One of my least favorite pastimes is trying to find a TV show to watch with my ESTP husband. Part of this is because we have different entertainment preferences, and part of it is because I feel like entertainment is becoming increasingly…shallow. If you’re an INTJ like me, you process the world through Introverted Intuition…
It’s evening. You’re tired. You’ve had an exhausting day at work, at home, managing projects, tasks, and people. You just want to relax. So like many of us, you decide to kick back on the couch and open Netflix. You want a show that makes you think. You want stories that dig deep into the…
Here is a thing I did this morning: I spent twenty minutes trying on shirts in a hotel bathroom mirror, trying to find the one that would make me look like a person who deserves to eat breakfast. I hadn’t eaten in twenty-four hours. My hands were shaking as I held my plate in the…
If you’re a Perceiver you probably relate to the feeling that you wake up every day in a world that wants you to be a spreadsheet. Western culture is essentially a giant machine built by and for people with an ESTJ mindset. They like rules, tradition, and they absolutely adore a five-year plan. You, on…
For INFPs, choosing a job isn’t just about the paycheck, it’s about landing somewhere that feels right at a core level. It’s often a heart-and-mind inner debate, and sometimes that means turning down the “practical” option because it feels hollow, much to the confusion of friends and family. As an MBTI® practitioner I’ve worked with…
