#infp weaknesses

[yeunginfp]

Note to self: Do not get sick

Or else I will fall into the traps of nostalgia, co-dependency and thought that things cannot be done on my own!

All of the above should definitely be avoided.

[yeunginfp]

[yeunginfp]

[laurensellick]

Week 2

Personality and the professional environment - working out how you work. Myers Briggs/Jung HumanMetrics Personality test - take the online test to see what personality type you are. Discuss your personality type on your blog answering the following questions: What personality type are you? Who else share this personality type with you? Did the results of this test suprise you? Do you agree with your personality assessment? How do you think your personality would fit into the workplace?

The Results

My Type Preferences Introvert(25%) iNtuitive(16%) Feeling(9%) Perceiving(30%) This basically means that I have slight to moderate preferences to the I, N, F, and P traits over the E, S, T, and J traits. Explained more a below:

"The first criterion, Extraversion – Introversion, signifies the source and direction of a person’s energy expression. An extravert’s source and direction of energy expression is mainly in the external world, while an introvert has a source of energy mainly in their own internal world.

The second criterion, Sensing – Intuition, represents the method by which someone perceives information. Sensing means that a person mainly believes information he or she receives directly from the external world. Intuition means that a person believes mainly information he or she receives from the internal or imaginative world.

The third criterion, Thinking – Feeling, represents how a person processes information. Thinking means that a person makes a decision mainly through logic. Feeling means that, as a rule, he or she makes a decision based on emotion, i.e. based on what they feel they should do.

The fourth criterion, Judging – Perceiving, reflects how a person implements the information he or she has processed. Judging means that a person organizes all of his life events and, as a rule, sticks to his plans. Perceiving means that he or she is inclined to improvise and explore alternative options." - http://www.humanmetrics.com/personality/type

After completing the test and learning my results, I was not particularly surprised of my preferences. Slightly introverted, check. Often ruled by Feeling, check. Perceiving and Intuation; not something I've given too much thought to in the past but sure, it sounds about right when you see it all together like that.

Some famous INFPs include: Mary, mother of Jesus, William Shakespeare, A. A. Milne who created Winnie the Pooh, Helen Keller, Dick Clark from American Bandstand, Neil Diamond, Julia Roberts, Scott Bakula, John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Lisa Kudrow. The site also listed a number of fictional INFPs which I thought was pretty interesting. The list included Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes, Bastian from the Neverending Story (nostalgia trip right there), Tommy from Rugrats and Jon Snow from Game of Thrones. Interesting!

INFPing it up in the Workplace

The website also shows you a list of careers that are typically suited to your personality type which was cool and it seemded my prospective careers were mainly in the fields of social services, arts and humanities, and health care. Graphic Design was one of them (Phew! Picked right!).

INFPs are able to grasp new things and wrap their heads around new information easily and with depth in their own. This could make for easier dealings with new clients and new design challenges because of the INFPs ability to see things from anothers view. Understanding a clients motives, concerns and desires for what they want out of the design process is a key in being able to deliver a quality result. INFPs are also able to easily communicate with other personality types in a way that relates to them. They are adaptable in their communication style. INFPs can come across as distant, so it would be important to find away to minimise that in the work place, so not to alienate a prospective employer, colleague or client. If viewed this way, communication may not be so easy. INFPs also tend to have a lot of business contacts and frequently engage with these contacts and peers in meaningful ways. They tend to communicate better with people of similar mindsets

Thinking about myself as an INFP type in the kind of work place I see myself in as a Graphic Designer; I recognise the ability outlined on the Human Metrics website, of being able to communicate with many people in their own kind of 'language' and I feel as though it is a trait I certainly have. Being able to talk peers with meaningful exchanges will help me succeed in a somewhat foreign environment.

[yeunginfp]

Advice for everyone when they fall for INFPs

-Not everyone of us is pure-minded;

-If you happen to fall for us, learn to read each of us individually but not the group in general;

-Many of us love labelling ourselves as Highly Sensitive People (HSPs). However, not all of us are. Some of us just THOUGHT we are because the innocent ones thought the term is very unique to us. Please learn to read people through your own judgements;

-Not all of us are religious;

-Not all of us are really THAT innocent like the descriptions stated;

-If you are afraid to get betrayed by our type, ensure you seriously have learned how to read each of us. Since we do fantasize and easily have crushes on others, you have to know how to select and separate the ones who know how to be self-disciplined in the end and the ones who aren’t. After all, some of us just embrace “romance” itself but NOT the person they happen to romanticize. So, these people will move on after they have felt sick and tired of you;

-For the extreme dreamers, they may even think infidelity, cheating, betrayal is very “sexy”, mysterious and romantic —- it’s called “quirky abnormal thoughts when ethics and moral standards are no longer available  and are put behind in their cognitive systems;

-Some of us keep self-claiming how “freedom” is important to them, but these people forget their “freedom” is also having the potential to backfire their own plans and other people’s feelings; ensure you know who are still immature and in the growing phrase and the ones who are familiarize with “nunchi” and have been working this piece of psychological “art”; or else do not blame me for not warning you in advance;Say, you enjoy smokinf while the one standing next to you are suffering as a second hand smoker.

-Ensure the ones who have feelings for are the ones who are willing to actually taking actions to respond to your love, not simply writing a bunch of so-called romantic pieces but nothing else in return; avoid the zero , nada ones if you ask to take the mutual love back;

-Our moods are mostly borned to be fluctuated. Ensure the ones you choose are willing to learn his/her best to become mentally stabilized as much as possible because of your love; When you have big and small fights with us, make sure you know your reconciliation skills well because we dislike confrontations and arguments but cuddles;

-We need you to pull us back to reality and feel grounded not in a harsh manner;

-” “INFP: Writes about you on their secret blog while fantasizing that you’ve been following it all along and will write them back.”—  via  http://thoughtcatalog.com/heidi-priebe/2015/05/what-each-myers-briggs-type-does-if-they-like-you/ ” : If it isn’t happening, kindly let us know the truth because mature INFPs should learn to accept the truth and reality!

-At last, ensure you know how to pick the ones who are not only fully understand his/her own views of morality but others as well, or else she/he only embraces her OWN moral standards “in his/her own box” while the majority actually disapproves with in reality. These people are definitely not the empathetic ones plus possessing low Emotional Quotient in the society. In other words, these people only have their own personal INFP views only instead of a global view. After all, some of us do need time to consciously learn and grow as human. Give us time if you have the patience.

[yeunginfp]

Just let us cry. All. The. Tears. (#SorryNotSorry for releasing emotion.) But we need your support-- and your patience. Thanks for being there. It means more than you know.

Emma Gray at  “ 15 Things Anyone Who Loves A Woman With Anxiety Should Know” via

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/20/things-anyone-who-loves-a-woman-with-anxiety-should-know_n_7089066.html

Personal opinion: An INFP woman like me, who has been studying the weaknesses of INFP traits thoroughly, understands the quote is the primary reason I’ve been longing for a lifelong romance mutually between a couple and is NOT because I fantasize my own version of “romance” one-sidedly. Unfortunately, there is something what family and friends are not able to give although they also love me unconditionally. the “loves” varies. I just can say this is what a lifelong romantic relationship really is all about by quoting other’s work to explain my accurate female and INFP ‘s thought in the English language.