MBTI

I’m a very scientific person, I don’t believe in superstition, ghosts, and fiction books that most people believe. If someone tells me they can see ghosts, well I think he’s schizophrenic. And about seeing ghosts = schizophrenic, I have a theory (or more accurately, hypothesis,) that it’s just an oversensitivity. And this oversensitivity is applied towards everything, from electromagnetic waves, increase in humidity, for particles in air. And somehow this oversensitivity is easier translated into their vision, thus they see ghosts. Spare a minute to imagine an alien coming to earth, but they don’t have bodily organ to detect sound waves. It will be amusing to them that without seeing each other, people can communicate complicated things. This one is more likely like that. If you are one of the “gifted” kids, am I right?

All being said, I don’t believe 100% in what I said either, maybe just around 50%, it’s just one speculation I made about those people, which is unproven and shouldn’t be taken seriously.

There is also an MBTI test. Although scientific community has rebuked it because it is mostly useless as predictor for career success etc, I hold true in its truth partly because how much it resonates with me. What does it even mean? Well since I was little, I have found myself often misunderstood. The odd one out. Like how I am, people mostly don’t understand, and to be fair I don’t understand them. And when I first stumbled upon MBTI, after every test it came out differently, but in truth I am an INTP. My I, N, T, keeps changing in test, they’re mostly around 50% something, but my P is very strong (no pun intended.) The changes in my first 3 letters were because to adjust to society, I have been shaping myself, adapting to the environment I’m living in, because deep down I also have a need to be acknowledged.

At first I was just, oh I’m an INTP, what does it mean? And then after looking and searching on the internet, there were a lot of my strange behaviors, my way of thinking, of viewing things, how my analytical mind operates, how we see patterns better than everyone, it resonated a lot with an INTP. Suddenly I have a group of people who operates mostly in the same way as I did. It was a big deal to me at the time because of how eye-opening it was. Finally I’m not the weird one out anymore.

Being said that, if scientific community have decided that MBTI doesn’t really predict career success, I definitely agree. Because career success has a lot of deciding factors, not only MBTI. Even a very introverted person can become a very successful salesperson. For me myself, I never anchored to MBTI to make decisions, at all. Knowing MBTI is simply a bandage to my damaged soul who has been lonely for a very long time. Finally, someone understands me!

Usually I will stop right here, but I still want to do more yapping about MBTI related topic.

From my life, I have found I am easier to make friends with INTJs.
INTJs are mostly smart, intuitive, from the available informations, they can also predict more things. I find them to be intellectually challenging, they also know a whole lot of things. To be honest, I can’t find one negative thing about INTJs. Maybe if I should find one, it’s that they are quite rigid in determining what’s right and what’s wrong. Whereas for me, I always insert “intention” behind everything that is being done. Like for example, when someone is stereotyping certain races, for example Madurans for their behavior to steal metals, I will see into their intention. Do they mean to belittle certain race? Or are they simply pointing out their observation? To me the latter is acceptable, because I myself are a pattern seeker. Pattern exists. No use to pretend to deny them.

INFJs are also smart and have stronger intuition than me. Sometimes their prediction and guesses are so amazing you should imagine myself jaw-dropping at them multiple times. But in regard to emotions, most times they are a little bit too much for the emotionless me. Like often I don’t understand them. I mean, I understand how their emotions overwhelmed them. But I can’t relate to them. So mostly I am confused when for example they tell me their sad stories. And sometimes with them, I can’t be as comfortable as I am with an INTJ, because they are too sensitive and somehow I feel like they have high expectation about how they want to be treated. I like to make jokes and say some unserious things, and most INFJs take my words seriously. Maybe they put high value to words? In short, miscommunications often happen with them.

With fellow INTPs…… well not a lot to be said aside that they are too cold…. Am I? I feel like I’m pretty warm. Warmly cold? Coldly warm? I once read someone says that INTPs are warmest robots and INTJs are coldest humans. I think that’s true. If I try to look inside myself, I see two people, a child and an old man. The child is curious and full of wonder, and also likes to play a lot. The old man is wise, but also lazy, and he seems like he knows everything. Very rarely I make friends with INTPs. I don’t know why. Maybe their need to always be right somehow irritates me? Lmao the irony. Maybe I irritate people, too, I just don’t know it yet.

And then ENTPs. I think I will be good friends with this type. We balance and understand each other. I see them as the extroverted version of me. I think he will be perfect.

And finally come the S-types. I am frustrated a lot by this type. Sometimes when speaking with them, we are on different wavelengths. I feel like they are unable to see patterns. From available informations, they can’t figure things out. Too data based. If N-types are Leonardo da Vinci, then S-types are Raphael. If N-types are Albert Einstein, then S-types are his research assistant. They will be a good doer because they do everything data based, but a bad conceptor because they lack the creativity to invent things. Being said that, I think the best approach should be someone who balances his intuition with reality. Too N-types won’t get anything done and will make unrealistic concept. Too S-types lack creativity.

Okay, after much yapping, I think I am done writing about this (nonsense.)
A thing to be noted though, although I believe MBTI hold some truth, but I always make sure this knowledge doesn’t create prejudice. After all, our opinions about someone should be formed from someone’s actions, including their spoken words, written words, facial expressions, movements, opinions, things they have done, things they will do, and combinations of other things.