What Is My MBTI Type? | 3 Reasons & 3 Solutions 

Same here, I've taken the test multiple times about once a year for the last three years and they've all been different. (INTJ, INFJ, ISTP, and ISTJ). I think i have the issue of seeing myself doing a lot of things, like sometimes i will care about someone's feelings but usually that is only people I'm close to, or like i tend to overthing how people will perceive me and my actions, but then other times i dont seem to care and i tell myself they don't matter and they wont affect my life. I also tend to think ahead but at times of relaxation or being lazy i can just go with the flow and be spontaneous.

Relatable. It's because an exact test cannot fully determine what is the pile of secrets who is the human being,so it's not entirely your fault. Also , MBTI show your tendencies, not you will act 100%like your type. Understand this:thinkers feel ,feelers think, intuitors can sense and sensors also use intuition. It seems the most appropriate way to deal with this is to observe your tendencies and understand what Ni/Ne,Si/Se,Ti/Te and Fi/Fé means and how you use them, so you can choose better.

Spartan 8layer I can relate to every word you said, It's just I can see myself doing both sometimes this and sometimes that and I can't really determine which one I do more it's really confusing :(

As for the test everytime I took it I got a different result so I stopped taking it and discovered the cognitive functions and when I thought I finally settled down on a type I got frustrated again and felt like that type is not me at all and now I'am just really confused

Well at least it's clear that you have an absent Fi.

This maybe a stupid question but how can I do that?

Yeah I agree with @dcs23 how?

Cognitive Functions, right? Took me forever to figure out it's the middle two letters, "how you think" .. ?? Just looking up what are the cognitive functions might help. Been tryna figure this shit out. One concise example I found was Introverted or Extroverted depends on when you're NOT feeling well, when you really need a break at work is it exhausting or energizing to be with people or need your alone time.

And if you identify with your outer identity more then it's confusing

I think your outward self is more your true self. The inner world represents what you want to be in my mind

Real

And how people recharge is on a case by case basis since people are various degrees of ambiverted.

Me. I took the test begrudgingly because I was forced to as part of this career management course in school, despite having known about it for quite some time and having the exact same thoughts about not being put into a box and also the fear of leaning in to my type more artificially after learning of it (which I thought were only specific to me but I'm surprised to find this is a common reason!) and when I first looked at the different letters it cemented the fact that these types of tests just don't work on me. I am both an introvert and an extrovert, in thinking and actions, and I enjoy things that are stereotypically introverted but I also value and long for meaningful friendships and funny silly times with others but at the same time have insightful conversations. I struggle with time management but I do very well in school. I love analyzing both my and other's feelings as well as literature, and intellectual texts. I have always, always, adored both the humanities and the sciences and have excelled in both. I am so many things yet at the same time I struggle with "who am I"; none of the types fit me and yet I relate to many of them. This is too long but basically I got ENFP, and in the career section the 'everything all at once' is very relatable, so is some parts of the friendship section and especially your comment. But one thing I know of myself for sure, is that I am NOT a free spirit. At all. And I don't identify with what people say about ENFP being unafraid to be themselves and only valuing their own input.

@@Chirp-chirp I find ENFPs and to a lower degree INFPs struggle with finding themselves almost their entire lives because they basically do not want to be anything specific or they want to be anything at the same time. Whereas on the surface such a way of looking at it should free them, in a way it imprisons them becasue they get stuck in being in this limbo of everything and nothing at the same time. If you want to know who you truly are, it means you are certain things and it means you are not certain things. It means you have certain skills and not have other skills. That is exactly what knowing yourself means. The limitation, as far as there is one, is already there but if you are simply fighting against it. Partly to blame is extraverted intuition, which is always intresting in the endless uncovered alternatives. However, the problem of the alternative is that you can never catch it. Once you get the alternative, it's no longer an alternative and there is a new alternative. It's an endless loop to be stuck in. Fi also does not help with finding yourself, as Fi is both very connected to the self in a deep way, but it also has strong desires what it wishes to be. Anything that you wish you could be makes it harder to find out what you really are without these desires. Ne + Fi = the desire (Fi) to everyhing and nothing at the same time (Ne, paradoxal) Fi is often enough associated withe being authentic and yourself, but I find oddly enough it's often the Ti doms that behave much more authentic simply because they do not really care if they are one thing or the other , which makes it easier to be themselves and they also actively want to classify things into categories, which Fi and to some extend Fe are fighting. They try to decomplicate things, whereas Fi and both Ne just tend to (over)complicate things. When there are questions to be answered, it's likely an ENFP (or even infp) will have more questions about the questions than answers. I'm not an ENFP myself though, but it's all just my impression of ENFPs. I wonder if you recognize this?

