Personality Type Blog

Why Stress Stops Creativity for INFJs - And How They Can Get It Flowing Again

19 November 2018 / By Deborah Ward

INFJs are sensitive, creative people with a passion for helping others and expressing their ideas. They may seem quiet and reserved on the outside, but on the inside, these complex folks are a bubbling cauldron of insights, energy and enthusiasm. But there’s one thing that can stop an INFJ from expressing their creativity and that’s stress. Stress can stop creativity in its tracks, leaving the sensitive INFJ to feel like they’ve failed, they’ve lost their talent or maybe they never really had any creativity in the first place.

Categories: Personal Growth, Self-Discovery, INFJ

5 Parenting Struggles of Every Intuitive Perceiver

12 November 2018 / By Jayne Thompson

Do I give my baby a pacifier or let her cry herself to sleep? Should I force the defiant toddler into a coat or let him feel the pain? Shall I let my child make his own decisions or enforce the rules with an iron fist?

Categories: Parenting & Family, INFP, ENFP, INTP, ENTP

How Judgers Can Effectively Handle Requests for Last Minute Changes at Work

05 November 2018 / By Sylvia Giltner

If the final letter of your Myers-Briggs personality type is a J, you are a Judger. You’re a planner, scheduler, and list maker. Your opposite is the Perceiver. They tend to make decisions as they go, and might change their plans at the last minute.

As a Judger, last minute changes can be a real challenge to your balance. They’re also unavoidable. When they happen at work, you’re expected to roll with it and remain productive. That requires some coping skills. Fortunately, there are some strategies to help you handle these situations.

Categories: Personality At Work, INFJ, ENFJ, INTJ, ENTJ, ISTJ, ESTJ, ISFJ, ESFJ

How To Live With Balance As An INFP

29 October 2018 / By Ed Burdette

If you’re an INFP, chances are you want a flexible life. A life of autonomy and authenticity, where you’re free to pursue your ideals in creative ways.

As a fellow INFP, to me this sounds wonderful. After finishing college, while living in a new city with no attachments, I expected to live this ideal life. My schedule was wide open and the possibilities seemed endless.

Categories: Personal Growth, Self-Discovery, Personal Journeys, INFP

Astrology and Personality Type: the Lion, the Moon, and the Wardrobe

22 October 2018 / By Irene Loy

There are several languages for understanding ourselves which have evolved over time and which carry their own converts and skeptics. What follows is a translation of salient overlaps between two of those languages: astrology and the personality system created by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers. My aim is to show similarities between these two approaches to personality.

Category: Personality Science

10 Reasons Why Everyone Should Have a Rational Friend

15 October 2018 / By Jayne Thompson

If you have the opportunity to be friends with a Rational personality type, you are so lucky! Intuitive-Thinkers are the type of friends who will stay up late with you dissecting the meaning of life, motivate you to improve yourself, keep every one of your secrets, never sweat the small stuff and give back exactly what you invest. If you are loyal to a Rational, they will be your best friend for life.

Maybe you don't already have a Rational friend. If not, you're missing out. Here's why:

Categories: Types & Society, INTJ, INTP, ENTP, ENTJ

What Keys Unlock the Door to Faith for Thinking Types?

08 October 2018 / By Gayle Weinraub

How do you look at life? According to the brilliant Swiss-American physicist Albert Einstein, our choice of how to live life is simple. “There are only two ways to live your life”, he reportedly said. “One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

Categories: Personality Science, INTJ, INTP, ENTP, ENTJ, ISTJ, ISTP, ESTP, ESTJ

Ranking the Briggs-Myers Personality Types By Who's the Most Addicted to Taking Risks

01 October 2018 / By Jayne Thompson

Hands up if you read this title and immediately answered, "ESTP!" I know I did. These types are renowned for being high-adrenaline risk takers who live life in the fast lane. If there is a type that's the most likely to zoom down the face of an active volcano on a plank of reinforced plywood, it's surely the ESTP.

Category: Self-Discovery

7 Myths About Intuitives - Debunked

24 September 2018 / By Jayne Thompson

When you're super creative and inventive, must you always type as "Intuitive"? Does seeing the big picture mean you're too abstract to survive in the real world? And if there were no Intuitives, would we really still be using stone tools?

We have separated the wheat from the chaff and identified some classic "N vs S" hogwash so you don't have to. Here are seven pesky myths about Intuition debunked.

Category: Self-Discovery

Should an INFJ Accept a Management Position?

17 September 2018 / By G. John Cole

You’re principled, organized and driven – so why, as an INFJ, are you not encouraged to pursue leadership roles?

The INFJ’s steady reputation often earns us positions of responsibility such as life coach, counselor, or employee relations officer; but positions of actual authority tend to evade us (or we avoid them). It’s an odd one, and it may have as much to do with the way our culture understands hierarchical structures as it does with our abilities.

Categories: Careers for Your Type, Personality At Work, INFJ

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