INFJ Jumper

Everyone knows this one. The extraversion-introversion polarity is the most famous, most scientifically accepted and possibly the most misunderstood of the  MBTI dichotomies . While a distinction is apparent to most, we’re often perfectly happy boiling it down to shyness or whether or not we like to be around other people. Unfortunately, or fortunately perhaps, it's not that simple. People and Energy A better explanation of the difference between the two preferences might be that which bases itself off of our energy levels. What drains our batteries? What recharges them? Do we feel worn out or refreshed after having attended a party? What gives us more energy, speaking to someone we've never met before or binge-reading in a closet?   But even then, we're still stuck on people and, on top of that, most of us would probably make the objection that we're not always one or the other, but both. Perhaps we even describe ourselves as ambiverts(!). Function not Person Looking u...

When it comes to learning and cognitive performance intuitives can sometimes, especially during childhood or early life, be at a loss as to our own abilities. Are we smart? Are we dumb? Sometimes the solution to a problem will hit us instantly, but other times we end up making complete fools of ourselves trying to learn something that, to the next guy, seems to make plain and perfect sense. Intuition is tricky business. It's hard to pin down. Carl Jung describes it as... ...that psychological function which transmits perceptions in an unconscious way. Everything, whether outer or inner objects or their associations, can be the object of this perception. Intuition has this peculiar quality: it is neither sensation, nor feeling, nor intellectual conclusion, although it may appear in any of these forms.   ...but don’t fret, we’ll have a go at it ourselves. Intuition and Sensing , the two observer functions , make up one of the four dichotomies of the MBTI model and decide how we per...