Jaroslaw Jankowski - The Idealist: Your Guide to the INFP Personality Type

The ID16TM Personality Types series

JAROSLAW JANKOWSKI
M.Ed., EMBA

This is a book which can help you exploit your potential more fully, build healthy relationships with other people and make the right decisions about your education and career. However, it should not be considered to be a substitute for expert physiological or psychiatric consultation. Neither the author nor the publisher accept any responsibility whatsoever for any detrimental effects which may result from the inappropriate use of this book.

ID16TM is an independent typology developed by Polish educator and manager Jaroslaw Jankowski and grounded in Carl Gustav Jungs theory. It should not be confused with the personality typologies and tests proposed by other authors or offered by other institutions.

Original title: Twj typ osobowoci: Idealista (INFP)

Translated from the Polish by Caryl Swift

Proof reading: Lacrosse | experts in translation

Layout editing by Zbigniew Szalbot

Cover photographs by Shutterstock

Published by LOGOS MEDIA

Jaroslaw Jankowski 2016
All rights reserved

Paperback: ISBN 978-83-7981-069-7
EPUB: ISBN 978-83-7981-070-3
MOBI: ISBN 978-83-7981-071-0

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Discover a compendium of knowledge on the idealist INFP personality type!

As you explore this book, you will find the answer to a number of crucial questions:

• How do idealists think and what do they feel? How do they make decisions? How do they solve problems? What makes them anxious? What do they fear? What irritates them?
• Which personality types are they happy to encounter on their road through life and which ones do they avoid? What kind of friends, life partners and parents do they make? How do others perceive them?
• What are their vocational predispositions? What sort of work environment allows them to function most effectively? Which careers best suit their personality type?
• What are their strengths and what do they need to work on? How can they make the most of their potential and avoid pitfalls?
• Which famous people correspond to the idealists profile?

The book also contains the most essential information about the ID16TM typology.

We sincerely hope that it will help you in coming to know yourself and others better.

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ID16TM numbers among what are referred to as Jungian personality typologies, which draw on the theories developed by Carl Gustav Jung (1875-19161), a Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist and a pioneer of the depth psychology approach.

On the basis of many years of research and observation, Jung came to the conclusion that the differences in peoples attitudes and preferences are far from random. He developed a concept which is highly familiar to us today: the division of people into extroverts and introverts. In addition, he distinguished four personality functions, which form two opposing pairs: sensing-intuition and thinking-feeling. He also established that one function is dominant in each pair. He became convinced that each and every persons dominant functions are fixed and independent of external conditions and that, together, what they form is a personality type.

In 1938, two American psychiatrists, Horace Gray and Joseph Wheelwright, created the first personality test based on Jungs theories. It was designed to make it possible to determine the dominant functions within the three dimensions described by Jung, namely, extraversion-introversion, sensing-intuition and thinking-feeling. That first test became the inspiration for other researchers. In 1942, again in America, Isabel Briggs Myers and Katherine Briggs began using their own personality test, broadening Gray's and Wheelwrights classic, three-dimensional model to include a fourth: judging-perceiving. The majority of subsequent personality typologies and tests drawing on Jung's theories also take that fourth dimension into account. They include the American typology published by David W. Keirsey in 1978 and the personality test developed in the nineteen seventies by Aura Augustinaviit, a Lithuanian psychologist. Over the following decades, other European researchers followed in their footsteps, creating more four-dimensional personality typologies and tests for use in personal coaching and career counselling.