ISTPs are one of the hardest types to buy for. They aren’t normally the types who get really excited about the holidays (although there are always exceptions!). When I spoke to a variety of ISTPs I got a lot of mixed responses, but in general, they seemed to find the holiday season kind of frustrating…
Each individual has a different style when it comes to gift-giving and what they like to receive and how they like to receive it. Over the last year, I’ve spoken with hundreds of different people about not only what they like to get, but how they feel about giving gifts in general. ISTJs have been…
In the personality community, one of the least talked about functions is the tertiary function. There are many theories for this; one being that there was a lot of disagreement over the direction of the tertiary function. Many typologists used to argue that the tertiary had the same attitude as the auxiliary function (extraverted if…
It’s no secret that INFJs are book lovers. Enter any INFJ group or forum and you’ll see countless threads about “favorite books”. Reading is by far one of the favorite pastimes of most INFJs (including myself). Books provide a respite from a weary world, an escape into the imagination, and, in some cases, helpful advice…
In the personality community, some of the biggest targets of condescension and superiority are sensing personality types. Why is this? I’ve had a number of theories, ranging from poor type descriptions to the reality that many intuitives are misunderstood in a largely sensing world and therefore lash back at sensors in a misguided sense of…
