INTP to ENFP. The transformation

[hamsham]

Hey everyone. I haven't contributed much to this forum, but I have been reading a lot of articles that people have posted. I just wanted to share my story with you guys.

I used to be an INTP. However, early this year everything changed. I'm now an ENFP. I'm curious to see if anyone else has ever gone through any kind of dramatic personality change.

I used to be reserved, philosophical, shy -- a die-hard INTP. In the middle of January, my mind began thinking about other things -- about a girl that went to my school. My mind went into overdrive. I didn't understand why I all of a sudden liked her. All I could think about was her. I don't know if it was because of hormones or because of my excess of thinking, but I was consumed by thoughts about her. My only problem was that I was shy. I was a terrible conversationalist. I didn't have the guts to approach anyone I did not know, let alone I didn't care to.

In the midst of my mind going into overdrive, I shared my dilemma with my best friend. He seems to be an ISFJ. He said that he actually knew my crush's brother, and he agreed to help me with my shyness and help me approach her. Ofcourse, I told him that I did not want to meet her at school for fear of me crawling back into my introvert shell and appearing as too unemotional. I told him that I'd rather meet her out of school, when the best was brought out of me while I hung with my friend.

Eventually, I met my crush's brother. He appeared to be a nice guy. But I think my friend spilled the beans about my crush on his sister.

One day, my best friend asked me to help him plant magnolia trees in his back yard. I agreed. As I helped him dig the holes in his yard, I noticed my crush's brother drive up into the driveway. He and my best friend's brother began talking. They walked out in the yard and acted like they weren't doing anything. Eventually, they started intentionally trying to piss me off. I didn't think much of it at first, but they began making fun of me for liking his sister. I thought that my chances of ever talking to her were ruined. Not only was I angry at them, but I made a fool of myself trying to defend myself. When my emotions came out, they were very childish. That night when I was lying on my bed, I was possibly the maddest I had ever been in my life. I experienced a landslide of almost every emotion.

After the traumatic event, I still liked my crush, but I began trying to forget about her. I became angry at myself for even beginning to think too much in the first place. I forced myself to stop thinking when my intellectual curiosity was sparked. Instead of becoming a shut in because of the incident, I ironically became more extroverted. Overtime, I became more social. I became less philosophic and became more of a jokester who lived with optimism.

As of right now, every time I take a personality test it shows that I am an ENFP. Every description of ENFP fits me perfectly.

My question to you, the INTP forum, is:
Has any one of you experienced a dramatic personality change?

Some days I wish that I was still an INTP, but I enjoy the childish optimism that my new ENFP self holds. Even my friends noticed a change in my personality. They said I was definitely less quiet and more open.

 

[Words]

Are you aware of the fact that you are actually presenting an argument here?

Mainly:
What is personality?

what is type?

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I apologize for the sudden intrusion in your excited self-development. I uh...er..congratulate you on this 'change'.

And yes, dramatic personality change I have had. (I will not share any specifics.)Though, I'm prone to specify the change into 'development'.

 

[The Gopher]

and became more of a jokester who lived with optimism.

Not much has changed then.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I don't know your whole back story or current situation, but I will say this: you can change your behavior, but you can't change who you are inside. Whether you socialize more or not, your source of energy still comes from introversion or extroversion. I'm willing to bet you are actually INFP and just gained some confidence.

 

[Glordag]

I can't decide if this is a serious post or not...

All I can say is that I doubt that you actually changed your type in that fashion. If my understanding of MBTI is correct, and/or if the basic assumptions of MBTI are correct, then I think that it would take a long period of time of completely refocusing how you experience the world and how you make decisions in order to change type. That's assuming that it's even possible, which I'm not sure about at all.

I suppose it would be unfair to just throw that out there without offering an alternative explanation for what might have unfolded in your scenario. Being an extrovert does not automatically mean that you're sociable. You may enjoy people and things more than dealing with ideas and concepts in your own internal world, but anxiety, shyness, or other circumstances might keep you from interacting with others. Perhaps you just managed to deal with whatever circumstance was holding you back.

