At the very beginning of the month, Angela wrote about the Myers-Briggs test. She mentioned that I am an INFP, but these things can change over time. I just literally retook the test minutes ago, and I'm still firmly an INFP. The last time I took the the test I was almost entirely on the Introverted scale over Extroverted and more on the Intuition than Sensation, but I was basically 50/50 when it came to Thinking and Feeling, and 50/50 when it came to Perception and Judgement. I guess that means I'm well balanced? I learned last year that only approximately 10% of the total population are INFPs. I'm basically a living unicorn.
I had an instructor give us the test and then group us according to the main personality traits. She put all the INFPs together intentionally and gave everyone an apple, then asked each group to describe it. Every other group described their apples as: round, red, juicy, firm, with/without stem, etc. Here was what we came up with: Fall, apple cider, galaxy of stars on the skin, apple pie, changing leaves, etc. A direct quote from another group as we were reading off our list: "WTF is wrong with you people?" INFPs tend to see the world differently, and most everyone else doesn't get it. We are more misunderstood than emo culture...or maybe most emo culture is derived from INFPs.
I wanted to write about this today because I was thinking about the Strengthsfinder test Angela and I took in college together. I believe we both got the same trait as our top trait, but Angela wanted to sit at another table and ditched me that day. Next Saturday, I'll be taking a spiritual version of the Strengthsfinder test, so I'm kind of rehashing these things a little bit.
Slander! I would never ditch you! Also I have a bad memory so I don't know what you're talking about. But we definitely have the same top trait cause mine is Input and I honestly can't imagine you having any other trait period. And 10% seems high cause that would mean 1 out of 10 are INFP and there's 16 types.
ReplyDelete