MBTI

So after taking the Meyers-Brigg again it confirmed what I was told in high school, I am an INFP. As I have gone over the "portrait" of an INFP, I am once again shocked by how well the description fits me. As an INFP I get my energy from recharging on my own. I like to think its like making my own little world in which I can sit back and enjoy the show. As a kid I was a huge reader, I would find a book that I liked and bury myself in it until my parents demanded that I stop reading and do something else like play with my brother. Of course when I finally pulled myself away I would always feel content and ready for the rest of the day. Basically for me reading those books was how I created a bubble to rest from the world. One of the other parts of the "portrait" of an INFP is how it says that we are generally good listeners and put people at ease. I know for a fact that this is definitely me. I've always been someone my friends will tell things to and have always done my best to listen to them and help them in any way I can. The last thing I want to talk about is the part where it says that "they are idealists and perfectionist, who drive themselves in their quest in achieving their goals they have identified for themselves." Personally I now for a fact that I am an idealist I always am hoping for the best of all possible worlds to be now. But as I get older and experience more of the world I seem to be losing that part of me a bit by bit. It seems that I am becoming more of realist and I hope that I never go to far down that path because I love being an idealist. Now for the part where the portrait says perfectionist. As I think of myself I know that I am definitely not a perfectionist even in the goals I set for myself. I might be harder on myself then others but I don't expect perfection in my goals, in fact I always think there is going to be room for improvement. 


I completely agree with the quote: "When we put people in boxes where they can only be one or another, we miss the opportunity to see people as diverse as they are" I hold to two major beliefs about people. The first is that no one is the same as anyone else. Basically people may have the same MBTI type but a person is there MBTI plus the sum of their experiences and memories, and no two people have the same experiences or memories. The second belief is that due to the first we are all constantly changing and therefore should never be put into categories or "boxes". The one problem with humans is that we like to put everything into categories; in other words to organize the chaos. For example just look at how we name and classify animals, plants and other organisms; or even books in a library. And when things don't fit into the places we make for them we feel challenged and threatened. So I guess I am saying that society pushes us into classifying things into place. Though I feel that as we go farther into the future there is more potential for us humans to become less focused on the boxes and more at looking at the diversity.