If you had to choose another type...

[PHS Philip]

If you had to choose another type to be, which would it be (and why)?

[Synchronicity]

I'd probably go with INTP, which is my next-closest match. I really enjoy my INTJ qualities, but the Ps have an easier time with the theoretical and abstract, which I enjoy in certain fields of study.

[Synamon]

I quite like my Ni, so any of the other types with that function as dominant or auxiliary would be ok by me (INFJ, ENTJ, ENFJ) or the even the types with Ni as their tertiary (ISTP, ISFP).

[lincoln]

Istj just because I'd like things to be a little simpler. The intuitive function is a curse of sorts.

[Malkavia]

I can't let go of my type....



But on further thinking if I was forced to change I would choose either ENTP or ENFJ

[Vagrant]

ENTP... partially because they seem to have so much damn fun.

[The Psyentist]

INTP. Without a doubt. Maybe an ENTJ, but I think I'd prefer to be an INTP if I wasn't an INTJ.

[Latro]

I guess since I still kinda lack a definitive P/J axis I'd have to go with ENTx, and would probably favor ENTP over ENTJ. So...ENTP I guess. If I were definitively INTP or INTJ I'd favor the other one of the two, though. I don't think I could ever concede being NT.

[Takeru]

The P is something I wouldn't mind switching. The I is also something I wouldn't mind giving up... if it wasn't so hard to get away from it.
Taking this into account, it'll have to be an ENxJ. And what do you know... ENTJ is an Te Dominant type and ENFJ is a Fe Dominant type lol. This is the opposite of INTP and INFP.

I am more reluctant to trade the N and I really don't care too much about the FvsT.

Any S in my books has to be an I and a T though. So it'll have to be an ISTX.

[Elfrun]

ESFP baby! :rock-fingers:

T'is a sensors world, really if I had a do over any SF would be fine and normal, can't really imagine what it would be like and happy with who I am, but...

[Squirelznflight]

I like my current personality way too much to change, but if I had to, I'd go with ENTP. They rock.

[BostonIan]

ISTJ - Busy, unflaky, it would be nice to find detail more interesting.

[Prunesquallor]

ISTJ. They're so damn...competent.

[Solaris]

Type aside, I wouldn't change myself. I've worked long and hard to accept me for myself and understand who that is, there's no way I'd toss that out now.

[True Rune]

I am pretty much already an INTP, besides the nice little love for closure and the whole Ni thing. INTP.

[runoverazebra]

I think I would want to be INFJ. I think it's not a far stretch for me sometimes.

[Caedus]

I enjoy being a developed eNTJ too much to change types, though being an ENTP could be pretty fun as well!

[reckful]

I chose INTP, but I'd rather stay an INTJ.

[JYFly]

I've missed out on a lot of networking opportunities due to my introversion. I'd be an ENTJ.

[childofprodigy]

LOL? I can understand ENTJ....But INTP? what's so good about INTPs? (lol no offense to the INTPs lurking out there)

and I love the fact that only 6/55 voters (as of this moment) want to become a sensor

[Aiss]

^ I actually agree. The fact that depressed people are more likely to be mistyped as INTPs says something about the fun of it. If I could change my type I'd like to be ENTP, then INTP or INTJ, then ENTJ.

No S for me.

[stiletto]

INFJ. Ni factors in too much into my spiritual life, I don't like imagining myself without it... also, I think I could use a little more compassion and consideration for others, and tertiary Ti sounds cool.

[Samoan Corleone]

I'd chose ISTJ, because I really admire their work ethic. Keeping their head down, not finishing until the job is done, not being easily distracted, etc.

[Branden]

I like my type. Though it would be nice to be extroverted i think, ENTJ maybe? But in reality i like the idea that i am challenging to get to know, it sorta weeds out the unwanted folks from my life. Being so cold might be something i could give up if i was another type. Alas, i yam what i yam

[MrDoom]

Turning that I into an E would aid in my world domination aspirations. But I like being an INTJ too much.

[Orpheus]

Probably ENTP or ENFP. Hello social skills!;D And they have a hell of a lot more fun.

[a world apart]

NOTICE: I prefer only INTJs to answer the poll (though, of course, I can't stop non INTJs from doing so). However, I also prefer ALL TYPEs to answer in the thread.

"I would never be willing to not be a ____" is not a permissible answer unless you are adding that as a statement after actually answering the question.

1) So, which other MBTI type(s) would you most want to be (or for the picky - hate to be the least)?

2) Why?

3) Optionals:
a- Why you love/enjoy your current type too much to change it if given the option.
b- Which type would you hate to be the most?

I'll go first!
1) INTJ, here. I think I could rock the INFP-mode.

2) It seems like, from the INFPs I've met and befriended/studied, that they put the INTJ's dominant iN into a personal overdrive via dominant iF (internal fantasy) partnered with tertiary iS (art ability), fueled by and expressed with their eN (fascinating/hilarious), and, best of all, they can still hold cogent conversations with their auxiliary eT (intelligent, but not domineering/stubborn). Just seems like it would be a very pleasant wonder-land to live in and have excellent converting-to-real-life abilities, as well.

I call this desire of mine INFPeNis envy.

3) a- I wouldn't change my type if given the option unless I could change back. Kinda like back when I experimented with drugs, I was willing to try LSD (you get a mind-altering experience, but you're still you, but now with benefits from the experience) but would never have done something like heroine, crack, etc (because, from what I understand, that's a permanent change of some degree, more akin to losing something than gaining).

