HongDou
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Your infamous TypologyCentral diva with 17 #1 singles and approximately 5 type-me threads is back with another post!
(channeling my Mariah today)
I don't think I've ever done a questionnaire on here (well, finishing one at least) so I thought with maybe some of you guys could take a crack at my type again. Plus I just miss being typed.
Types Others Have Suggested (current typing excluded)
ESFP
ESFJ
2w3
6w7
7w8
sx/so
729
739
Types I've Considered For At Least 5 Minutes of Time (current typing excluded)
ESFP
ESTP
ESFJ
INFP
ISFJ
2w3
3w2
6w7
7w8
9w1
sx/so
729
739
Let the questions begin!
1) What aspect of your personality made you unsure of your type?
Whenever I question my type it's most often in group situations. Yes, I know that MBTI is more about ways of thinking than it is behavior but that's how I get to thinking this way either way. I can get very quiet in group situations, even small ones. I don't like shame/criticism and usually I prefer in one-on-one interaction because I feel like I can be more fully myself. In a group, it feels like everything I say gets processed through a people machine and the consensus will either be positive, indifferent, or negative. So sometimes I'm very just to avoid the "people machine" all together.
Conversely, other times I can be very bubbly and friendly to the point where it sometimes overwhelms people. I can make fun of people and give them a light shove - when people aren't in the mood for it they can become easily agitated. When I'm reminded of this I can get more polite to compensate. At times when I'm with others and I'm reading that they're not in as an excitable mood my courteous/caring side is more prominent. I actually dislike my courteous and caring side though because I feel like it's boring and not fun for others. I hate feeling like I'm just talking with someone for the sake of talking. What I love the most is when my friends and I are really happy and enthusiastic and all laughing together and spreading good vibes everywhere. However even when we're all happy and enthusiastic, if I start comparing myself to others and notice some people are more imaginative/unconventional than I am I wonder how people would rank me on that scale as well. I usually don't care about how imaginative people perceive me to be but if I have a friend who's more whimsical in the moment then that will start to make me wonder if I'm more straightforward like an ESFP (in addition to overwhelming people with my enthusiasm).
It's also not that hard for me to get frustrated with someone. I'm friendly to everyone including acquaintances, but once someone's behavior starts annoying me that changes. I usually never judge my friends' actions, so I selectively express my annoyances to these people that bother me. I'll tell them straight up that I think what they're doing is stupid or just shrug off a stupid comment they made and ignore them. I guess the best way you could describe me when I'm annoyed with someone is "a bitch" lol.
Wow this is just Question 1! I should stop blabbin. But yeah, basically me being a multidimensional human being rather than an ENFP profile is what makes me question my type sometimes. You can probably place where I consider the types listed above from what I said here.
2) What do you yearn for in life? Why?
I always say happiness, but I guess that's become more of a cop-out answer for me. I don't think I could live life without finding love and getting married. And kids, I DEFINITELY want to be a parent someday. I just know these things will bring me happiness and I know I won't feel completely fulfilled without them. I also want to be surrounded by good friends. I basically just want to be surrounded by people who love and care for me. I don't want my funeral to only have a few people there - I want to live a life feeling loved and knowing I brought joy into people's lives.
3) Think about a time where you felt like you were at your finest. Tell us what made you feel that way.
Not sure. Even now, I still think I might be suffering from depression and an inescapable feeling of emptiness. But I do love studying abroad right now - this is one of the exciting and important parts of my life regardless of my mental state. I really think I'm more fine than I've ever been before. I feel matured, but also that life is at my fingertips. There's so much more of this country I have left to explore and so much more I want to do while I'm here. I know I won't hit everything on my mental checklist, but I really want to because I know I'll wish I did looking back. I'm also just surrounded by amazing and accepting people. I really prefer my life here compared back to my life back in the US.
4) What makes you feel inferior?
People who are more experienced than me for sure. Especially in love, because it's so important to me and yet when someone makes me feel less experienced than them I just question how much I've really gotten out of life. And then if I feel like I haven't gotten much out of life, I then feel inferior. Anything else I probably covered in Question 1. But this is the biggest culprit.
5) What tends to weigh on your decisions? (Do you think about people, pro-cons, how you feel about it, etc.)
I do care about people's feelings (even if they've pissed me off I feel bad unnecessarily hurting someone), but mostly I care about people not getting angry or upset with me. I will go out of my way to not damage in my loving relationships. I don't think I don't have a spine though. When I was younger it was harder to stick up for myself but now I find it fairly easy. My friends' opinions are very important to me but there's a sense of integrity and autonomy I want to maintain. I have this one friend who cracks jokes by teasing other people and usually I can tolerate it, but at one point she was just making me feel so stupid that I snapped at her and told her to stop (and kind of shocked the whole group too ). I hate being patronized or disrespected.
My decisions are mainly made to alleviate myself from worry or stress. I just do whatever sounds good to me at the time because I'd rather put off my responsibilities until I absolutely have to address them. But I do like to know that the decisions I make won't get me too deep in trouble because that would just create even more stress and anxiousness in me.
6) When working on a project what is normally your emphasis? Do you like to have control of the outcome?
I usually don't take control because someone more take-charge will step up to the plate, but if I see no one else in the project has no motivation I do take control and start delegating tasks. I just dislike other people relying on me, and I don't like being babied either so I'll try to hold my own in projects. At the same time, I try to keep things loose and upbeat because I don't like serious settings so that can impede on me trying to be self-sufficient haha.
7) Describe a time where you had a lot of fun. How is your memory of it?
Kind of answered in Question 3.
8) When you want to learn something new, what feels more natural for you?
I tend to look up all the information myself. I usually get curious enough to start learning something in my own time. While I enjoy learning about something or someone I don't try to look this stuff up while I'm around people because I'd feel like I'm boring them with new information.
9) How organized do you think of yourself as?
I'm getting really lazy trying to answer these in-depth so I'll just say if you've talked to me on the forum you should know how unplanned/unorganized I am.
10) How do you judge new ideas? You try to understand the principles behind it to see if they make sense or do you look for information that supports it?
Both! I definitely care more about the principles behind it first and foremost, but supporting information definitely supports the idea for me.
11) You find harmony by making sure everyone is doing fine and belonging to a given group or by making sure that you follow what you believe and being yourself?
This sounds like an Fe/Fi question to me so I won't answer because that might cloud my answering.
12) Are you the kind that thinks before speaking or do you speak before thinking? Do you prefer one-on-one communication or group discussions?
It depends on the situation. In groups I feel a lot more pressure so I'm a lot more conscious of what I'm going to say, while when I'm with just one friend I kind of blabber incoherently.
Okay I'm tired of typing. 12 is a good number to stop at.
TYPE ME PLEASE.
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