plaminal
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***STILL BORING, FOLKS! Just my notes about which types are most likely mine, and why. But I'm going to put the rest of the I types in this one section to keep from wildly posting so many entries. (Why am I worried about this? Is THAT a type indication?)
ISFP--The best one yet. I read descriptions in two books: Please Understand Me and Type Talk At Work --a good book because it gives more specific examples of how each type would act, although only at work.
Anyway, in those two books, I felt that I matched well, but then, on the internet, it started to fall apart. Blah. The main ways I *don't* fit the type are
1. I enjoyed school and did well, especially after elementary school. However, I have, during and since, had my own interests that I learned a lot about without formal schooling.
2. I'm not primarily a nurturer. I was when my children were little (grown now and doing great), but that was a special time--female hormones and cute little babies. Still, when I see someone in trouble now, the nurturing part of me kicks in--only for a short time, though.
***No, wait--another place it says it's ISFJ who's the nurturer. Or did I look at the wrong type at one point? I've now read some more and the ISFP descriptions vary considerably. Something to look into more if I don't find a perfect or near-perfect fit elsewhere.
So ISFP is in me, but I don't think it's the best way to describe me. If it turns out to be the closest, I'll go and find someone or some group that needs nurturing, and see if I can recapture that part of me and continue on that path.
ISTJ--nope. Sound like fine people, but almost none of it applies to me.
ISTP--I like the letters, because they're the ones I would choose to live by, if I were able to choose only one, except that the T/F would be a hard one. I'd like to be about 55% T and 45% F. But overall ISTP as described didn't fit. Maybe it's because I'm female, but I never did a lot with tools and I don't remember ever taking anything apart. I never got far on understanding my car, my computer, my cell phone... I even read the ....... manuals sometimes. And I think there was something in there about loving danger--nope. <Sigh>. I'll give it a little more study and maybe change this, but I think ISTP isn't it.
The list now, from most likely to least:
ISFP
INTP
INFP
ISTP
I really don't remember how much these matched, but they're low:
ISTJ
ISFJ
INFJ
INTJ
Looks like the J/P is settled anyway.
ISFP--The best one yet. I read descriptions in two books: Please Understand Me and Type Talk At Work --a good book because it gives more specific examples of how each type would act, although only at work.
Anyway, in those two books, I felt that I matched well, but then, on the internet, it started to fall apart. Blah. The main ways I *don't* fit the type are
1. I enjoyed school and did well, especially after elementary school. However, I have, during and since, had my own interests that I learned a lot about without formal schooling.
2. I'm not primarily a nurturer. I was when my children were little (grown now and doing great), but that was a special time--female hormones and cute little babies. Still, when I see someone in trouble now, the nurturing part of me kicks in--only for a short time, though.
***No, wait--another place it says it's ISFJ who's the nurturer. Or did I look at the wrong type at one point? I've now read some more and the ISFP descriptions vary considerably. Something to look into more if I don't find a perfect or near-perfect fit elsewhere.
So ISFP is in me, but I don't think it's the best way to describe me. If it turns out to be the closest, I'll go and find someone or some group that needs nurturing, and see if I can recapture that part of me and continue on that path.
ISTJ--nope. Sound like fine people, but almost none of it applies to me.
ISTP--I like the letters, because they're the ones I would choose to live by, if I were able to choose only one, except that the T/F would be a hard one. I'd like to be about 55% T and 45% F. But overall ISTP as described didn't fit. Maybe it's because I'm female, but I never did a lot with tools and I don't remember ever taking anything apart. I never got far on understanding my car, my computer, my cell phone... I even read the ....... manuals sometimes. And I think there was something in there about loving danger--nope. <Sigh>. I'll give it a little more study and maybe change this, but I think ISTP isn't it.
The list now, from most likely to least:
ISFP
INTP
INFP
ISTP
I really don't remember how much these matched, but they're low:
ISTJ
ISFJ
INFJ
INTJ
Looks like the J/P is settled anyway.
