The ENFP suggestion was serious, you hooligans.
Yes it takes more than a few posts generally to base a type off of, but I'm not seeing INFJ so far.
The OP doesnt show much signs of any type with such short first post lol.
Hi all!
Over the past couple decades I've taken the MBTI about a dozen times and almost always come up as an INFJ. Occasionally though I have had INFP as my result, including my most recent result when I took Typology Central's test today.
I tried doing some reading of articles that explain the difference between these types that are commonly confused for one another, but it didn't really become much clearer for me. With every other point made, I related to the other type! I took a test specifically made to help you work out which of these two types you are - the first time I was 53% INFP, 47% INFJ; the second time it was the other way around (took it a second time as I was so on the fence about a couple items - seemed to be what the results ultimately hinged on!). All a long winded way of saying, "I'm confused!"
Any insights (in layman terms, real-world examples) on the differences between these two types would be most appreciated! I'm also happy to answer any direct questions people have for me - just not sure where to begin to describe myself!
Thanks in advance!
Borderlines are incredibly normal and usual. Perhaps you just have a borderline J/P and there is nothing wrong with that. You can be a little bit of both types and there is nothing wrong, and that doesnt necessarily means that your "typing journey" is incomplete. TBH I even consider that healthy, being too much a perceiver or too much of a judger can be quite unhealthy in different ways.
In my book, most people that are INF ends up typing themselves as INFJ. I guess the INFJ rarity and INFJ profile is more attractive than INFP. However, I deducted that in an official MBTI test most INF borderliners ends up being typed as INFP. I say that because the proportion between INFJs and INFPs on the forums is more or less equal: INFPs outnumber slightly INFJs, while in real life there are basically 2 INFPs per INFJ (World Projection Estimate). It is true that in the forums there are slightly more perceivers than judgers. However, from INs in World Projection Estimate there are a little bit less than 2 INXPs per INXJ, meaning that [INXPs in community slightly or somewhat outnumbering INXJs] is basically a translation from real world (and it is known that intuition and introversion weights way more than F/T and P/J dimensions). So that basically means that I can deduct that borderliners INFX should end up as INFPs for the official MBTI test. I know this might got a little bit complex but I hope you got the idea.
And yeah, I basically did not give you a clear answer because this doesnt necessarily has a clear answer.
In my own book here are the INFX graphs (INFJ and INFP equally represented):
The first graph comes from a cognitive function test, and the other one comes from dichotomy. If you really really want a pick I would recommend, based on this graph, to focus on the cognitive functions and not on dichotomy.
One tip is evaluating Ni vs Ne and Fi vs Fe, but you probably already know and tried that. A good and out-of-box tip is to evaluate Ni vs Fi, do you consistently score higher on Fi or Ni? If it is Fi, then its INFP, if Ni, its INFJ, but you likely score both quite closer and alternated.
The pair for INFP can be Fi-Ne or Fi-Ni, the pair for INFJ can be Ni-Fe or Ni-Fi (these alternative pairs comes from a loose Jungian interpretation, I could post a link to more detail about the alternative on Ni-Fi and Fi-Ni if you want).
Try paying attention at the first 3 functions. If your cognitive functions tests are arriving frequently at Fi-Ne-Ni, Fi-Ni-Ne, Fi-Ni-Fe, then its INFP. If they are arriving at Ni-Fe-Fi, Ni-Fi-Fe, Ni-Fi-Ne, then its INFJ. And yeah, at least for cognitive function tests screw Si vs Ti. Si and Ti as tertiary will only confuse you.
You can also, although I do consider myself that is unreliable, to try Se vs Te.
If Se is higher than Te, then INFP is most likely, if Te is higher than Se, then INFJ is more likely. But it must be a consistent and reasonable difference. Also, you must check if you are not a enneagram type 5, because if you are, doing that evaluation wont work.
But as I said, these are measures if you really want to make a decision, because as a borderline, INFP and INFJ can be the right answer. I would even say that, in a good resort, just pick which you want lol.
