Personality prayers
Jean first posted these temperament prayers, and Simone has since had some fun with them. I’m also an INFJ, but because I’m close on the line on J/P the “perfectionist” thing doesn’t totally resonate with me. I can be a perfectionist for sure, but I wouldn’t peg it as my defining characteristic. However, I must have enough J that the INFP doesn’t quite work for me either, because I do finish things. Except cleaning up my room. I get halfway through that and then decide it’s good enough and go and do something else. Apparently INFJs can be the least externally organised of the Js with, signs of disarray, like messy desks - that’s me (though messy is tolerated a lot more than unclean).
The prayers are all “task”-based is the problem! And probably it is itself a symptom of being an INFJ that at the moment I feel like my biggest problems are more relational (I mean, who cares whether or not I spelt something correctly when I feel like X misunderstands me).
However, I came across this site, which is the official home of Myers-Briggs material (our computer system has been down here at work, so I went from one thing to the next around the internet for a while on Friday) and looked around. This list of things that cause stress sounds about right, though these days I’m not phased by meeting new people and will happily do so:
INFJ
hostile, critical atmosphere
confrontation, conflict situations
politics on the job
leadership situations
working where not accepted
working where innovation is not possible
not knowing what is expected
working with those who do not honor their obligations or meet promised deadlines
highly competitive environments
insignificant interruptions
meeting new people
being in a situation where one has little or no control
noise
constant supervision