1) what type do you try to look like?
I don't consciously
try & come off like any type.... Unintentionally, I may seem INTP-ish IRL because I don't have a warm demeanor & have been called argumentative at times. I actually have a distaste for strong emotional displays - they can make me quite uncomfortable. I'm suspicious of emotional arguments - but value-based are fine.
Physically, I might seem ISFP-ish,
just because people have weird ideas about Ns not being interested in fashion or having any sense of aesthetics because somehow being N means we're floating spirits with no eyes or ears or experience of the tangible, so we never notice nor care about aesthetics (uh huh)....or some buy into the "all artists must be SPs" bit. I'm sort of artsy fartsy & have a strong sense of color & proportion, if I do say so myself
. I like to apply my creative sensibilities to my appearance, so it might seem more stereotypically SP; although I think there's an NF quirky, bohemian stereotype that I probably fit neatly into
2) why do you try to look like this type?
Well, again, I don't
try....but my reasons are: I'm shameless about being bookish & a bit of a know-it-all, but I'll make fun of myself for it too. I'm not the mushy gushy type, so I try and warn people that they can't expect overt expressiveness from me, but I do have passionate moments (which is really what "argumentative" is - something has excited me enough to assert an opinion).
I think I explained my interest in aesthetics above & how that might seem SP-ish...
3) what qualities of this type to you admire?
I love that INTPs will talk about all the bookish stuff they like because I like it too & it's great when someone else is up for that conversation & doesn't find it dull.
I feel like ISFPs are more prolific than I am. I feel like they have more work to back up the image because they spend less time deliberating & refining concepts because they're not
quite as idealistic (Ne eggs on Fi in the idealism factor....).
4) what qualities of your own personality do you wish were more like this type?
In some ways, I think it could be simpler to be a T because sometimes I feel I have little of the good qualities commonly associated with Feeling (personal warmth, good with people, visibly sympathetic, etc), but not the full strengths of a T type either when it comes to a certain level of detachment (for lack of a better word).
I wish I was more in-the-moment like an SP, and I know they don't know what that means, and that's because they're not an N.....I always feel stuck in the future fantasy or replay of the past, but the present eludes me. I think I'd be more productive if I was more focused on the tangible.