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INFP & INTJ- Cold Pizza

INTJ: I refuse to eat cold pizza, it’s disgusting

INFP: Bruh, cold pizza slaps

INTJ: Cold pizza may slap you, but it does not slap me

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hi! im v v new to MBTI & am trying to learn more about it. I was typed as ISTP which I agree with but I don’t relate to the whole engineer/mechanic side of it which leaves me feeling confused bcos for the most part I relate but then they throw in about how it’s common for that which throws me off. I most likely don’t fully understand it because I’m very new to this but it does get confusing and I was just wondering about how flexible I can be with a type in terms of fitting that part of it?

Hi Anon,

I’m so sorry we haven’t answered asks for a year. You’re probably not new to MBTI anymore and may already have figured this out, but hopefully at least this can help others.

To start, I do find it tends to be more difficult for those who have a harder time relating to their MBTI stereotype to get interested in MBTI, and that is unfortunate.

You don’t need to be an engineer to be an ISTP. One of my ISTP friends is pursuing computer science, but another ISTP friend is in the field of psychology. People of the same type can and will differ drastically in their personalities, interests and career choices.

INTPs are supposed to be good with computers, but I’m the kind of person who will just start pressing all the buttons when a piece of technology stops working, and trying to use Microsoft Excel has caused me both physical and emotional pain.

Literally the only thing that matters is the cognitive functions, and even some people don’t quite match up perfectly with any of the function stacks.

MBTI isn’t a science for a reason. It’s not a reliable tried and true method that will produce similar results without fail. You will never be able to group everyone on earth into defined categories. It’s just for fun! If you think you’re an ISTP, don’t let stereotypes convince you otherwise.

- INTP admin

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MBTI Types as Arctic Monkeys Songs

ESFJ: Arabella

ESFP: The View From the Afternoon

INTJ: Crying Lightning

INTP: Science Fiction

ESTJ: The Jeweller's Hands

ESTP: Brianstorm

INFJ: No Buses

INFP: Black Treacle

ENTJ: Teddy Picker

ENTP: This House is a Circus

ISTJ: Only Ones Who Know

ISTP: From the Ritz to the Rubble

ENFJ: Batphone

ENFP: That's Where You're Wrong

ISFJ: The Ultracheese

ISFP: I Want it All

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Hi, I'm an INTP who has been learning about cognitive functions for a while now (3 years?). One question that continues to bother me is how the cognitive functions relate to emotions. Obviously feelings types do generally value it more in their judgments, but we are all humans, we have emotions, it seems more a matter of extent we use or value them. How much of a relation do you think functions have with emotions? And if there is, which functions correspond to what kind of attitude or tendency?

Hello fellow INTP,

(Sorry we abandoned the blog and I’m probably over a year late replying but hopefully you’re still here)

As you said, it is more the extent to which we value emotions.

Of course all humans have emotions. T types can cry just as much as F types (shocker, I know). Your functions do not have an impact on your ability to have and experience emotions.

The thinking and feeling functions are called judging functions, because they judge information.

To use an INTP and an ESFJ for example:

INTPs will make a judgement on a piece of information based on how it fits in to their internal logic system. If they determine something to be true, but it doesn't fit the system, they tweak the system. Inferior Fe can come in and say "hey... have you considered what other people might think of this?", but INTPs may reject their Fe and say "well that doesn't matter".

On the other hand, an ESFJ will make a judgment on a piece of information based on how they feel. A gut instinct. Inferior Ti can come in and say "hey, what's the reasoning for this conclusion?", but ESFJs may reject this because "it's just how I feel".

Although I used dominant and inferior Ti and Fe in the example above, to give a short summary of each of the judging functions:

I would describe Ti as using an internal system of logic to make sense of ideas and Te as being concerned with how ideas are supported by existing evidence and known facts

In the words of our INTJ admin: Fi has more to do with one’s own morals, values, and beliefs, while Fe is about being privy to the thoughts, feelings, and values of others

I always feel the need to reinforce the idea that T types are not “better” or “smarter” than F types. I think we tend towards thinking that emotion-based decision making is somehow bad. Making a choice based off of your morals, or how something makes you feel is just as valid as using logic. And all types have a feeling and a thinking function, and both will be used. Just usually you will lean into your dominant and auxiliary functions as your comfort zone.

So although people may not have the same agressive hatred for logic the way that some people hate feelings, F types may view T types as being too cold or even mean, and thus unlikeable.

THE ACTUAL ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION: The order of one’s cognitive functions determines your natural method of decision making, and how much weight you give to different factors in the process. T types are more prone to having an unhealthy rejection of emotions, but also a lot of people have a weird relationship with their own emotions. Emotions are weird and unpredictable and everyone experiences emotions differently. Functions are related to how you *value* emotions when it comes to making choices, but the extent of the effect differs depending on how well you’ve developed your tertiary and inferior functions (and overall mental health and coping methods also play a role but I won’t get into that here). And to repeat what I said earlier, your functions do not have an impact on your ability to have and experience emotions.

Okay I think I'm done rambling.

Hopefully that helps!

