INFJ Jumper

If you're unsure of your type and have been throwing glances at what Objective Personality calls an INFJ Jumper , chances are you've also considered being an INTJ. And kudos to you if you have! Because comparing the INFJ to the INTJ is exactly the kind of comparison you should be making, seeing as the types actually have a functional axis in common: Ni (Introverted Intuition) / Se (Extraverted Sensing) .  Comparing the INFJ to , for example, the  INFP based solely on the letters common to the acronyms would've been plain wrong (and this is why). But never mind that, this isn't your normal type comparison anyway... we will be focusing on Thinking .  Because that's why we're here right? We're here because we're thinking ourselves right out of the INFJ box. We need to move. Either we move down into the finer grains of the OP concepts (i.e. INFJ Jumper), or sideways into the entirely different box of INTJ. So... why is the comparison between the INFJ ...

When I first read the description of an INFJ , I immediately realized that the test I'd taken had hit the mark. And the more I read about other types the more sense it made. I felt sort of insulted, though, since in a way, I didn't view myself as a "feeler", but deep down I realized that this was the type for me. It simply  was   the best fit.  But as time went on my box started to feel uncomfortable. Sure, many of the behaviors described as typical to the INFJ perfectly matched my own, but others didn't.  There could be no doubt of the order and strength of my cognitive functions - auxiliary Extraverted Feeling and tertiary Introverted Thinking  being the ones causing the confusion here - but something was still off. I knew it.  And when I stumbled upon Objective Personality's concept of " Jumpers " it all clicked.  Extraverted Feeling is my second and second most powerful cognitive function, yes, but I don't respect it. It's not a sav...

Being a minority is hard. Not living up to the standards of society can be a soul crushing experience. Divergent sexualities, ethnicities, schools of thought - they all feel it. Female thinkers. Male feelers. Introverted Intuitives. If you're an Introverted Intuitive, like me, then you know that people don't always "get" us. More than half the population is thought to be Extraverted and  70% is thought to be Sensing , and even if the target of our deep, personal, abstract monologues happen to be another Introvert Intuitive, chances are we're wasting our breath...  While some societies are certainly learning to accept these differences (even the  Introvert is getting some love  nowadays), the Intuitive - with the possible exception of inside the  MBTI community itself - is still out in the cold, and when all is said and done society still wants you to be an Extraverted Sensor . So... why is that? Well... the world of the Intuitive is abstract. The world of the ...

Why are we here? I don't know. No one does. No point in dwelling on it. But why are _you_ _here_ ? Well, possibly because none of the 16 Myers-Briggs personality type descriptions seem to fit your profile. Or perhaps too many of them do. Typing is hard. Humans are complex creatures. If our brains were simple enough for us to understand, we would be too simple to understand them, and all that... But still, typing ourselves shouldn't be that hard, should it? No one knows me better than me, right? Who better to diagnose the patient than... err.. the patient? Hmmm... well, it's not ideal... but, seeing as we know it can be done and that you kids are gonna go ahead and do it anyway, we might as well give you a few pointers. 1.  You’re Taking the Tests If you're lucky, taking the popular tests at, say...  Truity  or  16Personalities , might be enough to set you on the right track, but because of the way that they are constructed, there's also a good chance (risk) they...

Out of the four Myers-Briggs dichotomies , which one would you say sets us apart the most? Which one of the famous letter coins constitute most of an obstacle when trying to understand a fellow human being? Is it the seemingly obvious Extraversion vs. Introversion polarity? Or is it the never-ending battle between thought and feeling? Perhaps it's just a question of showing up on time ? The more I think about it, the more pronounced I find the difference between the impalpably abstract, speculative  Inuitive   and the down to earth, fact-focused and blind-to-magic  Sensor . Reservations But isn’t this “Intuitives from Venus and Sensors from Mars”-business just my dominant function speaking ( Introverted Intuition )? I mean... I would find the world view of the Sensor particularly foreign, wouldn't I? As an INFJ, [Se] is my inferior function !  Perhaps a decider-dominant person would find the Thinking/Feeling dichotomy far more disconnecting? Perhaps, if I...

Objective Personality is an actor on the personality psychology stage, who, by building upon the already well established Myers-Briggs system, aims to give it more scientific credibility.  In their pursuit of objective typing OP have introduced some intriguing new concepts, which, combined, divides the original 16 MBTI types into a total of no less than 512 discrete types (32 subtypes to each original Myers-Briggs type). The first of these concepts - “ Jumping ” - changes the order in which we respect our cognitive functions (our second “savior” function is replaced by our third function) and effectively splits the original type into two.   The second concept (and focus of this article) is called the “ Animals ”. In essence, each of the four OP Animals (“Play”, “Blast”, “Consume” and “Sleep”) is a duo of cognitive functions working together to create a behavior.  The order in which we exhibit these four behaviors further divides the two parent subtypes - let's call...