Author: Erik Thor
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Four Temperaments:Melancholic Sanguine Choleric Phlegmatic
The Four Temperaments The four temperaments were conceptualised many years ago in one of the oldest known systems of personality types. People were categorised by their mood. The belief was there were people that were choleric, melancholic, sanguine, and phlegmatic. The phlegmatic is best understood as the slow-moving, careful, methodical, self-bettering type. The Sanguine as…
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INFP Black Sheep & INFP Alienation
THE INFP BLACK SHEEP. Have you ever felt yourself intentionally placing yourself in a situation where people will hate you or joke at your expense? Then you might be an INFP personality type. Introverted, iNtuitive, Feeling and Perceiving, INFPs have a strong introverted feeling and a sense of what is special and unique about them.…
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Scattered Curiosity: Can You Be Too Open-Minded?
The strongest distinguishing quality of an open-minded person is curiosity: a novelty-seeking person wants to learn more, wants to see, wants to hear about, wants to figure out. There are too many questions: what to do next, what to see after this? Where do we go from here? What does this mean? I recognise I…
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Vacation Planning When You Don’t Like Being Locked Down
I don’t actually like planning. But I do like exploring and getting to know what a city can offer. So when planning the best lissabon trip, what I do is just open up Google maps and start zooming in on and exploring the different areas. Screw tripadvisor, that website has never told me anything interesting.…
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Struggles Of A Highly Sensitive Explorer
EXPLORERS ARE NOT BORN BRAVE. Growing up, I was a very sensitive type, often living in my own world. Perhaps because of this, some people would come to see me as sheltered. When I said I wanted to be a traveller and that I wanted to see the world, some would laugh and felt I…
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Ten Things All Dreamers Can Relate To
It may sound crazy, it may sound too irrational, but iNtuitive and Feeling types need dreams to feel happy.
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How Blind Purpose Can Kill You
Don’t get me wrong. Purpose is great. I am happy you have that. But I want to warn against blind purpose: where we begin to pursue purpose at the expense of everything else that we are and what we need to be happy and healthy people. Purpose drives increased directiveness, we make decisions more easily,…
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Misconceptions about personality type
The study of personality is the study of healthy differences in people’s behaviour. Differences that can sometimes be seen in a positive or negative light, but for the most, add diversity and just describe differences in what we prioritise and value in life. Personality is not understood by just observing someones behaviour. People are adaptive…
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Internal and external, personal and objective
One thing you have to recognise is that you have personal values and needs and that these needs are important. When you know your flow type, you already have a rough idea about the values most important to this type. But what about the other values? An INFP places key significance on introversion, intuition, feeling,…
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Flavours of Sensing Types
iNtuition is not just either introverted or extroverted, but it also has unique flavours.
