Monday, November 21, 2005

INFJ- The Mystic

Recently Kamran took the Myers Briggs test at work, and I wanted to know what my personality was like, and see if we different or alike we were. :)

Before I explain what Kami is. Kamran is a INTJ - a free thinker.

INTJs are strong individualists who seek new angles or novel ways of looking at things. They enjoy coming to new understandings. They are insightful and mentally quick; however, this mental quickness may not always be outwardly apparent to others since they keep a great deal to themselves. They are very determined people who trust their vision of the possibilities, regardless of what others think. They may even be considered the most independent of all of the sixteen personality types. INTJs are at their best in quietly and firmly developing their ideas, theories, and principles.

I think that is pretty close to Kami. :)

Ok... now my turn. :-D I have taken this test like 3 times, but unfortunately I do not remember my results. However, I found a test online I think it is close enough. According to this test I am an INFJ.

I dug a little further to see what and INFJ really means... and this is what I found:

"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."

5 Comments:

At 11:46 AM, Blogger Kamran Ahmad, CISSP said...

Look how long my description is and look how long Sarah's is... that's revealing right there. :^P

 
At 12:21 PM, Blogger Sarah said...

heey.... it shows nothing but my laziness... I copy pasted!

 
At 12:44 PM, Blogger Kamran Ahmad, CISSP said...

I stand corrected.

 
At 5:54 PM, Blogger Christina said...

Question: can anyone do the Meyer-Briggs test? I'd like to find out what kind of personality-type I am!

 
At 2:23 PM, Blogger Sarah said...

Well... The real Meyer-briggs test costs about a hundred bucks per person, but you can take test that are based on the theory on-line for free. For the most part they give you the same result. Here is one I took. http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

 

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