ISFP Common Mistypes #shorts

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It's often the case that people mistype as intuitive types. ISFPs are a prime example of a type who many apparent intuitives in fact are. Here are some of the common examples...

[brittneygelabert]

My dad is an Isfp. ISFP's do use a healthy amount of Ni in combination and take immediate action with (second slot SE). My dad always creates a strong vision of what he wants and then makes it happen or tries his best to recreate the vision to bring his dreams into reality. He can look very Intj at times.

[shamrous]

Damn, I feel so bad that I said to people that I'm INFJ cse I'm surely not.
I was sooo misleaded by tests, explanations on forums and video channels that phrases S&N functions like "imagination/reality" or "ideas/materials". I mean yes, sure, at some point it's true, but unfortunately not this words helped me to understand how to explain myself in terms of mbti.
Yes, I have strong imagination, and my ideas exploration goes deep and about one-two things but I wouldn't say that my life is planned and I can act according to even my plans, even those w/o timeframes?
Yes, I feel blurry in the present moment, I'm actually don't like to focus on anything unless it's veeeery important, but I don't have a vision of 10 different lines how conversation/relationship may be? Or how someone may improve in 5-10 different ways?
Yeah, I may solve or prevent some conflict situations, but tbh it more depends from how I feel about the situation and I may just let things go even if there's a conflict
What I realised is there's veeeery twisted, confusing interpretation of Se/Si, and as well (as it's the opposites) - Ne/Ni.
Se/Si are not only about material goals or practical information that more like facts then theories. Even if so, isn't that weird that people not include in Se-types any words about plans? Cse if you see reality clearly why you wouldn't plan things naturally? And plan more successfully then Ni users? And btw how you can imagine a person that more detached from reality (Ni/Ne) and, so, overlook things more often, to see something behind it and create plans or guess possibilities that may exist? And how a person that, again, makes plans, can't remember very important component for most of the life-plans such as time?
Isn't that ridiculous? As soon as we step out of mbti theory, we see people. Their brains. Their psychology and patters and behaviours, and can't tell to them even what perceiving function they have? Sure we need some time for it, but if you guess something - it's better to guess a thing that would make the person feel sure about it?
Uh...
Well, eventually, I have my own summary of what perceiving functions are, maybe it'll help you:

Se - not as much present, but a moment. Not summary of moments so you naturally can form important, useful and appealing pattern. For Se is very common to drown in the processes in a good/neutral meaning. It's not boring, it's not exausting unless someone (even you) decided that you have to go through certain moment at certain time. Se very appreciate the joy from process/acting and less from results/goals/plans("The way is as much important as a point"). That's why Se is commonly puts down details and schemes, cse the "goal" of this vision is naturally to be, to exist, to processing, not to get results so it would work for it. But if result is needed, for Se is better to not encounter the goal straightforward, not to overthink and planning things too much - trust to the process of action, even if it feels scary or as a fail.
Se users may be pretty skilled in so many areas that not require focus, attention, scheming or defining means, but require a lot of repetitiveness, sometimes mindless repetitiveness cse again - Se perceive every moment at least slightly different and enjoy drowning in each aspect of it ("Today I'm this person, but tomorrow I'll wake up and be different")
Si - Also about moments, but more about preferences of certain moments. Preferences about same scenes, scenarios, very picky. Oh, Si is actually goes deep about details, like a microscope, but instead of making patterns in mind to create a plan it prefers to keep everything the same or in certain form they want to see. Si, instead of trying everything and switching often as Se, pick very few things in life and master it! Wasting so much time on certain themes, aspects, action, to make it fantastically giant and full of nuances. Like a master of clocks, master of mechanisms, Si will go deep and deep, keeping very close in mind, previous concrete experience of actions. Si is not only about present, it's truly about history, a chronology of how things come so far, and Si remember every step they made.
Ne - not as much present, but a possibility! Ha! Unlike Se, Ne don't need several actions and moments, don't need to touch/taste/check more - one action, one object is enough to drive easily Ne into10 different guesses without any focuse, right to the world of possibilities. Ne like to discover something at first in their brains! In their inner world! Don't dare to take it away just presenting answers in the form of spoilers/actions/another key, Ne very much hates it. As much as I know, that's why for Ne is very difficult to deal with education system and new knowledge - when so many things come to Ne brain, it drives Ne close to insanity cse it didn't processed fully previous things, didn't discover by their own enough possibilities that may exist and didn't filtered them all yet. But! Huge plus about Ne is usually being very sneaky smart/very mentally smart with having not much info data taken unlike Ni, Si and Se users all together. You can throw Ne user in absolutely alien surroundings with one thing and Ne user will adapt and understand everything. Very unique mind and very rare.
Ni - Also about possibilities, but about very preferred ones. Ni pick one-two lines from a huge streams that Ne may generate and work with it. Basically Ni is very familiar to everyone by plans, schedules, mindgames, by going and sticking with a path that is predicted till the end. Ni is very much about goals, conclusions, and also about beauty of connections in mind maps that lead to something one. Ni do not mind to do the same, do not mind to do something that seems difficult, do not mind to do something soul crushing, do not mind to do something risky and even extreme - if that action takes place, if that action makes sense, Ni will do it. And very calm and natural! Why? Because Ni is very motivated by their pair judging function. Ni really not interested in enjoying moments, even in the slightest, it very demand purposes and at least easy plan/order. That's why Ni really seem like stucked in mind, naturally think that already have enough in there. That's why Ni can easily stick with education system that they choosed for certain reasons and do everything as possible to graduate in the way Ni desire. Ni don't get bored in doing things it predicted and noted in mind, so as much very terrified doing actions without decided/choosed purpose cse it feels like it drowning. But in bad meaning, like mind/soul is sinking to nowhere, even if the action by itself have purposes or give good feelings. As I understand, Ni is very loved in society: it's praised in characters that do epic plans and stick with it, it's adored in imaginated worlds where everything has a purpose, meaning and tight connections, it's loved by economy system. I'm not surprised that INFJ became not rare - people really attracted to NiFe/NiTe and want to have that Ni.
But for me... Ni is too hursh.
Thankfully to your channel, Nathan, I understood that Ni is the opposite of me. But at the same time I feel it's presence, more in a weird unfinished way.
Finally I'm calm and stand on my shoes. ISFP, from all 16 types, contains everything that I have: Natural FiSe that really make me feel every moment of my life, and trained NiTe. Maybe I'm bad with catching details, maybe I'm bad at learning something straight, maybe I'm very bad at competitions, but I'm very good at learning something through another things that near my subject, and learn it with pure joy from the art of processes. And very good, as I know and heard, to be a human in humanistic and grounded meaning.
Y'know, Ni is very confusing. Attractive for it's beauty in mind trees and deep ideas, good for getting things done and forming future, but...so algorithmic and cold. I had something I may call as FiNi crisis when I was forcing my feelings, sacrificing my present desires, to my quirky-working and actually unstable Ni that just stuck in one way. But at the same time, Ni gave me so much thoughts and nuances about myself that I needed to process - if I would exist only with Se, I wouldn't learn anything. I wouldn't notice anything wrong. Would just go and go into blurred life, through everything I have inside and outside.
I'm so sorry, didn't planned my comment such long, but I think it may be useful for someone like me. Or for anyone else to perceive and note. Hope that I'm right this time

