My MBTI - ISFP

The other day my friend LIB was talking about his personality trait and about MBTI (Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator). It got me thinking and eventually lead me to google it. I wasnt able to remember it perfectly but proper searching eventually led me to it.

Its fascinating as to how a series of YES / NO questions can actually eventually determine your personality trait. So whats my personality trait? Before that, I'd like to say - if anyone would like to take the test please click here. Click on the "DO IT" button on the "Jung Typology Test" side of the page.

Here's the result of my test.




So there it is....I am a ISFP (Introverted-Sensing-Feeling-Perceiving) person.

And my type analysis as given by typelogic.com is ...

ISFPs live in the here and now. Their impulses yearn to be free, and are often loosed when others least expect it. The ISFP who continually represses these impulses feels 'dead inside' and may eventually cut and run. (One ISFP friend has become nonambulatory within the past few years. He will still, on impulse, leave home in the middle of the night and go to Las Vegas or wherever, regardless of the difficulties of his physical condition.)
I can so easily identify myself with this

ISFPs may be quite charming and ingratiating on first acquaintance, flowing with compliments which may (or may not) be deserved. On other occasions, the same individual may be aloof and detached. Some ISFP males are fiercely competitive, especially in sport or table games, and may have great difficulty losing. This competitive nature, also seen in other SP types, sometimes fosters 'lucky,' 'gut' feelings and a willingness to take risks.
I rely on my gut feeling a lot

For more information, read here...

And finally my analysis is....



I perfectly agree with this analysis. This is what I am.

Lazy Intelligent Baldy

Reposting this...

This post of mine is dedicated to an awesome friend. Someone whom I'd like to call LIB (Lazy, Intelligent, Baldy)

Why I'm calling him LIB?? Because thats his personality. It defines him totally, completely. He is each of these words personified. And why am I posting about him today here?? Because he's recently got a job after a hiatus of 2 years. This guy dared to quit his job of 6 years for good, started studying for MBA. Gave CAT, got about 94 percentile. Got into a decent MBA college and then finally got placed. That too at a young age of 29 when people are already married and start having kids. Now that guts for you.

I first met him 11 and a half years ago in my engineering college. I still remember the first day I met him. He and I were in this classroom waiting for lectures to begin and the suddenly, the seniors barged in and started ragging. One of the things they told us to do was to do a catwalk. I did an awful impersonation of a ramp model and was booed by all seniors and this guy was shaking his butt like as if he'd always been a ramp model

The next stint of my interaction with him was when I had this crush (more on this later) on this gal in college. He used to gate-crash into us each time I was alone with this female. And he made me believe that he liked this gal and I kinda put a full stop to everything. I always get nervous when something like this happens. I feel extremely vulnerable and insecure when somebody reads my thoughts without me telling them and I feel that anyone can rip me apart leaving me helpless. Anyways, back to the post...

Despite all this we became good friends and I've always considered him as a very very special friend. Someone for whom I can do anything. I've borne quite a lot of his puns and been at the receiving end of many of his jokes, yet I value him more than anyone else. After his CAT, I accompanied him to each and every B-School interview call, except one (that was IIT). He couldnt tie a tie knot properly and I used to tie it for him.

For his last b-school interview, we (me and another friend) went to his place at night, slept there till 3:00 am and then drove all the way from Bombay to Pune, dropped him off at Symbi, spent 3 hours just waiting for him and then drove back all the way. Ultimately it so happened that, that was the only interview which he cleared and got selected. And we were able to attend my other friend's wedding in peace.

He's got unbelievable brain, amazing intellect. He's absolutely ruthless with words and his humor. At the same time he's incredibly lazy. He's so addicted to TV that the day of his IIT b-school interview he was supposed to prepare his SOP (statement-of-purpose) and he didnt because he was watching the Oscars on TV and asked our another friend to do it for him. If his favourite show's on TV, he doesnt even pick up our phone calls. On the other hand, he's always ready to meet us and spend some time with us.

He's a complete spend-thrift, a foodie. At the same time after our meets, when I offer to drop him home (he stays further beyond than I do), he refuses the offer and prefers to go in a rickshaw. He'd christened my car "CHINDI-Ca" (I have a TATA Indica) and I used to get really mad at him for this and now he openly admits to missing me and my car. He's got great philosophy about friendship and he says its completely give and take and it shouldnt be one-sided.

