Carebear
will make your day
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- Apr 23, 2007
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- INFP
No, actually. See my post above. Not novelists. SPs reign in that territory. Try fantasy, maybe.
Ok, I'll grudgingly have to admit that I read mostly fantasy, so even though I don't believe it to be the case, you just might have a point.
Really? Most NFs I know (myself included) care a great deal about helping people.
Well, I guess I and my NF friends care more about people and helping them than other people do, but in the end, we're still more interested in helping ourselves and making ourselves feel good, so if we got to choose between writing a new Harry Potter or a new "Yet another way to live a good life", I think we'd all go with the most profitable and fun. (Apart from my INFJ wife.)
Of course. They just don't prefer that approach to life and thus, don't get as good at it as Sensors.
Not as good as living it perhaps, but conveying it with words and knowing how those words will be experienced and translate back to the reader is another matter entirely imo.
Yep me too. But it would be a very conscious chose, and not my natural style.
I always make very conscious choices when I write, as do many of the best authors, so what the "natural style" is doesn't really matter.
As for the rest of what you're writing, you seem to base yourself largely on Keirsey and the four temperaments, but in a discussion about Depp being INFP or ISFP, Keirsey doesn't really work. He focuses mostly on strengths and forgets to mention the typical weaknesses, and more importantly: INFPs and ISFPs have more in common with each other than they do with NFs and SPs respectively. Their shared Fi coupled with an extraverted percieving function makes them very artsy and creative and neither resembles an ESTP or an ENFJ much. Therefore it's better to use MBTI type observations and a dash of intuition rather than using Keirsey imo.
But you don't have time for this and the world won't fall apart if we can't agree on Johnny Depp's type, so feel free to continue believing he's a classical ISFP. We won't know for sure before he takes the test and tells us his results.