What Sub-type Do You Tend To Interact The Best With?

[Kellhus]

What Sub-type Do You Tend To Interact The Best With?

It can be in a professional, casual or a personal environment, or varying depending on which. For me, overall it would be the NT's. A close runner would be the NF's though.​

 

[Saoshyant]

Probably NF's followed by NTs, SFs and ST in order.

 

[Tyria]

Probably NF's followed by NTs, SFs and ST in order.

This.

 

[Glordag]

If you must FORCE me to prioritize based on ONLY the S/N and T/F functions, then for me it goes as follows:

NT->NF->SF->ST

including I/E and P/J:

INTP->INTJ->INFJ->INFP->ENTP->ISFJ->ISFP->ISTP->ISTJ->ENFP->ESTP->ENFJ->ENTJ->ESFP->ESFJ->ESTJ

Further explanation and reasoning below:

Spoiler

I get along the best with NTs, but it usually feels pretty empty and casual/shallow. The fact is that I do best in those sorts of friendships. I get along pretty well with all NT types, regardless of E/I and P/J.

After the NT type, it's important to distinguish between E's and I's. In general, I will have some issues with any E type that isn't ENTP. I generally get along with everyone, but the ES and EF types annoy me or conflict with me enough to generally avoid getting too involved with.

I am much more drawn to INFs and have more powerful interactions with them in general, but it doesn't work as well as friendships with NTs. Something just doesn't completely click, and generally it can/will lead to problems down the road. I've noticed that almost all of my crushes end up being INFJs. There's something about that personality that just draws me in.

I get along pretty well with the ISF types. Somehow there's an understanding of differences with a mutual respect.

IST types are OK, but I just tend not to share much with them. They generally earn my respect as efficient and logical people, but I don't have much magnetism with them. That said, it can be fun to watch an IST type poke and prod someone in a group setting...

The reasoning behind the priority of the E types is mostly just how I feel based on experience. I lack the energy to try and form my "feelings" on the matter into text.

 

[bloozie]

A lot of NFs tend to gravitate towards me... They are an emotional bunch though.

 

[Anchorite]

When I interact well with someone it is usually based on humor, which happens to be ridiculous and absurd. NT is definitely out. Based on my friends, I'm thinking it would be ST.

 

[dark]

As an ENTP I have slight differences with INTP, I work best with any personality as long as their interests are in compliments to mine, when that doesn't happen, I usually tend to "forget" them and find someone more suitable to share my conquest with. But on the majority at the moment, I would say NT and ST would be my best interaction. It has to atleast have the T function, or they have to be extremely intelligent, I have deduced this a while back, about 5 years ago, that if they don't either have the T function or are relatively intelligent, I will confuse people with my constant Ne speculations, and it really puts me off, and I don't like feeling unconfrontable, but do take the consideration that this by no means is a way I am trying to place myself over others, I just prefer being around more thinking people since those are usually the ones that understand my seemingly randomness.
Example, my brother is not really an intelligent person, but, being an ST he can keep up with my train of thought much easier than my father which is an ESFP, which is very intelligent in his own rights. Of course, when it comes to speaking of theory my father is the only one in the immediate family that can keep up, yet he can't make leaps of understanding like myself or other NTs, we seem to have an advantage on other types.

 

[Glordag]

As an ENTP I have slight differences with INTP, I work best with any personality as long as their interests are in compliments to mine, when that doesn't happen, I usually tend to "forget" them and find someone more suitable to share my conquest with. But on the majority at the moment, I would say NT and ST would be my best interaction. It has to atleast have the T function, or they have to be extremely intelligent, I have deduced this a while back, about 5 years ago, that if they don't either have the T function or are relatively intelligent, I will confuse people with my constant Ne speculations, and it really puts me off, and I don't like feeling unconfrontable, but do take the consideration that this by no means is a way I am trying to place myself over others, I just prefer being around more thinking people since those are usually the ones that understand my seemingly randomness.
Example, my brother is not really an intelligent person, but, being an ST he can keep up with my train of thought much easier than my father which is an ESFP, which is very intelligent in his own rights. Of course, when it comes to speaking of theory my father is the only one in the immediate family that can keep up, yet he can't make leaps of understanding like myself or other NTs, we seem to have an advantage on other types.

Really? In my experience, understanding "randomness" has more to do with S/N than T/F. My ENFP roommate is great at understanding and going with any amount of randomness, but I find that ST types take it at face value and try to piece it apart. For example, you might say "dude, what if that mushroom got up and tried to implant spores in your body to make mushroom babies?". An NF type might say "whoa, that sounds scary but awesome...it would feel awful and disgusting...eww!!". An ST type might be more likely to say "roooiiight" or "uh first of all that's not how spore propogation works, and even if it did there's no way I'd let that happen" or something like that. Just my two cents, while we are generalizing.

