Keirsey Character Survey - My results are Counselor:INFJ
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Some years ago I took an online temperment survey by Keirsey. This survey validated much of how I percieved myself. Below are those results. I may take the survey again sometime soon to see if these resuls still ring true.
Portrait of the Counselor (iNFj)
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The Counselor Idealists are abstract thought and speech, cooperative in reaching their goals, and
directive and introverted in their interpersonal roles. Counselors focus on human potentials, think in
terms of ethical values, and come easily to decisions. The small number of this type (little more than 2
percent) is regrettable, since Counselors have an unusually strong desire to contribute to the welfare of
others and genuinely enjoy helping their companions. Although Counsleors tend to be private, sensitive
people, and are not generally visible leaders, they nevertheless work quite intensely with those close to
them, quietly exerting their influence behind the scenes with their families, friends, and colleagues.
This type has great depth of personality; they are themselves complicated, and can understand and deal
with complex issues and people.
Counselors can be hard to get to know. They have an unusually rich inner life, but they are reserved
and tend not to share their reactions except with those they trust. With their loved ones, certainly,
Counselors are not reluctant to express their feelings, their face lighting up with the positive emotions,
but darkening like a thunderhead with the negative. Indeed, because of their strong ability to take into
themselves the feelings of others, Counselors can be hurt rather easily by those around them, which,
perhaps, is one reason why they tend to be private people, mutely withdrawing from human contact. At
the same time, friends who have known an Counselor for years may find sides emerging which come as
a surprise. Not that they are inconsistent; Counselors value their integrity a great deal, but they have
intricately woven, mysterious personalities which sometimes puzzle even them.
Counselors have strong empathic abilities and can become aware of another's emotions or
intentions-good or evil-even before that person is conscious of them. This "mind-reading" can take the
form of feeling the hidden distress or illnesses of others to an extent which is difficult for other types to
comprehend. Even Counselors can seldom tell how they came to penetrate others' feelings so keenly.
Furthermore, the Counselor is most likely of all the types to demonstrate an ability to understand
psychic phenomena and to have visions of human events, past, present, or future. What is known as ESP
may well be exceptional intuitive ability-in both its forms, projection and introjection. Such
supernormal intuition is found frequently in the Counselor, and can extend to people, things, and often
events, taking the form of visions, episodes of foreknowledge, premonitions, auditory and visual
images of things to come, as well as uncanny communications with certain individuals at a distance.
Mohandas Gandhi and Eleanor Roosevelt are examples of the Counselor Idealist (INFJ).
Full descriptions of the Counselor and the Idealists are in Please Understand Me or Please Understand Me II
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