MBTI Pokédex

[ddspada]

How long have you known about MBTI? How many people of each type do you know? How complete to your own taste is your personal database in that regard?

I've known MBTI for some nine or ten months now, and I'm pretty happy with my Pokédex now. I feel like I'm sorely lacking experience with ENFJs and ISTPs, however. Of course, few of these I can affirm with absolute certainty, as pinning down type can be a process taking up to dozens of hours of interactions. For the purpose of this topic, I considered "good enough" to be good enough.

Spoiler

ESFJ: 1 man, 4 women
ISFJ: 1 man, 3-6 women
ESTJ: 6-7 men*, 2 women
ISTJ: 4-8 men*, 3-6* women
ESFP: 1 man, 2 women
ISFP: 1-3 men, 3-4 women
ESTP: 0-1 men, 3 women
ISTP: 1 man, 0 women
ENFP: 2 men, 1 woman
INFP: 1-2 men, 1-3 women
ENFJ: 1 man, 0 women
INFJ: 1 man, 1 woman
ENTP: 2-3 men, 0-1 women
INTP: 2-3 men (almost certainly including myself), 0-1 women
ENTJ: 2 men, 0 women
INTJ: 0-1 men, 1-3 women

*Most teachers in my high school were STJs. The numbers could probably be double that, but I'm keeping to the teachers I actually knew and talked with.

 

[own8ge]

I've known many people of each types. At a certain stage it's indeed fun to keep developing your MBTI worldview. Eventually you'll move on to something new; at least I did. There are many ways about Social Intelligence. MBTI is very restricting.

 

[nanook]

I have had very little experience with human beings since discovering typology around 2004, because i have withdrawn from society. I draw from previous experience, from online experience, from media material. Quit unhappy about it. I really didn't have the opportunity to explore my relationship with most types, in conscious manner, apart from online communication. But i've had the opportunity to test my typology in the real world, on the rare occasions where i am meeting a few new people. I'm beginning to talk about everything i see in people, when i meet them in real life, much like i do it in this message board. Not just typology, Integral theory as well. People have mixed reactions of course, but some appreciate my psychoanalytic skills, which are inspired by typology. Typology, as i understand it, is a psychoanalytic tool after all. I have the guts to be speculative about how people function and i am often right and people give positive feedback in those cases. I don't tell them what they already know, that would be boring. I suggest possibilities about how they might understand themselves better. They would usually require time to figure out if i am right.

 

[Reluctantly]

I've known a lot of the types. There are some I haven't encountered yet though - INFJ, INTJ, ISFJ, INFP, INTP. Introverted Intuitors seem hard to find. It's taught me that people are very unique and how they will be depends on their personal development as a human being, self-awareness, an ability to adapt to life, resilience, emotionally balanced, yet ethical, etc. stuff like that.

For example I've met an older successful and rather intelligent ESTP that seems to have more of the intelligence of the character Hannibal without Hannibal's psychopathic traits. But then again you can see in the way he deals with people, his patience, and knowing when to pick his battles that he's developed his introverted side that helped him adapt to reality with equanimity. Then there's another ESTP I know that is much more extroverted and way too impulsive for his own good; he's crude, insults easily, and mostly thinks about his own desires and not much about other people, doesn't understand the value of saving money, etc. It causes him a lot of problems, but if he develops spiritually, a lot of those problems should dissipate for him as he gets older and his Ti balances his Se.

People are interesting I guess.

 

[StevenM]

Just counting the ones I know really well, and am very sure of their type

INTJ - 1 (woman Friend)

ENFJ - 1 (woman friend)
ENFP - 1 (Woman Counselor)
INFJ - 1 (male friend)

ISTP - 1 (male friend)
ESFP - 1 (Friend's Mother)
ISFP - 1 (woman Friend)
ESTP - 2 (Brother and Friend's Dad)

ESFJ - 1 (Grandmother)
ISTJ - 2 (Grandmother and uncle)
ESTJ - 2 (Step-mother and an old boss)

There is more people, but I don't know their type, nor do I know them well enough.

I haven't gotten to know any
INTP's
ENTP's
ENTJ's

ISFJ's

INFP's