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ENTP Megamind Complex – definition

August 6, 2013 / Calise Sellers

“No matter how hard I tried, I was always the odd man out, the last one picked, the screw-up, the black sheep… the bad boy. Was this my destiny?
Wait. Maybe it was! Being bad is the one thing I’m good at!
Then it hit me: if I was the bad boy,
then I was going to be the baddest boy of them ALL!”
Megamind

“Megamind Complex” is a classic ENTP coping mechanism. ENTP’s, whose primary focus in life is exploring what people can become, long for nothing more than to be great. If an ENTP lives in a culture where the way they explore is frowned upon, often rather than surrender those possibilities, an ENTP will give up hope of becoming a “good” larger-than-life person and will instead spit in expectations’ face, deciding that if they can’t be good, they’ll be the best at being bad. It’s a way for an ENTP to close up and pretend they don’t care that no one really sees or likes them for who they are and they’re likely to protect themselves by pretending they never wanted to be considered good in the first place.

Examples:
Neil Caffrey, White Collar
Flynn Rider, Tangled
Han Solo, Star Wars
and so many more…

Click here for an in-depth look at ENTP, “The Swashbuckler”!

INFJ Hercules Syndrome – definition

August 6, 2013 / Calise Sellers

“You know when I was a kid,
I would have given anything to be exactly like everybody else.”
Disney’s Hercules

“Hercules Syndrome” is the classic INFJ weakness of feeling like they’re strange and don’t belong *because* of the very thing that makes them special. INFJs with Hercules Syndrome feel like there is a universe of potential and principles just at their fingertips… and everyone else is down on the ground saying “how dare you fly.” Floating around in the aether, wishing they could come down to the ground and not be so alone, but not willing to give up what they’ve seen up there, the INFJ may believe that they can never be liked and enjoyed for who they really are and what they can offer, but at best must be merely tolerated for the “eccentric” they are.

Hercules Syndrome can be a factor whether or not the INFJ has learned how to use their strength correctly. If they have not yet, you can expect awkward moments and embarrassment about said strength. If they have developed their strengths, it’s usually through years of training, but without their Hercules Syndrome in check, the INFJ is likely to feel guilty for having their strength at all, even though they’ve had to double their effort to develop it *in spite* of guilt all that time.

Examples:
Hiccup, How to Train Your Dragon
Avatar Aang, Avatar: The Last Airbender
Rapunzel, Tangled
and so many more…

Click here for an in-depth look at INFJ, “The Paladin”! Click here for more on Hercules as an INFJ.

Type Heroes: ENTP – The Swashbuckler

August 5, 2013 / Calise Sellers

All the typings and observations in this post are based on definitions and information presented in the aLBoP Guided Tour 😀 So if any of it bugs you, please go read that before leaving me a grumpy comment… Or, you know what? Let’s just skip the grumpy comments! Have a nice day! <3

ENTP
The Swashbuckler

“Never tell me the odds!”
Han Solo, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

The ENTP Swashbuckler does what works. Adapting their plan, disregarding the rules and following their gut. They may seem unpredictable because they’ll start fights sometimes, run from them others; be brutally honest one moment and charmingly secretive the next. This is because they observe first and act later (as all EP’s do) and so they themselves might not know until the moment they decide (after they’ve observed as much information as possible) what they are going to do. Often, while they figure it out, they’ll be making clever quips and banter. This is a way to stall for time while they decide what to do, learn more about their opponent and surroundings from the reactions they receive… and enjoy just how clever they are. And though rules aren’t always their cup of tea, you can be sure they follow their own code, which is usually doing whatever it takes to become the larger-than-life person they *want* to be.
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Type Heroes: ISFJ – The Knight

July 20, 2013 / Calise Sellers

ISFJ
The Knight

“Because the one thing I know…
some things are just worth fighting for.”
Jim Raynor, Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

The ISFJ Knight is the flagship of dependability. Noble, loyal and chivalrous are words that describe these on-the-ground captains. They have the world perspective to understand why the people and ideals they serve are so important and are great at seeing in the moment plans of action. They live to serve something greater than themselves in a straight-forward, get-it-done sort of way. They don’t usually mind getting a little dirt on their hands because they don’t think they’re special enough to be looked to as an example anyway. And though they don’t expect to be thanked, they’ll get touchy when it’s suggested they weren’t doing their all.
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A.I. Typed: Robots and Their Personality

July 17, 2013 / Calise Sellers

Androids, computers, robots; call them what you will, they’re all A.I., artificial intelligence. Though the messages their stories tell may vary, throughout the years bots have won our hearts, made us laugh, made us think and freaked the crap out of us. Their quest to be a little more human represents humanity’s quest to be even more than that. This is a salute to both A.I. and humanity in all its varied hues.
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Paradoxitype – The Flip-Side of Personality (with examples!)

July 9, 2013 / Calise Sellers

Who are we deep inside? Well, there are several answers to this question, some that delve far deeper than others. I’m not going to share some of the deeper answers I know, for experience has enhanced my natural talent for individual cynicism. If you’d like to know more about *those* answers, inquire within.

