Recently, one of our readers left this comment on one of our posts:
It would be really nice if you guys included a question and answer section on the website. Or some other method of allowing users to submit questions. Your expertise is invaluable. Thanks!
Having received many requests along these lines, we decided to add this new blog feature in which readers can submit topic requests and/or vote on the requests of others (very similar to Reddit). Our hope is that this will clarify the topics / questions that are most important to you so we can better meet your needs. Please note that we will not be responding to your requests on this page, but will do so through upcoming posts and podcasts, so be sure you’re connected to us through our email list or social media.
John says
I’d love for you to write more about the topic of purpose, including how to discover one’s purpose in life and how purpose ties into personality type.
Benni says
I appreciated the recent article about how to actually develop your personality, how to ‘improve’ that is. I would like to read more about that, maybe even with a more hands-on approach (sharing your personal experiences and challenges, tips, etc.)
Dan says
I just quit my job to be a freelancer a few months ago. Can you talk about how you stay focused as an INTP entrepreneur? I have trouble with making sure that my activities generate revenue. I focus on learning new techniques and avoid the spotlight when I know that I need to promote myself.
Nicole says
Are there commonalities in which personality types are more likely to believe/not believe in God?
Syfae says
It would be great to have articles on the individual functions, especially telling them apart.
Jennifer says
The ramifications of growing up in a family where you are forced to behave in a way that is the opposite of your personality type. My example I’m an ENTP and my mother was ISFJ and her “love” was on the condition that I behaved like a good, quiet little girl.
Solveig says
The tension between N and S is an interesting topic, both between individuals of different types, and within each individual.
Michael Laakasuo, PhD says
I would like to have an in-depth analysis of different personality types and their relationship to high dose psychedelic experiences (mushrooms, ayahuasca). Or if not that, then extreme altered states of consciousness and how they are associated with personality. It is interesting to note, for instance, that INTPs like Neo and Yoda, grow up to be spiritual leaders of sorts, although they are supposed to represent the most logical or scientific of all the types.
This is very puzzling to me, but it somehow also ties into the purpose topic -that has been voted highest at the moment.
Durdana says
There is an article on ‘INTP Relationships and Compatibility’. But for ENTJ personality type there is no such article. I would like to request it. Thank you.
Raja says
Could you please mention and illustrate some definite signs(in layman’s term) which separate INFPs from INTPs?
Christina says
Just want to say how much I appreciate the way you approach mbti. I’m interested in your thoughts about how personality type interacts with life events to change the apparent personality of people. I know you have made some reference to this but is there some integration of it possible?
Nicole says
Within type variation (i.e., differences between individuals of the same type).
charlie says
What career advice do you have for people who know their type, but still struggle with finding the “right” career/work and knowing what they really “want” to do.
David Ramos says
I would love to see a more in-depth treatment of istp-type 5. I don’t find many sources mentioning this combination, and I feel that this istp is somewhat different than the usual istp descriptions, closer to an intp especially if Se is somehow neglected.
Jason B says
I’d like to see you thoughts on the Beebe 8-function model.
Jess says
Although you write a lot about the 4 varieties of IN personalities and even have two tests to differentiate a P from a J type, I don’t see much analysis on differences between the F and T. Varieties. I would love to see a test, or more written about deciding between all four IN varieties, but specifically an INTJ vs INFJ. I’d also like to understand more fully the differences in how these types develop. Although I know these types are completely different, I have gone back and forth between the two results over the decades.
Bethany says
I would love to see more in-depth study on career paths for the types.
Maya M. says
Hi,
I would like to see some examples of how Ne is used at work (in a job). I’m an INFP and am trying to figure out whether my current job (as software technical support) uses Ne.
Nach says
I would like to request an article on how CULTURAL differences can influence the PERCEPTION of one own’s type, especially for female NTs.
Thanks.
Amy says
I would love to know more about people’s political views and their personality types…is there a correlation?
Sean says
For me, the key to understanding personality type lies in understanding each type’s functional stack, and Junkie does an outstanding job exploring the stacks. I am very curious to know what role the “non-stack” functions play in comparison to, say, the tertiary or inferior functions. Do they play a role in type, or none whatsoever?
La'Quisha says
I would also like to see posts about type differences in family and NT females, but I also want to read a post about types with the same functions but in different order (Quadras in Socionics). Your posts are better for my attention span.
SLo says
Like Benni, I would like an addition to typology about improving within type. Your recent article hinted at how INFJ’s, for instance can behave in a self-indulgent way when in the grip of the inferior function. Similarly to the way the Enneagram authors tend to delineate unhealthy, average, and healthy versions of type behavior within the classic type description and the subwing versions, could you go back to each type description and list paths of development and then characteristics of personality from healthy to unhealthy?
Kareena says
The importance of developing the underlying functions or how the underlying functions take over when stressed.
