A truly meaningful quiz for a change

[sweetnpetite]

http://www.personalitytype.com/quiz.asp

Mine:

Life as an ENFP
(Extravert, Intuitive, Feeler, Perceiver)

People of this type tend to be: enthusiastic, talkative, and outgoing; clever, curious, and playful; deeply caring, sensitive, and gentle; highly innovative, creative, optimistic, and unique; adaptable and resourceful but sometimes disorganized.

The most important thing to ENFPs is freedom to see possibilities, make connections, and be with a variety of people.

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SpeedReading ENFPs

The key to success lies in your ability to quickly size others up, and speak their language. Here are just a few clues for SpeedReading (understanding) and SpeedReaching (communicating with) ENFPs.

How to Spot ENFPs:

high energy, friendly, and good natured
imaginative, fun loving, and off beat
curious; discussions shift quickly from one topic to another
warm, concerned, and eager to help solve problems

Tips for Communicating with ENFPs:

Focus on interesting and innovative possibilities and new ways of solving problems
Don't overwhelm them with facts and details
Keep things relaxed, warm and flexible

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This probably goes a long way toward explaining why I so often want to strangle Mr. Wordsworth. His personality is so analitical, and he can't understand why everyone shouldn't be that way.

This is not a slam on you Joe, you were just the first person I thought of when I read this. Maybe if we can all realize that not everybody responds to the same approach and accept that about each other, we can all get along a little better. (on the other hand, were's the fun in that hu?)

 

[sweetnpetite]

How to Love an ENFP

Appreciate my creativity, curiosity, and uniqueness.
Tell me how much I mean to you and be patient with my need to process how I feel privately before sharing it with you.
Re-establish harmony quickly.
Support my need to try new experiences and maintain my many friendships.
Try not force decisions too quickly, or bug me about being messy.
Above all - encourage me to keep growing, changing, and experimenting with life.

**Oh yeah, and this site also gives you ideas for the best types of careers for your type- for those who still don't know what they want to be when they 'grow up'

It didn't help me a lot, because I like so *many* of the suggestions!

 

[R. Richard]

Strangest personality test I have ever taken. I kept getting pop-up windows and all.

"You be a bad mo-fo. We gonna notify the police!"

 

[Guest]

I'm the same as you, Sweet, an ENFP.

I knew that already, cos I've taken this test before, but under a different format.


This all rang especially true for me: Appreciate my creativity, curiosity, and uniqueness.
Tell me how much I mean to you and be patient with my need to process how I feel privately before sharing it with you.
Re-establish harmony quickly.
Support my need to try new experiences and maintain my many friendships.
Try not force decisions too quickly, or bug me about being messy.
Above all - encourage me to keep growing, changing, and experimenting with life.

Lou

 

[sweetnpetite]

Strangest personality test I have ever taken. I kept getting pop-up windows and all.

"You be a bad mo-fo. We gonna notify the police!"

Hey! I dont' think your link worked right...

 

[impressive]

Oh, I love this stuff! I am an INFJ -- and the description fits me to a "T" (see http://www.typelogic.com/infj.html).

See also http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp for another, more in-depth, test based on Jung & Myers-Briggs.

IMO, http://www.TypeLogic.com has the best descriptions (once you've determined your type).

Thanks for posting this!

 

[sweetnpetite]

I'm the same as you, Sweet, an ENFP.

Cool!

I think I took it before too, but for some reason I had an easier time of it today. It didn't take me very long to finish at all!

Tell me how much I mean to you and be patient with my need to process how I feel privately before sharing it with you.
Lou

I didn't notice this one when I read mine, but wow! That's really me. If people move to fast at me before I have had enough time to figure out weather or not I like them, I find I have a really hard time knowing weather I do or not!

I thought that was just an odd thing about me, but it's all a part of the bigger picture. Great to know isn't it?

 

[sweetnpetite]

Oh, I love this stuff! I am an INFJ -- and the description fits me to a "T" (see http://www.typelogic.com/infj.html).

See also http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp for another, more in-depth, test based on Jung & Myers-Briggs.

IMO, http://www.TypeLogic.com has the best descriptions (once you've determined your type).

Thanks for posting this!

Cool site- thanks!

