One Person's Yawn Is Another's Excited Squeal

INFJ and INFP Empathy by Scott Morgan

Here is something extremely boring that I find extremely interesting.

This past year, I've become really interested in a famous personality assessment called the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. This assessment decides whether a person tends toward: 

extraversion or introversion (E or I),

sensing or intuition (S or N),

thinking or feeling (T or F),

and judging or perceiving (J or P).

I, for example, tend toward introversion (I), intuition (N), feeling (F), and perceiving (P), so my Myers-Briggs type is designated by those letters: I am an INFP. For the mathematically disinclined among us, I'll just tell you right now that there are sixteen different possible combinations of these letters, and, consequently, sixteen different possible personality types, according to this system.

Now, to a lot of people, this may already sound hopelessly boring. If you're one of those people, you may not want to hang around my brain on a quiet Friday evening when I am lying facedown on my bed, chin in hands, lost in a world of super theoretical Myers-Briggs madness. Sorry, general populace, but for some reason, I cannot join you in your (perfectly understandable) boredom with this topic. I am low-key obsessed with it. I can literally think about it for hours on end and never grow weary of it. There are so many interesting applications of this theory, especially if you take the time to travel deep into its labyrinthine underbelly - which I have. I can tell you right now that there is a lot more to it than those four pairs of letters. It gets infinitely complicated... and, for me, infinitely fascinating.

Just as an example of the extent of my insanity: here is an incredibly dull video that I find incredibly anything but dull, on the topic of the types of empathy employed by two of the sixteen Myers-Briggs types: the INFJ and the INFP. I love this video, which is funny, because all that happens is a man with a rather monotonous voice sits in front of the camera and talks a bunch of uninteresting rubbish. But I am not kidding you - I get excited about this. Why? Because the gentleman describes me in this video. To a T. When he talks about the type of empathy employed by the INFP personality type, he is speaking the language of my soul, and it excites me. 

And I squeal. Excitedly. Over the most boring video on earth. But maybe you have some "boring" interests as well, things that excite you that would have someone else snoring within seconds. Which just goes to show you. [The title of this post.]