The Annoying Qualities Of Each Myers Briggs Type

INTP

• In trying to explain how they got from A to B they may condescendingly simplify things to the point of insult or give up with a dismissive “never mind”.
• Delaying the completion of their work indefinitely with constant revisions, sometimes even quitting before they ever begin.
• Setting aside their partners’ feelings, and their own, for far too long.
• Dressing oddly/shabbily, neglecting personal hygiene and carry a distinctive smell that they do not realize they exude.
• Emotionally inattentive. May need reminders to pay attention to their relationships and family life.
• Being rather messy and feel little need to maintain a clean work space to study.
• Not following instructions or finishing tasks
• Showing off their pithiness instead of using plain language that would be better understood.
• Passive-aggressive tendencies like not answering the phone or giving the silent treatment.
• While busy chewing their mental cud, they don’t pay much attention to external details.
• Tendency to poke holes in other’s faulty logic with an emphasis on clarity and precise word use. Feel honor bound to correct other’s mistaken ideas.

INTJ

• Being too controlling of others and trying to shape them according to their ideals.
• Closing themselves off to the opinions of those they believe to be intellectually inferior.
• Insensitive and tactless in making their opinions of others all too clear.
• Unnecessarily saying harmful and distorted things.
• Delusional and foolish overestimation of their abilities.
• Neurotic level of perfectionism that runs others away.
• Reluctance in accepting blame.
•  Tend to blame others for misunderstanding them rather than evaluate their own difficulty expressing themselves.
• Tendency to over-analyze and be judgmental, as well as arrogant.
• Viewing emotions as being for the weak.
• Over-delegating and entitlement; expecting and demanding from others to take care of tasks they could and should handle themselves.
• Looking down on and rejecting others based solely on perceived and imagined status.

ENTP

• Turning everything into an object for debate.
• Asking probing and personal questions that make others feel uncomfortable.
• Purposely lying for their own amusement.
• Being impersistent and abandoning things they’ve started. 
• Prodding and pushing people’s buttons just to see what they’ll do.
• Blurting out random things without having thought them through first.
• Can be insensitive and unintentionally hurt others’ feelings.
• Being wishy-washy and frequently changing their minds; backing out of commitments at the last moment.

ENTJ

• Extreme tunnel vision.
• Being too controlling of others and trying to shape them according to their ideals.
• Closing themselves off to the opinions of those they believe to be intellectually inferior.
• Insensitive and tactless in making their opinions of others all too clear.
• Unnecessarily saying harmful and distorted things.
• Delusional and foolish overconfidence in their abilities.
• Neurotic level of perfectionism that runs others away.
• Tendency to over-analyze and be judgmental, as well as arrogant.
• Can be a “control-freak,” always wanting to be in charge
• Being unreceptive to other’s opinions and being dead-set on having their way.
• Being anal retentive and perfectionistic and yelling at others when under stress.

INFP

• Can get too sensitive over things that aren’t a big deal but can’t really help feeling hurt or sad.
• Being insecure and acting childishly.
• Wallowing in their own self-pity and feeling sorry for themselves.
• Sarcasm and passive aggressive behavior.
• Sudden mood swings that catches others off guard.
• When stressed, may be prone to emotional outbursts.
• Sucking the fun out of everything when they’re in a foul mood.
• Emotional baggage.
• More concerned with the way things make them feel than in making rational arguments and can often appear irrational and illogical.
• In group situations, may have a “control” problem where they want to take over everything because group members’ standards often aren’t as high as theirs.

INFJ

• Whining if things don’t go their way; if they don’t feel appreciated.
• Tendency to believe they’re always right and dismiss/ignore other peoples’ opinions, even before fully hearing them out.
• Prone to petty acts of revenge for insignificant sleights.
• Hypersensitive to criticism.
• Walling off part of themselves and often don’t let others in, even if they are trustworthy and wouldn’t hurt them.
• If hurt too many times by someone any hope for forgiveness will be denied – forever.
• Their arguments essentially boil down to whether something is “good or bad” and it is right “just because.”
• Can become “cold-hearted bastards” and “ice queens”.
• Take forever to complete certain tasks in an attempt to make it perfect.
• Not returning phone calls.
• Can get carried away with self-righteous outrage when an “injustice” has been committed.
• They hold grudges for long periods of time.
• Pretending to listen and consider alternatives when in reality they’ve already made up their minds.
• Believing they understand you better than you understand yourself.
• Seem to care more about formality than content. ie. it’s about how you ask them, not your intention.

ENFP

• Can, at times, be overly anxious and worrisome
• Being impulsive and capricious.
• Their enthusiasm may cause them to be unrealistic.
• Takes criticism poorly.
• Tendency to not follow through on projects, usually because they get excited about a new project and abandon the first for the second – this may become a problematic cycle
• May be overly concerned with being liked.
• Always seeing the possibility of what could be often causes them become bored with what actually is.
• Impatient and strongly driven to blindly pursue every interesting or promising idea/path that one imagines will lead to “success” as measured by external standards.
• Prone to projecting personal inadequacies onto others.
• Prone to being argumentative, domineering, arrogant, caustic, jealous, envious, or territorial; tendency to demand agreement/approval from others or streamroll people who disagree.

ENFJ

• Believing themselves to be superior and more deserving of validation on the sole basis of having better “social skills.”
• Meddling, intruding, giving little to no space or privacy – no matter how uncomfortable they’re making others.
• Doing too much “for others” when it was not asked of them, when they were clearly asked to stop (several times) – and then resenting others for it and expecting and demanding in return.
• Tendency to act as if they know so much about what you’re talking about, even if they don’t.
• Inability to let go of others who have long ceased to be (or want to be) connected to them.
• Keeping others from making decisions on their own and from living their own experiences by instilling worries and fear where they’re not due.
• Believing they know better what’s best for others when, in fact, they don’t – and forcing their views onto others.
• Whining when things don’t go their way, if they don’t feel appreciated.

