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INFP -- The Questor, or Monastic

One of the words which best describes this type is "becoming." Most INFPs spend all their lives engaged in the pursuit of figuring out their identities. Other types tend to dismiss this intense introspection as "navel-gazing," but the INFP regards it as vital to a well-lived life.

Life for this type is a quest for meaning. "Why am I here? What is life about?" are questions INFPs will struggle with for a lifetime, even if their Introverted need for privacy prevents the expression of these highly personal questions except to best friends.

Part of this search for personal meaning comes from the INFP's strong sense of good and evil. This concern with the pure and good can lead INFPs to a fascination with the profane. They then find it easy to project this internal struggle onto external events, and so tend to personalize disagreements as contests between "good guys" and "bad guys."

INFPs are among the most romantic of the types--not only in the sense of relationships, but in their idealization of almost everything. For some INFPs, life is a continuous string of disappointments as people fail to live up to the high principles and standards the INFP expects of them. Other INFPs learn to temper their idealism with acceptance of the flaws inherent in human nature, and get along well with others... until one of their internal principles is violated. Then they will not get along at all; they will defend themselves with a fury that most people who see only the INFP's harmonious side never suspect.

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