Writers' Workshop General Chat Thread

[Iggy]

Much as the day annoys me, it's also paying my wages for February. You'd be amazed at the crap I got away with selling yesterday to men who seemed to have only just realised that they hadn't bought a present yet

So you're the one who sold me a dead parrot.

 

[Beth Pavell]

In my defence, it did have beautiful plumage

 

[diamondpearl876]

@AetherX You might have something to say about dead birds...

INFJ-T vs. INFJ-A Personality Types
INFJ Personality Type – Myers Briggs (MBTI) Psychometric Instruments | OPP
Always nice to see confirmed you're part of a minority. I'm a infj-a, before you ask, not one of those pesky infj-t, don't even dare to think that low of me. I would hate to be found dead near one.

I took that test out of boredom a few days ago and I ended up as INFJ, too. Don't know if I'd put myself on the T or A side, though. Besides, then I took the test a few more times elsewhere and kept getting INFP. shrugs

 

[Misfit Angel]

I never found those tests to be particularly reliable, my results typically change every time I take one. The only constant I seem to maintain is that it marks me as an introvert.

 

[Beth Pavell]

I've found that with political spectrum tests. They never quite know what to do with me ...

 

[lucarioknight56]

I've ended up as an INFJ as well, but after reading some articles about it, find that I'm also pretty close to INTJ.

 

[TRNatalie]

Of the four times I've taken the test, I've gotten INFJ-T three times.

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! I would have made you guys a card except I realized not everyone celebrates/likes it and some might find it weird.

 

[kintsugi]

I have been INTJ since I was 12, which at the time was really sad because all of the "what fictional character are you based on your M-B type" gave me Voldemort, Sauron, etc.

naturally i have decided to ignore that because taking over the world only to be thwarted by a high schooler seemed like a lot of work

 

[Beth Pavell]

naturally i have decided to ignore that

To be fair, book!Sauron is sufficiently clever that he only really makes one mistake. Admittedly, that's the mistake that nobbles him, but even so ...

 

[diamondpearl876]

if INFJ is the rarest personality trait, how is everyone here basically INFJ?! coincidence?!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! I would have made you guys a card except I realized not everyone celebrates/likes it and some might find it weird.

I don't know, that sounds really cute to me!

 

[Ambyssin]

I swear I've changed placement on Myers-Briggs so many times, they gave me a frequent flier card.

 

[Ghostsoul]

I'm INFP and MBTI is a lot better if you learn the cognitive functions and use your own self-assessment rather than the test(s). (It's also widely assumed that your result doesn't change over time)

 

[diamondpearl876]

I'm INFP and MBTI is a lot better if you learn the cognitive functions and use your own self-assessment rather than the test(s). (It's also widely assumed that your result doesn't change over time)

Eh, people have an exaggerated sense of self (for better or for worse) so people are likely to put themselves in the wrong categories. Test questions, at least, should be designed so that you can't really rig answers in your favor or accurately guess what the question's trying to assess.

 

[Iggy]

if INFJ is the rarest personality trait, how is everyone here basically INFJ?! coincidence?!

Oh dratz, this must be one of those minority forums.

Of the four times I've taken the test, I've gotten INFJ-T three times. Is there something wrong with INFJ-T's?

THIS MARKS US AS MORTAL ENEMIES!

 

[TRNatalie]

THIS MARKS US AS MORTAL ENEMIES!

Is there something wrong with INFJ-Ts?

 

[canisaries]

im prolly one so that's enough reason

 

[Iggy]

Is there something wrong with INFJ-Ts?

Nothing. I'm just talking crap. I'm an extremely serious person, after all.

 

[Beth Pavell]

An idiosyncratic adventure, pulling you in and saying: "this is, in fact, not what you were looking for; but it's much more interesting."

- Terry Pratchett, on Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

I can see his point. My last half-hour went something like this:

Open at a random page. Titled: "Curiosities and Inconsequences". "Croque-monsieur (French, literally 'munch-sir')". A toasted cheese and ham sandwich, known as a croque-madame when served with a fried egg on top. Hmm. Flick forward a few pages. Title: "Chavs and Cockledemoy: The Social Ladder Past and Present". "Billingsgate fish-fag": as rude and ill-mannered as a woman from Billingsgate fish-market. "Cockledemoy": an amusing rogue, referencing a character from the play The Dutch Courtesan.

Oi. Focus. Flip forward to "P". "Panchaea: A fabulous land, possibly belonging to Arabia Felix, renowned among the ancients for the quality of its perfumes, which included myrrh and incense." Who was Arabia Felix? Reference Arabia. Oh. Arabia Felix was the name given to the main part of the Arabian peninsular by Ptolemy. Hang on. What was I looking for? Ah. "Panacea"

 

[Misfit Angel]

I had a similar experience. I was curious about the spelling of the arctic tern's species name, since it's not something I'm very familiar with. I entered the rabbit hole of information; I could probably tell you every little bit of trivia about arctic terns now, how their courting rituals stack up with other birds, ecological and geographical information about their common nesting sites and even history on some of the prominent biologists who studied them.

I just wanted a spelling clarification

 

[Ghostsoul]

Eh, people have an exaggerated sense of self (for better or for worse) so people are likely to put themselves in the wrong categories. Test questions, at least, should be designed so that you can't really rig answers in your favor or accurately guess what the question's trying to assess.

That is unless you are aware of what the test is asking you.
A majority of tests concerning MBTI don't even take into account the cognitive functions, and what was effectively the 'route' of the original system. Self-discovering through the cognitive functions can also be aided by that of other people, so your perception need not always be bias towards you.