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Note: It should be noted that the Myers-Briggs and Kiersey ratings
do not measure a definite or concrete limit on personality
characteristics, but rather existing tendencies. An individual's
personality rating can change over time or be changed by conscious
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INFPs never seem
to lose their sense of wonder. One might say they see life
through rose-colored glasses. It's as though they live at the
edge of a looking-glass world where mundane objects come to
life, where flora and fauna take on near-human qualities.
INFP children often exhibit this in a 'Calvin and Hobbes'
fashion, switching from reality to fantasy and back again.
With few exceptions, it is the NF child who readily develops
imaginary playmates (as with Anne of Green Gables's "bookcase
girlfriend"--her own reflection) and whose stuffed animals
come to life like the Velveteen Rabbit and the Skin Horse:
"...Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has
been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in
the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at
all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to
people who don't understand..." (the Skin Horse)
INFPs have the ability to see good in almost anyone or
anything. Even for the most unlovable the INFP is wont to have
pity. Their extreme depth of feeling is often hidden, even
from themselves, until circumstances evoke an impassioned
response:
"I say, Queequeg! Why don't you speak? It's I--Ishmael." But
all remained still as before. ... Something must have
happened. Apoplexy!
... And running up after me, she caught me as I was again
trying to force open the door. ... "Have to burst it open,"
said I, and was running down the entry a little, for a good
start, when the landlady caught me, again vowing I should not
break down her premises; but I tore from her, and with a
sudden bodily rush dashed myself full against the
mark."--(Melville, Moby Dick)
Of course, not all of life is rosy, and INFPs are not exempt
from the same disappointments and frustrations common to
humanity. As INTPs tend to have a sense of failed competence,
INFPs struggle with the issue of their own ethical perfection,
e.g., performance of duty for the greater cause. An INFP
friend describes the inner conflict as not good versus bad,
but on a grand scale, Good vs. Evil. Luke Skywalker in Star
Wars depicts this conflict in his struggle between the two
sides of "The Force." Although the DarkSide must be reckoned
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| Famous INFP's |
Fictional INFP's |
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Homer
Virgil
St. John, the beloved disciple
St. Luke; physician, disciple, author
William Shakespeare, bard of Avon
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Evangeline)
A. A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie)
Helen Keller, deaf and blind author
Carl Rogers, reflective psychologist, counselor
Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood)
Dick Clark (American Bandstand)
Donna Reed, actor (It's a Wonderful Life)
Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis
Neil Diamond, vocalist
Tom Brokaw, news anchor
James Herriot (All Creatures Great and Small)
Annie Dillard (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)
James Taylor, vocalist
Julia Roberts, actor (Conspiracy Theory, Pretty Woman)
Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap, Enterprise)
Terri Gross (PBS's "Fresh Air")
Amy Tan (author of The Joy-Luck Club)
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Lisa Kudrow ("Phoebe" of Friends)
Fred Savage ("The Wonder Years")
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U.S. Presidents:
- Chester A. Arthur
- Calvin Coolidge
- Thomas Jefferson
- John F. Kennedy
- James K. Polk
- Woodrow Wilson
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Anne
(Anne of Green Gables)
Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
Deanna Troi (Star Trek - The Next Generation)
Wesley Crusher (Star Trek - The Next Generation)
Doctor Julian Bashir (Star Trek: Deep Space 9)
Bastian (The Neverending Story)
E.T.: the ExtraTerrestrial
Doug Funny, Doug cartoons
Tommy (Rug Rats)
Rocko (Rocko's Modern Life) |
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