[MBTI General] ISTP compared to ISFP

[Auto/Virtuosi=L.A.P.]

What makes them most distinct from the other? How do you tell them apart? I'll ask the users first hand. Just need a second opinion here

 

[Jeffster]

I cry when I listen to a sad story on the radio, whereas my ISTP brother only cries if someone punches him in the nads.

 

[wolfy]

ISFP tend to be oriented towards people. ISTP tend to be oriented towards things. That is the main split. Nobody can tell them apart for sure. Not even most IS*P themselves know for sure.

 

[sLiPpY]

An ISTP is more likely to drink the last beer in your fridge.

 

[wolfy]

An ISTP is more likely to drink the last beer in your fridge.

I'm no ISTP but you better watch your beer if I am around.

 

[Dali]

I'm no ISTP but you better watch your beer if I am around.

The difference is you prolly wouldn't drink the last beer. Or take the last slice of pizza. An ISTP would without a second thought. Cos they're cool like that.

 

[sLiPpY]

My brother-in-law got upset at Christmas, because someone ate the last "whatever."

Calls my nephew into the living room and starts whining...thinking it was him.

I walk up behind my nephew and smile while eating the last bites.

My brother-in-law was so busy fussing, he didn't notice I was polishing off
the tasty morsel...

But my sister did and

 

[Dali]

LOL @ smiling while polishing off the last bites. Sounds like something my ISTP brother would do (and has done, come to think of it. lol).

 

[Chuckums]

I think it's more of a matter of upbringing. If there is only one beer left, I'll get a glass and split it with you, or if there's no glass, you can drink the first 1/2 and I'll get the rest. You know, do onto others...

Since when is it cool to fuck someone over? Maybe if I hate them-or worse.

 

[mcmartinez84]

I think it's more of a matter of upbringing. If there is only one beer left, I'll get a glass and split it with you, or if there's no glass, you can drink the first 1/2 and I'll get the rest. You know, do onto others...

Since when is it cool to fuck someone over? Maybe if I hate them-or worse.

Yep.

And I don't know if I know any ISFPs...

 

[Auto/Virtuosi=L.A.P.]

Even the last piece of something is a matter of my flow. haha I'll do for myself as soon as I consider another. As humans, I bet we all have those moments. I'd be splitting my own hairs to decide. I am never both at once, but I stretch into both territories.

I get sick of touchy-feely things, though I may feel touched. I've got this...bold independence streek and am known to friends for being brashly impulsive. I want to aid others, but I want little obligation to them. Lately I've been more in touch with my feelings, but they have low thresholds. I obsess (and I mean ob-SESS) over a solo activity but it's not anything mechanical (unless you count vocals and how they work mechanical). I don't do tools. My INFJ friend finds me slightly insensitive and I find her slightly too sensitive. lol

Upon reading about them, ISFP is too "feeling" of others to be me, but the mold fits a tad better. ISTP is pretty shady, but I've been used to working the logistics. Now I "feel" bad for typing so much. lol thanks for the replies

 

[ChocolateMoose123]

ISFP = their intensity is quiet
ISTP = their quiet is intensity

 

[wolfy]

ISFP = their intensity is quiet
ISTP = their quiet is intensity

I can understand the isfp one. Can you expand on istp? That is a really interesting angle on it.

 

[VagrantFarce]

It's like

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[sLiPpY]

Well wolfy, we could tell you...but we'd have to kill ya.

I think I know what MDP means, but will await to see what the response is.

And for auto, I think the difference between T and F is simply when one gets right down to it? How does one make decisions?

ISTP's "shady" lol

 

[sLiPpY]

It's like

:hi: VagrantFarce done did it now! That's it! The Fight Club disc is going in the player right now!

 

[VagrantFarce]

:hi: VagrantFarce done did it now! That's it! The Fight Club disc is going in the player right now!

[youtube=XnQIhJ2fJYk]ISTP circa 1999[/youtube]

 

[Timeless]

Main difference between both:

ISTP:

(It's his real job, and it's his uniform)

ISFP:

(It's just a costume, but it looks good)​

 

[ayoitsStepho]

Well, at this point I'm kind of ecstatic to be an ISFP.

 

[Walking Tourist]

The "isfp" is sickeningly cute and the "istp" needs a shower!!!!:hi:

It's like

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