Another alternative is that you're still introverted, but discovered how to better make use of your extroverted functions. Many introverts have decently well developed extroverted functions. As an example, I have gone through several periods in my life where I've gone out and partied for the entire weekend most weeks of the year. People thought I was a blast. The truth is, I hated it - it took me a while to realize that going out so much was actually a large factor in some ongoing depression I was having. I -NEED- most of my time to be alone. It was a great revelation.

 

[Anthile]

It almost pains me to say this but from any neoroscientific, this doesn't make any sense. Changing your type is about as likely as a guy spontaneously becoming a woman. It just doesn't happen unless someone fiddles massively with your body. So either you're an INTP deluding himself into thinking he's an ENFP, vice versa or something completely different. Tests, especially online, mean less than nothing.

 

[echoplex]

I think that when people say their type has changed, they're not actually claiming their brain has undergone some impossible/highly unlikely change, they're just using typology terminology for descriptive purposes, which is incorrect, but does potentially help to explain how their behavior has changed (since typical type descriptions are pretty well-known around here).

For instance, INTP --> ENFP here doesn't actually mean they've changed in any essential way, it just means their behavior now matches the ENFP descriptions and no longer those of INTP. It describes a change in behavior, nothing more.

Of course, describing personal development this way confuses people who are under the interpretation of type describing an unchanging phenomenon. Basically, type means something quite different to the OP than it means to most of us. He/she might as well be talking about a completely different system, because their evaluative approach is entirely different, even though it uses the same terminology.

 

[Words]

I think that when people say their type has changed, they're not actually claiming their brain has undergone some impossible/highly unlikely change, they're just using typology terminology for descriptive purposes, which is incorrect, but does potentially help to explain how their behavior has changed (since typical type descriptions are pretty well-known around here).

I agree and I think this sort of understanding must always be paired with this type of situation. This, instead of simply brutalizing on the irrelevant 'relevancy' of the detail. Lessen the judgmental approach where it should.

 

[preilemus]

What you are describing sounds very similar to cycles I have gone through as well. My guess is that over time you'll go back to the way you think of yourself normally. Personality & behaviour are not the same thing.

As for your current self, if I could go by my own behaviour as an indicator, you're acting like this because it's easier to forget things this way. The whole incident you described is still probably incredibly painful for you to think about, with all the self-guilt and everything else. I can't imagine brooding over it all is anything you would like to put yourself through right now. You'll cool off eventually though, once you're ready to deal with what happened.

 

[stevie]

Well, for those that say it can't be done - there are at least two of us who have done it. I started my freshman year of college with a MBI showing me as INTP. Once reading the breakdown I totally agreed that it was absolutely ME, as I had been up through that time. Beginning of my sophomore year I met a really fun, outgoing girl who lived down the hall and we switched roommates so we could room together. We were roomies until we graduated. We both ended up as psychology majors so at some point our Jr or Sr. years we had to retake, administer, and interpret MBIs during one of our courses. Imagine my amazement when my answers that time around ended up placing me in the ENFP category, but again, I completely agreed with the assessment. Why the change? Because my social butterfly friend had helped boost my confidence, make me braver and more outgoing, and we had both joined various committees along the way during which I discovered I had natural leadership abilities and really loved the limelight. VOILA - not so instant extrovert (took at least 2 years, but I definitely "changed").

What helps with going from one extreme to the other is that you can see both sides of the coin later on. In arguments you tend to "get" both sides and the reasons for why people do things or say things differently. In finding solutions to problems you can more easily weigh all the pros and cons and troubleshoot potential issues.

At times I have drifted back to introvert occasionally, but extrovert always wins out in the end. I have uprooted myself from a place I lived for 38 years and moved to a different state, made all sorts of new friends, started a meetup group for people who enjoy going out on weekends, and frequently speak to random strangers in stores, shops and restaurants for no reason other than being polite. The "original" me never would have done any of that. And even though I was an introvert type - I still had lots and lots of friends my entire life and was still a "leader" with regards to friends and teaching, but on many, many occasions I was always told - you're so quiet and shy, you should smile/talk/laugh more.

Now, I laugh a lot, smile often and you can hardly get me to shut up! But I am also much more aware of my friends and family's feelings than I used to be. I used to never even notice other people's feelings, didn't express my own, and was, to be quite frank, rather close to a "borderline" personality disorder. Luckily thanks to my outgoing college roomie who was big on delving into "why" people feel this, think that, etc. I also became less of a thinker and more of a feeler, which has served me well in my adulthood.