But as far as what each of us has within in regards to our personality types; is all of us what lies on the surface? If you Google your own four letters and see posters with limericks and characters mistyped by stereotype, is that all there is to know about you? Who comes out in the times that you’re angry, sad or with your best friend? Who is there to know that the world doesn’t see?
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Type Heroes: ISTP – The Weapons Specialist

July 1, 2013 / Calise Sellers

ISTP
The Weapons Specialist

[Calmly tied up in a chair being interrogated by Russians, getting a call offering an extraction]
“Are you kidding? I’m working.”
Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, The Avengers

The ISTP Weapons Specialist is the master of… mastery; the specialist of specialism. They excel at falling in love with something and immersing themselves totally and completely in it, using their bodies and minds together as a precision instrument at whatever speaks to them. Their body is their world-discovering device and nothing will get between them and that adventure.

Type Heroes: ENFJ – The Veteran

June 15, 2013 / Calise Sellers

ENFJ
The Veteran

“It is important to draw wisdom from different places. If you take it from only one place it becomes rigid and stale.”
Uncle Iroh, Avatar: The Last Airbender
(the TV show *not* the movie :P)

The ENFJ Veteran is the master of experience. They have a timeless quality that both looks to the past and the overarching meaning of what people have done and what events have transpired, but lives and acts in the moment. They have a rich, sage-like understanding of history and the actions and interactions of others, with a contrasting childlike exuberance for living and experiencing the world around them with people they love. Little Veterans often parent their peers, while Veteran adults often treat their children or students like trusted and respected peers. They live for their connections with people, and the joy of seeing another achieve real happiness or the pain over another’s loss is indistinguishable to them from the joy or pain over their own travails.
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T-Shirts! Plus Blog Updates

June 9, 2013 / Calise Sellers

Hello there! I hope you’re enjoying A Little Bit of Personality so far 🙂 I have so much I want to post and only so many hours in a day… and, even more challenging, brain power. But there’s still 14 Type Heroes to come (/faint); and, because my little perceiver brain just can’t work a single project at once, I have lots of other exciting things I’m working on. These include, Clothing Styles by Type, Sliding Scale of Idealism vs Cynicism, and “The Anti-Id” (working titles kinda suck) not to mention a literally unlimited supply of characters to type!

But while you’re waiting, you should buy a t-shirt! Why? Just look at these things! This is my first t-shirt series, but, like everything else, there will be more.

Presenting (drum-roll):

The Keep Calm and Be Yourself T-Shirt Series!

Show them who you really are!

Check them all out here

I’m insanely proud of them and I worked my little backside off creating them. I really wanted to make a shirt for each type that they would feel happy and excited to wear. I hope I’ve done that. I really tried to picture each of “you” as a type and think “hmm, what would my friend the ISFJ want to wear,” for example; something that would incorporate the type as a whole, and yet be fun and goofy enough for a t-shirt. I tried not to have favorite shirts, but I must say that I’m thinking of running away with the Death Star on INTJ’s shirt <3 And I made it all by myself!

Now with Death Star action!

Back of the shirt 🙂 So they know why the crap you’re going to blow up planets.

But, of course I’m seeing an Iron Man clad “Keep Calm and Be Awesome” fitted tee or scoop-neck in Hot-Rod Red in my future…

Time to strut, ladies and gentlemen.

You can get any of them in any of the colors or styles available (though they’re featured in my recommendations). Oh, and obviously don’t get a shirt where the words won’t show up, like white or really light gray. If you have a special request for an icon you’d like on your t-shirt, like a character symbol, etc., or if you’d like a different product that I haven’t made, let me know and I’ll see what I can swing.

Please send me a photo of your stylin’ self in your t-shirt and I’ll be sure to post it! C’mon, be yourself and show us who you are!!!

Musical Typing: Intro

May 10, 2013 / Calise Sellers

{Update 5-29-14: *Sigh* I really want to rewrite this post. While the theory is completely sound and I’m actually impressed that I understood the Four Types of Information this thoroughly, just a month into the blog… no one else did at the time and I didn’t realize that I hadn’t explained it anywhere yet! If I were to write a “Musical Typing: Intro 2.0,” I would explain the concepts more thoroughly and demonstrate *why* each type-set’s music sounds the way it does.

Also, while I was good a year ago at understanding which first-and-last letter type-set each song went into, a) I’ve learned a lot in the past year and b) I felt the need to give middle letters to each song, which I wasn’t really prepared to do. For example, James Taylor’s Fire and Rain is definitely an IP song, like I talk about here… but James Taylor is an INTP, not an F as speculated. While I personally think anyone should be impressed that I could predict that James Taylor would be an IP from his music, I shouldn’t have nailed down the middle letters before I had completed the theorem for doing that. I will probably rewrite this post after we release facial typing when I can use that as reference for artists. In the meantime, you can still enjoy the general theory, because it’s still really cool 😉
<3 Calise}

We interrupt this broadcast to bring you something I like to do in the bathtub! TMI? Well I do some of my best thinking in the bathtub! The type graphs I base a huge majority of my data on were invented in my bathtub written in hair until My INFJ brought me a pad and pen.
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