Personality Psychology - how consistent are our personalities throughout life?

[Joseph Maynor]

10 hours ago, Emerald said:

Do you recall your proportions?

INFJ

75% Introversion
89% Intuitive
67% Feeling
60% Judging

[Natasha Tori Maru]

ChatGPT can only tell me I appear to be Ni dom.

I think I programmed it to be way too hedge-y and never give an answer unless it qualifies the shit out of it >.<

[Ramanujan]

@Joseph Maynor does life getter with age as an INFJ. are you now able to deal with poor Se

[SOUL]

Personality can change through one's life and can do so quite dramatically...I'm one who has...and if I'm an extreme example it still suggests it can happen.

[Joseph Maynor]

32 minutes ago, Ramanujan said:

@Joseph Maynor does life getter with age as an INFJ. are you now able to deal with poor Se

Your inferior function is in your type!  You can develop it!  People misunderstand this.  Your inferior function is better than the 4 cognitive functions that are not in your stack.  

[Joshe]

@Ramanujan Often, the best thing an INTJ can do is max out their Te. I'd develop that and forget about Se. I mean, you can practice Se if you want, but it will require ongoing maintenance forever and you probably don't even care that much about it, so it would only add stress to have to maintain it. 

In theory, "developing my Se" sounds good. In practice, it's usually not worth the effort. Se is low for a reason: you don't naturally give a fuck about it. 

Edited 8 hours ago by Joshe

[Natasha Tori Maru]

1 minute ago, Joshe said:

@Ramanujan Often, the best thing an INTJ can do is max out their Te. I'd develop that and forget about Se. I mean, you can practice Se if you want, but it will require ongoing maintenance forever and you probably don't even care that much about it, so it would only add stress to have to maintain it. 

Hardmaxxing Te is the way to go . This was key to accelerating my personal growth. You are forced to deal with Se through a function that is more native feeling which gives that confidence to deal with chaos. That is how I understand it anyway. It also feels like it stretches the Ni legs by feeding it large volumes of data to play with.

[Joseph Maynor]

Te is really important for me.  And it is not in my stack.  I've always appreciated Te.  

[Judy2]

1 hour ago, SOUL said:

Personality can change through one's life and can do so quite dramatically...I'm one who has...and if I'm an extreme example it still suggests it can happen.

would you mind describing these changes? just out of curiosity. 

[SOUL]

@Judy2 It's a useless exercise to explain all of that and is suffice to say I was a miserable youth with many of the characteristics and traits one might associate with someone in this state.

Then without any guidance directly from anyone around me I began the path of awakening inner work in an autodidact method to finally experience genuine liberation. In this cessation from self suffering the state of well being fills my awareness and influences my consciousness. So ultimately the personality characteristics and traits I experience now are reflective of what one might associate with someone in the state of well being as expressed through a presence of joy, contentment, fulfillment, inspiration, peace, bliss and others.

The specifics of my life story are not significant or useful, the fact that we can influence our inner life and intentionally contribute to the natural process of change that happens whether we like it or not, we can't not change, is significant and useful.

Edited 7 hours ago by SOUL

[Joshe]

30 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

You are forced to deal with Se through a function that is more native feeling which gives that confidence to deal with chaos.

I see it that way as well. 

[Judy2]

4 hours ago, SOUL said:

@Judy2 It's a useless exercise to explain all of that and is suffice to say I was a miserable youth with many of the characteristics and traits one might associate with someone in this state.

Then without any guidance directly from anyone around me I began the path of awakening inner work in an autodidact method to finally experience genuine liberation. In this cessation from self suffering the state of well being fills my awareness and influences my consciousness. So ultimately the personality characteristics and traits I experience now are reflective of what one might associate with someone in the state of well being as expressed through a presence of joy, contentment, fulfillment, inspiration, peace, bliss and others.

The specifics of my life story are not significant or useful, the fact that we can influence our inner life and intentionally contribute to the natural process of change that happens whether we like it or not, we can't not change, is significant and useful.

okay. 

i mean a certain degree of change (i.e., development) is to be expected.