[c____]

I now know I’m an ISFP.
But man I went through literal years of mistyping myself.

I first was introduced to MBTI through a friend of mine, I obviously didn’t know about cognitive functions and did the 16personality test. I got INTJ first and the most, but I would also get ISTP sometimes, and somehow quite a few ENTP, and even ESTP. so I stopped taking quizzes, and I ended up doing more research cuz I wanted to know.


The funny thing is that none of my friends thought intj result were right(they were like you’re a feeler for sure), but when I would get a lot of ENTP from quizzes I was back in my country for the summer with my own language. And pretty much all of my friends thought entp was correct.
Now that I think about it it makes sense I got intj and thought it was correct, having the fact that I left my country alone, i originally thought I would never go back, so I would put an emphasis on the Ni. And it also makes sense I kept getting Ti dom, having the fact that on top of I really cultivated my way, I’m also an ADHDer, over thinker, grew up under emotionally unavailable Asian parents😅

I NEVER got mistyped with other feelers, when I got it right it made all sense. When I started to see MBTI as archetypes rather than personalities it was much easier. And I super appreciate your approach to ISFP without the stereotype bias🫶🫶

[georginaharroll]

I've also seen a lot of ISFPs being mistyped as INTPs. There were more than one or two cases around me, . Perhaps, that's why I actually expected INTPs to be one of the types here.

[el-ml-am]

Oh hey!! I was mistyped as ISTP, mostly due to ‘wanting to be’ rather than typing ‘by being’. I related to the concrete aspects, pragmatism, Se, basically. But had the downfalls of INFP, Te weakness.

Figured out ISFP from that, and it’s fit me like a glove ever since!

[raycaster]

An enigmatic type somewhat hard to button hole.

[RainbowRoadCrashTest]

ISFPs are more likely to mistype as INTPs than ISTPs Id find. They can have one heck of a TiSi dip, pretty much going into INTP mode. Also of course, INFJ is a very common source of mistyping amongst ISFPs. Though with the nature of FiNi, they have a more kaleidoscopic view of the self, so they can look at whatever archetype through Se and pretty much embody it through their identity with FiNi. ISFPs can literally be anybody, takes an extra nuanced approach to type one.

[iiii]

I've watched so many videos on ISFPs and INTJs, trying to figure out if I am an ISFP with high Ni or an INTJ with high Fi.

[krinni]

My friend was an ISFJ for the first time, but knowing her style of behavior, I immediately realized that something was not clean :D

[brickellvoss]

Wow I'm surprised you didn't say ENTJ. I've seen a few other YouTubers who thought they were ENTJ just to be typed ISFP by shanny and Dave lol