 

[terraxceles]

If we go by Keirsey's model of subtypes here...

NFs > SPs > NTs > SJs

NFs I naturally tend to get along with the best, but they can get a little redundant with their limitless idealism and -- if they have nothing interesting happening in their life -- boring as hell.

SPs are awesome. Usually funny, spontaneous, challenging, etc. They might not share a similar outlook on life, but they seem to be the least perturbed by that fact and try not to treat me much differently than everyone else (which I respect).

NTs I like a lot, but it seems my enthusiasm is never met positively. All my relationships with NTs, unless they were strictly text-based, have been incredibly problematic and require a great deal of maintenance.

SJs I just don't understand.

(According to the poll in this thread: NF > NT = ST > SF)

 

[EyeSeeCold]

INTP->INTJ->INFJ->INFP->ENTP->ISFJ->ISFP->ISTP->ISTJ->ENFP->ESTP->ENFJ->ENTJ->ESFP->ESFJ->ESTJ

Wow. Interesting order.

For me:
ISTP, ESFP,
No/minimal effort and most satisfying

INTP, ISFJ
little effort, some satisfaction

ENFP, ESTP, INFP
some effort, but mild-intense satisfaction

ENTP, INTJ, ENTJ
only when I'm fully awake

The rest, eh.

 

[dark]

@Glordag, hum you seem to be right, I may have typed the people in my head wrong.

 

[Puffy]

I think my favorite types to get along with are NFs, most of my best friends have been INFXs anyway.

 

[Wish]

I find INFPs possibly the easiest type to get a long with, at least at first. Also for some reason I just know more NFs than any other type (though I don't know any ENFJs and I doubt I would want to spend much time around one if I did).

 

[EyeSeeCold]

INFPs and ENTPs keep me on my toes. The discussions can be interesting but the psychological distance is unstable.

 

[XXXX]

Dominant intuitive types - majority of my friends are/were either INFJ/INTJ/ENTP/ENFP, but I generally interact well with any intuitive types (although haven't met more than a few ENTJ and INTP IRL - they seem the rarest types out of all FME).

@ESC, that's interesting that you find ISTP and ESFP the least effort and/or most satisfying...

I haven't met many ISTP, but I'd imagine most (unless they have very rounded in their development) would require a fair bit of effort to connect with and maintain friendships with given they have inferior Fe.

The ESFP I have met, I cannot for the life of me see how they'd be anywhere most satisfying to interact for any INTP (unless you mean a different kind of satisfaction/interaction ).

 

[EyeSeeCold]

@ESC, that's interesting that you find ISTP and ESFP the least effort and/or most satisfying...

I haven't met many ISTP, but I'd imagine most (unless they have very rounded in their development) would require a fair bit of effort to connect with and maintain friendships with given they have inferior Fe.

The ESFP I have met, I cannot for the life of me see how they'd be anywhere most satisfying to interact for any INTP (unless you mean a different kind of satisfaction/interaction ).

Once an ESFP becomes your friend, they don't require much conscious work to interact with, it's all mutual and natural.

I enjoy ISTPs because they are similar in being aloof, but have an intelligence completely unlike mine, it's alluring. But yea usually discussions aren't electric.

 

[XXXX]

Once an ESFP becomes your friend, they don't require much conscious work to interact with, it's all mutual and natural.

I just find it hard to see how interacting with an ESFP would be very rewarding for an INTP.

Their interests and hobbies tend to be polar opposites to most INTPs and FWIU they would pull too hard on an INTP Si and Fe with their preferred Se and Fi and provide little if any stimulation of an INTP's preferred Ti and Ne, which would be draining for both parties.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I just find it hard to see how interacting with an ESFP would be very rewarding for an INTP.

Their interests and hobbies tend to be polar opposites to most INTPs and FWIU they would pull too hard on an INTP Si and Fe with their preferred Se and Fi and provide little if any stimulation of an INTP's preferred Ti and Ne, which would be draining for both parties.

Do you have personal experience? They aren't draining at all. The most they do is stroke your ego and try to get you to 'live more', but it's all natural. My sister is an ESFP, and we get along well. Same with my other two ESFP friends from my old highschool. They don't bum rush you at first. Everything's tactful.

 

[Glordag]

Do you have personal experience? They aren't draining at all. The most they do is stroke your ego and try to get you to 'live more', but it's all natural. My sister is an ESFP, and we get along well. Same with my other two ESFP friends from my old highschool. They don't bum rush you at first. Everything's tactful.

I agree that they aren't draining at all, mostly because they don't usually push too hard. As you said, they don't bum rush you. Personally, I just find the ones I've met to be annoying. They are WAY too energetic and 10000000 miles an hour. It just interrupts my Ti, which is a no go. I can see how this might not always be the case, though.