LightSun
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- Joined
- Aug 9, 2009
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- MBTI Type
- INFP
- Enneagram
- #9
Portrait of an INFP:
“They care deeply - indeed passionately- about a few special persons or a cause. INFPs are found in only 1 percent of the general population.
INFPs have a profound sense of honor derived from internal values. The INFP is the Prince of Princess of mythology, the King’s champion, Defender of the Faith, and guardian of the castle.
Sir Galahad and Joan of Arc are male and female prototypes of an INFP. To understand INFPs their cause must be understood, for they are willing to make unusual sacrifices for someone or something believed in.
Metaphors and similes come naturally. INFPs have a gift for interpreting symbols, as well as creating them, and thus often write in lyric fashion.
Their career choices may be toward the ministry, missionary work, college teaching, psychiatry, architecture, and psychology. As other NFs, they have a remarkable facility for languages.
Often they hear a calling to go forth into the world to help others; they seem willing to make the necessary personal sacrifices involved in responding to that call.
INFPs can make outstanding novelists and character actors, for they are able to efface their own personalities in their portrayal of a character in a way other types cannot.
All NFs have what Professor David Keirsey refers to as having the Apollonian Temperament. An NF hungers for self-actualization, unity, and uniqueness.
Self -realization for the NF means to have integrity, that is, unity. There must be no facade, no mask, no pretense, no sham, no playing of roles.
To have integrity is to be genuine, to communicate authentically, to be in harmony with the inner experiences of self. Most writers come from this group.
Novelists, dramatists, television writers, playwrights, journalists, poets, and biographers are almost exclusively NFs. Writers who wish to inspire and persuade, who produce literature, most often are NFs.
The questions which this group asks are about the meaning of life, of their own lives, and what is significant for humankind. The search for meaning as a necessary pilgrimage for all people is advanced by the NFs in their writings.
NFs heavily populate the professions of psychiatry, clinical and counseling psychology, the ministry, and teaching. More than any other group NFs can speak and write fluently, often with poetic flair.
NFs may exhibit a sense of mission, using their creative efffortd to win followers for their cause. NFs seek opportunity to better the conditions of people in the world.
Work directed at midwifing people into becoming kinder, warmer, and more loving human beings appeals to NFs. NFs are willing to make great personal sacrifices to help others find their way.
As with the NT, the NF is future -oriented and focused on what might be. Apollo, giving man a sense of mission, showing man how to continue in his search for the sacred.
Apollo was the self-appointed bearer of Truth. Apollo symbolizes the duality of the Hellenic spirit: the urge to ideals, to truth, to beauty, to spiritually and sacredness.
He stood for the Grecian ideal of purity of spirit, of dedication to helping others, of the bringer of of therapeutic music and song. He represented the healer of mind and body.
He was the giver of prophecy, the inspirer and the inspirational, the divine and the incorruptible.
As the NF seeks self- actualization in identity and unity,’he is aware that this is a life -long process, an ideal toward being and becoming a final finished self.”
[David Keirsey, Please Understand Me. Prometheus Nemesis Book Company, 1984.]
“They care deeply - indeed passionately- about a few special persons or a cause. INFPs are found in only 1 percent of the general population.
INFPs have a profound sense of honor derived from internal values. The INFP is the Prince of Princess of mythology, the King’s champion, Defender of the Faith, and guardian of the castle.
Sir Galahad and Joan of Arc are male and female prototypes of an INFP. To understand INFPs their cause must be understood, for they are willing to make unusual sacrifices for someone or something believed in.
Metaphors and similes come naturally. INFPs have a gift for interpreting symbols, as well as creating them, and thus often write in lyric fashion.
Their career choices may be toward the ministry, missionary work, college teaching, psychiatry, architecture, and psychology. As other NFs, they have a remarkable facility for languages.
Often they hear a calling to go forth into the world to help others; they seem willing to make the necessary personal sacrifices involved in responding to that call.
INFPs can make outstanding novelists and character actors, for they are able to efface their own personalities in their portrayal of a character in a way other types cannot.
All NFs have what Professor David Keirsey refers to as having the Apollonian Temperament. An NF hungers for self-actualization, unity, and uniqueness.
Self -realization for the NF means to have integrity, that is, unity. There must be no facade, no mask, no pretense, no sham, no playing of roles.
To have integrity is to be genuine, to communicate authentically, to be in harmony with the inner experiences of self. Most writers come from this group.
Novelists, dramatists, television writers, playwrights, journalists, poets, and biographers are almost exclusively NFs. Writers who wish to inspire and persuade, who produce literature, most often are NFs.
The questions which this group asks are about the meaning of life, of their own lives, and what is significant for humankind. The search for meaning as a necessary pilgrimage for all people is advanced by the NFs in their writings.
NFs heavily populate the professions of psychiatry, clinical and counseling psychology, the ministry, and teaching. More than any other group NFs can speak and write fluently, often with poetic flair.
NFs may exhibit a sense of mission, using their creative efffortd to win followers for their cause. NFs seek opportunity to better the conditions of people in the world.
Work directed at midwifing people into becoming kinder, warmer, and more loving human beings appeals to NFs. NFs are willing to make great personal sacrifices to help others find their way.
As with the NT, the NF is future -oriented and focused on what might be. Apollo, giving man a sense of mission, showing man how to continue in his search for the sacred.
Apollo was the self-appointed bearer of Truth. Apollo symbolizes the duality of the Hellenic spirit: the urge to ideals, to truth, to beauty, to spiritually and sacredness.
He stood for the Grecian ideal of purity of spirit, of dedication to helping others, of the bringer of of therapeutic music and song. He represented the healer of mind and body.
He was the giver of prophecy, the inspirer and the inspirational, the divine and the incorruptible.
As the NF seeks self- actualization in identity and unity,’he is aware that this is a life -long process, an ideal toward being and becoming a final finished self.”
[David Keirsey, Please Understand Me. Prometheus Nemesis Book Company, 1984.]
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