I first heard about the MBTI 2 years ago. I heard about the test and took the first one that was available to me. That particular test was very simplistic and it didn't take cognitive functions into consideration. On that test I scored INFP and then INFJ, bouncing back and forth between the two. About a year ago, in my then confusion between the J and P, I came to discover cognitive functions. From there the question wasn't so much if I was a J or P, but if I was using Ni or Fi as my dominant function.
Ni sounds nebulous to me, and though I can create visual images without any stimuli, it's not something that I depend on. I only do it when listening to music, or just simple fantasy. Anyone can use Ni and don't think that I use it enough to be an INFJ. Also, having Fe as an secondary function is a tad off. The only time I use Fe, I use it with fear. I only care how other people feel from the perspective of fear...to actually be more specific, I care little for how someone feels, but more for what they may THINK about me. Also I don't have the openness that characterizes Fe and I generally appear rigid and unemotional until one gets to know me. Even then I'm lacking in the warmth that Fe is known for.
The Fi/Ne combo is a little more easy for me to relate to, but they're still problems. Fi is another difficult to understand function that I don't think I have. I get feelings of aversion and attraction to things a lot, but I'm far from the internal value system that Fi contains. Learning that Jungian Feeling has nothing to do with emotions specifically has also made me less certain that I'm an Fi dominant. According to most of my readings Fi dominants are emotional when their values are stepped on and that it's the values, not the emotions that define Fi. If that's the case, I don't think I'm an Fi dominant; I lack a solid, consistent inner system of values. I've used Fi before, but it's not my guiding light. I'm a hilariously emotional person and I take near everything personally, but if Fi is more about an internal value system, it's not my dominant function.
Ne on the other hand is a function that I feel like I use quite frequently. I think that Ne is most of the reason I keep finding myself questioning my type. I'm constantly asking "What if?" in regards to things, so I'm never sure about anything and I'm always fairly open to new information. What's more, I hold almost every source of information to the same standard and weigh it all equally....so I'm never really able to get closed up in a idea or thought pattern before I jump to the possible "What if I'm wrong?" or "What if I change this idea to this? Or combine this idea with that?"
In my actual life Ne manifests as me being unable to stick to anything. I start things and never finish them, I have numerous things that I'm interested in but none that I've mastered, I get bored easily, I despise routine, and I'm always hoping for the "What if's" of the future. I'm an intellectual wanderer I guess; I lack the focus to focus on one hobby, so I have like five hobbies that I jump around and I'm always open to getting new hobbies. Things get depressing to me when they stop being new.
So the one thing I know for sure is that I use Ne quite frequently, not so much Ni or Fi. Fe I would say I use fairly often, but not in a confident manner. So to pinpoint my cognitive function use, I took a cognitive functions test....a few times actually. Each time my results came out looking something like this:
extraverted Sensing (Se) ******************** (20.4)
limited use
introverted Sensing (Si) ******************************** (32.8)
good use
extraverted Intuiting (Ne) ******************************************** (44.7)
excellent use
introverted Intuiting (Ni) ********************** (22.3)
limited use
extraverted Thinking (Te) *************************** (27.6)
average use
introverted Thinking (Ti) ****************************************** (42.9)
excellent use
extraverted Feeling (Fe) ****************************** (30.5)
good use
introverted Feeling (Fi) ****************** (18.2)
limited use
I've taken the test a few times, and the results always look something like this. Ne is always highest, then Ti then Fe, and then Si. That would make me an ENTP.
Once again, I use Ne fairly frequently, but I'm no extrovert...so I would say that if these results are to be trusted, I'm an INTP what uses Ne quite alot. There are still a few questionable things about theses results. First, Fe is used pretty darn often and Fi isn't ignored, which doesn't seem characteristic of an INTP. Second, I'm not exactly sure that my Fe is ignored enough to qualify as inferior as is my Si, thus putting me somewhere between INTP and ENTP.
I brought this issue up on an INFJ facebook group and I was told that I don't come of as an INTP and that I displayed a "Feeling reaction" in the group a while back. The incident mentioned was a debate in which someone basically implied that I was wrong, and waved their credentials in front of me as proof rather than answer my questions directly. This person told me that this indicated that they either 1: Attacked my values or 2: Attacked the groups values and that I became rabid because of it. To be honest, I only argued with her to the last because she told me that I was wrong and then used an argument by authority to try to avoid answering my questions directly.