Also credit to our INTJ admin who helped me write this.

- INTP admin

(I lied, I’m not done rambling. I just wanted to go on a little tangent and add that I think some people have a strong rejection of what they consider “emotional” because the word “emotional” carries a lot of negative connotations. Being emotional doesn’t mean you’re a hot mess who cries all the time. It means you’re experiencing emotion... as you should. Our society likes to think feelings are stupid and logic is best; which I think this is rooted in sexism. We are taught to think lesser of emotion which is viewed as “feminine”, and idealize logic, which is considered a historically "masculine" trait. Fuck sexism. Okay I’m actually done now.)

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UPDATE:

I took my driver’s test last summer.

And I failed because I hit a car while backing in to a parking spot at the end of the test because I was super nervous and couldn’t think. LMAOOO oops.

(Okay “hit” is an exaggeration, I lightly bumped the car and made a tiny dent that I didn’t even have to pay to fix since it was the driving company’s car).

But I took it a second time and passed!

I swear I’m a decent driver now.

Anyway, thank you for your time.

- INTP admin

INTP vs ISFJ- Driving

INTP: I need to get my drivers licence… but I expect to fail

ISFJ: No don’t say that

INTP: I don’t think I should pass. It would be a mistake in the system if they let me pass 

ISFJ: I can help, I know the routes for the test

INTP: It’s just that I’m constantly distracted. I am a distracted person, and thus a distracted driver 

ISFJ: Well I can’t help with that. What is it that distracts you? 

INTP: Um, my brain… my thoughts… I think about stuff

ISFJ: See, I think about stuff while driving, and I’m fine

INTP: Okay but sometimes I think so hard that I no longer see

ISFJ: How do you even??

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Heyo, just wondering if this blog is still active...? :)

Well we kinda abandoned it for almost two years (oops).

But I’m back now!

- INTP admin

Edit: 

I’m also here 

- INTJ admin

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INTP Big Brain

16 Personalities: "[INTPs] are considered the most logically precise of all the personality types."

INTP: *takes their sleeping pill with mountain dew* Yes. This makes sense.

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MBTI Types in a Horror Movie

ENTP: Accidentally created the monster during one of their experiments (who are we kidding, they totally did it on purpose)

INTP: That random survivalist guy who everyone thinks is crazy but who holds all the useful information

ENTJ: “If we all just stick together, we’ll be okay” *steps into a bear trap*

INTJ: “Trust me, I have a plan” but then everything goes wrong, the plan backfires, and they get killed by their own trap

ESTP: That friend who tries to scare everyone else for fun

ISTP: Has a barbed wire baseball bat and is ready to end anything that moves

ESTJ: “Oh (insert threat) isn’t real, don’t be ridiculous.” *immediately gets killed*

ISTJ: Aggressively hyperventilating, trying to come up with a plan but every plan they can think of still ends in death

ENFP: Sits down, cries, contemplates life, then kills themselves

INFP: Gets lost and separated from the group... we all know how this ends

ENFJ: Volunteers to go check out the noise and gets decapitated

INFJ: Trips over nothing while running and gets shredded with a chain saw

ESFP: Runs back to get food, dies for their mistake

ISFP: A previous victim who haunts the location and floats around screaming at people for no reason

ESFJ: Was hiding from the killer until they screamed at their own shadow and got impaled 

ISFJ: The only survivor, out of sheer dumb luck, is traumatized for life

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Sleep Schedules

*6:30am in the group chat and we haven’t slept yet*

INTP: As soon as exams were over I went back to my regular fucked sleep schedule 

ISFJ: Which means I now have a buddy to stay up all night with me 

INTP: Hell yeh. INFP where you at? Join the squad, you’re usually awake at this ungodly hour too

INFP: Hi guys, what’s up?

INTJ (replying at 8am): How are you guys up so early?

INFP (replying after waking up at 3pm): Bro how are YOU up so early?

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When a type (let's say ISTP) is impacted by a condition like depression, anxiety, gender identity disorder/dysphoria etc, do they still look like their original type, look more intuitive (or vise versa) or are mistaken for Fe or Fi users (feelers)? what is the most probable pattern you have realized in people?

Hello my dear Anon,

We have a brief description of how one’s MBTI type may be affected by mental illness in our FAQ page (which I actually just updated for the purpose of this ask) but I will dive into it more here. Please keep in mind that none of us admins are mental health professionals, however we can speak from our own experiences. 

As stated in our FAQ, Mental illness can make MBTI typing more difficult by skewing our perception of someone’s natural use of the cognitive functions.  It can cause us to act and think differently than we would otherwise. It is important to address that mental illnesses are different for everyone, and thus it is not easy to see a definitive pattern. However, I will use the examples you mentioned and discuss how they may affect MBTI typing and how you can work around that. In general, the way to type someone is to look at the core aspects of the cognitive functions and to focus on the behaviour that is likely to remain unaffected.

Anxiety is something often attributed to N types. However, I know several S types with anxiety, and they have never seemed to be anything other than S types. I am able to tell that these people are S types due to the way they interact with the world. 

