Uploaded May 2016 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Get out of your own way, people! (And **BONUS** see me do a terrible J impersonation.) Avoid making a knob of yourself while also contributing a scoop of misinformation about the MBTI to the world by misrepresenting yourself. Answer the MBTI and related questionnaires according to who you really are and what you really *prefer.*
The ways you like better to do things aren't just OK--it should be a given that, in the bigger picture, these are essential to a properly working society. (Whether you happen to care about such things or not ;-)). Honour them the way Carl G. Jung and Myers and Briggs would have wanted you to, and honour your true self.
Answer the questions the way you're supposed to: Quickly and 'off the top of your head'--as instinctively and according to your gut feelings and first impressions as you can. If you don't; if you let wishful thinking and misbegotten, unfounded shame creep in, the inventory can't work properly; it can't help you, and you'll have totally wasted your own time.
Or worse.
Get out of your own way, people! (And **BONUS** see me do a terrible J impersonation.) Avoid making a knob of yourself while also contributing a scoop of misinformation about the MBTI to the world by misrepresenting yourself. Answer the MBTI and related questionnaires according to who you really are and what you really *prefer.*
The ways you like better to do things aren't just OK--it should be a given that, in the bigger picture, these are essential to a properly working society. (Whether you happen to care about such things or not ;-)). Honour them the way Carl G. Jung and Myers and Briggs would have wanted you to, and honour your true self.
Answer the questions the way you're supposed to: Quickly and 'off the top of your head'--as instinctively and according to your gut feelings and first impressions as you can. If you don't; if you let wishful thinking and misbegotten, unfounded shame creep in, the inventory can't work properly; it can't help you, and you'll have totally wasted your own time.
Or worse.






![Fastest armchair-typing, ever (INFP)*
. . . that I also felt 100% confident was correct. Of singer // songwriter // musician *** ELLIOTT SMITH (1969 - 2003) ***. Perhaps those of you who are INFPs or who, like me, have known and loved many INFPs, will quickly understand why. ;-) Well see . . .
The lightning-round typing of Elliott Smith happened watching the first 18 seconds of a 1998 MTV interview of the musician and songwriter by a whipper-snapper Carson Daly the first video footage Id ever seen of Smith: this extracted 3-min. clip, specifically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSqumt6Bt-g&t=38s
If youd like to see more of what he was like and think about the matter yourself, I suggest watching this whole Elliott Smith interview compilation reel I referred to in the video (which includes at the beginning a fresh-faced Lou Barlow [ ! ], talking with Smith about the ups and downs of touring): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0reukeg4q0&t=707s
//// One of Elliott Smiths many great songs, Somebody I Used To Know (2000) from the album Figure 8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaBdt9lwvQQ //// Fastest armchair-typing, ever (INFP)*](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/e6gyQzldjyw/mqdefault.jpg)



