Tuesday, January 23, 2007

MBTI Test: I'm INFP

I did the MBTI Personality Test 10 years ago and just did it online again recently because Quirkiekai did it. She's an INTP. Mr Bing is an INFJ. No wonder all three of us had such a blast together coz INTP is a companion to my type and INFJ is a complement. We all got along real well! Ha ha! =D

Oh, I'm an INFP - Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving person.

Here's what INFP is supposed to be. I bolded the parts that I think is true about me.

INFPs never seem to lose their sense of wonder. One might say they see life through rose-colored glasses. It's as though they live at the edge of a looking-glass world where mundane objects come to life, where flora and fauna take on near-human qualities.

INFP children often exhibit this in a 'Calvin and Hobbes' fashion, switching from reality to fantasy and back again. With few exceptions, it is the NF child who readily develops imaginary playmates (as with Anne of Green Gables's "bookcase girlfriend"--her own reflection) and whose stuffed animals come to life like the Velveteen Rabbit and the Skin Horse:

"...Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand..." (the Skin Horse)

INFPs have the ability to see good in almost anyone or anything. Even for the most unlovable the INFP is wont to have pity.

Their extreme depth of feeling is often hidden, even from themselves, until circumstances evoke an impassioned response.

Of course, not all of life is rosy, and INFPs are not exempt from the same disappointments and frustrations common to humanity. As INTPs tend to have a sense of failed competence, INFPs struggle with the issue of their own ethical perfection, e.g., performance of duty for the greater cause. An INFP friend describes the inner conflict as not good versus bad, but on a grand scale, Good vs. Evil. Luke Skywalker in Star Wars depicts this conflict in his struggle between the two sides of "The Force." Although the dark side must be reckoned with, the INFP believes that good ultimately triumphs.

Interestingly, The Velveteen Rabbit is one of my favouritest children's stories! =)

2 comments:

Quirkz said...

hey there =) no wonder why we get along ; ) hahahah! and you've got the same profile as matt!

Ms Krong said...

haha! and you know what?! ms yong has the same profile as mr bing! no wonder we three got along so well @ east too!!! =D

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