[ISFJ] ISFJ characteristics. What sets you apart?

[Azure Flame]

A generalization:
ISFJ's are experimental health nuts.

"lets see what this pill does to me!"
"I wonder how I can boost my metabolic rate and simultaneously decrease my resting heartrate."

 

[tinker683]

You look for words to match actions as your measure of consistency, maybe even authenticity. I look for your internal emotional state to match your outer one to measure that same thing. So for me, there's so often this mismatch when I feel your internal irritation for example but see your outer politeness. To me, that was a difficult thing to reconcile, that people act nice but don't think nice.

Your measure is that the external consistency is more important. To me, the inner consistency is more important.

Interesting difference, eh?

It is! I wonder if this is the chief difference between Fe and Fi?

A generalization:
ISFJ's are experimental health nuts.

"lets see what this pill does to me!"
"I wonder how I can boost my metabolic rate and simultaneously decrease my resting heartrate."

Incidentally, I can be a massive hypochondriac. I'm very suspect about taking any kind of medicine without first knowing what all the side effects could potentially be

 

[Tabula]

A generalization:
ISFJ's are experimental health nuts.

"lets see what this pill does to me!"
"I wonder how I can boost my metabolic rate and simultaneously decrease my resting heartrate."

This sounds exactly like my ISFP. Actually, I think she has said the first one, verbatim, on more than one occasion... I feel like SPs are more likely to be all "My body is my experiment!" than SJs.

I'm certainly nothing close to a healthnut and I'm afraid of pills. You did say it was a generalization, I'm aware. I just don't know where it's coming from? That weird Si body connection thing? It translates into hypochondria for me, like tinker. (inferior Ne negative possibilities/catastrophizing, maybe?)


Also, I know I'm late to the thread hugfest, but 's all around anyways.

 

[Cellmold]

You look for words to match actions as your measure of consistency, maybe even authenticity. I look for your internal emotional state to match your outer one to measure that same thing. So for me, there's so often this mismatch when I feel your internal irritation for example but see your outer politeness. To me, that was a difficult thing to reconcile, that people act nice but don't think nice.

Your measure is that the external consistency is more important. To me, the inner consistency is more important.

Interesting difference, eh?

Yeah that's because:

Fe = lying

Fi= Selfishness

 

[skylights]

You look for words to match actions as your measure of consistency, maybe even authenticity. I look for your internal emotional state to match your outer one to measure that same thing. So for me, there's so often this mismatch when I feel your internal irritation for example but see your outer politeness. To me, that was a difficult thing to reconcile, that people act nice but don't think nice.

Your measure is that the external consistency is more important. To me, the inner consistency is more important.

Interesting difference, eh?

Nice point.

Incidentally, I can be a massive hypochondriac. I'm very suspect about taking any kind of medicine without first knowing what all the side effects could potentially be

This sounds exactly like my ISFP. Actually, I think she has said the first one, verbatim, on more than one occasion... I feel like SPs are more likely to be all "My body is my experiment!" than SJs.

I'm certainly nothing close to a healthnut and I'm afraid of pills. You did say it was a generalization, I'm aware. I just don't know where it's coming from? That weird Si body connection thing? It translates into hypochondria for me, like tinker. (inferior Ne negative possibilities/catastrophizing, maybe?)

Lol, my ISFJ definitely falls on the opposite end of the spectrum, too. He doesn't take medicine unless it's REALLY necessary, and still doesn't like it.

Incidentally my INFJ coworker is the experimental nut (inferior Se?), while my probably-ISFP grandfather was the health nut/guru.

Also, I know I'm late to the thread hugfest, but 's all around anyways.