Author: Calise Sellers (Page 8 of 8)

Type Heroes: ENFJ – The Veteran

June 15, 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

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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Type Heroes: INFJ – The Paladin

May 6, 2013 / Calise Sellers

INFJ
The Paladin

“A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship…but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!!”
Aragorn, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King Film

The INFJ Paladin is heroic to the core. They have an incredible sense of scope and justice and desire above all to show others through example how to be heroic themselves (as quite aptly put here). They go on their own unique quests through life, hoping to inspire others to do the same. They long to be heroic, but usually don’t believe that they’re anything special, so they believe and preach that anyone can be heroic.
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Type Heroes: ESTP – The Spartan

May 6, 2013 / Calise Sellers

ESTP
The Spartan

“Time for some thrilling heroics.”
Jayne Cobb, Firefly

The ESTP Spartan is a champion of individualism and loyal to the core if you’ve won their favor, which is based on your respect and acceptance of them. The Spartan loves themselves… as well they should. They’re funny, charming and observant with an unperturbed hunger for life and adventure. They also love other people and champion others’ individuality as much as their own… almost 😉 Where ISTPs love to use their selves to experience the world; ESTPs love to use the world and others to experience the exciting thing that is their *self!*

Type Heroes: Which Hero of Legend Will You Be?

April 30, 2013 / Calise Sellers

Let me introduce to you the most archetypal tale that has been played throughout the ages; a sweeping epic with sixteen protagonists; sixteen larger-than-life heroes that are each unique in purpose, style, thought and action and, like old friends, we would feel incomplete without any one. Each has their own treacherous journey to travail as they endeavor to stay true to themselves and not be overcome by the choices and obstacles that get in their way.
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Cooking with an ENTP: Gluten-Free Mexican Bean Crepes

April 13, 2013 / Calise Sellers

I’m in the middle of a series, “Type Heroes: Which Hero of Legend will you be?“–coming soon to a blog near you; but in the meantime I thought I’d share something else with you… my breakfast.

Like most things with ENTP’s, this meal began with a concept; a challenge: Could I make gluten and corn-free wraps from the ingredients I had around?

Disney Typed: Hades

April 9, 2013 / Calise Sellers

ENTP

“We dance, we kiss, we schmooze, we carry on, we go home happy. What do you say? Come on.”

“I’ve got 24 hours to get rid of this bozo, or the entire scheme I’ve been setting up for 18 years goes up in smoke, and you are wearing his merchandise?!?”

It takes a special individual to have buggy yellow eyes, spiky teeth and flame hair and still be able to bring sexy back. This is Hades, Lord of the Dead. Hi, how ya doin’? Is it any surprise that Hercules’s Hades is my favorite Disney villain?

There were just too many good Hades quotes so I had to narrow them down to my favorites. Though they aren’t nearly so smooth if not read in James Woods’s voice. Apparently before he came to the part, Hades was just menacing; not wise-cracking and quick on the draw.
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Disney Typed: Megara

April 7, 2013 / Calise Sellers

ENTP

“I’m a big tough girl. I tie my own sandals and everything.”

“I thought my heart had learned its lesson. It feels so good when you start out.
My head is screaming get a grip, girl!
Unless you’re dying to cry your heart out…”

I love Megara from Disney’s Hercules. She’s dynamic, clever, well drawn and the closest thing to a Disney princess ENTP girls are ever going to get. Eh, we’re one of the rarest female types so we’ll get over it.* Plus, she’s awesome! So yay.

Disney Typed: Hercules

April 6, 2013 / Calise Sellers

INFJ

“I have often dreamed of a far off place,
where a great warm welcome will be waiting for me
and the crowds will cheer when they see my face and the voice keeps saying,
‘This is where I’m meant to be.'”

“I want to become a hero, a true hero.”

Disney’s Hercules is one of my favorite characters to reference when helping people understand INFJ’s, because he’s just *such* a classic example. He typifies an INFJ archetype which I love so accurately, I call it Hercules Syndrome… as of right now. Seriously, I just named it.