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  • Frances
  • July 12, 2015 at 5:42 am

  I have a question. How do the four functions that are not in our “car” affect us? I am an INFP and am generally not aware of my surroundings — run into the edges of things a lot, don’t notice when someone wears the same shirt every day, no particular draw toward background noise/music… I thought I read somewhere that this is common in INFP’s because Extroverted Sensing is so very far off of our radars. Curious if you have developed any materials about how the remaining functions affect our lives.

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  • Matt
  • July 9, 2015 at 12:16 am

  What if we feel we relate most to functions not in any of the mentioned groupings? Ie extraverted intuition, introverted intuition, introverted feeling, extraverted thinking than extraverted sensing? Maybe I’m misunderstanding their meanings since there aren’t examples given like when you walk into a bakery you experience this, notice this first etc. and it leaves my mind to wander. Description wise I feel like ENFP but function wise it’s E/INTJ, some very different types!

  Any insights you have would be so appreciated :)!

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  • Charis Branson
  • July 5, 2015 at 6:43 pm

  Melissa – You mentioned you resonate more strongly with Si (introverted sensing).

  Do you find yourself having to fight landing in a ‘comfort zone’ in your life and not pushing yourself?

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  • Melissa
  • July 4, 2015 at 8:20 am

  I think the 3 yr old, as blind spot, is hard to identify with so that is why it can be confusing at times you are right. When I look at my 3 yr old the difficulty is the INTJ and INFJ have the same 3 yr old and I did come up in one test that shows functions as having 0 ES, a few years ago. I think I’d test a bit different now as have been doing a lot of mindfulness and acceptance work, which would develop SE. And when I look at Introverted sensing it is so much more what I can relate to than extroverted sensing. Yet when I think about IN and IT/IF as part of INFJ/INTJ it could operate in the same ways as IS so that might be why, both I miss the SE as am compensating by using the IN and IT/IF instead of S … yet it does not help identify which is which as much as the EF and ET descriptions do.

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  • Charis Branson
  • July 2, 2015 at 12:57 pm

  Thanks for the feedback Sarah! Congratulations on starting the journey toward understanding yourself and others. I’m glad we can be a part of that journey.

  Have you had a chance to read this article? http://www.personalityhacker.com/intj-personality-type/