Eric B
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You know, there's a difference here with Thomson's book actually. Her descriptions of ISFPs sound like they have a lot of overlap with INFPs (in that their Fi is idealistic). The whole go-with-the-flow thing seems overstated, but I've kind of accepted it..if that's what they are. It's one reason why I decided I was not ISFP though. Sounds like some lazy hippy hedonist faking a Buddha act. How could a Fi type be so much much Se oriented than ESFP?
Yeah, I know.. I don't think it makes a lot of sense though. That wiki site is cool too, but I just thought it was funny to catch that description there. Texts like Thomson's would disagree that they're freeflowing.. She's one of the authors that gives them the credit of making impact with their ideas and being discriminate, rather than this need to just be. Views like that strip people of any recognizable aspirations. Even by Keirsey's more limited descriptions, they would be artists/composers - and artists don't have a lack of things to say either. They have something they're not flowing with - whether personal or a larger issue. Maybe 10% of artists don't say anything worth a damn, but those are bands like.. Bananarama and Nickelback or something. And I wouldn't call Nickelback ISFP
This wiki is from after the book, and 1) she has added to and modified some of her views since. Like the wiki also goes into Beebe's model, which was totally absent from the book. It wasn't well known enough at the time of the book for her to go into it. 2) The wiki isn't hers; it's someone's (Ben Kovitz) "exegesis" of her, so a lot of it is his own (and other contributors') "hypothesizing" (it's even admitted in places) of the meanings of her writings, sort of like a lot of the stuff I always say about comparative systems.