Hi, I’m hope you’re having a great day so far. So I don’t know how much you trust IDRLabs and their MBTI typings of public figures, but there was something interesting I found while going through the profiles on there. They used a person’s bond with someone of a shadow type as a reason for their typing (for example, we think this person is ENTJ because they said they have great chemistry with this person who is an ITP). One of the reasons they typed an actress named Tea Leoni as an ENTJ was she said, “Woody Allen [alleged ISTP] and I have great chemistry.” And I thought that was interesting because I thought, Why would shadow types have great chemistry if they share none of the same functions? I didn’t know ETJs and ITPs tend to have “great chemistry”? Another example is a reason they typed Nancy Pelosi as an ENTJ was because she said “I would do almost anything Tina Fey (alleged INTP) asks me to do.” One last example, but one of the reasons they typed Whitney Houston as an ESFJ was because a celebrity who is allegedly her shadow type (ISFP), Lady Gaga said this about her: “Whitney is the biggest influence on me. She is the greatest of all time. Of all time.” So what do you make of this? Do we tend to have great chemistry or fond feelings of people who are our shadow types (along with people who are the same or similar MBTI type as us)? I personally found this surprising since our shadow type is someone who has the same exact functions as us but in the opposite/flipped order, so they would actually be very different from us personality-wise.
I think you mean our shadow self has the functional opposite of our functions (E > I or I > E) but in the same order. ESFJ > ISFP. I think there is some fascination there and maybe some envy at times, but there can also be conflict between two people who see the world in such fundamentally different ways (Fe and Fi-dom often have conflict, because Fe wants Fi to go along with things for the sake of group harmony and Fi feels resentment over this, for example). I think it comes more down to the individual and their health level (how agreeable they are vs. how disagreeable they are) than MBTI type in terms of which types can get along the best.
You asked about IDRLabs. I agree with a lot of their historical typings since there is usually a valid written argument to support it and my own understanding of those historical figure confirms it (people like Teddy Roosevelt or Einstein are obvious), but not with a lot of their celebrity typings because the evidence is too thin (they cherry-pick quotes they think exemplifies the type rather than form an argument).
