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When we talk about power, we usually picture the obvious version: money, status, the ability to make people do what you want. But power can also look like being the person everyone needs. Or knowing enough to avoid being caught off guard. Or keeping every door open so no one can tell you where to... The post The Kind o
INFPs are one of my favorite personality types, so it drives me crazy when I see them shamelessly stereotyped in pretty much every type community. While some INFPs fit the “gentle dreamer” category, it’s certainly not all there is to them. They don’t all spend their days rescuing injured animals and gazing through rain
When people say they need to rest, we tend to picture the same small collection of activities: sleeping late, lying on the couch, taking a bath, perhaps watching six episodes of something while insisting it is only playing in the background. Sometimes that works. Sometimes you emerge from the couch feeling worse, with
INFJs characters tend to get one of three jobs: mysterious counselor, emotionally burdened visionary, or unsettling person who knows something terrible is coming but can’t explain it without sounding unhinged. Sometimes they’re all three. This list includes heroic INFJs, damaged INFJs, villainous INFJs, and a few chara
What helps you feel like yourself? For some people, the answer might involve a lively dinner with friends, an ambitious new goal, or a packed schedule that leaves no room for existential dread. My sister is probably one of these people. I look at her in awe and consider sometimes that I’d probably have a... The post Wh
What helps you feel like yourself? It sounds like an easy question until you try to answer it. Is it being around people you love? Working toward something that matters? Going somewhere new? Sitting alone in your house with absolutely nobody asking where the scissors are? Recently, I sent out a survey asking readers wh
ISFPs are some of my favorite fictional characters. They have passion, conviction, and (usually) street smarts, but they’re not talkers. They’re not the ones going on about their grand philosophy while everybody else waits patiently for the monologue to end. More often, we figure out what they believe by watching what
Most of us know when we are wasting time in the obvious ways. We notice when we have watched six episodes of something we don’t even like or spent forty minutes reading an argument between strangers on Facebook. We may continue, lost in a trance of sorts, but at least we know what is happening.... The post The One Habi
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