I love all the extra information, using the same format. (ie, i don't have to take a *new personality test, I just use the same results)

 

[Guest]

I thought that was just an odd thing about me, but it's all a part of the bigger picture. Great to know isn't it?

Yep, most definitely. It's all part of what makes us who we are. In my case... neurotic, over-emotional, feisty, flighty, flirtatious, randy, and downright slutty.

It is great to know that kind of thing!

Lou

 

[fogbank]

I'm an INTP. Ideal careers for an INTP apparently include being a writer, so I guess I'm in the right profession.

 

[sweetnpetite]

INFPs have the ability to see good in almost anyone or anything. Even for the most unlovable the INFP is wont to have pity.

Rest you, my enemy,
Slain without fault,
Life smacks but tastelessly
Lacking your salt!
Stuck in a bog whence naught
May catapult me,
Come from the grave, long-sought,
Come and insult me!."
--(Steven Vincent Benet, Elegy for an Enemy)

 

[sweetnpetite]

Yep, most definitely. It's all part of what makes us who we are. In my case... neurotic, over-emotional, feisty, flighty, flirtatious, randy, and downright slutty.

It is great to know that kind of thing!

Lou

I used to think that I was introverted, because I used to be painfully shy and probably had that social anxiety disorder, but on the otherhand, i'm only shy around people I have to see day in day out -- I've always been outgoing with strangers!

Most people are afraid to stand up and give a speak in front of a huge crowd of strangers, I would rather do that than speak in front of a small group of people I know. If they are strangers- who cares! Even if you make a complete fool of yourself, big deal, they're strangers. Seeing one person who's oppinion mattered, or who I wanted to make a good impression on would be the thing to throw me off my game.

I also like to read, spend time alone, have bad tendancies toward hermatism (which are ultimatly not healthy for me) and have moods and times where I just want to be *left alone* (at these times, it usually *is* good for me, necessary even) I think these all come from the intuitive, and feeling parts of me. I need that time alone to process, and to deal with the buildup of the world. BEing intuitive and feeling you also pick up a lot of what some people would call 'phychic debris'-- in otherwords, the world sometimes is just to harsh for us. but I'm still at heart an extroverted person who loves to talk, loves people, loves to do new things, and loves to get really worked up, exited and passionate about life and ideas.

I guess I also thought I was introverted, because I tend to be very introspective. But I guess they are not the same thing.

 

[sweetnpetite]

I love this stuff...

The Champion Idealists are abstract in thought and speech, cooperative in accomplishing their aims, and informative and extraverted when relating with others. For Champions, nothing occurs which does not have some deep ethical significance, and this, coupled with their uncanny sense of the motivations of others, gives them a talent for seeing life as an exciting drama, pregnant with possibilities for both good and evil. This type is found in only about 3 percent of the general population, but they have great influence because of their extraordinary impact on others. Champions are inclined to go everywhere and look into everything that has to do with the advance of good and the retreat of evil in the world. They can't bear to miss out on what is going on around them; they must experience, first hand, all the significant social events that affect our lives. And then they are eager to relate the stories they've uncovered, hoping to disclose the "truth" of people and issues, and to advocate causes. This strong drive to unveil current events can make them tireless in conversing with others, like fountains that bubble and splash, spilling over their own words to get it all out.
Champions consider intense emotional experiences as being vital to a full life, although they can never quite shake the feeling that a part of themselves is split off, uninvolved in the experience. Thus, while they strive for emotional congruency, they often see themselves in some danger of losing touch with their real feelings, which Champions possess in a wide range and variety. In the same vein, Champions strive toward a kind of spontaneous personal authenticity, and this intention always to "be themselves" is usually communicated nonverbally to others, who find it quite attractive. All too often, however, Champions fall short in their efforts to be authentic, and they tend to heap coals of fire on themselves, berating themselves for the slightest self-conscious role-playing.

http://keirsey.com/personality/nfep.html

IDEALIST NFs, being ABSTRACT in communicating and COOPERATIVE in implementing goals, can become highly skilled in DIPLOMATIC INTEGRATION. Thus their most practiced and developed intelligent operations are usually teaching and counseling (NFJ mentoring), or conferring and tutoring (NFP advocating). And they would if they could be sages in one of these forms of social development. The Idealist temperament have an instinct for interpersonal integration, learn ethics with ever increasing zeal, sometimes become diplomatic leaders, and often speak interpretively and metaphorically of the abstract world of their imagination.