I think I've got the best mix of all since it's all still mishmashed up in there together.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

ITT:

INTPs being happy (and thus more confident and aware of others) for the first time since a long time and thinking they've turned into extroverted feelers now.

 

[blarg]

Agree with DT. The OP is probably an INTP whose 4th function started kicking in.

 

[kibou]

& this is why we need a forensic, physiologically observable method of reading people's innate configuration so it's not confused with people's various development during the course of life. ;D

http://intpforum.com/showthread.php?t=10971

 

[alrai]

*claps*
typical intuition leaping to conclusions, plus we'll just throw one idea there, another at over there.VOILA. "behold! A masterpiece". No its disastrous compilation of paranoid "guesses". so i would advice you not build on them.
and leadership skills don't come natural, at least for INTP's, they were learnt through experiences, not theory, or my very very special friends.

 

[LabRat]

A perfect INTP will have no problem "imitating" those they are around most. Our ability to perceive others actions and their reasoning behind them allow us to develop an infinite number of personalities to use in any given situation, that being said those of us who find the confidence to be outgoing and sociable tend to still need our down time to recuperate and put on the face so to speak. Anyway i have no problem believing someone could incorrectly think they've changed because they're answering the MBTI questions as the person they're imitating would.

 

[alrai]

A perfect INTP will have no problem "imitating" those they are around most. Our ability to perceive others actions and their reasoning behind them allow us to develop an infinite number of personalities to use in any given situation, that being said those of us who find the confidence to be outgoing and sociable tend to still need our down time to recuperate and put on the face so to speak. Anyway i have no problem believing someone could incorrectly think they've changed because they're answering the MBTI questions as the person they're imitating would.

Haha. Y-O-U A-R-E -A- C-L-O-W-N.

 

[LabRat]

Then you get the joke? I was afraid i sounded too literal...

 

[alrai]

 

[pjoa09]

Not possible for that extent.

To go from INTP to ENFP your personality would have to be mutilated. I am talking about leg on head and a hand in ass mutilated. Like Ed Gein stuff.

The furthest I could see is ISTP and ENTP as possible transformations.

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

Imagine if you supressed your Ti: you would have no clear judgement process, so you would learn to use perception on its own, which means Ne becomes dominant (not strictly true: Ni could become dominant too), and if you keep supressing Ti then Fi will become auxiliary.

 

[pjoa09]

Imagine if you supressed your Ti: you would have no clear judgement process, so you would learn to use perception on its own, which means Ne becomes dominant (not strictly true: Ni could become dominant too), and if you keep supressing Ti then Fi will become auxiliary.

Wouldn't that mean he would 'aspire' for extroverted/extraverted (which one is it? extroverted is the correct word but every damned MBTI site seems to use the spelling : 'extraverted' and the wikisocions are the only guys using 'extroverted' which is the correct spelling) thinking?

I think Te is a long shot in any form. I can't see myself imposing ideas or schedules on others in any form. ENFPs are no exception to this. They need you to believe what they believe in even if they believe that God is a sexually promiscuous slut who craves for her children's reproductive fluids.

Maybe I encountered extreme ENFPs but from where I am standing I'd think an INTP would always notice emergency exits and blunt objects whenever an ENFP is around.

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

INTP and ENFP are about what world of data you deal with. You have a natural configuration which means some data sets are inherently better to deal with others, but that doesn't mean you're necessarily going to be dealing with that data.

Functions are habits. Your mojo determines the set which best resonates with you.

 

[pjoa09]

INTP and ENFP are about what world of data you deal with. You have a natural configuration which means some data sets are inherently better to deal with others, but that doesn't mean you're necessarily going to be dealing with that data.

Functions are habits. Your mojo determines the set which best resonates with you.

So.. in the case he encounters that INTP data set won't he depress the supressed? I have to say... side note.. Te would be very helpful.

Have you gone over to the Dark Side? haha Pod'lair. No but really it is intriguing. Seems very 'hybrid-ish' at the moment.

