Personality types most likely to be spiritual

[Guest Nilsi]

17 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

I like to think that I'm an INFP that learned to pretend like I'm an INTP. But my favorite subject in school since I was little is natural sciences, I specialized in physics and chemistry in high school, took a year of biology in university, and now I'm finishing a graduate degree in neuroscience (/psychology). I thought about studying chemistry at one point, then philosophy. If we trust ChatGPT, I should be INTP, no? But if you ask me what I would like to use my degree for, you would only think I'm INFP.

Of course, on top of things not being black and white, people will have endless debates about how MBTI should be interpreted, and true MBTI geeks will truly arrest you any time you try to make some argument that is not grounded in cognitive functions (e.g Fi, Ti, Fi, Fe, etc.). Some old legend insisted I was an ENFP, not INFP (because I cite science and theories and statistics a lot, which is supposedly Te, and ENFP has tertiary Te).

You’re probably an INFP-Ti subtype, given how strongly you’re developing Ti in your academic psychology work.

[Guest Nilsi]

17 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

Some old legend insisted I was an ENFP, not INFP (because I cite science and theories and statistics a lot, which is supposedly Te, and ENFP has tertiary Te).

They were right to defer to Socionics, but I’d argue they had a bad reading of Jungian functions.

Te focuses on strategy and applied knowledge, while Ti emphasizes logical consistency and intellectual rigor - the latter being far more essential in scientific work.

Te resembles the scientific activist or the Machiavellian businessman more than the pure researcher.

Edited May 2 by Nilsi