They are proud of themselves in the degree they are empathic in action, respect themselves in the degree they are benevolent, and feel confident of themselves in the degree they are authentic. Idealist types search for their unique identity, hunger for deep and meaningful relationships, wish for a little romance each day, trust their intuitive feelings implicitly, aspire for profundity. This is the "Identity Seeking Personality" -- credulous about the future, mystical about the past, and their preferred time and place are the future and the pathway. Educationally they go for the humanities, avocationally for ethics, and vocationally for personnel work.

Social relationships: In their family interactions they strive for mutuality, provide spiritual intimacy for the mates, opportunity for fantasy for their children, and for themselves continuous self-renewal. Idealists do not abound, being as few as 8% and nor more than 10% of the population.
http://keirsey.com/personality/nf.html

 

[sweetnpetite]

This is from the section on 'idealist quotes' which reminds me of what I said when I started this thread. (Its the first one on the page too!)

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn
to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Hermann Hesse

 

[sweetnpetite]

I'll never be president!

http://keirsey.com/presidents/presidealist.html

 

[sweetnpetite]

thought this one was interesting...

INTPs are pensive, analytical folks. They may venture so deeply into thought as to seem detached, and often actually are oblivious to the world around them.

Precise about their descriptions, INTPs will often correct others (or be sorely tempted to) if the shade of meaning is a bit off. While annoying to the less concise, this fine discrimination ability gives INTPs so inclined a natural advantage as, for example, grammarians and linguists.

INTPs are relatively easy-going and amenable to most anything until their principles are violated, about which they may become outspoken and inflexible. They prefer to return, however, to a reserved albeit benign ambiance, not wishing to make spectacles of themselves.

 

[sweetnpetite]

Oh, I love this stuff! I am an INFJ -- and the description fits me to a "T" (see http://www.typelogic.com/infj.html).

See also http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp for another, more in-depth, test based on Jung & Myers-Briggs.

IMO, http://www.TypeLogic.com has the best descriptions (once you've determined your type).

Thanks for posting this!

I went to typelogic, my b/f and I are each others anima (we gave the exact opposite answer to each and every question- but we are not'contrast' as that's a separate listing) Do you have any idea what that means?

 

[impressive]

I went to typelogic, my b/f and I are each others anima (we gave the exact opposite answer to each and every question- but we are not'contrast' as that's a separate listing) Do you have any idea what that means?

Best I could find:

http://www.cnr.edu/home/bmcmanus/anima.html

 

[rgraham666]

I am, as always, an INFP. A 'Guardian of The Faith' is the description that I liked the best.

 

[cloudy]

Life as an ENFP
(Extravert, Intuitive, Feeler, Perceiver)

People of this type tend to be: enthusiastic, talkative, and outgoing; clever, curious, and playful; deeply caring, sensitive, and gentle; highly innovative, creative, optimistic, and unique; adaptable and resourceful but sometimes disorganized.

The most important thing to ENFPs is freedom to see possibilities, make connections, and be with a variety of people.

 

[DirtyJJ]

I have taken this in the past, and was always an INFP... fits me pretty well I think. I tend to waiver a bit between the I and the E though - I can be shy but I also like being around people - I used to work at home alone and found I missed the contact of people in the workplace.
Fun topic, SnP!
JJ

 

[Quiet_Cool]

It actually called me a retard...

 

[Quiet_Cool]

It actually called me a retard...

Ooops! It said INTP. Must have misread.

 

[doormouse]

(Extravert, Intuitive, Feeler, Perceiver)

People of this type tend to be: enthusiastic, talkative, and outgoing; clever, curious, and playful; deeply caring, sensitive, and gentle; highly innovative, creative, optimistic, and unique; adaptable and resourceful but sometimes disorganized.

The most important thing to ENFPs is freedom to see possibilities, make connections, and be with a variety of people.

Yep, me.

 

[Lord DragonsWing]

That's an excellent quiz.

INFP

People of this type tend to be: quiet, reserved, and kind; deeply passionate, sensitive, and easily hurt; loving and dedicated to those close to them; creative, original, and imaginative; curious and flexible in small matters; nonconforming.

The most important thing to INFPs is their deeply held beliefs and living in harmony with their values.