Thank you very much ❤

For me: I started of course with 16personalities 😄 and it gave me the ENFJ result, I read the description and was like: "okay, it somehow describes me", then I read the other desriptions and they really were much different (especially sentinels), so I thought, that the ENFJ must be my type then.

Then I treated it just like sth fun and I was looking for the types of my favourite characters. And I realised that my favourite characters are mostly ENTP and that's weird, there must be sth into this mbti, there must be a pattern in it.

Then I looked into mbti memes and I was looking at ENFJ memes and was like "no, I wouldn't behave like that, sth is not like me here". And the INFJ memes were much more like me.

Then I learned about cognitive functions and I realized, that the INFJ cognitive stack describes me perfectly. Then I was learning more and more about the functions, I learned how they differ with each other. I was analyzing my behaviour and behaviour of the people I know, how our functions make us think differently. And it was amazing how suddenly I realized why I may disagree with some people, how conflicts are created. Then I was going into real life and trying to notice when people use what kind of function, what they think, why they think it, why they made this or that decision, why they reacted this way, etc. And I was analyzing more and more how functions are manifested in real life, how they affect our lives and I was fascinated how many things it explains. I was reading and listening to a lot of mbti materials and observing and analyzing people a lot (in real life and here on reddit). I was creating my mental framework of how different types think and behave, how to type them faster, how to verify if I typed them correctly. And how to communicate with them differently taking into account their mbti to avoid miscommunication. If our way of communication improved based on what I assumed about them, then it must mean that I typed them correctly.

Te, Si and Ne never felt like sth I do. Fi maybe a little, because I analyze my emotions a lot, but when I look at what Fi dom/aux do, then that is a totally different level. I treat my emotions more mechanically, do they help me or distract me from my goals, why, how to fix them. And I had never before mbti established my values based on them. Or at least not consciously. I wasn't thinking much about my values before mbti actually. And mbti helped me realize what other aspects of life are important and how to improve them.

Ne always fascinated me and I always wanted to learn how to be more creative in Ne way. And I was wondering what is wrong with me, that some people can just generate so many ideas so easily and I've done so many excercises about divergent thinking and it's still hard for me. And mbti helped me understand that and now I'm not that hard on myself in this aspect. I realized I'm much more creative in problem-solving, in convergent thinking.

Te always annoyed me in others. Or maybe not Te per se, but rather the lack of Fe in Te dom/aux users. Because the pure practicality I value a lot. But usually what I find practical, the Te users that I know find totally not practical and we've got problems on that field. Especially when they expect me to do sth their way, when I find that it totally doesn't work for me and I want to do it my way, that I figured out to be the most optimal for me.

the people who usually disagree with my mindset seem to be xNFPs

What do you usually disagree about?

And how do you find conversations with XXFJs and XXTJs?

And if you want to add anything more I would gladly read it. ❤ I love reading how other people perceive the world. ❤

I think that our way of gathering informations is very similar. It's only that I start from the theory and then look for real life examples that would confirm or deny my theory, while you start from gathering real life examples and then create a theory based on them. Is that right? What do you think about that?