ISFPs are the first to hear the different drummer. Many eagerly plunge into new fashions, avant garde experiences, 'hip' trends--some even setting the trends.
More in touch with the reality of their senses than their INFP counterparts, 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.)
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.
Organized education is difficult for the majority of ISFPs, and many drop out before finishing secondary education. Their interest can be held better through experiential learning, at which many excel. ISFPs will practice playing an instrument or honing a favored skill for hours on end, not so much as practice as for the joy of the experience.
Introverted Feeling
Feeling, unbridled by the external forces of society and substance, is
the dominant function. ISFPs spontaneously develop their own codes and
credos, about which they are quite sober and intense. ISFPs are
questors, driven to find the pure and ideal, as personally and
individually defined. Feeling may temporarily turn outward, but cannot
be long sustained beyond its cloistered home.
If the individual has values greater than herself, feeling may express itself in valiant acts of selflessness. Turned in upon self, however, it becomes an unscrupulous, capricious enigma, capable even of heinous acts of deception and treachery.
Extraverted Sensing
ISFPs keep a finger on the pulse of here and now. They are more adept
at doing than considering, at acting than reflecting, at tasting than
wondering. As do most SPs, ISFPs keenly sense color, sound, texture,
and movement. It is not unusual for ISFPs to excel in sensory, motor,
or kinesthetic abilities.
ISFPs cherish their impulses. Some of the most beautiful, graceful, and artistic performances are the result of this drive for physical, sensate expression.
Introverted iNtuition
Tertiary intuition works best in the background of the ISFP's inner
world. Perhaps this is the source of the "gut feeling" SPs consult in
matters of chance. However "lucky" the ISFP may be, intuition as a
means of communication is a poor servant, evidenced in spoonerisms, and
non sequiturs and mixed metaphors.
Extraverted Thinking
The ISFP may employ Extraverted Thinking in external situations
requiring closure. As is the case with inferior functions, such
Thinking behaves in an all or nothing manner. Thus, as with other FP
types, the ISFP's Extraverted Thinking is at risk for a lack of context
and proportion. In most cases, persons of this type enjoy greater
facility operating in the open-ended style of sensing, implying the
opinions of feeling values in the indirect fashion characteristic of
introverted functions.
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