​@@Chirp-chirp I used to think I was ENFP, haven’t been sure of my type for a while now. I keep changing my mind about what I might be and I honestly don’t know anymore. It’s driving me crazy, I want to categorize myself to understand myself better but I just can’t. I know people are a mix of different types but usually there’s one that sticks out more which I just feel like there isn’t. I relate to every type and the only thing I’m sure of here is that I’m an extrovert. I wanted to act more like ENFP on purpose so that I won’t go down this rabbit hole of not knowing my type but I feel like acting like ENFP for so long has caused an even bigger identity crisis for me and I don’t even see myself in ENFP now. After dropping the ENFP mask I had no idea who I was, how do I fix this??

@@Vanillar_Chinchillar I don't know about your life, but as you can maybe tell from my first comment I was never someone who wanted to categorize myself in such a way as personality types, so I can't relate on that. But I can give you some pointers to ask yourself: Why is it so important for you to have a specific label for your own being? Is making your reality match the expectation that comes with that label (ENFP) an attempt to better communicate and be understood by others? Like, do you want to categorize yourself so that when you meet someone you can tell them your personality type--this label that you wish encompasses every aspect of your self, which for complex individuals like you and I, may not exist? If so, then this is where we differ in our motivations because the exact reason why I had an aversion to mbti is that I didn't want to meet someone and tell them my type and let them have this preconceived idea of who I am from those letters. I mean, we aren't TV characters. We act differently and show different parts of ourselves with different people, and in different situations, whether consciously or not. There is beauty in connecting with someone and unraveling aspects of each other's personality, which, by the way, is so subjective. My perception of myself is vastly different from others perception of me. The only way you could come to this reasoning is to accept in the beginning--through continuous failed attempts at finding that one label that speaks to you, like you've said in your comment and like I've felt as well--that it's okay not to identify with just one thing, it's okay to be that person that asks "What about both?" when faced with an either/or scenario. That's what makes us unique. And perhaps because of this the only person that can truly understand you is yourself, even if you don't fully yet.

INtuition has a way of doing that lol. What’s the confusion point? Or are there too many? Awesome. Which book?

@@GeekPsychology The books in my suitcase right now, but my cousin and I watched a video of a self typed entp who later self typed as infp... So I bought it, but forget the name. The confusion is that, as you know, people and myself get confused because we try to filter all the stereotypes of the boxes people make of what each type should be like. A typist thought I was istp last February, but I love theoretical things to the point of obsession. I've finally, definitely ruled out istp now. First time I took mbti was in highschool and I got intp and I was much more insecure then. I don't know if I should agree with my more confident self now or myself as a high schooler? I either score barely introverted or barely extroverted... Entp are supposedly the most introverted type. The typist before mentioned said that enfp is the most introverted. Anyway. I scored more extroverted on 16personalities.com then my low confidence cousin who is definitely extroverted scored 68% introverted, but I think a lot of tests measure confidence not I or E. You know? I'm not going to explain all the videos I've watched, but I really value searching for truth by feeding myself new possibilities constantly rather than sticking to one pursuit like an introvert. I love discussions and getting people excited about what I'm excited about instead of keeping it to myself. I'm just going to read the book to hear Carl Jung's words what exactly he means by I or E and of course other things. The typist said extroverted means you like people haha. It's just such a shallow way of looking at it and she wasn't a questioning person and would just take what she learned whole heartedly and then she called me a sensor because of asking questions. I'm 27 right now, but I think it would be really cool if I wrote a book about it in my forties. Not my experience, but maybe there are things that can be added to it.

Yup! There are some “lookalike” types, but others will get weeded out pretty quickly imo

@xX Xx thanks. That's what I've been doing. I've been believing in a certain type, but I also think it's important not to be in fantasy world because you may have just tricked yourself into being a type you're not. So I've been doing both things. So far I'm happy pretending I'm Entp : )

Intp, Istp and Entp are like so often mixed up

ever type uses every function just in a diffrent order. all u need is to know which 2 dom and aux functions u use

Omg you are me

Me but with isfp, esfp, istp, entp 😃 (help)

Watch memes

It's really is stressful

@@surrealmeet HAHA this was two years ago but i finally figured out my type is esfp! the best test i recommend you take is the mistype investigator one! my fav tbh but very long

@@ravadawn ohhh okay ty

@@ravadawnthank you))

Heather MacLean take notes perhaps? And maybe watch more than once?

Did you find the answer??

Yup :) I really like their approach

Hello! The difference between Ne and Ni is the accuracy and precision of ideas. Ne is usually scattered, while Ni is much more precise and accurate.

Lemme think about it. It’s not really my zone, but I might be able to give some thoughts on it.

You win!

