"INFJ?? What's That? A New Kind of Weight-Loss Program? It Sounds Absolutely Horrid."

No Simon, it's not! It's the 4 letters to my personality type that the Jung Typology test has calculated for me after I answered a couple of questions relating to the way I act in daily life.

The 4-letter personality type that I scored after taking the Jung Typology Test was INFJ, or “Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Judging”.

My Strengths

My strength percentages of each personality type were:

Introverted: 44%

Intuitive: 50%

Feeling: 62%

Judging: 78%

                                INTROVERTED

My Introverted personality means that I like to keep to myself often. I enjoy being social at times, but I also love being by myself on my free time and reading a book or perhaps watching a movie on my laptop alone instead of hanging out all the time. I find that I work best alone, since communication is not one of my talents, and when given the option to have a group or to work alone for a project, I always choose to work by myself, since I find it a more effective use of my effort & energy to get things done on my own time using my own ideas without having to worry about what my group members think about me, scheduling meetings out of class, or worrying that a member will not complete his/her work.
You will not find me chatting up a storm in a room full of people or at a large social event, but will most likely find me curled up in a chair in the library, my nose glued to the middle of the book.
It doesn't mean that I don't like talking or am scared of other people, since once I get comfortable and start talking, I'm such a chatter-box; as a Guest Services position at The Schottenstien Center, I am required to interact with guests and co-workers and I greatly enjoy doing that. However, I am not one to initiate the talking process. I spend the majority of my time concentrating on things by my own. Of course, I'm not always introverted, since I love going out once in a while, love talking to others to learn more about them, and dancing up a storm!!

                       INTUITIVE 

Ahh don't tell me you didn't see this coming!

My Intuitive personality means that I am constantly thinking and worrying about the past or the future. I am constantly wishing I could have lived in the '80s, constantly wishing I could go back to my childhood days filled with Harry Potter books, Fruit Roll-Ups, and Courage the Cowardly Dog, when the only homework I was assigned was to color a picture of Smokey the Bear. I worry about any mistakes I may have made in the past, and I am constantly paranoid of what's going to happen in the future: 5 years from now, will all my efforts and hard work be worth it and bring about days of sunshine, or will there only be a huge TROLL getting in the way of me achieving success and happiness?? (That's a HP reference, by the way.. -_-). I often have many doubts about the decisions I have made or have to make, but always strive to stay open-minded, often being attracted to new, unusual, and bizarre things.

FEELING

Just like Andie in "Pretty In Pink" (played by Molly Ringwald), my Feeling personality means that I tend to be very sensitive and let my emotions control myself majority of the time in everything I do. When looking at a person, the first aspect I think about is their feelings at the time, how they feel about me, how I feel about them, and how we feel about the current situation that we're in. Since I care so much about making people feel good about themselves, I tend to compliment others all the time. What's quite ironic is that though I put in the effort to lift other's spirits when they're feeling down, I fail to do that for myself, and usually end up having breakdowns now and then. I tend to take everything said to me personally, and constantly worry about the things I say and if I said them in the "right" way to avoid hurting anyone's feelings or make them think less of me. If you haven't seen "Pretty In Pink", I greatly recommend it ;)

JUDGING 

My Judging personality means that I constantly focus on finishing up whatever I started. I feel incomplete and restless whenever I leave something half-done, or unsolved. After brainstorming and intensely analyzing the situation to come up with a solution to a problem, I do not like to change the decisions that I have made. I like to follow the rules and make sure that everything is working in its proper way: I am very "by-the-book" and detailed about things, and always make sure to do everything step-by-step, little by little, not leaving a single concept or factor out of the process. Sometimes this meticulous quality of mine is troublesome, since it would take me forever to finish just a simple project. I'd like to work on improving this time-consuming characteristic of mine!

I was not surprised at all that I got these results. I think that each trait explains me very well, and it very accurate. I actually took this test when I was still a junior back in high school, so I was familiar with these personality traits of mine.
However, what surprised me was that my results have not changed, and has still stayed the same 4 letters, INFJ. Junior year in high school seems like such a long time ago, and I took this test about 2 years ago. So much has happened since then, and I thought that perhaps the life events that I have experienced would have changed who I am as a person, and how I view things. I guess I have not changed as much as I thought I did!