Mohamed says
I would appreciate if you could write more about individuation. This Jungian term seems to be very obscure. You use it when you refer to a state of growth or self-completion. But still I don’t understand what does that mean? What an individated person would be like? What are the implications on each function when individuation occurs?
I know your previous two articles were like road maps to growth, but still it seems that your thoughts about this topic are very abstract to unclear.
Thanks in advance for all your efforts and enlightening you brought to our lives.
Kay says
I agree with Jennifer’s suggested topic: delving deeper into the impact of growing up in a family where children are required to behave differently than type. For example, an NFJ required to comply within an STJ family culture. Also (to add another layer to this topic), more on the influence of birth order on type.
Jane says
I would like to see more written about common misconceptions about each type, especially common misconceptions about Si doms.
Matt says
I would like to know your thoughts on the work of the late David Keirsey, author of Please Understand Me II. He’s another INTP (with their typical knack for semantic precision) who extended Myers-Briggs typology by focusing on empirical differences (what can be observed e.g. a person’s use of words and tools), rather than the Myers-Briggs abstract psychological functions which are validated subjectively.
Susan says
I would like to learn more about INTP females and in general how gender interacts with type.
Susanne says
I would like to have your insights about “shadow functions” and their impact of ones type and/or risk of mistyping.
For instance if an INTJ developed a strong Ti – how can this individual be sure of it’s type?
Also, often I feel like there is a type missing in the MBTI-system.
I always test INTJ – and have some preferences for this type (many things do not fit) – but also have some preferences for INFJ (most things do not fit, but some do very well. Maybe because of shadow functions or a missing type….?
And some things fit in P-section, but most in J.
My functions might be:
Strong Ni, strong Ti and Te, believe pretty strong Fi, and weak Fe, Se
(Si is minimal)
(Ne is minimal)
Sarai says
I’d be interested in an article dealing with struggles of NP types in a family(or world) of SJ types. I’m an INTP and my family are SJ’s specifically ISFJ, ESFJ, and ESTJ.
Jeanny says
Discuss people from popular culture/tv/movies/literature and how they relate to other types, and how their functional stack plays out.
Dodger says
I do not understand the influence of Si as the tertiary or inferior functions very well; specifically in xNTPs. Also, Ne vs Ni has me slightly confused. Thanks in advance.
Lisa says
Like many others mentioned I am very interested in going more in depth and learning more about functions, and how non-stack or shadow functions express in all the types, with lots of examples! I also am very curious if there are commonalities between the nighttime dreams we have and personality types. I saw a video recently on youtube about it and ever since I have been analyzing my own dreams, not so much the tiny details but the overall big picture and I have been noticing lots of patterns. I think it would be really interesting if there was some sort of correlation between ones personality type and what they are usually doing in their dreams etc.
Malavika says
Hi, as much as I love reading all your blog posts, I see almost nothing on ENTJ’s and would love to get some perspective from someone on this site. You guys have such remarkable information on the MBTI types and I’d be glad to see more of what I can relate to.
Marinda says
Acknowledging and becoming comfortable with your own and other people’s emotions when F is your tertiary function
Ryan says
ENTP vs INTP test
tattersprecious111 says
How can N types learn to appreciate, or at least tolerate, S types? Also, how can one best identify specific functions in an individual?
Davis says
Romantic compatibility between types but from a homosexual perspective, instead of heterosexual.
Solveig says
How to live with an ENTP? Fiercely independent and original, but relatively uncomfortable and avoidant in the emotional realm. Not easy love material.
Margaret Newcombe says
Not much seems to be written about the S types. Could it be because they tend not to be interested in Psychology and type? However it would be interesting to hear what you have to say about the differences between INFP and ISFP. The Kiersey Bates “Please Understand Me” from the late 1980’s suggests they are very different and that INFPs are not as artistic. I see that your ideas are more advanced than those books from 30 years ago perhaps , but was wondering how you come to conclusions about statistics. Also back then he suggested that all IN types were 1 per cent each of the population not just INFJs.
Kate says
More in depth on ENFPs as you have gone in depth of some of the IN types. Particularly how they can feel satisfied in life when they know they can never realise all the possibilities they can dream up. And how they can reach their career potential. These issues would also apply to ENTP I assume, if they need to have meaning and purpose to their life to the extent that the ENFP does.
Donald Smith says
As an INFP artist, I would like to see discussion about how type influences artistic expression and appreciation in the Visual Arts. Is there actual data or can a discussion based merely on speculation.
Jen says
I have an identical twin, confirmed through genetic testing, whose personality is outwardly different from mine. Do you have any thoughts on the role genetics play in type?
Steve says
I’ve bought your books, read the blog and listen to the podcast, so please take my article / podcast request in that light. Besides, I am an INTP, so you basically have to understand :)
I’d like to see some interaction with the literature that calls into question the usefulness of MBTI and the evidence in favour of the Big 5 or HEXACO I’m quantitatively inclined and (especially as an INTP) I’m happy to be challenged, in the search for what’s ‘best’ (one of the bain’s of my life).
