kueri_dub /m.test
As I am incredibly tired of seeing people:
- Type people/characters/themselves with letters rather than functions.
- Spread ridiculous stereotypes.
- Trust tests without reading the description of their type.
- Think that their MBTI type changes.
I could go on and on and on… I’ve decided to make a MBTI masterpost that will help everyone who wants to introduce themselves to MBTI. If you have any doubts I’ll be pleased to solve them.
STEP ONE: Break all stereotypes you’ve heard of.
I won’t let you introduce yourself to MBTI without first clearing your mind from all those shitty stereotypes the world has been feeding you with. I’m gonna do you a favour and leave this beautiful post here: The most common reasons of mistyping. Read it. You can also check Innacurate stereotypes out!
STEP TWO: It’s all about the functions.
First of all you need to understand what functions are, what different types you can find, how they work, how they are structured, etc.
- This post is important, clear and a fundamental base of MBTI knowledge. Don’t skip this step. It’s a key part to understanding how it works. MBTI is all about thought process and this post explains perfectly how it works.
- A very detailed explanation on how functions work, engage in and interact with the world. WARNING: This is explained in a quite ‘scientific’ way and if it’s only going to confuse you more, don’t read it.
- How are the cognitive functions structured? Or: how functions work depending on where they are placed.
- And here you can understand how functions compliment one another.
- Another explanation just in case you didn’t get it yet.
- This post breaks some widespread MBTI stereotypes and explains more in detail how functions work.
- A tip to know which is someone’s dominant function.
- What the third/tertiary function is like.
- What does the tertiary function do?
- The difference between shadow functions and the inferior function.
- Even more information about functions!
Understanding functions: An explanation of all functions.
How each function works in all four positions:
Ne / Se / Ni / Si / Ti / Fi / Te / Fe
More posts about functions (I am aware that not all functions are here):
- Fe: High vs Low Fe / Does Fe just go along with everything?
- Fi: Fi’s inner morals
- Ni: Ni doms: What if they have no vision or plan? / What are their stress points? / Mystical? / Questions about it / How to spot a Ni dom / Telling posers from the real thing
- Si: Is it always traditional? / How can you tell if someone is using high Si? / Why does Si follow the rules? / Revisiting past hobbies / Comfort in similarity to past memories
- Ti: What Ti doms are like
Mixing up some functions:
- Fe/Fi: Assertiveness / How to tell them apart / Fe dom vs Fi dom / Expressing emotions / Self expression / What they do / Wanting success / Fe from Fi’s perspective / Tell them apart / What motivates them / Fe vs Fi: Argument
- Te/Ti: Te vs Ti
- Si/Ni: Future planning / Symbolism / Symbolism (part 2)
- Si/Se: Memories (part 1) / Memories (part 2) / Memories (part 3)
- Ni/Ne: Ni dom vs Lower Ne / What drives them / Imagining the future / Telling them apart / Understanding intuition
Want some fun posts to learn about functions? Here you go!
- Functions in real life, more specifically in a theme park!
- Understanding functions with Winnie de Pooh!
- Functions ultrasymplified.
STEP THREE: Finally! The types.
I’m gonna keep this short, because you already should know enough just based on the functions.
- A cool ass post with all personality type descriptions.
- Websites with descriptions (may contain stereotypes, not my fault): 16Personalities / personalitypage / truity / the types at a glance
- More stuff about each type! because you never know enough
- Type comparison, in case you’re confused.
Interesting shit:
- How each type reacts to failure or mistakes.
- Types and isolation.
- Unhealthy types.
- Unhealthy types in action.
- Common things about each type.
- How does each type remember things?
- Post apocalyptic survival by type.
- The 16 types in the zombie apocalypse.
- This is just amazing, click it.
STEP FOUR: So you wanna type someone…
Things to remember: stereotypes are nasty, letters are irrelevant.
- Steps you need to follow in order to type people and what to pay attention to/how to figure out their dominant function.
- What to pay attention to when you want to type someone.
- Even more stuff to pay attention to when you wanna type someone, mostly to figure out their dominant function.
- EVEN MORE stuff to help you type people.
STEP FIVE: Developing your functions, loops and giving advice!
Your functions balance each other out and finding a perfect balance by developing all of your functions will help you be a healthier human being. This could also help you give advice to friends if you know their type!
- First of all: How we develop our personality types along the years.
- How to develop the functions.
- MBTI by developing inferior/fourth functions.
However, undeveloped functions aren’t the only issue you could face. Sometimes people find themselves in what we call ‘loops’. Woah, I know… Loops? What’s that? Am I in one? How do I get out of it? Do not worry, here you have some more info:
How to get out of it? Easy. Spot what you do and avoid doing it. Be self aware. Yeah, that’s literally it.
MBTI can be very fun:
If you love zodiac posts, imagine finding a bunch of them which you can actually identify with. (Sorry to all zodiac believers if it offended any of you.) Well, I am gonna leave you some of that here:
- MBTI squads.
- Some more MBTI squads.
- Just click this, you’ll dig it.
- Hella great MBTI posts of all kinds.
- Most to least posts.
- More posts that you could be interested in.
- Relationships/friendships between types.
- MBTI experiences.
My ultimate favorite MBTI related blogs:
- readingontheroof and fortruinous: They are friends who answer interesting questions about MBTI from time to time and also do ‘more to least likely’ posts! Their typing of tv characters is also amazing! Probably the two blogs I trust the most.
- funkymbtifunction: Even though I don’t agree with some of their character typings, they have a huge amount of posts on functions, how they work and a hell lot of useful information that you won’t be able to find anywhere else.
- myersandbriggs: This blog is like a MBTI encyclopedia. You’ll find so much stuff here about every type. The research they do in order to find new interesting stuff to post is amazing.
- infj-mbti: Very interesting and diverse posts. Also pretty well organized, unlike other blogs.
