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- Profile: ISFP
- Revision: 1.1
- Date of Revision: 31 Oct 93
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- Introverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving
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- by Joe Butt (jabutt@sacam.oren.ortn.edu)
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- ISFPs are the first to hear the different drummer. Many eagerly plunge into
- new fashions, avant garde experiences, 'hip' trends--some even setting the
- trends.
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- More in touch with the reality of their senses than their INFP counterparts,
- ISFPs live in the here and now. Their impulses yearn to be free, and are
- often loosed when others least expect it. The ISFP who continually represses
- these impulses feels 'dead inside' and may eventually cut and run. (One ISFP
- friend has become nonambulatory within the past few years. He will still, on
- impulse, leave home in the middle of the night and go to Las Vegas or wherever,
- regardless of the difficulties of his physical condition.)
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- ISFPs, especially males, may be overly ingratiating in an initial acquaintance,
- often complimenting others without basis or substance (read: flattery?). Many
- later become fiercely competitive, especially in sport or table games, and may
- have great difficulty losing. This competitive nature, also seen in other SP
- types, sometimes fosters 'lucky,' 'gut' feelings and a willingness to take
- risks.
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- Organized education is difficult for the majority of ISFPs, and many drop out
- before finishing secondary education. Their interest can be held better
- through experiential learning, at which many excel. ISFPs will practice
- playing an instrument or honing a favored skill for hours on end, not so much
- as practice as for the joy of the experience.
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- Differential diagnosis:
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- ISFPs are less fantasy-oriented than INFPs. These types are often confused,
- however, INFPs lean strongly to daydreams, poetry, prose and more
- philosophical pursuits; ISFPs often live out 'id' experiences rather than
- writing or even talking about them.
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- ISFJs are driven by the conventional, by 'should's and 'ought's; ISFPs
- internalize their Feeling (by nature a judging function) which bursts out
- spontaneously and leaves as quickly and mysteriously as it came.
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- Because of these variant expressions of Feeling judgement, ISFPs are sometimes
- confused with ESFJs, but keep themselves more aloof, more often concealing the
- feelings that ESFJs are so apt to expose.
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- ESFPs express thoughts more readily (and, in the main, skillfully). ISFPs can
- and do perform admirably in the spotlight, but generally have little to say
- about the performance. For example, few ISFPs would be disc-jockeys, a field
- strongly represented by ES_Ps.
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- Famous ISFPs:
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- Marie Antoinette
- Fred Astaire
- Donald Sutherland (actor/dancer)
- Marilyn Monroe
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Yogi Berra (professional baseball player--"It's deja vu all over again.")
- Ervin "Magic" Johnson (NBA basketball star)
- Patrick Duffey
- Dan Quayle (U.S. Vice President, 1988-1992)
- Michael Jackson
- Greg Louganis (U.S. Olympic gold medalist--diving)
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