After all, this site is personality junkie, not MBTI junkie, so we shouldn’t be beholden to MBTI, especially if there is potentially something better.
Anyway, that’s my request. I’d like to see you address some of the research and whether you’ll swing away from MBTI, and if not, why not.
PS. For anyone not familiar, I could post links or cite examples here, but this is already not brief (to be expected; I’m an INTP remember!).
One example: one of the areas that MBTI does best is extroversion and introversion. Yet it’s been argued that even here MBTI falls short.
MBTI says that it’s about where you get your energy from, whether it’s the outer or inner world. This was even described / confirmed in the most recent podcast. But that has been called incomplete; that it’s not about a preference for being with people. It’s been argued that it’s about the brain of an introvert being more sensitive to stimulation in general. And besides, the distribution of EI being a bell means most of us are ambiverts anyway – somewhere near the middle.
Anyway, thanks for your consideration
Kingsley says
I would love to see more articles about how to develop each function in your stack properly to become a more well-rounded and healthy individual (including how to avoid “grips” and “loops”).
Tracy S. says
How would inherent abilities or sociocultural factors of an individual affect his or her personality type? (e.g. INFJ with superior intellect; interactions between SF parent with NT child)
Tracy S. says
Formal addition of Enneagram personality types and integration with the Jungian types and functions
susan c says
How to develop the secondary function, because we hear a lot about being in the grip of the inferior, but not much detail on developing the second function. (For instance, I find I often overindulge in my inferior function, but I find it hard to force myself to concentrate on developing the second, and I’m unclear on what kind of activities and choices would push the second function.
Kayla says
I see a request from Jess for a clarifier between other types like INFJ and INTJ (basically the difference between Te-Fi and Fe-Ti) . I agree, but I think it would be helpful to develop a test that would also test Si v. Ne (e.g. INFJ v. ISFJ). From that, perhaps only two clarifier tests are needed: one for clarifying a person’s decision-making axis and one for clarifying a peraon’s perceiving functions. I think it would help with some of the other common mistypes.
Kayla says
Personally, I think it would be interesting to read or hear about each of your own typing journeys. This would possibly be better suited for a podcast episode if you both feel comfortable discussing that in that medium. How did you become so confident in your best fit types of INFJ (Elaine) and INTP (A.J.)? It might be helpful for others who are struggling to discern their own types.
Meredith says
I am interested in interests and preferences of different types. That is, favorite colors, design themes, music, story genres.
I find that many INTPs, for example, like black contrasted with bright, bold colors, especially neon green and neon blue, and most of us seem to like electronic music.
ENTJs seem to like clean, highly organized modern home designs.
The struggles of NFPs seem to drive many popular story themes.
None of it is very shocking, but I find these consistencies intriguing, and wonder what other connections could be found.
Marla says
Types and aging – how extraverts can seem to morph into introverts, and other functional development/changes that hits after 50. My mom is an ENFJ and I’m an INFJ, but she has become much more introverted (gets energy from being alone, prefers one on one, quiet, solitude, etc.), yet it’s clear that her dominant function is still extraverted feeling, which is different from mine – introverted intuiting.
Brendon says
Is it possible to be on a ‘cusp’ in your opinion? Or can there be degrees of strength for each function? For example, I have often heard things like, “I’m an ENFP but I’m on the border of F and T.” Or “I’m ISTJ but with weak Introversion, and strong Thinking.” Is there some truth in these sentiments, or do you think it’s an issue of not understanding the dynamics of ones functional stack?
Steve says
How can we intentionally create or modify our environmental and/or personal conditions to encourage a particular outcome for our personality type?
To improve motivation for instance.
Eg, Do motivational posters work for some types and not others? Do certain colors invoke some emotions for one type or another? Music – some types choose music to alter their mood while others choose music to match their mood. How might nutrition and eating habits influence different types (Eg, Li Orotate can help mitigate low energy/motivation).
Kelby says
In your literature/posts you discuss how some personality types (in my case INTP) may take a “great deal of time, even decades, to discern what they believe about the world, themselves, and their place in the world.” Knowing this, many personality types enter into careers or make life decisions that, looking back, seem counterintuitive to their personality type. What is your experience or knowledge with individuals that come to this realization much later in their lives? Do you have examples of people that were able to better define their purpose for themselves in their 40’s, 50’s, etc.?
How does a persons personality type play into this when perhaps they spent little time earlier in life reflecting on this to the same depth they do now?
You also mentioned that “Einstein, for instance, who displayed increasing beneficence and generosity toward people in the second half of his life.” While this speaks to Fe, I see this within the context of the discussion. Was his transition seen as more natural or intentional?
Jason says
Almost all of you posts focus solely on IN types. I would like to see more variety. Especially since I am an ISTP and do not relate to a lot of the IN stuff.
Michael Lee says
The Relationship section of the website is just for N types. Could you please provide any insights about relationship compatibility of S types?