Christian Women in Leadership

personality test

INFJ's (introverted, intuitive, feeling, judging) focus on possibilities, think in terms of values and come easily to decisions. The small number of this type (1 percent) is regrettable, since INFJ's have an unusually strong drive to contribute to their fellow man. This type has great depth of personality; they are themselves complicated, and can understand and deal with complex issues and people.

It is an INFJ who is likely to have visions of human events past, present, or future. If a person demonstrates an ability to understand psychic phenomenom better than most others, this person is abt to be an INFJ. Characteristically, INFJ's have strong empathic ablilities and can be aware of another's emotions or intents even before that person is conscious of these. This can take the form of feeling distress or illnesses of others to an extent which is difficult for other types. INFJ's can intuit good and evil in others, although they seldom can tell how they came to know. Subsequent events tend to bear them out, however.

INFJ's are usually good students, achievers who exhibit an unostentacious creativity. They take their work seriously and enjoy academic activity. They can exhibit qualities of over-perfectionism and put more into a task than perhaps is justified by the nature of the task. They generally will not be visable leaders, but will quietly exert influence behind the scenes.

INFJ's are hard to get to know. They have unusually rich inner life, but they are reserved and tend not to share their reactions except with those they trust. Because of their vulnerability through a strong facility to introject, INFJ's can be hurt rather easily by others, which, perhaps, is at least one reason they tend to be private people. People who have known an INFJ for years may find sides emerging which come as a surprise. Not that INFJ's are inconsistent; they are very consistent and value integrity. But they have convoluted, complex personalities which sometimes puzzle even them.

INFJ's like to please others and tend to contribute their own best efforts in all situations. They prefer and enjoy agreeing with others, and find conflict disagreeable and destructive. (What?) What is known as ESP is likely found in an INFJ more than in any other types, although other types are capable of such phenomena. INFJ's have vivid imaginations exercised both in memory and intuition, and this can amount to genius (I hate to write the word "genius" in my personality profile--but that is actually what it says). . . This unfettered imagination often will enable this person to compose complex and often aestheic works of art such as music, mathematical systems, poems, plays, and novels. In a sense, the INFJ is the most poetic of all the types. Just as an ENTJ cannot not lead, so must the INFJ intuit; this capability extends to people, things, and often events, taking the forms of visions, episodes of foreknowledge, premonitions, auditory and visual images of things to come. . . .

INFJ's often select liberal arts as a college major and opt for occupations which involve interacting with people, but on a one-to-one basis. For example, the general practitioner in medicine might be an INFJ, or the psychiatrist or psychologist. As with all NF's, the ministry holds attraction, although the INFJ must develop an extraverted role here which requires a great deal of energy. INFJ's may be attracted to writing as a profession, and often they use language which contains an unusual degree of imagery. They are masters of the metaphor, and both their verbal and written communications tend to be elegant and complex. Their great talent for language usually is directed toward people in a personalized way. INFJ's who write comment often that they write with a particular person in mind; writing to a faceless, abstract audience leaves them uninspired.

posted by the princess @ 8/21/2005 05:00:00 AM