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Help me find my personality type.

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#1 ·
The internet tests just don't cut it any more, here are a few facts about myself.

I am constantly thinking about the future, future events of all kinds that may or may not happen. I also like to play with the ''different perspective'' view, for example looking at life from more of a cosmic perspective. At times I also find it sad how everything is like a pattern, colorful lemmings driving up and down the street, me walking the same road the XXXth time.

Here is where the tests usually fuck me up, where they ask me about if I let my feelings or rational thinking do the deciding. Usually it's probably my feelings, where I make the decision of how I want it to be, of how I want my life to look at but is not necessary the rational choice, and I sort off know it is not. For example my high school did not equip me well for studying a certain subject but I went for it anyway because I thought it was a lot more interesting, even though I knew that it won't really matter in a few years as everything will equalize in the sense that the subject will just become that, yet another subject. I also got the brain in a vat sense a lot of times in the past but thank god that seems to be fading away now.
I am usually big picture orientated in my goals which can hit me over the head a few times.

When it comes to being organized and datelines I am usually more off a miss. I tend to try to plan it out so that I am on time but I am always 5 minutes too late, however I do not think I have ever missed a birthday or a meeting with friends, where I am pretty much always on time. My room is messy in the sense that it has stuff lying everywhere, but not as messy that I would need an hour to clean it. For example if I get visitors I only need about 5 minutes to make it very organized.

I seem to have good introspection and I think very lowly of myself. However I am working on it to better myself in order to be more happy in the future, but there is a certain obstacle which I can not seem to get passed, and this is dragging everything down as it a priority to me.

On the matter of E/I, I definitely seem to be very introverted, but I am not in my head so to speak, I'd love to be more outgoing and I probably could and would be if I was surrounded by different groups of people most of the time. So I usually get my energy from inside but I would like to get it from the environment as well, it's just that the conditions don't allow me to usually.

I know this is a bit little but if you could muster something up from this I would be very appreciative.
 
#5 ·
I concur , most probably INFP, second possibility ENFP (with supressed extroversion perhaps?). You sound a whole lot like my little brother, who is a hardcore INFP.
I read about INFP and it sounds somewhat like me at certain parts, however I can not see myself being the type. The type seems to be mostly drawn to ''art'' and ''humanities'', both of which I don't find even the least appealing, also their primary function seems to be Fi, while I am positive that my primary function is either Ni or Ne. So in this case ENFP might be a better fit from those two options, I must read upon that type though to see if I can find any correlations
 
#4 ·
I don't think you are an INFP (and I have some doubts as to introvert at all). My first conclusion is INFJ, which is why you'd be getting funky test results, online tests are notoriously bad at typing INFJs correctly because they screw up Te and Fe and can't make sense of Ni. You seem to have a reasonable amount of Fe, and a WHOLE LOT of Ni.

The fact that you say you would like to get energy from the environment is what makes me think you might either be a closet extravert or INFJ because INFJ's inferior function is Se (external perception) and INFJ's often wish they were more outgoing in general because when they have reasonably developed auxiliary Fe they can be quite sociable and often confuse themselves for extraverts. Additionally even though Ni is the dominant function, it functions mostly unconsciously so Ni-doms may not be aware of its existence adding to their perception as closet extraverts. They just may see themselves as insightful or having some sort of ability to intuit the bigger picture without necessarily having the evidence to back up their intuitions.

Also I don't see much Te in you. Te is not concerned with being 'rational' (rational is a subjective label -- what's rational to you might not be rational to me) so what you're describing is likely Ti. I'd be curious what your obstacle you're trying to get over is. A lot of INFJ's have issues with physical addiction or low self-esteem driven by misperceptions from inferior Se and poor Fe judgments.

Because most people don't take the actual Meyers Briggs Instrument but rather base their decisions on some crappy internet test there is an epidemic of mistyped INFJs and INFPs (often being confused for one another because of poor understanding, confusion over similar temperament styles or not realizing that the two have no common cognitive functions).
 
#7 ·
So I took the cognitive function test, and got the following results.


Based on your cognitive functions, your type is most likely:
Most Likely: ENTP
or Second Possibility: INTJ
or Third Possibility: INTP


Your cognitive functions are, in order of development:
Ne - Ni - Ti - Te - Fe - Si - Fi - Se


Your Cognitive Functions:
Extroverted Intuition (Ne) |||||||||||||||||| 8.42
Introverted Intuition (Ni) |||||||||||||||| 7.26
Introverted Thinking (Ti) ||||||||||||||| 6.92
Extroverted Thinking (Te) |||||||||||||| 6.39
Extroverted Feeling (Fe) ||||||||||||| 5.68
Introverted Sensation (Si) ||||||||||| 4.77
Introverted Feeling (Fi) |||| 1.17
Extroverted Sensation (Se) || -0.75

Your Extroverted Intuition (Ne) is very developed.
Your Introverted Intuition (Ni) is moderate.
Your Introverted Sensation (Si) is moderate.
Your Introverted Thinking (Ti) is moderate.
Your Extroverted Thinking (Te) is moderate.
Your Extroverted Feeling (Fe) is moderate.
Your Introverted Feeling (Fi) is low.
Your Extroverted Sensation (Se) is poorly developed.


It's weird to see the F functions being so ''poor'', because while I do prefer to act with ''logic'' when interacting with the environment and other people, I always follow feelings when dealing with myself and my future. This is basically making me unsure.