I am so very lucky to have him as a friend and I just cant express in words my admiration for him. I wrote him a testimonial in Orkut and he made a statement to one of our other friends, you cant express in words what someone actually means to you. And that is so very true.

Although I try my best, I just cant express in words what you mean to me. My dear baldy friend!

Not much Ado about Something

Today was a landmark day in the 30 year history of Mr. Ramalingam G a.k.a Vivek. Here's what happened.

I was in the midst of serious work. I was preparing for a client meeting involving very senior delegates and my mom calls me up. I answered the phone and she asked me if I had some time to talk. I said yes inspite of the fact that I was in the middle of something. I dunno why I said yes, because normally whenever I'm deep in work, I always tell mom or dad or anyone that I'll call back later. But today I said yes.

I could feel a tinge of elation in mom's tone. So here she goes about this marriage alliance which she found on some matrimony site and how the next month in the Tamil calender is not an auspicious month so she wanted to go and visit the family. I said, "Mom-I'm busy I dont think I can make it because of the client meeting coming up but nonetheless I'll give you call when I'm free to talk".

Now, fortunately or unfortunately, my work today got over early and I was free by 07:00 PM. So, being the dutiful son that I am, :-)) I called up mom and asked her where she is. She said she's on her way to meet this family and dad's also coming. She started trying to convince me also to come and tells me about how the bloody "HORRORSCOPE" has matched very well and of all the different "Yog" and blah blah blah.

I always literally close my ears whenever mom starts yapping away to oblivion about damn "HORRORSCOPES" and planets influencing peoples' behaviour and life and most irritatingly about future. I just dont believe in them. I just cannot believe how a planet billions of miles away can influence an abstract entity like the future of ones' life. Anyways I'm digressing from my post.

So she's trying to convince me and out of sheer frustration from listening to her rant, I relented to her emotional blackmail. I agreed to go and visit the family. All through my drive I was thinking about my decision. Brooding about how to conduct myself in front of a family who would be watching or probably scrutinizing each and every one of my move, every action, every response, every statement that I make. I will be "evaluated" carefully at every step to see whether I am "suitable" or not.

And frankly, I can now perfectly understand what goes through the mind of nearly every "eligible" girl in India when she is subject to such an ordeal.

I decided to approach this as a visit to a family friend. I decided to NOT think about the "real" nature of visit. Not that the visit was meant to be that, it was just a friendly casual meet between two families, but I couldnt help but think about the underlying motive which was only subtly expressed. Anyways, I decided to conduct myself in a very casual and friendly way.

Something all the more surprising is the near total lack of traffic that day and believe it or not, I completed the journey between Powai and Andheri in a span of 35 minutes. Which considering peak hour traffic and bad east-west connection roads is a phenomenal achievement.

SO I met mom and dad and then together we proceeded to meet this family. We entered their house and they were extremely friendly and completely contrary to my thinking of me being "evaluated". I soon relaxed and got introduced to the family members. The whole talk proceeded in a very casual manner.

To be very honest, there were a couple of instances when the "elders" started to talk among themselves and I felt left out, but during some of those times, the girl's mom came to the "rescue" of my silence. And I found that quite interesting. The girl's mom showed me the girls' pictures and I must admit she's definitely pretty.

Mom and dad were talking about how the HORRORSCOPES matched and times when they lived in Matunga and all typical "elders" talk, while I was talking about my educational background, my work, my career focus change from deliveries to business development, about my movie interests, about my new flat in Powai, all these things.

Anyways, at the end of it all, I guess this was an ice-breaker for me of sorts. Until now, I was pretty closed about "settling down" and I even told this other girl I met - that I'm not ready for taking the plunge yet. But somehow this visit opened me up to atleast acknowledging the idea that I might have to "settle down" eventually.

UPDATE (11/07): If anyone else is reading this please understand that whatever is mentioned here are just my thoughts and views and perceptions and mine alone and what went through my mind. Please donot misunderstand the post because it does NOT have a bearing on anyone else.