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posted by [identity profile] archaeomom8.livejournal.com at 05:53am on 27/05/2007
When I've taken the long version in the past I would come out INF/TP which apparently means I sit right on the border with the Feeling/Thinking. INTP is something like !% of the general population. I have to face it, I'm odd. ;)

I've never had a problem thinking of myself as introverted, if you want to define introversion as generally liking people, but becoming exhausted by too much contact with too many of them at once. That was always my own definition of introversion.

Since I began teaching, I took the long and the short version. I took it with a friend who showed me how the results were calculated. It came out I/ENT/FP. Heh. The Introvert/Extrovert scale was balanced right in the middle. My friend is also a teacher who explained it as I'm forcing myself to become more of an extrovert due to the teaching. I used to write from home. Now I do technical writing from home but more teaching. The way my friend put it was that he and I (his introversion/extroversion scale was one notch higher toward extrovert than mine) "turn on the switch" when we walk into the classroom, or a meeting, etc. Weird.

Hope you feel much better soon.
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posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 09:40am on 27/05/2007
My psychology-PhD roomate defined int/ext for me as a person content with their interior world, as opposed to someone needing external stimulus. I'd say I was 50 - 50 on that.

It's a meme. I'm not taking it seriously! And I don;t know many dreamy introverts who become writers - or should I say, professional writers; people who actually make a living (no matter how scant) at it. It's too tough a profession; you need too thick a skin. It would kill the poor INFPs! ::G::
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posted by [identity profile] archaeomom8.livejournal.com at 05:46am on 28/05/2007
I suspect you're right about the INFPs and professional writing. I know two writers who are reasonably successful who are INTPs though. I don't think I'd make a good professional writer in either of my modes, although I can face down any number of nasty land developers in a professional capacity. Different types of toughness, I suppose.

Going with your psych roomate's def I'd have to say I'm more introvert than extrovert. On the other hand, I can get bored with my own world sometimes and will seek out external stimulus. Like you, maybe 50/50 here too...
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posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 09:41am on 27/05/2007
"Hope you feel much better soon."
Thank you. (o:

It's one of those things everyone's got - very nasty. ::is not breathing on you, even virtually::
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