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I'm fairly sure I'm an introverted Fi/Te user, but for the life of me I can't decide which is stronger.
I believe it's possible that I may be an unhealthy INTJ. Take the description from socionic's ILI for example:
I relate to all of the quoted text, verbatim. Yet, these types of quotes throw me off:
Famous INTJs - CelebrityTypes.com
Seriously, people really talk like this?
Anyway, here is what I know is true:
1) While my feelings are strong and I may daydream about being liked and yadda yadda, I am skeptical of people and their intentions. In my mind, everyone is trying to scam me.
2) No matter how much I study the difference between Te and Ti, nothing comes of it. From what I've read, Te is about "getting things done". I'm afraid I'm not that rash.
3) This whole P vs J dichotomy throws me off. I know it's bogus, but sometimes I can't help but think there is something to it. While I'd rather have things settle and decided, I wouldn't call myself an organized person. For example, I do not see the point in folding clothes since I'm going to wear them anyway. I stuff my shirts and pants in my drawer and pull out whatever fits when the time comes.
4) I've been told my writing is "loaded with Ne", which is funny considering how Tolstoy couldn't focus on one single character for longer than five pages in Anna Karenina.
So what I'm asking is how can I determine whether I am INTJ with a strong Fi or an INFP with a strong Te.
I'm fairly sure I'm an introverted Fi/Te user, but for the life of me I can't decide which is stronger.
I believe it's possible that I may be an unhealthy INTJ. Take the description from socionic's ILI for example:
Introverted intuition in ILIs is predominantly characterized by well developed imaginative abilities and mental wanderings. ILI often spend a great deal of time simply thinking and may spend excessive amounts of time in their mind. Most ILIs somehow manage to spend most of their time in their minds regardless of the responsibilities with which they are burdened. This mental focus can be manifest by reflecting on scenarios, on pondering bodies of information, and assorted concepts of interest. They may be prone to excessive day dreaming, in creation of intricate inner worlds or universes, or in mentally replaying elements of their own personal experience. ILIs may even have novelistic tendencies where they create intricate plots, characters, and places, though many ILIs may be generally unmotivated to display such creativity. However, ILIs are not always inclined to share their imaginative tendencies or thoughts with others.
ILIs place great importance on factual accuracy and a basic understanding of how things work. Their views and perceptions naturally take into account any new factual information. For this reason, ILI's are often characterized by a nagging and constant sense of doubt, contradiction, and misinformation. They tend to be rather skeptical of other people's positions, and even frequently tend to question their own position. In groups the ILI will often question the validity of information being exchanged. Likewise, ILIs sometimes use a mocking and aggressive tone if they believe that the information being presented is wrong or absurd.
ILIs generally place moderate to minimal importance on such matters as cleanliness, comfort, and sensory stimuli. Some ILIs may perceive these elements as a distraction. It is not atypical of ILIs to be completely uninterested by and unable to find any value in something such as a piece of fine artwork. Different ILIs respond to different such artistic stimuli in different ways; for example, an ILI might scorn painting as being worthless but possess sufficient background to enjoy other media, such as sculpture or music.
ILIs are often uncertain about the messages that their own body sends them. An ILI might feel some irregularity in their own body and be unsure as to its significance in the overall functioning of the body.
As a consequence, ILIs tend to be somewhat reclusive and often feel out of touch with their social surroundings. The rules of social "games" are often not naturally understood by ILIs. The are often unconfident and uneasy in social settings, especially those in which they feel that are expected to abide by social conventions that they have little connection to such as tribesmanship or purposeless joviality. Additionally, ILIs tend to regard the development of trust with others with significant anxiety, fearing that their inner world or antisocial tendencies will be unfavorably looked upon by others, and that most of the good will and friendliness they see in others is a pretense of social interaction rather than an expression of genuine emotional reactions.
ILIs are often characterized by their inertia. If left to their own devices, ILIs may choose to do relatively little to interact with the outside world. When they do interact with the outside world, ILIs often find their activities to be empty and unfulfilling. To ILIs, life is often characterized by periods of stimulation. For the ILI, however, true stimulation is often spontaneous, and interludes between periods of stimulation are often characterized by tedium, inertia, and apathy. ILIs are often not very adept at finding new areas of interest, and may seek to continue to reproduce past experiences instead of moving on to new things.
ILIs tend to deeply value feelings of attachment to those whom engage them in a deep and lasting emotional kinship. They have a hard time establishing these sentiments as they are naturally disinterested in most people, who seem outwardly unremarkable or having nothing in common with them. However, when the ILI has developed deep interpersonal bonds, they tend to hold on to such attachments very deeply. ILIs are almost always deeply unconfident about their social abilities and, consequently, they rarely speak of their inner bonds with others to common outsiders with whom they share merely superficial acquaintanceships. Feelings of this sort are rarely talked about with others, but the ILI may be painfully aware of these sentiments for fear of appearing overly sentimental or having feelings that are "out of line" or inappropriate to their present level of social interaction. ILIs may tend to love from afar and in their solitude if there is something or someone they love, because of their lack of confidence in their own feelings.
I relate to all of the quoted text, verbatim. Yet, these types of quotes throw me off:
Famous INTJs - CelebrityTypes.com
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
" have been right about everything."
"It is impossible and therefore certain."
Seriously, people really talk like this?
Anyway, here is what I know is true:
1) While my feelings are strong and I may daydream about being liked and yadda yadda, I am skeptical of people and their intentions. In my mind, everyone is trying to scam me.
2) No matter how much I study the difference between Te and Ti, nothing comes of it. From what I've read, Te is about "getting things done". I'm afraid I'm not that rash.
3) This whole P vs J dichotomy throws me off. I know it's bogus, but sometimes I can't help but think there is something to it. While I'd rather have things settle and decided, I wouldn't call myself an organized person. For example, I do not see the point in folding clothes since I'm going to wear them anyway. I stuff my shirts and pants in my drawer and pull out whatever fits when the time comes.
4) I've been told my writing is "loaded with Ne", which is funny considering how Tolstoy couldn't focus on one single character for longer than five pages in Anna Karenina.
So what I'm asking is how can I determine whether I am INTJ with a strong Fi or an INFP with a strong Te.