We’d also like to inform you that the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is not a strict set of rules but rather a general framework that can help guide you to understand your personality better. If you would like a proper MBTI evaluation, visit a licensed professional to help you understand yourself better. With that said, let’s begin.
Unpacking INTP and INFP
Have you ever stumbled across the acronym INTP on the internet? How about INFP? For those unfamiliar, these acronyms are two of the 16 MBTI types, also known as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicators. Catherine Briggs and her daughter, Isabelle Briggs-Myers, built this on the psychiatrist Carl Jung’s cognitive process theory. Jung believed that all people have dominant functions that are based on four categories, and there the MBTI personality types came to life. These categories are:
- Introversion
- Extroversion
- Sensing
- Intuition
- Thinking
- Feeling
- Judging
- Perceiving
The combinations INTP and INFP are among the rarest out there, making up roughly around three and five percent of the population, respectively. They are…
