I decided to look up all the INFJ’s on personality-database.com and crunch the data to deduce trends.
Why?
Because I’m a self absorbed narcissist mostly. But I say it’s toward my goal of optimizing my input to output. I am always trying to refine my direction, and learn what I can from those with similar personalities or on similar paths.
I am risk averse. And I don’t like to figure things out that I’m not interested in. So I read books or whatever that other people wrote, so I can be good at things without having to figure them out. Deducing trends about people like me will help me do this.
Anyway, what I deduced is this:
Most INFJ’s are musicians and celebrities. Whether this is actually true or just a product of the fact that famous people tend to be musicians and celebrities would require further data analysis of other types.
Most INFJ’s are 5w4 or 4w5. I mean, assuming that this crowd-sourced-typing thing is even accurate (it’s not. But it should be accurate enough in aggregate to not lead me to totally off the rails conclusions).
The number of 4w5’s who aren’t musicians or celebrities is very low. Basically my only options are Frank James, JK Rowling, Osamu Dazai, and Dostoevsky, and a few other randoms.
When I expand into 5w4 there are a lot more options that are interesting. Like Peterson, Jung, Schopenhaur, Siddhartha, Wittegenstein, Hesse.
The problem with 4w5’s is that we are gay and retarded. We only care about ourselves and write gay emo songs or stupid personal blogs all about our gay feelings.
It seems being an emo cry baby is something I’m made for. But not something I respect myself for.
I could say “well, you’re made for it, so you should embrace it.” But should I? I know that for some people it works. But I am not convinced it will work for me. In fact, I’m pretty sure it won’t.
What is the population of people who care about quantum physics, personality types, neoreaction, self development, business, and whatever else I’m on about at any given moment?
If everything I was interested in was non controversial, maybe this blog could become interesting. But the neo-reaction et al really ruins it.
I guess
has had some success with being a 4W5 retard (might be 5W4 but since he is INFP it’s close enough). But he is a great story teller. And has realized (or at least decided—maybe we are both wrong) that whining about his feeling is not the way and he has to write like real useful non-self-absorbed philosophy.I guess that’s the thing really. It’s not that I should become more self absorbed. It’s not that I will somehow make a bunch of money and fame off of Only Frens.
The way the 4W5 becomes useful is that we dive so deep into ourselves that we extract something universally useful. And then we take that universal and make it about other people. We present the value to them for them, us fully removed from the equation.
Kurt Cobain or Marilyn Manson or Amy Lee or Syliva Plath or all the other emo fag 4W5 INFx’s didn’t provide their value by publicly processing their feelings. They provided value by publicly articulating the universally applicable conclusions they arrived at.
Cool. That makes sense. That’s what I’m seeking to do with Actualization Hub and Minor Dissent (and maybe the new blog I will start soon on Business Process Management).
Only Frens will never matter. And it never needs to matter. It is simply where I go to process. Maybe a small niche of hyper retarded losers will care about it. But only as a “behind the scenes” to the actually-valuable-to-not-insane-people things that I create.
TLDR i’m doing everything right and my intuition is leading me in the right direction. Maybe I should stop second guessing myself all the time. I won’t. But I probably should.
Good dae.