In personal view, habits is what makes a person. That gradual molding into someone who grows astray of things that caused discomfort and grew fond of those that didn't.

 

[SkyWalker]

He is/was probably not INTP and/or not ENFP. I can simulate any type, that doesnt mean i AM that type.

To change your function preference you have to burn everything you have, physically, mentally and bonding-wise.
You have to go through hellish pain, crash and burn and experience death. Only then can you rise again in a new form. The phoenix rises from the ashes. But you have to be ready to destroy and leave everything. like the story of sodom and gomorrah, if you look back to your old ways, you get pulled in again.

Probably only 0-3 people of the entire human race ever managed to pull that off Maybe buddha and some secret kundalini yoga master chief

 

[Logic]

Sky, no one has ever been able to do it and no on ever will. You claiming that you can simulate any type actually sounds like what an INFJ can do. Have you tried and played around with that idea yet?

To the OP, you didn't change your type from being an INTP to an ENFP you merely grew to becomming a more actualized type, whatever that may be. There's nothing to say what type you are anyways so technically it isn't even correct for anyone to identify you as an INTP or ENFP in the first place. If you want to actually know for certain than you'll have to create a 10 min video under proper lighting conditions and submit it to Pod'lair.

 

[Masterlord]

Sky, no one has ever been able to do it and no on ever will. You claiming that you can simulate any type actually sounds like what an INFJ can do. Have you tried to play around with that idea a bit? Your avatar also looks really guruish as well which only makes makes me think even more so that you probably are an INFJ.

To the OP, you didn't change your type from being an INTP to an ENFP you merely grew to becomming a more actualized type, whatever that may be. There's nothing to say what type you are anyways so technically it isn't even correct for anyone to identify you as an INTP or ENFP in the first place. If you want to actually know for certain than you'll have to create a 10 min video under proper lighting conditions and submit it to Pod'lair.

Only INFJs have the power to simulate any type? lol.

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

Sky, no one has ever been able to do it and no on ever will. You claiming that you can simulate any type actually sounds like what an INFJ can do. Have you tried to play around with that idea a bit? Your avatar also looks really guruish as well which only makes makes me think even more so that you proabably are an INFJ. Because you're teaching everybody the wrong kind of information would further tell me that you are probably a False Guru INFJ. Not to be offensive, but just telling you what I think is going on with you.

To the OP, you didn't change your type from being an INTP to an ENFP you merely grew to becomming a more actualized type, whatever that may be. There's nothing to say what type you are anyways so technically it isn't even correct for anyone to identify you as an INTP or ENFP in the first place. If you want to actually know for certain than you'll have to create a 10 min video under proper lighting conditions and submit it to Pod'lair.

Hahahahahahah I freaking love Pod'lair.

SkyWalker is a False Guru Nai'Xyy. He is feeding you toxic lies, we offer you growth. Come now, my child, the gates await you. We cannot interfere with Coach. He is at the creative peak of his life, the age where the greatest revolutions have been spawned, and he is of the same configuration as the greatest revolutionaries, and was raised under them also. He is an anomaly, that outlier in the population whose understanding has risen to a level far above any other, to which not even Nietzsche could meet (though he could predict its coming). And through this wondrous creation, you can see as his perfected ideas come flowing out from him, and the truly miraculous impact they have on those around. Join now or you will miss the boat altogether when the floods come to cleanse the earth. And when finally the Nai'Xyy tribe unleashes its fire upon the world, at a time where the whole world seemed to be about to end, they created a new world - the next stage of human evolution, one step closer to perfection.

 

[Logic]

Only INFJs have the power to simulate any type? lol.

Actually yes. The combination of Nai and Xyy create exactly the sort of mind needed for imaginary friends and mental imaging which all goes under simulating. I'm not saying that it isn't possible for other Mojos to do as well but the Nai'xyy is especially equipped to do this sort of thing.

Both Vai and Nai are the simulators in the psyche. The higher you have these up in your hierarchy the more easier it is to do. The special position of having Nai as the source in combination with Xyy as the tandem gives the person the awareness needed for people. Since personality types are a factor of that it makes perfect sense that Sky is capable of simulating these types and how they would act and behave and its all based in the future too.

