Author: Erik Thor

  • The Four ENFP Subtypes

    ENFPs can be grouped into four different subtypes or flow styles depending on personal preference and development within their personality type. This subtype can be understood by looking at your strongest or most easily noticed qualities The ENFP Subtypes There are four subtypes for the ENFP Personality Type. The Leader, The Follower, The Pleaser, and…

  • Ten Steps For ENTPs That Want To Accomplish Something More In Life

    In my experience, ENTPs are master improvisers. Many of them seem to somehow always find a way to scrape by with minimal effort invested. They can think of the most efficient way to do anything and always know how to get things done “easy”. They’re interested in everything but never commit to anything, and here’s…

  • Ten Problems With The INFJ Stereotype

    There’s a lot of problems with the INFJ stereotype and how INFJs are described online. It gives a shallow idea of what it means to be an INFJ. It also makes a lot of people misidentify as INFJs, while keeping other real INFJs from identifying with the personality type. Today we’re talking about some of…

  • What is the difference between consciousness and presence?

    Lately, I have found myself reflecting on what it means to be attentive, and what it means to be conscious. I ask myself this as an introverted intuitive type, someone who lives and spends most of his life reading books, and digging deeper into his own mind, hoping to find answers and awareness of what…

  • What I Did To Fix Myers Briggs Type Indicator

    The problems with the MBTI have been well documented and its scientific status is weak to none. This is how I fixed it.

  • INFJ: The Messy Judging Type

    My biggest blind spot is external organization Like I said in my latest video, I tend to get a bit lost in my own head at times. Like, when I’m writing, I enter into a flow, and I literally black out everything else that happens around me. Time stops passing and I don’t know where…

  • Are Thinking Types More Unethical?

    Online, Thinking (T) types are often branded as prone to unethical and socially irresponsible behaviour. They’re sometimes associated with what in the Big 5 is known as Disagreeableness, being able to disregard social norms and conventions, and with it, moral norms and values that are held as important in our society or in our in-group…

  • How I Feel When I Read A Book

    I’ve already pushed through more than 10 books this year, and last year, I managed to hit 35. I don’t set goals for my reading, it just depends on my mood, and this time of the year, reading speaks a lot to my mood and what I need. Reading is to me not very different…

  • What can you do to start typing people through critical and objective methods?

    There is no objective way to type another person and no science that can verify your assessments of another person, so always type with humility and with the realisation that you can’t ultimately prove anything. But there are objective and scientific methods to do personality psychology in a way that will drive personal growth and…

  • How I Became The Smiling Melancholic

    Sometimes people say I’m too happy to qualify as an INFJ. INFJs are brooding, grumpy, sad creatures that should hide away in caves and grow long beards, developing wacky conspiracy theories about the world. Aren’t introverts supposed to be anxious? Aren’t judging types supposed to be more tense? Me, myself, I see myself as “the…