Myers Briggle, Do a Wiggle...

So. If you've never taken the Myers Briggs Personality Test, you should. I'm a little addicted to looking into my own personality. Vanity maybe? In any case, it's very interesting. I am an INFP. Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Perceptive. Lauren is the same, but she's extroverted. She helps me get out of my cocoon a little bit. It's fun. She's good. But it helps me understand my quirkiness a little better. For example...

I am very idealistic. I have morals people. I value truth and being a good person. However, I also value people... A LOT. So, I'll sacrifice myself for someone else. The dilemma in my life constantly occurs when I have to sacrifice my ideals to love a person. Like being late to pick someone up. Tension. I don't think people should be late, but sometimes you just have to be late for the sake of somebody. And, you know what? That's okay. I am learning, partially through Lauren, that that is okay. She helps me chill, and not be so hard on myself. Good things.

Thanks for taking a minute to check up on what Jimmy has been learning recently.

Here's my complete profile:

Healer Idealists are abstract in thought and speech, cooperative in striving for their ends, and informative and introverted in their interpersonal relations. Healer present a seemingly tranquil, and noticiably pleasant face to the world, and though to all appearances they might seem reserved, and even shy, on the inside they are anything but reserved, having a capacity for caring not always found in other types. They care deeply-indeed, passionately-about a few special persons or a favorite cause, and their fervent aim is to bring peace and integrity to their loved ones and the world.

Healers have a profound sense of idealism derived from a strong personal morality, and they conceive of the world as an ethical, honorable place. Indeed, to understand Healers, we must understand their idealism as almost boundless and selfless, inspiring them to make extraordinary sacrifices for someone or something they believe in. The Healer is the Prince or Princess of fairytale, the King's Champion or Defender of the Faith, like Sir Galahad or Joan of Arc. Healers are found in only 1 percent of the general population, although, at times, their idealism leaves them feeling even more isolated from the rest of humanity.

Healers seek unity in their lives, unity of body and mind, emotions and intellect, perhaps because they are likely to have a sense of inner division threaded through their lives, which comes from their often unhappy childhood. Healers live a fantasy-filled childhood, which, unfortunately, is discouraged or even punished by many parents. In a practical-minded family, required by their parents to be sociable and industrious in concrete ways, and also given down-to-earth siblings who conform to these parental expectations, Healers come to see themselves as ugly ducklings. Other types usually shrug off parental expectations that do not fit them, but not the Healers. Wishing to please their parents and siblings, but not knowing quite how to do it, they try to hide their differences, believing they are bad to be so fanciful, so unlike their more solid brothers and sisters. They wonder, some of them for the rest of their lives, whether they are OK. They are quite OK, just different from the rest of their family-swans reared in a family of ducks. Even so, to realize and really believe this is not easy for them. Deeply committed to the positive and the good, yet taught to believe there is evil in them, Healers can come to develop a certain fascination with the problem of good and evil, sacred and profane. Healers are drawn toward purity, but can become engrossed with the profane, continuously on the lookout for the wickedness that lurks within them. Then, when Healers believe thay have yielded to an impure temptation, they may be given to acts of self-sacrifice in atonement. Others seldom detect this inner turmoil, however, for the struggle between good and evil is within the Healer, who does not feel compelled to make the issue public.

Famous INFPs:
Mary, mother of Jesus
St. John, the beloved disciple
William Shakespeare
Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood)
Mother Theresa!!!

Fictional INFPs:
Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes); Bastian (The Neverending Story); E.T.: the ExtraTerrestrial; Doug Funny, Doug cartoons; Tommy, Rug Rats cartoons; Rocko, Rocko's Modern Life cartoons