coupled with fun-loving Extraverted Feeling) of the practical joking, punning and (usually harmless) impishness of some ISFJs.
Famous ISFJs:
Louisa May Alcott
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Barbara Bush
Charles Dickens
Queen Elizabeth II of England
Robert E. Lee
Queen Mary I ("Bloody Mary") of England
Fictional:
Bianca in Taming of the Shrew
David Copperfield
Hero in Much Ado About Nothing
Melanie in Gone With The Wind
Ophelia in Hamlet
Dr. John H. Watson, M.D. (Sherlock Holmes' faithful sidekick)
U.S. Presidents:
William Howard Taft
Kristi Yamaguchi, US Olympic figure skater
Terri Garr
Michael Jordan
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I hate dualism...
Strange how people are always either...
thinkers or feelers and so on, so on.
Maybe it's misjudging of yin/yang philosophy that causes this. Or maybe it's just our brains 
Answer is always yes/no, how about more options?
I would have needed something like 1-5 scale for many questions as I do many things differently at different times.
I think this test is more psycho-bull than ever.
Too limited test as always. At least for me.
Psychology is one of the religions of todays world. People believe everything when something rationalizies peoples behaviour with some cheap tricks and adds little bit positive thinking. People start feel easy as they think they can recognize themselves from the test results same way when they watch into mirror in the morning.
Don't people fall too deep into this...mud.
OH...I almost forgot the result.
What is funny is that my favorite movie chatacter of all time...Indiana Jones is in the list of INTP types. Strange...
Maybe I identify myself as him.
LOL
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INTPs are very logical, analytical people who like to think about concepts and ideas, searching for the perfect solution to problems. They are detached, intellectual, and complex, always looking for different challenges. INTPs are very independent, skeptical and often brilliant. They are able to stay calm, even in the most difficult situations. INTPs are intolerant of redundancy and slow people, and are bored by simple issues. They are likely to ignore any rules, people or tasks they consider trivial. One thing they often consider trivial is emotion, their's and other's. Because of this they don't realize that other people need praise and reassurance, and INTPs are usually not good with relationships. They are intensely private, and very hard to get to know. INTPs are highly selective about with whom they will share their ideas, and they won't share their deepest feelings with anyone. They dislike and distrust authority, only respecting knowledge.
INTPs are on a constant search to understand everything, and learn everything they can. They learn anything they decide is worth the effort at an incredible speed, and are able to apply the knowledge to other areas immediately. INTPs have a natural skill for finding flaws in projects and logic, and at finding solutions to the problems. They are good at thinking up ideas, and starting projects, but they often lose interest or ignore the details of it, and it doesn't end as well as they had hoped. INTPs work best alone, and when in groups they seem detached and rarely contribute. They have creative imaginations and see possibilities where others don't. INTPs have a global perspective, and are more interested in theories than their practical applications.
They are not very good at sharing their complex thoughts and ideas, and in conversation they will often pause to think. INTPs are not very appearance-conscious and often look slightly disheveled. They also are not generally well-understood, and feel slightly isolated.
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Watch out, evil!
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posted May 29, 2002 08:43 AM |
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Actually, Sub-Zero, even though I posted this link and am fascinated by this test, I do agree with you to a large extent.
This is a very simplistic version of the full test, though. The full test I have only seen given out by people licensed to do so, it is around 500 questions long with areas which are not just yes/no, and takes over an hour for the average person to complete.
Also, if you look at degrees of the traits, then you get to find real differences between people, rather than just 16 various types. (IE while my type is INFP, my Introversion is of moderate strength, my iNtuition is a phenomenally strong trait, my Feeling is so weak that I may actually be Thinking, and my Perceiving is moderate.) This simplistic test doesn't do the real personality study justice, but it is fun, and it is a start.
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posted May 29, 2002 09:58 AM |
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Well...
I happen to know something about that test because I have read some psychology.
However what I'm saying is that people can take these tests and enjoy them and be even fascinated by them but they shouldn't think those show actually some proven qualities of people...they are just theories made by man how people are different from each other. It's same WHO has made the test.
I think it would need more than just few traits to determine how people in fact are. The possibilities are infinite and people should never restrict themselves acting in certain way unless it's win-win situation
We must remember this test is taken in paper and it only tells you how the testmaker sees you based how you answer your questions. It's the same if I would ask yourself some questions and then say what I think about you.
"I shall not be judged and categorized by any man made test, the real test is life itself."
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posted May 29, 2002 10:44 AM |
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You're absolutely correct. The test can be used as a tool and as a means of having fun, but no test can ever completely sum up a person.
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Igraine
Hired Hero
sick of it all
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posted May 29, 2002 10:58 AM |
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HEY..I am the same type as you RMS LOL
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the lady of the lake
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Bad-mannered
Famous Hero
who will never walk alone
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Here I am
INTP
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving
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INTPs are very logical, analytical people who like to think about concepts and ideas, searching for the perfect solution to problems. They are detached, intellectual, and complex, always looking for different challenges. INTPs are very independent, skeptical and often brilliant. They are able to stay calm, even in the most difficult situations. INTPs are intolerant of redundancy and slow people, and are bored by simple issues. They are likely to ignore any rules, people or tasks they consider trivial. One thing they often consider trivial is emotion, their's and other's. Because of this they don't realize that other people need praise and reassurance, and INTPs are usually not good with relationships. They are intensely private, and very hard to get to know. INTPs are highly selective about with whom they will share their ideas, and they won't share their deepest feelings with anyone. They dislike and distrust authority, only respecting knowledge.
INTPs are on a constant search to understand everything, and learn everything they can. They learn anything they decide is worth the effort at an incredible speed, and are able to apply the knowledge to other areas immediately. INTPs have a natural skill for finding flaws in projects and logic, and at finding solutions to the problems. They are good at thinking up ideas, and starting projects, but they often lose interest or ignore the details of it, and it doesn't end as well as they had hoped. INTPs work best alone, and when in groups they seem detached and rarely contribute. They have creative imaginations and see possibilities where others don't. INTPs have a global perspective, and are more interested in theories than their practical applications.
They are not very good at sharing their complex thoughts and ideas, and in conversation they will often pause to think. INTPs are not very appearance-conscious and often look slightly disheveled. They also are not generally well-understood, and feel slightly isolated.
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