I'm clueless about Myers-Briggs, but this is fascinating nonetheless -- I love character analysis. Of course, the mention of Victor didn't hurt . . . :-)
I'm INFJ! Like Betty! :-) I took the first test -- the second one had all that stuff at the beginning about "You idiot, what do you want to take this test for?" that kind of threw me off. :-)
I read the Keirsey description, and most of it does sound a lot like me.
LOL! So you're Betty and I'm Victor, we'll not take the metaphoric relationship further than that ;-)
There are lots of cool INFJ in fiction besides Betty, such as ... *drum roll* Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. Although some people think Elizabeth is an ENFJ, this paper from the Jane Austen Society of North America details why she's an INFJ: Jane Austen meets Carl Jung: Pride, Prejudice, and Personality Theory
I love Keirsey's site and his book, Please Understand Me, since you've found that site here are other INFJ profiles
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Thanks! As I've looked at some of this stuff on the Web, I find it interesting but rather confusing. The actual letters seem to make sense (although I'm a little fuzzy on J and P), but when they get into combining them -- like NFs are one way and SJs are another -- or when they start to talk about dominant and tertiary and what not, I get all mixed up! :-) And why do they say I have extroverted feeling when there's no E in mine?
I'll try to keep this brief but you asked several questions so there's a lot to go over
1. J and P
The names of those don't make sense. But basically J/P asks the question "how does this person spend energy?" Do you randomly do things or do you like to plan your decisions in advance? Js like to have questions settled, they like to make a commitment and mostly stick with it, Ps like to keep their options open and not commit right away (You never know when some new piece of information might come along and change your decision. So let's not commit just yet; let's cross that bridge when we come to it.).
In exaggerated form the J-P conflict is illustrated in The Odd Couple. Oscar the sob is a P and Felix the neat-freak is a J
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3. Dominant and tertiary (e.g. extroverted feeling)There are many schools of thought in Myers-Briggs. The system was invented by Carl Jung and greatly expanded on by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers. David Keirsey further expanded it. And I'm sure there are others
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I read the Keirsey description, and most of it does sound a lot like me.
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There are lots of cool INFJ in fiction besides Betty, such as ... *drum roll* Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. Although some people think Elizabeth is an ENFJ, this paper from the Jane Austen Society of North America details why she's an INFJ: Jane Austen meets Carl Jung: Pride, Prejudice, and Personality Theory
I love Keirsey's site and his book, Please Understand Me, since you've found that site here are other INFJ profiles ( ... )
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1. J and P
The names of those don't make sense. But basically J/P asks the question "how does this person spend energy?" Do you randomly do things or do you like to plan your decisions in advance? Js like to have questions settled, they like to make a commitment and mostly stick with it, Ps like to keep their options open and not commit right away (You never know when some new piece of information might come along and change your decision. So let's not commit just yet; let's cross that bridge when we come to it.).
In exaggerated form the J-P conflict is illustrated in The Odd Couple. Oscar the sob is a P and Felix the neat-freak is a J ( ... )
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