Author: Calise Sellers (Page 7 of 8)

INTP The Moriarty Fear – definition

August 7, 2013 / Calise Sellers

“I’ve shown you what I can do.
I’ve cut loose all those people, all those little problems.
Even thirty million quid just to get you to come out and play. So take this as a friendly warning, my dear. Back off… I’m going to kill you anyway someday. I don’t want to rush it though. I’m saving it up for something special…
If you don’t stop prying I will burn you. I will burn the heart out of you.”
Jim Moriarty, BBC’s Sherlock

“The Moriarty Fear” is the textbook phobia of INTPs that if anyone is better than they are in the area in which they specialize, that they will not only be outshined, but rendered meaningless, worthless and obsolete. IP’s are the specialists, loving detail and preferring depth over breadth, but this means the areas in which they sink all their time and energy are very precious to them. INTPs especially tend to get the most inside their own heads as they love to use their minds to explore the world by themselves, using abstract thought to find solutions to problems. For them, smart often becomes a moral thing and the only battleground worth winning.

But, especially if they let that battle make them arrogant and self-righteous about the areas in which they specialize, pretentiously believing that they are the only ones that can know the things they know, an INTP can end up overlooking important details outside themselves and someone with a wider scope of field can end up surpassing them even in their own area of expertise. Rather than recognizing that they need to learn more, an INTP can dig in their heels and instead insist on beating down their “usurper,” making sure they rise to the top again, not by self-improvement, but by being the last man standing. Even if they are able to weed out the competition, an INTP at “the top” will constantly be watching their back, waiting for the day they secretly fear will come, when others will see their gaps in wisdom and knowledge, call out their weaknesses and that they will have no recourse.

But if an INTP instead seeks for improvement for its own sake, rather than as a competition, they indeed can be exceptional in what they do; in fact an INTP can’t truly excel in the ways they are needed unless they stop comparing and learn again for its own sake.

Examples:
Syndrome, The Incredibles (leading my INFJ to want to call it “Syndrome Syndrome” instead 😉 )
Ross Geller, Friends
Vizzini, The Princess Bride
and so many more…

Click here for an in-depth look at INTP “The Alchemist”!

INTJ Anakin Angst – definition

August 7, 2013 / Calise Sellers

“You will not understand what I have to do… you will try to stop me… I’m sorry.”
Anakin Skywalker, Star Wars: The Clone Wars

“Anakin Angst” is the classic INTJ pitfall that out of the desire to stop damage and control pain, they become the very thing they were fighting. INTJs with their ability to see so clearly just what the world could be and the steps they can take to accomplish that vision, often feel like the entire world is in their hands and that if they don’t fix it, the world’s brokenness is their fault.

IJs are the cloakers, best at making action without letting others in on their thoughts or emotions. Where IFJs cloak their thoughts from the world, ITJs cloak their feelings and are able to make choices and complete actions regardless of their personal investment in the situation. While that can be a strength, an ITJ who gets too inside their own head can end up losing sight of just what they were fighting for in the first place, their perfectionism replacing emotion, until they become the very thing they feared.

Examples:
Prince Arthas Menethil, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
The Didact, Halo 4
Sauron, The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings
and so many more…

Click here for an in-depth look at INTJ The Dragon!

ENFJ The Faramir Dilemma – definition

August 6, 2013 / Calise Sellers

“So… this is the answer to all the riddles… a chance for
Faramir, captain of Gondor, to show his quality.”
Faramir, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers film version

“The Faramir Dilemma” is ENFJ’s big struggle; do they bring everyone together or do they stand up for what they know to be right? It’s a harder question for them than it may sound.

ENFJ’s *live* for others’ happiness, hate conflict between friends and base their definitions of right and wrong on the judgements they’ve gathered from interacting with others. But there will come a time when they know they have to disappoint the ones they love and it’s truly a time to show their quality.

Examples:
Bing Lee, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
James P. Sullivan, Pixar’s Monsters, Inc.
Donna Moss, The West Wing
and so many more…

Click here for an in-depth look at ENFJ, “The Veteran”!

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.