Silveresque
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So, I'm not feeling very INFP lately. I usually test as either INFP or ISFP (and recently ISFJ on the cognitive function test), and I'm pretty sure I'm in some sort of dominant-tertiary loop. I could be an INFP in a Fi-Si loop...but I'm starting to doubt whether I'm really Fi-dom.
Here are the types I'm considering:
INFP (Fi-Si loop)
INTP (Ti-Si loop)
ISFJ (Si-Ti loop)
ISTJ (Si-Fi loop/NFP shadow mode)
Here are my most recent cognitive function test results:
extraverted Sensing (Se) ******************* (19.4)
limited use
introverted Sensing (Si) **************************************************** (52.7)
excellent use
extraverted Intuiting (Ne) ************************* (25.4)
average use
introverted Intuiting (Ni) ***************** (17.9)
limited use
extraverted Thinking (Te) ********************* (21)
limited use
introverted Thinking (Ti) *********************************** (35.4)
good use
extraverted Feeling (Fe) ***************************** (29.6)
average use
introverted Feeling (Fi) ************************************** (38.4)
excellent use
I'm pretty sure that at least at the moment, my Si is stronger than my Fi. But one thing I find odd is that Si users are supposed to have very good memory for details and like tradition. I'm good at memorizing things and have good spatial memory, but in general I'm very forgetful and not much of an information collector. I'm absolutely terrible at remembering names and faces as well as events. My mom (supposedly INFJ) is very good at this. She's always reminding me of things and keeping track of things for everyone. I don't know how she does it...
And I've never really seen the point in tradition, but I suppose it's based on a sense of community, which I don't seem to have. On the other hand, I can be very much a creature of habit, preferring to sit at the same table every time I go to a restaurant, and ordering the same thing I always order. And I pretty much do the same things all the time rather than trying anything new.
Anyways, I found this ISTJ Si-Fi loop description that actually fits me quite well:
I'm falling into a comfortable routine which involves avoiding social interaction and resisting change. But on the other hand, based on what I've read it sounds like the socially withdrawn aspect of Fi-Si and Si-Fi loops typically tends to revolve around social anxiety, which I don't have. My withdrawing comes from not enjoying social situations and not seeing any point.
ISFJ in Si-Ti loop:
Hmmm, this one doesn't really fit me at all. So maybe I'm not ISFJ then...
But I can't seem to find good Fi-Si and Ti-Si loop descriptions, so I can't narrow it down further.
Oh, and by the way, here are the problems I have with ISTJ:
-I'm extremely lazy and unproductive (though I'm usually responsible and dependable)
-I don't like tradition
-I'm never rigid
-I don't really put much effort into building a storehouse of facts and information (most people seem to know a lot more random facts than I do)
Here are the problems I have with INFP:
-I don't seem very abstract/theoretical lately
-I don't have any strong moral convictions
-I often don't notice how I feel about something until later
Oh my gosh, did I just write a whole long post like this without using a single smiley?
Here are the types I'm considering:
INFP (Fi-Si loop)
INTP (Ti-Si loop)
ISFJ (Si-Ti loop)
ISTJ (Si-Fi loop/NFP shadow mode)
Here are my most recent cognitive function test results:
extraverted Sensing (Se) ******************* (19.4)
limited use
introverted Sensing (Si) **************************************************** (52.7)
excellent use
extraverted Intuiting (Ne) ************************* (25.4)
average use
introverted Intuiting (Ni) ***************** (17.9)
limited use
extraverted Thinking (Te) ********************* (21)
limited use
introverted Thinking (Ti) *********************************** (35.4)
good use
extraverted Feeling (Fe) ***************************** (29.6)
average use
introverted Feeling (Fi) ************************************** (38.4)
excellent use
I'm pretty sure that at least at the moment, my Si is stronger than my Fi. But one thing I find odd is that Si users are supposed to have very good memory for details and like tradition. I'm good at memorizing things and have good spatial memory, but in general I'm very forgetful and not much of an information collector. I'm absolutely terrible at remembering names and faces as well as events. My mom (supposedly INFJ) is very good at this. She's always reminding me of things and keeping track of things for everyone. I don't know how she does it...
And I've never really seen the point in tradition, but I suppose it's based on a sense of community, which I don't seem to have. On the other hand, I can be very much a creature of habit, preferring to sit at the same table every time I go to a restaurant, and ordering the same thing I always order. And I pretty much do the same things all the time rather than trying anything new.
Anyways, I found this ISTJ Si-Fi loop description that actually fits me quite well:
When Fi takes too strong a role in cognition and overtakes Te, forming an "SiFi loop", the ISTJ may completely and totally withdraw from virtually all surroundings and circumstances which are not immediately familiar and comforting to his sense of stable interpretive meaning. All forms of external interaction seems to involve uncertainty, which makes them inherently unsafe--avoidant behavior becomes the norm, as the ISTJ with poor Te finds himself both unable to confidently take command of any situation or assert his organizational abilities toward any productive end, and irrationally sensitive to any form of experiential input which does not align with the sense of dependable routine which defines the boundaries of his comfort zone. The SiFi loop ISTJ will continue to narrow his perceptual intake further and further, convinced that anything he doesn't already know completely will only attack and further corrupt or damage his easily impressionable sense of personal ethics and ideals. Inferior Ne--as we will see in the next section--leads to a flood of dangerous and threatening external possibilities which must be contained and avoided at all costs.
I'm falling into a comfortable routine which involves avoiding social interaction and resisting change. But on the other hand, based on what I've read it sounds like the socially withdrawn aspect of Fi-Si and Si-Fi loops typically tends to revolve around social anxiety, which I don't have. My withdrawing comes from not enjoying social situations and not seeing any point.
ISFJ in Si-Ti loop:
When applied negatively in a poorly developed state, Ti may cause counterproductive changes as its insistence on "just knowing" that something is (or is not) inherently fair or reasonable can reinforce all of Si's worst tendencies in terms of subjective self-reference as the ideal solution to any and all problems or disagreements. Convinced beyond all doubt that only he has the true depth of experience to understand the problem in realistic terms, the SiTi loop ISFJ may reject any and all outside opinions regardless of the status or relationship implied by the characteristics of the person offering them. "Listen, my wife doesn't know what's best for our children--I'm the one who's been there looking after them from day one!" Neglecting Fe's vital external input can leave the ISFJ lacking any sort of meaningful outside standard against which to weigh his own subjective evaluations of the overall value of any given idea, practice, or methodology.
Hmmm, this one doesn't really fit me at all. So maybe I'm not ISFJ then...
But I can't seem to find good Fi-Si and Ti-Si loop descriptions, so I can't narrow it down further.
Oh, and by the way, here are the problems I have with ISTJ:
-I'm extremely lazy and unproductive (though I'm usually responsible and dependable)
-I don't like tradition
-I'm never rigid
-I don't really put much effort into building a storehouse of facts and information (most people seem to know a lot more random facts than I do)
Here are the problems I have with INFP:
-I don't seem very abstract/theoretical lately
-I don't have any strong moral convictions
-I often don't notice how I feel about something until later
Oh my gosh, did I just write a whole long post like this without using a single smiley?