I like that you think.... and I like that you feel things. It's impressive.
Elixa wrote that on my last entry, and that sort of prompted me to do m ynear-annual personality test hunt. I have not actually taken a test right recently, but I did look up some information on my personality type, iNFp The Healer. While this type if about 96% accurate for me, the scorpio in me is a bit less inclined to want to help people (he's a bit cynical), but it's still in my nature anyway. Of note, when I first got online in high school back around 1994, my first email address and nickname was TheThinker. My email address in college was also thinker@iastate.edu.
Personality tests and typing, while they should not be taken as some Bible or critique of oneself, can be a very insightful and important part of looking into oneself and ones ideals/values. In addition, reading about someone's personality type can impart a heck of a lot of understanding of those people. Read the following links, and you're reading a lot about me, in a nutshell.
http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/infp.htm - I like this link a lot, as it is pretty informative. I don't have the emphasis on the internal 'ideal' that is described, for instance, I don't hold out for some ideal mate that will likely never happen. I also tend to share my feelings very well. Those are really the only things I don't agree with in this assessment, although I will note that while an iNFp in this description is a "Dreamer," I have a firm rooting in reality as well.
http://keirsey.com/personality/nfip.html - My only beef with this is that I don't actually see the world as an honorable place. I see nature as honorable, but not people. I tend to be very realistic and cynical about people...I could do without the lot of them.
http://www.personalitypage.com/INFP.html - A lot in this fits me as well, but my goal in list if not to see how best to help humanity. Instead, I am significantly more egoistic than that...but I will say, part of my purpose is to live in harmony with other people, albeit not outright help them. And I tend to be extremely considerate anyway...so it's close.
http://linus.highpoint.edu/~bblatchl/infp.html - This is a nice one, but I cringe at the statement, "INFPs do not like to deal with hard facts and logic." This is largely not true, as I tend to do very well with methodical and logical tasks. Granted, I hate the coldness of math, but things like scientific research, testing, and computer work/programming come very easy for me, and I enjoy the puzzles. However, I can feel the twinge of my personality yearning for the subjective human part of things, even in such logical endeavors.
Elixa wrote that on my last entry, and that sort of prompted me to do m ynear-annual personality test hunt. I have not actually taken a test right recently, but I did look up some information on my personality type, iNFp The Healer. While this type if about 96% accurate for me, the scorpio in me is a bit less inclined to want to help people (he's a bit cynical), but it's still in my nature anyway. Of note, when I first got online in high school back around 1994, my first email address and nickname was TheThinker. My email address in college was also thinker@iastate.edu.
Personality tests and typing, while they should not be taken as some Bible or critique of oneself, can be a very insightful and important part of looking into oneself and ones ideals/values. In addition, reading about someone's personality type can impart a heck of a lot of understanding of those people. Read the following links, and you're reading a lot about me, in a nutshell.
http://www.geocities.com/lifexplore/infp.htm - I like this link a lot, as it is pretty informative. I don't have the emphasis on the internal 'ideal' that is described, for instance, I don't hold out for some ideal mate that will likely never happen. I also tend to share my feelings very well. Those are really the only things I don't agree with in this assessment, although I will note that while an iNFp in this description is a "Dreamer," I have a firm rooting in reality as well.
http://keirsey.com/personality/nfip.html - My only beef with this is that I don't actually see the world as an honorable place. I see nature as honorable, but not people. I tend to be very realistic and cynical about people...I could do without the lot of them.
http://www.personalitypage.com/INFP.html - A lot in this fits me as well, but my goal in list if not to see how best to help humanity. Instead, I am significantly more egoistic than that...but I will say, part of my purpose is to live in harmony with other people, albeit not outright help them. And I tend to be extremely considerate anyway...so it's close.
http://linus.highpoint.edu/~bblatchl/infp.html - This is a nice one, but I cringe at the statement, "INFPs do not like to deal with hard facts and logic." This is largely not true, as I tend to do very well with methodical and logical tasks. Granted, I hate the coldness of math, but things like scientific research, testing, and computer work/programming come very easy for me, and I enjoy the puzzles. However, I can feel the twinge of my personality yearning for the subjective human part of things, even in such logical endeavors.
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*runs away in fear of being boxed into a "type" *
yes, perhaps people will say that about our generation, but I just long for those times. I'm a nerd.