The Path to Self-Growth: Self-Awareness

Someone asked me recently if my understanding of my own type has changed over the last year or so, and I had to think about it (ha, ha, on brand for a head type, no?). I don’t think my understanding of 6 has changed, since I have pretty much been aware of “what is 6” and “how does it operate” for a long time now… but I think I have changed, enough that people in my every day life have commented…

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The Resident: Barrett Cain [ENTJ 8w7]

MBTI Type: ENTJ Cain is all about the bottom line and billable hours; he is the top dog in the hospital, because he bills millions of dollars by lining up back-to-back surgeries, and taking on procedures that can get him the most payouts from the insurance company. It’s all about how much money he makes, having a clean record (even if he has to deny his mistakes and/or dump them in another ward…

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Resident Alien: Asta Twelvetrees [ISFJ 2w1]

MBTI Type: ISFJ Asta is a very down to earth woman, who has a lot of past history she carries around with her, rather than living in the now. She knows and remembers everything about the people she works with, enough to tell that something is off with Harry compared to the person she knew before, and to be suspicious about the events surrounding her boss’ death. When things do not add up, she…

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Gladiator: Lucilla [INFJ 6w5]

MBTI Type: INFJ Lucilla’s father laments that she was not born a man, for what a Caesar she would have made; it’s true, she is a strategic thinker, always focused on the future. When her brother arranges the gladiator games in order to “win over the mob,” Lucilla laments that he is using up their grain reserves to pay for them – in the future months, the people will starve. She knows instantly…

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Resident Alien: D’Arcy Bloom [ISTP 7w8]

MBTI Type: ISTP D’Arcy is detached, analytical, and a big problem-solver, who doesn’t take much of anything personally. She has a friendly rivalry with a former friend/enemy from high school that she taunts and belittles, but then will turn around and spend time with her or part without any negative feelings about the mean things they said to each other (bitch, skank, ho, etc). She rarely feels…

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So, my desktop died and I lost some e-mails out of Thunderbird. Andrea, if you see this, please resend your last e-mail, since I also lost all my e-mail addresses. Or reach out to me in the chat here. Thanks!

Gladiator: Maximus [INTJ 1w9]

MBTI Type: INTJ Maximus is always thinking in symbolic terms, and opens the film by encouraging his men to think about how what they do in life echoes in eternity. His mind is forever leaping ahead in anticipation of what will come next, even when that is thinking with longing of joining his lost family in the afterlife. He thinks strategically by using his insight into the mind of his enemies…

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Death Becomes Her: Helen Sharpe [INFJ 4w3]

MBTI Type: INFJ Helen is a master schemer, who turns up at Ernest’s house years later with a plan as to how to murder his wife and get away from it. She has thought it out so completely that she knows every step of how they will do it, and how they will fool the police and get away with it—and she is incredibly angry when Ernest “deviates from the plan” and they have to improvise (she shows up…

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6 Meltdowns: WHY WON'T ANYONE HELP ME?

I caught myself having a 6 reaction the other day. Continue reading 6 Meltdowns: WHY WON’T ANYONE HELP ME?

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Ripley: Thomas Ripley [ISTP 9w8]

MBTI Type: ISTP Tom is very detached and clinical in how he deals with other people and his victims; he knows the rational thing to do is to get rid of the evidence and play a scene to his best advantage, but because of his inferior Fe, he is very awkward about doing this successfully. He at first is ripping people off by pretending to be from a collection agency and asking them to send him…

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Death Becomes Her: Ernest Menville [ISFJ 6w7]

MBTI Type: ISFJ Ernest was a celebrated surgeon before his fall from grace; then he became an accomplished painter of dead bodies, celebrated for his extreme talent in knowing how to duplicate flesh tones. It just dawned on him that spray paint might work, and he’s meticulous about his job (fretting over getting Madeline’s color and texture just right). It’s his expertise in this matter that…

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Gladiator: Commodus [ENFJ 4w3]

MBTI Type: ENFJ Commodus is open with his emotions and takes each slight by his father and every criticism of his character deeply to heart (“I had none of the virtues on your list!”). His bitter resentment at being unloved and disapproved of causes him to lash out against his father, to betray anyone who disagrees with him, and to try and control his sister (hoping to force her into loving…

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Death Becomes Her: Madeline Ashton [ESFP 3w4]

MBTI Type: ESFP Madeline is a stereotype of an ESFP—obsessed with appearances and shallow, but also opportunistic. She is forever tweaking her looks, getting injections to stay firm, wanting plastic surgery, etc. Every man Helen has ever introduced her to, Madeline has stolen from her. Then on a whim, seeing how the magic clears up her skin, she spends a huge amount of money to drink it and…

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Mindhunters: Bill Tench [ESTP 8w9]

MBTI Type: ESTP Bill is way more down to earth than Holden; he is concerned with the real life applications of their theoretical work, and not at all interested in interviewing serial killers at first, until he sees how it might be useful. He is way better at reading people and responding to them, knowing and responding to what is happening, and being in the moment; when they’re hit by a car, it…

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Gilmore Girls: Logan Huntzberger [ESTP 3w2]

MBTI Type: ESTP Logan doesn’t really want to live for anything more than today, and has a reputation for being a troublemaker at school. He proudly tells Luke he got kicked out of several prep schools for playing pranks, including sinking the dean’s car in the lake. When Rory gets kicked out of her shared apartment by Paris after she becomes Yale’s newspaper editor, Logan doesn’t hesitate to…

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Howards End: Tibby Schlegel [INTP 5w4]

MBTI Type: INTP Tibby is something of a caricature, in that he is the intellectual in the family, more focused on his abstract hobbies, reading his books, quoting his poets, or listening to his favorite music, than he is interested in the mundane reality of the outside world and its chores – he leaves Margaret to do almost everything after they’re told they must move. She has to find a new…

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Howards End: Helen Schlegel [ENFP 2w1]

MBTI Type: ENFP Helen is a romantic idealist at heart, who loves to fiercely debate her ideas at the breakfast table; she says as resentful as she was of Henry turning her ideas inside out and proving them all wrong, she also rather enjoyed it! In her own way, she is flighty and inconsistent, changing her mind about people and where she wants to be on a whim (falling in love with someone…

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