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Aha you got INFP like me :D It was only a silly curiosity, thank you for your time :) It started from the thought: “Some descriptions from Erkka make me remember myself, would he get a close MBTI, and does it work/accurate with other people? Well, he is a curious fella and everything is good as introspection material, or maybe he already took it, it does not hurt to ask” - And INFP it is :) But your results have low percentage, they are in the frontier of other types, you are a complex mix xD (in fact, the result could be different if done in other website test with different questions, since you seem to be in the limits of INFP)
In fact, even though I got high percentages, I had to take different tests to confirm my type, because every one has different questions or based on different books and some questions I don't understand or I cannot say firmly a Yes or a No. In your case, since you seem in the limits of INFP, maybe your result ins not 100% INFP, could be other. The wikipedia mini-ttest for me was the best and quicker to get a result and understand the tests logic: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/MyersBriggsTypes.png

This is just a childish curiosity, human beings are not robots, and no one can divide us into box's/groups, each individual is unique and complex, even if MBTI was 100% accurate, inside of each type would be infinite number of different micro-individual types, everyone is unique (that is what I believe). But even so I like to read about this stuff just out of curiosity, and when I stumbled upon this particular test it was very accurate and ended up to be a good introspection about sides of myself I was not aware or in conflict at the time, so it was a positive read to me. But certainly it may not be as accurate/useful with others, in fact I was always a very insecure/anxious guy, with many existentialist questions and anguishes in my mind, I think self-confident people don't need to read this kind of things so much. In fact this is not very scientifically, even inside psychology MBTI is not fully accepted, in the past this test was used for things like job hunting and profiles, but nowadays it is not trusted so much, because they found out that people change (duh Mr. obvious!), and an INFP profile today could shift to a ENFP next year, so it is not in stone - fortunately people evolve and grow, no one is born and die the same (I like it more this way) :)
I know that you don't need to read this stuff because you are at peace with yourself and know yourself better than any test will ever say, but just out of curiosity, if you ever feel like reading about INFP descriptions: (the acronyms [INFP, ENTJ, etc] mean nothing in itself, the interesting part is the conclusions and statical data of Jung about each type:
- INFP growth and life main challenges: http://www.personalitypage.com/html/INFP_per.html
-INFP general description: http://personalitycafe.com/infp-articles/12774-socionics-description-bes...
- INFP summary description: http://www.humanmetrics.com/personality/infp
-INFP relashionship with others: http://www.personalitypage.com/html/INFP_rel.html
-Summary about the origins of this test: http://www.personalitypage.com/html/info.html

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A lot of different and interesting discussions in the comments :) This blog is a swiss knife of themes :D
About that I'll just say that one view about welfare systems depends a lot on his cultural context. I can understand why it is so negatively viewed in USA, but it is a complex and different context from other places. For instance, here education and health is a right, in USA the system/government make out of it a lucrative business, trough student loans and health care insurances (sorry if I am saying wrong things, I never went to USA, this is only the idea I get indirectly from others and things I read, USA have also amazing things and people). Giving easy money to some people, while exploiting basic needs like education, health, water (maybe because of private water companies interests, I read somewhere that in USA collecting water from rain for domestic use is forbidden – not sure if it is true and in all states) etc - I don't think that a welfare system can work when basic needs aren't covered and private interests exploit them. I think welfare in USA is so negatively viewed because maybe there is not real welfare implementation trough services, only patches through easy money. But this is just an unfunded idea, maybe I am very wrong, it is a very complex thing and I don't know its real context neither solutions, and writing this stuff at 1am sleepy can give bad results/wrong ideas xD

Here in portugal (the only cultural context I know) the welfare system is very important, for instance: I have a degree and a job I'm more or less happy with, only because government paid my studies, otherwise I would never been able to study (family could not afford it), I learned a lot of things I love because of that (creativity works and technologies are my passion). Things like public health system is also very important in here, because otherwise, since we have the lowest minimum wage of europe, a lot of people would not be able to pay for adequate health (I would been dead by now if my parents needed to pay each time I went to a doctor xD). We have more social services that help a lot of people living like decent human beings, with basic needs covered. But of course there are a lot of things that don't work well, and more and more because of this so called “financial crisis” (I would call it financial theft by our government, because inside corruption is the cause), the social system has been going down and we lost a lot of rights because of this “crisis” flag and private interests (now they want to privatize everything, even water[?!?], and prices have gone up because of that). Of course a lot of aspects of our welfare needs to be improved (no free dental care yet, no vet help with expenses like in some countries – england I think - and water is being slowly privatized more and more – I hate this idea, water is essential and free from nature!), but in a general way our welfare system is very important and positive in portugal (curiosity: some years ago our government took education reforms inspired on Finland – from what I read about your educational system I admire it very much – amongst other things). In fact I think that one can't have true democracy without a good and free education system, otherwise people are just lambs voting in wolves (someone I don't remember once said: “I can't believe in a democratic system where the vote of the ignorant has the same power of the vote of the wise one” - this is an extremist idea, not agreed totally with it, but is an interesting idea to reflect: the pillars of democracy are information/education, we need everyone to be wise, a wise population can't be manipulated).

And what I wanted to say originally and why I entered this talk about welfare: An interesting new idea is now being debated here, by some philosophers where I work, and others in EU: “Unconditional Basic Income”. It is a new philosophical/political idea, a new approach, where everyone of every age, working or not, has a basic income guaranteed, that can pay is basic needs and survival expenses (food, water, home, cloths). It is like an evolution of the welfare system, to something even more humanitarian (note: I ended up writing too much, I only wanted to share this new idea, since it is about philosophy and Erkka is a Philosopher, but ended up talking too much about secondary side stuff, damn it, sorry my long texts, will try to write shorter less boring stuff next time – maybe IN's in their nature write too much lol). I find this idea fascinating, because is like we are evolving from an idea of a government that controls mankind with rules and protects men from himself, to an idea of government that helps mankind grow and cultivate the best of himself, freeing men from survival needs (this is the utopia I dream we can get one day). It makes me remember an old poem verse that goes: “I am the bird of Herms, eating my own wings to make me tame” - till now we have been the bird of Herms, electing governments and systems to control us from our own demons (rules against killing, against stealing etc but also side rules like freely camping anywhere we we want – I hate this rule lol, one can't camp in the wilde in portugal :( ), it is like we are dogs electing our own leash, eating our own wings of liberty so we can live without fear inside rules. Maybe the future of humanity is going from the old fear/protection paradigm, to a more caring paradigm, where governments help men getting free of survival needs and reach their inner potential and happiness. But we are yet a long distance from this utopia, no more than a utopia for now, but a “Unconditional Basic Income” could just be a first basic step towards it (or not lol only time will tell).

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