Joseph Maynor

So what do you think your MBTI type is?

Hmm. Food for thought. Thanks!

I'm more concerned with people who don't communicate. I wonder who is in there.

You created the system.

People who don't like to be disagreed with who think they have power and a following like think they can control how other people think and feel, and they can't help but trying to do this, until they realize this is not the way.

If you start your own business this is an "end run" around trying to fit in, but you need to have talent and business skills or someone who handles this for you. You might also fail this way. You can make it work, but you have to stick with it, and also make real things happen, not just plans.

Paranoid people seem to have extreme underdevelopment to me. Not to be rude. I get that they can't control this.

I was talking to a friend the other day about why women like guys on stage. We tend to think it has to do with social status. But he said the reason is because they think they know you. He said most women tend to view guys they do not know as creeps.

The conflict is actually happening in the relationship with yourself. This is the skeleton key to all this.

For the Absolute yes, but for the relative other perspectives are required IMO. Think about how sometimes other people see weaknesses in you and point those out to your benefit. Or sometimes they don't point it out, but they see it. And you see weaknesses in others too.

One thing that does require a degree of masking is when you are at work. There is a professionalism required usually at work, which is a kind of mask that most people even normies wear at work.

I find this to be kind of sad. To not be authentic to me causes a lot of suffering. Once I stopped trying to be someone I'm not, a lot of stress fell away for me.

@Yimpa ESFP?

He thought it was very important to snuff out the I-Thought.

Another thing to be careful of is how you interpret the Inferior Function in your type, which is a really poor choice of term because your inferior function is your 4th Cognitive Function for your type. This is still a strength for you compared to the 4 Shadow Functions you have, which are the 4 cognitive functions not present at all for your type. Eg., for me as an INFJ Se is my Inferior Function, which is in my type -- although harder to access -- but still there. However these cognitive functions are in my shadow: Ne, Fi, Te, and Si.

And I still haven't done this, but I have started other businesses and know what they require. But I am still doing what you are all doing myself.

In this area, I tend to think theory is mostly overrated and a distraction. I'm assuming you know what your career life purpose is already and now you want to turn that into a business. You are clear about what you want to do, but you cannot turn it into a successful business -- which requires you are getting paid money sufficiently to make a living ideally off just doing that. This is when passion becomes a business question. If you can't turn it into a successful business, the career life purpose is not met. We need to be clear about these kinds of distinctions IMO.

Actually doing it is the test though.

There are two variables for career life purpose IMO -- (1) Talent up to a standard where someone wants to give you money for what you have to offer + (2) Actually hanging a shingle aka marketing yourself effectively so you develop a following who wants to give you their money. Both of these are likely to need refinement. So even if you are following your passion at the higher level, at the practical level you still have to satisfy requirements where you might be pushed way outside of your comfort-zone to satisfy for success.

It implies I don't have to change and I should be able to make a living being exactly as I am, this can be a problem.

The tertiary cognitive function makes it hard to type sometimes because the INFJ can look like a thinker, the INTJ can look like a feeler, and the INTP can look like a sensor, with Ti, Fi, and Si respectively.

Ideally for me to type someone I would need at a minimum to see a video they are in. Some people I can type by seeing lots of their writing, but not all.