 

[Masterlord]

Actually yes. The combination of Nai and Xyy create exactly the sort of mind needed for imaginary friends and mental imaging which all goes under simulating. I'm not saying that it isn't possible for other Mojos to do as well but the Nai'xyy is especially equipped to do this sort of thing.

Both Vai and Nai are the simulators in the psyche. The higher you have these up in your hierarchy the more easier it is to do. The special position of having Nai as the source in combination with Xyy as the tandem gives the person the awareness needed for people. Since personality types are a factor of that it makes perfect sense that Sky is capable of simulating these types and how they would act and behave and its all based in the future too.

Have you had imaginary friends?

 

[Masterlord]

I don't understand. Are there different levels in nai (Like Supersaiyan 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 SSJ etc?)

So, with this premise in my mind...then your leader Thomas (who has had imaginary friends) is probably an Ascended Nai'Xyy mojo?

I'm wondering because I was typed Nai'Xyy...but I've never had imaginary friends, but my Xai'Nyy friend who was typed has had imaginary friends all her life. Just my two cents.

 

[Logic]

Have you had imaginary friends?

Sure, but mine are typically of people who I already know. So I can completely absorb the personality of someone and I can then play that personality out in real time and have a conversation with them. It's pretty cool actually, My Nai gives me the ability to also see how the other person would react to what I say or don't say, do or don't do. Nai alpha's are quite weird, especially the Nai'xyy. I can also have conversations out loud as though I'm talking to someone right in front of me. This is all an ability that the Nai simulator provides. I really like to do impersonations too and creating personalities from just a accent.

Here check out the video below to get the sort of idea that I'm talking about.

Frank Caliendo on Letterman

I don't understand. Are there different levels in nai (Like Supersaiyan 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 SSJ etc?)

So, with this premise in my mind...then your leader Thomas (who has had imaginary friends) is probably an Ascended Nai'Xyy mojo?

I'm wondering because I was typed Nai'Xyy...but I've never had imaginary friends, but my Xai'Nyy friend who was typed has had imaginary friends all her life. Just my two cents.

There sort of is, but it isn't just attributed to just Nai, all powers are capable of being developed more and more to an infinity. There's certain principles about the all of the Powers that can be developed but also can be avoided, it depends on the individual and if they want to develop that aspect of their Power.

(You were read as a Nai'xyy not typed. Yes, there is a difference in definition)

Nai'xyy can have imaginary friends but they don't necessarily have to. The Nai'xyy can make an idea come to life in there own mind, something that no one would ever think to personify. Carl Sagan is just such an example with how he refers to "The Cosmos."

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

Nai'Xyy probably know that everyone thinks imaginary friends are silly, and they can't help but believe it too.

Btw what's the difference between read and Typed?

Is it that read implies giving off the signals, so if this was wrong, it just means you were giving off the wrong signals, whereas Typing doesn't have such a fallback?

 

[kibou]

@Logic it is worth noting that other mojos are able to act characters, though the methods are different. Nai over Xyy in particular has the quality of becoming a character, especially to an extent that it's done 24/7 and that often Nai'xyys that don't introspect into their Nai&Xyy are not self-aware of doing this (also Nai'xyys that have only been part of one culture).

Nyy'xai have a similarly cagey quality as Nai'xyy, although the gamestyle is different. Pretty much all of the Romantics (among a handful of other mojos, including the other Nai alpha, the Nai'zyy) are prominent in acting, so there are different ways that one acts, but the N'xez (the Nai'xyy and Nyy'xai) often fall victim to thinking the "character" they're playing is their real self and find self-identity quite confusing.

 

[Logic]

Nai'Xyy probably know that everyone thinks imaginary friends are silly, and they can't help but believe it too.

Btw what's the difference between read and Typed?

Is it that read implies giving off the signals, so if this was wrong, it just means you were giving off the wrong signals, whereas Typing doesn't have such a fallback?

It's spelled Nai'xyy, notice the 'x' in xyy isn't capitalized because it shows that it's the tandem more clearly. It's also why when Mojos are written like this //(:+, :+//) with the tandem put in brackets.

Nai'xyy are very secretive because society as a whole doesn't like the Nai power for what it is. Talking about imaginary friends shouldn't be considered weird like it is today. It should be seen as nothing more than normal.