Geek Psychology haha yes! Thanks:)

RedBlackNWhite Having a higher level of concern over how your words affect others sound like you have Fe in your cognitive stack rather than Fi, because Fe is more focused on the feelings/values of others compared to Fi which is more focused on your own feelings/values. Based on this I’d say that you’re ENTP, Ne-Ti-Fe-Si, and not ENFP, Ne-Fi-Te-Si. However, I could be inaccurate because I can’t confirm my answer based on just the one data point of you mentioning your concern over how your words affect others. You’ll just have to observe yourself. Do you focus more on how decisions or events affect other people? Or do you focus on how decisions and events affect you?

@@jollene5340 This is so helpful! Thanks a bunch

@Lola what’s ur mbti?

@Lola I thought I was an infp at firdt but I feel like infp are more emotional and make decisions based off of heart not facts and logic, and I’m more of the facts and logic type that’s why I’m considered so negative because I see things realistically while infp tend to daydream. Most of the people that responded back on other comment section said INTP or INFJ or ISTP so I’m positive it’s one of those but I’m just not sure which one

@Lola mostly everyone said intp tho so I think I’m going with that, I want to be an ISTP tho lol

@Lola seems very calming

U cud be an ENFP more likely

Atleast you know ur an INxx

@@vishnupriya.k.p. what about you? what's ur mbti

@@heysquimble Lmao, actually idk..Maybe an ENFP or an Entp ..

Learn about the cognitive functions and you’ll see that those are all actually very different. If you’re still interested, that is :D

Geek Psychology thank you! :) 🥺

omg same, i relate more to infps and got infp in a test. but i'm kind of a judging person. not sure.

He does seem intellectual. Many INFPs like analyzing things. Myself included. Even though I like analyzing facts/ideas sometimes, I am usually stuck in dreamland 😂 I'm curious about his mind as well lol

I spend a lot of time there. A lot less than when I was younger. A lot less visual now. Mainly just go through imaging “what if...?” + whatever I’m interested in in the moment and see where the idea takes me.

@@daydreamingpanda3686 can I ask how you know that you're an INFP? cause I've been doing research for weeks now and I've narrowed down my type to either an INTP or INFP. I can't tell if I'm a Thinker or Feeler so I'm just curious

I don't know that much about MBTI since I've only gotten into it a while ago, but I first thought I was an ISFP lol Which is very different from an INFP. To be honest, I wish I was an ISFP, or an ENFP because they're so cool 😅. But I know that I'm an INFP because of Fi and Ne. I know I'm definitely a feeling type because I tend to make decisions based on what I feel is best and supports my values, not what I think is logical. I'm also really sensitive to people's emotions as an empath. INFPs can also rely on logic sometimes, but our heart usually wins over our head at the end. The descriptions of INFPs in general actually are literally me in a nutshell. 😂 So I just go with it.

@@daydreamingpanda3686 makes sense, you're most likely an INFP. This was helpful, thanks

I just think that taking a test like this to assess something that most people have no language for or conscious understanding of shouldn’t be done in the way online tests are. The expectation to know and answer is pretty unfair for most. And also, when you know what the test is asking for, it’s easy to intentionally or unconsciously fake it.

Geek Psychology If you want to fake it, you don't have interest in knowing the truth. If you really want to know yourself, you will be honest while answering the questions. Test will be the easiest for ones who don't overnalyze questions and for ones who see where each question is leading. Starting point is always the same: ,,do I want to know myself"

The tests themselves make sense and are usually well thought out. It is the test taker who is inaccurate. This is not because of intentional dishonesty but because of either a misunderstanding of our self, or because our "developed" or "contextual" selves can and often are different than our core self (this terminology and concept is from Dr. Linda Berens. I highly recommend looking up her stuff. I would go so far as to say that she is probably the leading depth psychologist alive today)

lol. It has nothing to do with sucking at test taking :P the tests suck imo

Isn't it great

You sound like a intp INXP have the hardest time finding there types

Because it doesn’t exist ^^

Me too, what tests do you take?

@@jarojarina1725 online 16Personalities

@@kenny6942 well this one is kinda innacurate. It doesn't care about functions you use. I don't know which functions I use, that's something pretty different and thats why I cannot type myself. Try these and comment which type you got : www.keys2cognition.com/cgi/survey48.pl sakinorva.net/functions personalityjunkie.com/free-online-personality-test-3/

@@jarojarina1725 My Grant type is ESTP i take the sakinorva

@@jarojarina1725 i take the last one and my result is xSTx

Pls help me sir..

@@mktrssbby Hello! You can try to narrow it down by learning the cognitive functions/the mental processes. For instance, there is a kind of mental process that's easiest for us to use. That's the primary cognitive function. If you are an INFP, that would be Introverted Feeling or Fi. On the other hand, if you are an INFJ, your primary cognitive function would be Introverted Intuition. Although they both have INFx, these two types are actually very different from one another.

@@ysabarro333 okay, thank you!

Moonlitsky* 333 I love your username:)