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revdorothyl at 05:03pm on 06/04/2004
revdorothyl at 05:03pm on 06/04/2004I had to clean out my e-mail inbox today (over quota, though I don't know why!), but I didn't want to lose track of this little gem someone sent me last year, so -- just in case anyone out there hasn't already seen them, here are "serenity"-type prayers (a la Niebuhr's "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change..." prayer, so beloved of twelve-step programs everywhere) geared specifically to each personality type on the Jung-derived Myers-Briggs personality type indicator.
MYERS-BRIGGS PRAYERS:
ISTJ: Lord, help me to relax about insignificant details beginning
tomorrow at 11:41:23 a.m. E.S.T.
ISTP: God, help me to consider people's feelings, even if most of them
ARE hypersensitive.
ESTP: God, help me to take responsibility for my own actions, even
though they're usually NOT my fault.
ESTJ: God, help me to not try to RUN everything. But, if You need some
help, just ask.
ISFJ: Lord, help me to be more laid back and help me to do it EXACTLY right.
ISFP: Lord, help me to stand up for my rights (if you don't mind my asking).
ESFP: God, help me to take things more seriously, especially parties and
dancing.
ESFJ: God, give me patience, and I mean right NOW.
INFJ: Lord, help me not to be a perfectionist (did I spell that correctly?).
INFP: God, help me to finish everything I sta
ENFP: God, help me to keep my mind on one th - Look a bird! - ing at a time.
ENFJ: God, help me to do only what I can and trust you for the rest. Do
you mind putting that in writing?
INTJ: Lord, keep me open to other's ideas, WRONG though they may be.
INTP: Lord, help me to be less independent, but let me do it my way.
ENTP: Lord, help me follow established procedures today. On second
thought, I'll settle for a few minutes.
ENTJ: Lord, help me slow downandnotrushthroughwhatIdo.
Do I even need to tell anyone that I'm an INFJ (or an INFP, depending on my mood when I'm taking the test)? Or have I already given myself away on that score?
Oh, well. Time to go home, change the DS9 tape in my VCR (SpikeTV showing season 1 of DS9 from 11 AM to 8 PM Central this week), and put my salmon filets in the oven.
MYERS-BRIGGS PRAYERS:
ISTJ: Lord, help me to relax about insignificant details beginning
tomorrow at 11:41:23 a.m. E.S.T.
ISTP: God, help me to consider people's feelings, even if most of them
ARE hypersensitive.
ESTP: God, help me to take responsibility for my own actions, even
though they're usually NOT my fault.
ESTJ: God, help me to not try to RUN everything. But, if You need some
help, just ask.
ISFJ: Lord, help me to be more laid back and help me to do it EXACTLY right.
ISFP: Lord, help me to stand up for my rights (if you don't mind my asking).
ESFP: God, help me to take things more seriously, especially parties and
dancing.
ESFJ: God, give me patience, and I mean right NOW.
INFJ: Lord, help me not to be a perfectionist (did I spell that correctly?).
INFP: God, help me to finish everything I sta
ENFP: God, help me to keep my mind on one th - Look a bird! - ing at a time.
ENFJ: God, help me to do only what I can and trust you for the rest. Do
you mind putting that in writing?
INTJ: Lord, keep me open to other's ideas, WRONG though they may be.
INTP: Lord, help me to be less independent, but let me do it my way.
ENTP: Lord, help me follow established procedures today. On second
thought, I'll settle for a few minutes.
ENTJ: Lord, help me slow downandnotrushthroughwhatIdo.
Do I even need to tell anyone that I'm an INFJ (or an INFP, depending on my mood when I'm taking the test)? Or have I already given myself away on that score?
Oh, well. Time to go home, change the DS9 tape in my VCR (SpikeTV showing season 1 of DS9 from 11 AM to 8 PM Central this week), and put my salmon filets in the oven.
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I'm so glad I have you for a spiritual advisor!
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And we share our sharing of types--but you're the first person I've seen acknowledge that sometimes it can vary depending on mood. Most people seem to wear their One And Only Type like a badge, and it always made me feel inadequate.
(Er, maybe that's the J perfectionist in me...)
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LOL! I think some folks are just so eager to have an identiy -- ANY identity -- that they'll glom onto any labels they can, in order to be able to say, "See? I DO know who I am, after all! I'm THIS. Now, all is explained."
The two times I've taken the long version in a bona fide career counselling center, I came up "INFJ" ("the author") and then (almost 8 years later) as "INTJ" ("the scientist" -- but I was in so much emotional pain at the time and doing a job that was so unsuited to my gifts and inclinations, that I'm not surprised that I apparently had my feelings temporarily turned off that year). On the short version in the PLEASE UNDERSTAND ME book, I sometimes come up INFP ("the mystic"), and the longer my PhD studies drag on, the more convinced I am that that may be the case (an eternal seeker, who never feels she's gathered enough data to actually WRITE the dissertation)!
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Oh dear, that's me to a T. Types be damned.
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Amen. As the crowd in Monty Python's "Life of Brian" shouted in unison (in response to Brian's exhortation to stop following him and instead think for themselves), "Yes! We are all individuals! We are all unique!" Or something like that -- it's been a while since I've seen that movie.
Correction
Thinking back, I believe that should have been "the architect" or something else, and that the ISTJ is the personality type described as the scientist in PLEASE UNDERSTAND ME. Not that I think anyone cares, particularly.
Jeesh! I think my INFJ roots are showing (perfectionist, much?).
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I'm sure my adamant refusal to accept any kind of categorization effectively categorizes me somehow! But I've always refused to even remember what my M-B category is. (Hey, I don't even know my kids' zodiac signs!)
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