[albarrancabrera]

“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”

— Frank Herbert, Dune

[mbtimyths]

From Markus Stewart via MBTI *memes* only

[freshmbtimemes]

relatable🤷‍♂️

[mbti-notes]

I'm an INFP with low self-esteem. A few years ago I lost my self-confidence from harsh comments family friends made about me, which I think set my Ne into overdrive. I became overly ambitious about "fixing myself" and finding answers, which deteriorated my Fi. I think I was looping too, because it took a long time to let go of their negativity and self-judgement. I'm improving my feelings of self-worth by developing skills, but still revert back to keeping my guard up. Will this ever go away?

It isn’t so much Ne in overdrive as being driven by inferior Te impulses, which is not always a healthy thing. You were trying to live up to standards that were not entirely your own, standards that you imposed on yourself through external sources, in some ways too desperate for external validation. If this behavior goes too far, it leads to dominant Fi degradation because your personality gets out of whack. There is a balance that must be struck between self-acceptance and self-improvement. Possessing flaws =/= being flawed, which is something many Fi doms have trouble grasping. What makes a person a failure is not the fact of having flaws because everyone has them, rather, what makes a person a failure is when they deny those flaws or they refuse to do anything about them.

(This is sometimes a controversial opinion but) Self-doubt is necessary for a healthy personality. Self-doubt is a sign that you are aware of the conflicts between your various functions and this leads to you being more careful when decision making, which is a GOOD thing. Therefore, self-doubt in and of itself is neither positive nor negative, it is simply an internal message that alerts you to the need to proceed more carefully. However, if you are being driven by unconscious inferior Te impulses, your attitude towards self-doubt will be problematic because immature Te wishes for “absolute certainty” otherwise it cannot feel confident, which means that self-doubt will be seen as a “weakness” or a “failure” because it makes you feel bad, and immature Te cannot handle feeling bad. In other words, inferior Te has the wrong attitude towards self-doubt and does not interpret it properly. When you define something as “bad”, you will want to get rid of it, but why would you want to get rid of something that is an important part of you and is necessary for growth and development? INFPs who are prone to Te grip tendencies often evaluate themselves way too harshly and don’t realize it, even when they would never apply such standards to others.

[socionicsanimegifs]

INFP lecturing an ENFJ.

[typicalmbticonversations]

ENTJ: in any situation I would kill everyone around here

[shinririgaku]

This article made me feel understood.

Chiron in Astrology

Chiron is another ‘infamous’ asteroid, located in between Saturn and Uranus, bridging lessons and structure with change and revolution, and

My chiron is in the first house..

[delightfullygrace]

The Types as Surreal Memes: Enneagram

Type 1:

Type 2:

Type 3:

Type 4:

Type 5:

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Type 8:

Type 9:

[stellarnovae-archive]

On Enneagram Type 4 (4w3)

or: basically how I nailed down my core type.

There are a few things that made me first believe I was a type 4: Identity struggles, the need for artistic expression, indulgence of emotions and self-pitying, the usual. But there was one thing that kind of bothered me about the type.

Do I really want to be different and individualistic?

At least not consciously, I thought. I’m the last person that wants to draw attention to themselves as being odd or weird or different. I’m uncomfortable in public when wearing something that could be remotely considered flashy. I don’t want to stick out from groups for having different opinions. The list goes on, you get the idea.

I started ruminating a bit on this because ‘individualistic’ has such a sour taste to it. (Hello, bias) So pretty quickly I started noticing this thing I was doing in conversation with others: I was aware of this before, because I obviously have to initiate it, but I never really dug deep into it: I tell people personal things about me with an odd sense of intention. So they know. Sometimes things that are kind of off-topic, or not really, but I notice that they’re not exactly needed in a conversation because we could easily do without them. So I tell them personal stuff about me so they know. And I would ask: Why? Why is it important that they know? And these questions only brought me to an odd answer: So they know I am like that. So they know that I am a person who is like that/ who does that/ who likes that/ who has done that/ who thinks or believes that thing. As if I weren’t a person like that if I hadn’t told them!

It got me thinking, and reflect on the idea of identity-seeking and -validation. So maybe fours don’t want to be individualistic per se. They just want to be people! They have missed the message that people have inherent worth by simply being. Fours do not have that kind of awareness, hence their feeling of inherent worthlessness. So, trying to make up for the feeling of “not being a person”, they’re trying to become one. By, for example, telling friends personal things about themselves that are maybe not ordinary, that feed into a peculiar sense of identity. As to say: Hey, this is me! See me as I am! And from the outside, to people who do not lack an identity, this will look like a person trying to be special, to be different, to be individualistic. But fours may not even realize they’re doing this.

[incorrctmbti]

ENTP: Surgery is just stabbing someone to life.

ISFP: Please never become a surgeon.

[freshmbtimemes]

PART 2

OC

[freshmbtimemes]

infp: When cats sleep all day they’re cute

infp: But when I do it I’m ‘clinically depressed’ and 'need to get help’

[sunbathe]

@_049226_

[just-shower-thoughts]

Inside every 85 year old man is an 18 year old saying what the fuck just happened.

[love]

by Miguel Gonzalez

[just-shower-thoughts]

School is less of an “education” system and more of a “get used to doing shit you don’t have any interest in without question for the rest of your life” system.

[pkvalentine]

sometimes i wish time would stop.

i wish everything would freeze,

so that i could walk the earth

and see its beauty.

and when i returned,

time would resume.

everything would be as it was,

except me.

p.k. valentine

[mbtishitposting]

so just recently I had an INFP friend talking to me and mid-sentence she stopped and said ‘oh look, a butterfly’ and I died laughing there and then while she looked at me with great concern