Depression can sometimes cause people to shut down emotionally, so it may actually make someone seem more like a T type. However, the way to determine if someone is an F or a T type is not by how much emotion they express, but by determining where their values lie when making decisions. For a brief simplified and generalized rundown: Fi users will consider their own values, Fe users will consider others’ feelings, Ti users will choose what makes the most logical sense to them, and Te users will decide based on facts and evidence. 

For something like OCD for which the common behaviour is typically associated with J types, you need to look at other J type qualities such as how they structure their daily life. Is this someone who looks to keep their schedule open, or do they like to plan far in advance? 

Now you also mentioned gender identity disorder/dysphoria, which I have not personally experienced. However, I am aware that gender dysphoria is often accompanied by depression and/or anxiety, so that is arguably how it may present itself in one’s behaviour.

I hope this helped! If anyone would like to contribute their own experiences, please do so. Mental health is a very important topic and I hope I have addressed it in a way that is positive and helpful. 

-INTP admin

For whom it may interest, our ISFJ admin would like to direct you to this international resource hub: https://checkpointorg.com/global/ which can direct you to the mental health resources for your country.

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MBTI Types as Disney Movies

This is a response to this request:

ISTJ: The Princess and the Frog

ISFJ: Lilo and Stitch

ISTP: Aladdin

ISFP: Snow White and the Seven Dwarves 

INTJ: Hunchback of Notre Dame 

INFJ: Beauty and the Beast

INTP: Big Hero Six

INFP: Tangled

ESTJ: Cinderella 

ESFJ: Tarzan 

ESTP: Mulan 

ESFP: Hercules 

ENTJ: The Lion King

ENFJ: Frozen

ENTP: Alice in Wonderland 

ENFP: The Little Mermaid

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MBTI types as disney movies?

I am so sorry this has been sitting in our inbox for like a year. We are making this a separate post cuz we can’t figure out how to add GIFs to an ask!

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What We are Doing at 4am

INTJ: Sleeping like a normal person 

ISFJ: Either studying or playing club penguin 

INTP: In the kitchen eating maple syrup with a spoon

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What do you think of Taurus intps? Tauruses are meant to be emotional or whatever… but INTP

Hey Anon. We answered an ask similar to this one a little while back that was about INTPs and Pisces. Here is the link to that ask. 

Now to repeat what I said in that ask: To be honest, we aren’t astrology believers over here at Just MBTI Things. We do however recognize that there is a lot more to astrology than the silly monthly horoscopes in magazines and do not wish to disrespect anyone who does believe in it. 

Please keep in mind that we know very little about astrology, however I will do my best to entertain your question.

So I read up about Tauruses on Astrology.com (I am sorry if this is not considered to be a reliable source). Tauruses were described as tactile and as people who seem to enjoy living in the physical world. Now this comes across as a Sensing type thing, but N types can enjoy things in the physical world too. It is not as though N types are completely unaware of the world, I myself love physical puzzles as well as mental puzzles, and I’m sure most people may find comfort in something like a soft blanket for example. Furthermore, it says that Tauruses value harmony and will work to keep people happy. Now this could arguably be an Fe trait, which is the INTP’s inferior function. However, I think most people prefer it when everyone gets along. The only thing is that INTPs might not be very good at actually making this happen. As for being emotional, the T types are generally not presented as extremely outwardly emotional people. However, everyone is emotional to some extent. T types are just more likely to be inwardly emotional. 

Once again to pull from that previous ask: It is perfectly valid if your MBTI type does not “match up” with what is typically expected for your enneagram, astrology sign, or any other form of typing. MBTI describes thought process and not personality. Although you can expect for certain behaviours to be common with a type, it is important to remember that they are not unique to that type. 

-INTP admin

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Te vs Ti Users

Te: How can I do this as efficiently as possible?

Ti: How can I do this while being as lazy as possible?

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Helping that poor estp out, somewhere between ESTJ and ISTJ here. "Dangerous" activities to grab attention is something I'd regard most likely as stupid and reckless. Doesn't make you interesting to me. But I have to say Se dominants generally come off too strong for me. It's not necessarily traditionalist vibes but I prefer grounded approaches. Try it with more lowkey activities, coffee, dinner, a pub. Also as the mod said, talk about subjects I'm interested in works too.

Hi Anon! Thank you for your input as well. We really appreciate the help with asks from people with other MBTI types. 

-INTP admin

This is in response to this ask.

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Hey there, i know some ISTJs (not my type of ppl btw) and from personal experiences and by looking at them, I would agree with the calmer method first. It is true an ESTP could come off too strong cuz you guys (some maybe) can go to extremes sometimes. ISTJs aren't the most talkative ppl until they got the confidence with the person they're with, so you have to be patient here. You could approach them by asking what they like to do and try to join them or at least learn from what they like.(1/2)

Hi Anon, thanks for your input! 

Although we usually try to avoid blanket statements about how the types behave, it is commonly said that the SJs tend to be traditional and by the books. Although not everyone will fit the stereotype, it can be a good idea to consider these possibilities when trying to get someone to like you.

-INTP admin

This is in response to this ask about getting to know an ISTJ.