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This is the shot that got me my wedding. Off to the left of the frame are two strangers getting out of a car – the strangers who would ask me those questions and ask for my contact information.
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I really don’t understand how a test (Myers-Brigg Type Indicator) can be that precise in its analysis of your personality. The test is just a system of questions – highly structured inquiries that you cannot lie to. How many humans are behind this test? How many brains? How many years and years? How much work went into the creation of a test that is spot-on accurate about my personality?
Well, I reviewed my type today. Just for the heck of it. So creepy.
The test tells me I am rare – that I am 1% of the population. The least common.
How did it know these things?
- that I prefer written communication over verbal
- my inclination to use images in my writing
- gravitation toward deep, inward thought processes & my lust for learning
- my distaste for phone conversations
- preference for a few, intimate relationships – my fierce loyalty. They used that exact phrase.
- how easily I can be hurt by others… and how it might go unrealized
- physical illness from stress
- particularly heavy internal burdens
- my creepy sense of intuition
I don’t get it. They’ve mapped out humanity – yet we are all still different. Photographer was not a job listed among the those common to INFJs… but teaching, ministry, the arts, writing, and counseling were. Reading those pages and pages of information… it gives me a strange combination of feelings. I feel a little more grounded – comforted that I am not the first person, and certainly not the first INFJ, to feel a little lost inside her own head & uncomfortable in a crowd. I feel more known. A little less special? No … I think the details keep me special. Despite all the hard facts.
I feel the slight urge to know other people’s personality types. I found this website of particular interest because at the bottom it lists out other personality types and their relationship to me. My dad and I are complete opposites. That is his type category – “contrast.”
Here are some additional websites:
2. On all aspects of life & relationships
3. Frustrations
(I read all of these… but I will probably find it more interesting than you will.)
Just thoughts. Bounce some off me. I am currently also wondering how my personality will work in Heaven. Is it a place where I keep my interior mind space, continue to feel uncomfortable in crowds, and gravitate toward a few select individuals but genuinely care about the rest? Or will I be too busy singing my heart out to even notice? Do people change in Heaven? Do they continue to grow and see the different facets of our God? The depth of His love? I can’t really imagine getting my mind opened up and suddenly understanding everything there is to know about Him. Yet. Continuing to discover… for eternity? That blows my mind. He must be pretty big. And pretty awesome.
This picture shows how I do life.
How do you do yours?