So with this long post, what do you think? INFP? INFJ? ENTP? INTP? ENTP/INTP hybrid? I'm not entirely sure, and I don't think I ever will.
Ni sounds nebulous to me, and though I can create visual images without any stimuli, it's not something that I depend on. I only do it when listening to music, or just simple fantasy. Anyone can use Ni and don't think that I use it enough to be an INFJ. Also, having Fe as an secondary function is a tad off. The only time I use Fe, I use it with fear. I only care how other people feel from the perspective of fear...to actually be more specific, I care little for how someone feels, but more for what they may THINK about me. Also I don't have the openness that characterizes Fe and I generally appear rigid and unemotional until one gets to know me. Even then I'm lacking in the warmth that Fe is known for.
The Fi/Ne combo is a little more easy for me to relate to, but they're still problems. Fi is another difficult to understand function that I don't think I have. I get feelings of aversion and attraction to things a lot, but I'm far from the internal value system that Fi contains. Learning that Jungian Feeling has nothing to do with emotions specifically has also made me less certain that I'm an Fi dominant. According to most of my readings Fi dominants are emotional when their values are stepped on and that it's the values, not the emotions that define Fi. If that's the case, I don't think I'm an Fi dominant; I lack a solid, consistent inner system of values. I've used Fi before, but it's not my guiding light. I'm a hilariously emotional person and I take near everything personally, but if Fi is more about an internal value system, it's not my dominant function.
Ne on the other hand is a function that I feel like I use quite frequently. I think that Ne is most of the reason I keep finding myself questioning my type. I'm constantly asking "What if?" in regards to things, so I'm never sure about anything and I'm always fairly open to new information. What's more, I hold almost every source of information to the same standard and weigh it all equally....so I'm never really able to get closed up in a idea or thought pattern before I jump to the possible "What if I'm wrong?" or "What if I change this idea to this? Or combine this idea with that?"
In my actual life Ne manifests as me being unable to stick to anything. I start things and never finish them, I have numerous things that I'm interested in but none that I've mastered, I get bored easily, I despise routine, and I'm always hoping for the "What if's" of the future. I'm an intellectual wanderer I guess; I lack the focus to focus on one hobby, so I have like five hobbies that I jump around and I'm always open to getting new hobbies. Things get depressing to me when they stop being new.
So the one thing I know for sure is that I use Ne quite frequently, not so much Ni or Fi. Fe I would say I use fairly often, but not in a confident manner. So to pinpoint my cognitive function use, I took a cognitive functions test....a few times actually. Each time my results came out looking something like this:
extraverted Sensing (Se) ******************** (20.4)
limited use
introverted Sensing (Si) ******************************** (32.8)
good use
extraverted Intuiting (Ne) ******************************************** (44.7)
excellent use
introverted Intuiting (Ni) ********************** (22.3)
limited use
extraverted Thinking (Te) *************************** (27.6)
average use
introverted Thinking (Ti) ****************************************** (42.9)
excellent use
extraverted Feeling (Fe) ****************************** (30.5)
good use
introverted Feeling (Fi) ****************** (18.2)
limited use
I've taken the test a few times, and the results always look something like this. Ne is always highest, then Ti then Fe, and then Si. That would make me an ENTP.
Once again, I use Ne fairly frequently, but I'm no extrovert...so I would say that if these results are to be trusted, I'm an INTP what uses Ne quite alot. There are still a few questionable things about theses results. First, Fe is used pretty darn often and Fi isn't ignored, which doesn't seem characteristic of an INTP. Second, I'm not exactly sure that my Fe is ignored enough to qualify as inferior as is my Si, thus putting me somewhere between INTP and ENTP.
I brought this issue up on an INFJ facebook group and I was told that I don't come of as an INTP and that I displayed a "Feeling reaction" in the group a while back. The incident mentioned was a debate in which someone basically implied that I was wrong, and waved their credentials in front of me as proof rather than answer my questions directly. This person told me that this indicated that they either 1: Attacked my values or 2: Attacked the groups values and that I became rabid because of it. To be honest, I only argued with her to the last because she told me that I was wrong and then used an argument by authority to try to avoid answering my questions directly.
So with this long post, what do you think? INFP? INFJ? ENTP? INTP? ENTP/INTP hybrid? I'm not entirely sure, and I don't think I ever will.
As an ENFP I completely understand. 
