Showing posts with label psychology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label psychology. Show all posts

Friday, April 13, 2012

Introverted Intuitive Feeling Judgement

I think I like being talked to with, not necessarily for the attention I am given by an individual but more because I really like to know how people feel. I really like to listen to verbal inflections and tones and all the cues to see what people are really thinking or feelings besides the emotions to wear on their faces.

When I took the Jung and Briggs personally test I ended up having a moderate amount of intuition which was highest of all the results at 50 when the second highest was at 25 for feeling. The three jobs that listed at the highest were social work, early childhood development and design. I kind of laughed when i saw these results. My personality would best fit helping the youth of our nation and possibly the world. If you know me, you know that this would be crazy career paths. But then again I have been told that I am a good listener and can sometimes, at the right times, be very informative.

Most of my information or empathetic thoughts are all based on what I think people need to hear at the time isn't always what they should be told.

This is just another thing that popped in my head i thought to talk about. Its three in the morning. Who knows why I am talking about these things.

Purpose of a One Sided Conversation

So tonight I went to a party where i knew some of the people attending but most of them i wouldn't. As always i walk into parties very weary and kind of anxious because I tend to be an introvert. I made rounds and said hi to everyone i knew but not the ones i didn't because I am just an awkward person and I dont know how to just introduce myself to random people. After I was done talking to the host, who's birthday it also was, she went back to making her rounds.

After she walked away one of the people that live in the same apartment complex started talking to me, and it was mostly a one sided conversation because I would only chime in here and there. I found myself more listening to her talk and analyzing the way she talked, how the conversation was being lead and by why, indicators of inflection and facial movements. I found myself thinking about what was going through her head while she was talking. I was trying to read between the lines. Im not saying she was hitting on me or any kind of subtle attraction.

A lot of the times I am thinking one thing and saying another. Im not trying to hide an specific feeling or any deeper meaning. I tend to multitask when having a conversation. Even as I am talking my mind tends to wander in different directions, about the conversation, where this conversation is going and why do i have the nervous tick of always looking in a direction of something moving in my periphs.

As the night went on i talked to multiple people, or more like multiple people talked to me and I chimed in every once in awhile when it seemed appropriate. I feel more comfortable listening than I do talking and i find myself giving very empathic based on a mixture of my feeling and the feelings of the person I am talking to.

I dont know what the point of this story is but its super late and i just felt like writing. I need to do this more, and maybe thinking about the subject I am writing about a little more thoroughly and with purpose.