Introverted feeling types have a wealth of warmth and enthusiasm, but they may not show it until they know someone well. They wear their warm side inside, like a fur-lined coat.
Interpretation
Introverted feeling types are warm and enthusiastic, but they tend to hide their emotions until they are comfortable with someone.
This quote by Isabel Briggs Myers highlights the nature of introverted feeling types, suggesting that they possess deep warmth and enthusiasm internally, akin to wearing a cozy coat to keep their feelings secure. Their emotional depth may remain hidden from others until they form a trusting relationship, indicating that genuine warmth often requires familiarity and comfort before it is shared openly.
In practice
In a workshop about personality types, this quote can be used to explain introverted emotional responses.
Conventional measures of mental ability, such as intelligence tests and scholarship, show some of the very highest records belong to INFP and INFJ types, who relegate thinking to last place or next to last. The preference for thinking appears to have far less intellectual effect than the preference for intuition, even in some technical fields, such as scientific research, where its influence was expected to be most important.
In teaching, the other main problem related to type is the students’ interest. Intuitives and sensing types differ greatly in what they find interesting in any subject even if they like, that is, are interested in, the same subjects. Intuitives like the principle, the theory, the why. Sensing types like the practical application, the what and the how.
Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer to your heart's desire
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