I thought I explained the difference between Mojo Reading and Personality Typing Artsu. I suppose I'll do it again.

Mojo Reading implies noting the cues manifesting and noticing the way they are coming off the person and then coming to understand that they are a certain Mojo. It isn't that the person is giving off the wrong signals, that isn't possible. A Nai'xyy for example cannot help but give off the distinct signals that only they have. No matter how hard I try I could never mask that I'm a Nai'xyy. My Xyy is definitely higher than my Zai and it shows even when I'm modulating because my face has to drop to become less animated rather than Adymus whose face has to rise to become more animated. The natural position for my face is to be more expressive and Adymus's face is most natural being at Zen.

Personality Typing has to do with putting someone into a particular category that isn't defined or is defined but isn't exact. A personality type is like a suit that you can put on or take off. I can wear a police uniform but take it off and put on a doctors lab coat or a lawyers. You can slip into anything and be anything you want to. That's exactly what I mean by when I refer to a personality as nothing more than just a motif of ideas.

A persons Mojo isn't something they could change like they could they're personality. It would be like changing genes.

@Kibou

Thanks for sharing.

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

You subtly used the assumption that a discipline is to be defined only by the material which has thus far made it up, rather than the essence of what it is trying to do. Being accurate doesn't make it not Typing.

 

[Logic]

Maybe I can answer your question from approaching it differently Artsu.

To Type: With typing you get just enough information about the person and then that's it, your done, it's ended. You're basically labelling someone. You either are this type or you aren't. That's the sort of mindset of how typing works. A type is a simplified box and is approached in a very binary sort of way.

To Read: When reading someone you're constantly seeing the same person from a different perspective which allows for new ideas to come out. Reading is organic, an ongoing process, and artistic as well. Once you've read someone as a Nai'xyy it isn't the end because you don't know what type of Nai'xyy they are or what type of game-style they're playing. When you read a book there are all sorts of things that strike you from just the first glance and there will continue to be more things that grab your attention the more times you read through the same book. The same could be said with a movie as well.

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

Sounds to me like it's still Typing, i.e. putting them in the box for their mojo, but then going more in depth with individual development. Still starts with Typing.

 

[Logic]

To Type is to identify, that's it.

To Read is to Identify and interpret strings of symbols, expressed over time, forming a language, in order to derive meaning.

"Brushes off shoulders"

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

It still sounds to me like that is Typing. =|

 

[pjoa09]

When you read shit goes awry.

When you type you stick to the stereotype.

I prefer typing.

Because I am still reading myself. Every hint of another letter I am gnawing on it and seeing what can seep into my INTP.
It's annoying.
I was fed INTP.
I question INTP.
I then I read all the descriptions and get frustrated because sometimes they are quite close.

 

[₲uardian]

Another "I don't wanna be an INTP" thread.

 

[thoumyvision]

Another "I don't wanna be an INTP" thread.

And here I thought it turned into another "lets argue about Pod'lair thread".

 

[Logic]

It still sounds to me like that is Typing. =|

Well Artsu, Reading is a much more specialized kind of typing that it doesn't deserve the title of just being typing because that wouldn't do it justice.

For Example: Take a look at the words Taping and Recording. You could say that taping is a form of recording but it wouldn't be accurate to just say that alone. Recording is a really generalized term that's used to encompass many different things and the word can be used in many different contexts as well. Taping however is a much more specialized term that's referring to a very specific kind of recording. You could say that you're recoding a dvd but you can't say your taping a dvd.

I want you to look at that definition of Typing and Reading again. You can see that there's much more to Reading than just identifying something and putting it into a category of defined criteria. With Reading you're on a continuously mission of deriving more and more from something. It's very investigative in that sense. You can observe and read the universe as well and still come to new vistas of understanding that unlock a new discovery. You can't get that with just Typing something. Reading implies a scientific quest to understand something more and more and it never ends. With Reading you can actually learn something that causes you to re-think the criteria that you use to define what a type is in the first place. Reading is a complete and organic process, where as Typing is just a flimsy decision.