ISFJ

• Expecting and demanding more consistency than is reasonable.
• Being closed off to anything new or different.
• Incessantly worry about everything, making simple things seem overly complicated.
• Unwilling to acknowledge or change faulty ideas/assumptions (can’t admit to being wrong);
• Very intolerant and vulnerable to conflicts and criticism.
• Need positive feedback and may become discouraged or depressed if they do not receive it.
• Convinced others don’t like, appreciate, or need them, and over-accommodate others’ needs.
• Get stuck in impressions of how things were and resist change; waste time reviewing the impact of the past.
• Can be argumentative and prone to blunt verbal retorts or attacks or blame.
• Refusing to listen to other perspectives and only accepts others when they agree.

ISTJ

• Such perfectionists and more than a bit controlling — if you don’t do things their way, you are doing things wrong.
• Can be know-it-alls.
• Tendency to be extremely judgmental.
• Can be cheap/stingy.
• Get stuck in impressions of how things were and resist change; waste time reviewing the impact of the past.
• Easily hurt by criticism or rejection yet unwilling to acknowledge being hurt.
• Ignoring suggestions and reluctant in changing their minds.
• Rigidly following a belief system or what they personally think is important, with accompanying childish and/or selfish behavior.
• Misinterpreting someone’s actions and seeing negative intentions where there are none.

ESFJ

• Extensive self-deprecation. Playing the victim card.
• Doing too much “for others” when it was not asked of them, when they were clearly asked to stop (several times) – and then resenting others for it and expecting and demanding in return.
• Assuming they understand others when, in reality, they’re only attributing their own motives and intentions to others.
• Believing they know better what’s best for others when, in fact, they don’t – and forcing their views onto others.
• Meddling, intruding, giving little to no space or privacy – no matter how uncomfortable they’re making others.
• Believing themselves to be superior and more deserving of validation on the sole basis of having better “social skills.”
• Schmoozing and gossiping about others.
• Keeping others from making decisions on their own and from living their own experiences by instilling worries and fear where they’re not due.
• Being manipulative to get what they want out of people.
• Pointing out the obvious and making gratuitous remarks.
• Being two-faced and disingenuous.
• Tendency to act as if they know so much about what you’re talking about, even if they don’t.
• Exaggerating their contribution to others and making humble brags.
• Being judgmental of others who don’t share enthusiasm or interest for what they enjoy.
• Virtue signalling and faking passion for whatever seems popular. A bandwagon groupie.
• Being overly dependent especially in relationships.

ESTJ

• Can be extremely judgmental
• Being stubborn, inflexible, unreasonable, and overly rigid.
• Tend to believe they’re always right.
• Tendency to be bossy.
• Impatient with sloppiness and inefficiency
• Can be insensitive and inadvertently hurt others
• Resists change.
• Have zero patience and no tolerance for those who do not share their values/beliefs
• Can be very demanding and critical.
• Interpret situations in a naive way, inferring malice where none exists.
• Spend money and time on things that are unimportant and care little about the value of things.
• Prone to being pessimistic and negative, often imagines or expects the worst possibilities.
• Deflects criticism or makes excuses for mistakes and failures.
• Micromanages situations and tries to maintain a sense of control with the unconscious intent of repressing internal feelings of instability or insecurity.

ISFP

• Being easily and visibly displeased by anything less than “perfect” according to their own personal values.

• Being self centered and personally concerned with only themselves to the point of egotism and conceitedness.

• Inflated sense of uniqueness.

• Projection assuming they understand others when, in reality, they’re only attributing their own motives and intentions to others.

• Trying to bend and twist perceptions to make the wrong seem right.

• Wallowing in self pity for extended periods of time.

• Cannot seem to trust in anyone or anything.

• Tends to obsess about the past or future and ignore present facts.

• Being stubborn about values as they crusade for a particular cause.

• Childish and/or selfish behavior.

ISTP

• May avoid and ignore problems.

• Tends to obsess about the past or future and ignore present facts.

• Tendency to believe in mystical “signs” or intuitive “connections” that don’t really exist.

• Tend to have difficulty with long-term commitments

• Tendency to hold back part of themselves and be overly private

• May intentionally stir things up to create the excitement they long for

• Tend to get bored easily

• Are often rule-breakers– do not necessarily respect or abide by the rules of the “system” (can be positive and negative)

• Not naturally in tune with how they affect others.

• Cannot seem to trust in anyone or anything.

ESFP

• Prone to projecting personal inadequacies onto others.

• Being argumentative, domineering, arrogant, caustic, jealous, envious, or territorial.

• Tendency to demand agreement/approval from others or streamroll people who disagree.

• Tendency towards immaturity.

• Can be reckless/frivolous with money.

• Being over-dramatic

• May be materialistic and superficial.

• Often do not handle criticism well – tendency to take things very personally

• Tendency to ignore or try to escape from conflict rather than deal with it

• Always excited by something new and may frequently change partners or be unfaithful.

ESTP

• Needs constant agreement from others.

• Cannot handle direct disagreement or criticism well; tends to feel unappreciated by others/society.

• Seeks affirmation or admiration by dominating or manipulating social situations.

• Unaware of own flaws/limitations.

• Engaging in emotional pandering or showing off things like status, style, achievements, talents/skills, or material wealth.

• May not realize or even care about the effect their words have on others

• Can be bossy and somewhat unscrupulous when it comes to getting what they want.

• May fall into trap of ignoring, rather solving their problems

• May get bored easily and abandon relationships quickly once/if they become bored.

• Though great at getting things started, they often struggle with following through.

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