Intro Post.

[uberwander25]

Hi!
I'm James and I am an INFP mostly....I have a very big T on most tests so I guess I'm in between.
Is anyone else like that?
I don't really have a lot to say about myself so I'll post later.

Comments

[reasonjo]

Thank you for posting this.

My introduction to the MBTI occurred about a year ago through a program I did at work. Understanding the theory seems to come quite naturally to me, but I am definitely still learning all the intricacies.

One of the things I 'got' about the theory, from the very beginning, was that you are either one or the other of each funcion*. You are either introverted OR extraverted. You are either a thinking type OR a feeling type. There is no in between, no matter how 'close' the scores are. It really irritated me that other people on the program just didn't get that tenet of the theory.

We can certainly learn to use our less preferred functions, indeed we should learn to use all 8 functions, but our preferred natural functions will never chage (test results may change depending on life circumstances at the time of taking the test however).

Anyway.. my point is that I'm glad you wrote your comments. I have the same understandings of theory, I just don't understand it quite enough to write a response like yours.

*I use the word "function" to refer to I & E, N & S, T & F and J & P although, strictly speaking, they aren't all "functions" as I understand it.