 

[crippli]

Personality Typing has to do with putting someone into a particular category that isn't defined or is defined but isn't exact. A personality type is like a suit that you can put on or take off. I can wear a police uniform but take it off and put on a doctors lab coat or a lawyers. You can slip into anything and be anything you want to. That's exactly what I mean by when I refer to a personality as nothing more than just a motif of ideas.

A persons Mojo isn't something they could change like they could they're personality. It would be like changing genes.

So it's analogous to dressing someone off in public, compared to just comment on their clothes?

It's also interesting to note that it doesn't bother people so much, as compared to physically dressing them off in public. You will still not get further then the skin. As to now you propose that you are able to really show other people how they are?

 

[SkyWalker]

Sky, no one has ever been able to do it and no on ever will. You claiming that you can simulate any type actually sounds like what an INFJ can do. Have you tried to play around with that idea a bit? Your avatar also looks really guruish as well which only makes makes me think even more so that you proabably are an INFJ. Because you're teaching everybody the wrong kind of information would further tell me that you are probably a False Guru INFJ. Not to be offensive, but just telling you what I think is going on with you.

Hmm haha, me INFJ? I dont think so... so I have already attained guru status in your eyes???

About changing type:
I said that maybe 0-3 people actually did it (buddha etc), which was a joke: it actually means that probably 0 people did it in reality. That was the pun intended.
So I have said the same as you repeated after me. I dont understand why you think I am against you when I actually say the same?
I have never opposed you personally, neither here or somewhere else. So why the opposition?

I detect that this ungrounded oppositional attitude of yours might block or color your "Logic", and thus can make others wary of your actual "Logic"?

I actually am and have always been open to podlair and all your ideas (which is currently exactly equal to podlair)...

I like you, but i dont like that you say "this is the truth and it is unquestionable". That is not logic, that is feeling (faith/belief, identity/belonging to a group).

There is nothing unquestionable. Everything is questionable, especially to Ti-guys.

You should not ever say you are 100% right, because there exists no map (nor will it ever exist) that can represent the territory for 100%.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Spoiler

Well Artsu, Reading is a much more specialized kind of typing that it doesn't deserve the title of just being typing because that wouldn't do it justice.

For Example: Take a look at the words Taping and Recording. You could say that taping is a form of recording but it wouldn't be accurate to just say that alone. Recording is a really generalized term that's used to encompass many different things and the word can be used in many different contexts as well. Taping however is a much more specialized term that's referring to a very specific kind of recording. You could say that you're recoding a dvd but you can't say your taping a dvd.

I want you to look at that definition of Typing and Reading again. You can see that there's much more to Reading than just identifying something and putting it into a category of defined criteria. With Reading you're on a continuously mission of deriving more and more from something. It's very investigative in that sense. You can observe and read the universe as well and still come to new vistas of understanding that unlock a new discovery. You can't get that with just Typing something. Reading implies a scientific quest to understand something more and more and it never ends. With Reading you can actually learn something that causes you to re-think the criteria that you use to define what a type is in the first place. Reading is a complete and organic process, where as Typing is just a flimsy decision.

Why can't you guys just be honest about your work?

Reading and Typing are both done from initial assumptions of what it is to be something. To do any, you must first Observe. Mojo Reading is a Dynamic Observation. Typing is a (Dynamic &(but conclusively a))Static Observation. No problem, it's just Observation. But when you Interpret these Observations to mean something you're no different than other forms of typology in terms of methodology.

 

[pjoa09]

And here I thought it turned into another "lets argue about Pod'lair thread".

He sees the bigger picture.

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

@Logic

I never said anything that contradicts anything you are saying.

In your example you said taping is a form of recording.

I am saying that reading is a form of typing.

Why do you dispute something that doesn't go against what you are saying?

I feel that there is dishonesty for the sake of marking distance.

 

[SkyWalker]

yes why are you podlair guys so oppositional, so spiteful, so angry, so defensive? we did not ask for that.

 

[nanook]

i censor the more provocative version of this:

people perceive and learn differently according to their type. they will subsequently do "reading" in different ways. teaching them otherwise is impossible. you can only teach them to think of what they are doing as if they would be doing something that's different from what they actually do and to talk about it accordingly. not a good idea.

sure, we try to make people see something like we do. i do the same.

it just never works. which is why i don't believe in people, lol, but that was another thread.