3) b- Never INTP (or any S, really). They're so similar but so different at the same time. It's scary in the same vein that horror movies with aliens that can look just like us but think and "are" completely different and the scrutiny needed to tell the difference is always too late. Having the e-version of all my i-versions and vice versa, plus the flip-flopped order of the functions without a full reversal . . . is just hard to mentally place myself into.

Your turn!

[themuzicman]

I don't think I would want to be an xSFx anything. I realize that I would observe more about the world, and maybe enjoy it more, but I can't imagine missing the natural internal processing that comes from intuiting internally and thinking externally. So often when I express something, the SF's around me look at me like I'm speaking Swahili, and I have to go back and connect the dots.

Maybe ENTJ.

[Kisai]

ESFP and live in ignorant bliss.

[ProfMike42]

Kisai: Why not be an ESFJ and torture your former INTJ colleagues as well as live in ignorant bliss?

[sunlover]

Might want to try the ENTP thing..........they're always so damn happy and easygoing yet very bright, and an "N" all the way.

[Zelder]

[QUOTE=Kisai;804923]ESFP and live in ignorant bliss.[/QUOTE

lol. ignorant bliss best describes the ESFP. They are so stupid and so happy.

[Kisai]

Actually, I know a guy who's the head of a software tools team for a major Silicon Valley corporation. He spearheaded the migration of several thousand engineers from Suns to Linux boxes which perfectly emulate Suns. He's an ESFP.

[a world apart]

Hmm. I don't like calling other types "stupid". I definitely see where you're coming from - I have an ESFP sister, made the mistake of dating one once when he misrepresented himself as an ESFJ somehow, and I have several ESFP students - the bane of my teaching existance second only to my xSxJ dean (she can't understand anything that involves independent thought, a potential fault of that Quadrant that she fell into and hard. Anyway, I think ESFPs just have a predisposition to immaturity than outright stupidity. ESFPs that can think of others above themselves are actually very productive and worthwhile people, even if they don't enjoy our favorite areas of academia and theoretical discourse.

---------- Post added 11-19-2009 at 07:17 PM ----------

Might want to try the ENTP thing..........they're always so damn happy and easygoing yet very bright, and an "N" all the way.

Whoa! ENTPs are seldom happy in my experience. The few I've met that are super happy are also very hardy about it - can't break 'em (one of my favorite professors was that kind). But the ones that aren't are the most moody, unpredictable, intentionally-abrasive and rude people I think I have met. Always bright, though, yes. I'd just have to have a disclaimer on my wish to be an ENTP that read: the happy kind. Because sometimes, they're not that "damn happy" and it is the worst!

---------- Post added 11-19-2009 at 07:23 PM ----------

Maybe ENTJ.

I often picture myself as an ENTJ and intentionally manifest a mimic of their decisiveness internally and their presence/behavior externally when I need to lead a group (groups, or mobs, as I like to call most "groups" I've been forced to be in in any capacity, don't let INTJs lead).

However, I've also had too many as friends/students (and even dated one for two years) to want to be one. For all the traits they have that earn the title Fieldmarshall, they have just as much hidden insecurity, paranoia, and mental distance from those around them, even those that otherwise would be close to them. Maybe not all are this way, but none I've known have been otherwise. I'm too much that way as an INTJ - I would not want to fuel that fault. But, maybe that sort of self-imposed isolation suits you? Does for some INTJs I know (but the ENTJs just don't seem as content with it as the INTJs that choose it).

[True Rune]

ISTP. I'd magically become better with weapons and hate people even more.

[atreyu]

ENFP. Because champion sounds so much better than mastermind.

[Zombicide]

I don't care what MBTI type I am but I think I can see being any introverted intuitive. For the sake of the hypothetical, I suppose I should like to be the ones that I cannot see myself being, um, maybe an ESTP or ISTP, to clarify the reason would have nothing to do with idolizing those types, though I can't go into detail ... because it could be demeaning.

[tcp]

Probably ESFP. One of my best friends is ESFP. She's really intelligent and can probably do the N thing better than me, it's just that she never feels the need to, I think. And she's really easygoing ... seems like a good way to live.

[vash]

ENTJ. I admire people like Bill Gates and, in my own business dealings, I come across as an ENTJ. I can maintain the stance for a while, but then I revert to the cozy, comfortable INTJ.

[Latro]

Definitively INTP or INTJ.

ENTP.
ENFP maybe.
Maybe ENTJ.

[shytiger]

I wouldn't mind being an INTJ.

[t3hrubikscube]

It'd probably be easier to be ENFP (or, well, Exxx -- heh), but I'm okay with what I am.

[Blse]

I score Te, Ti, Ni, and Si (the last two almost tied). Whether INTJ or IxTJ or enTJ suits me best, I wouldn't want another type (honestly). I like being my rational, pragmatic, brainy self :).

[wittykitty]

ENTJ followed by INFP. I'm decently borderline ENTJ so it would be nice for my natural preference to be more go-getter than it already is. INFP's because they have a rich, imaginative inner world which I can relate to easily.

[Austin018]

Na, I would stay with my own INTJ I think...I am who I am! I certainly like who I am, so why change anything? ;)

[MatthewZ]

If I had a profound desire to be another type, I'd be undergoing or have undergone some transformation to that type. In other words, I'm pretty close to "who I want to be."

Voted "I like my own type too much, I wouldn't be able to choose a different one" concordantly.

[milkyway2]

I like mine the best

[dplt]

I am happy and proud with my self. Why do you want to be someone else? Is there any out there want to be exactly like you?

[Freedom Geek]

I don't find INTPs to be that different so I'd go for one of them but I'm extremly close to the boundary so I'm not sure if it counts as I'm not really switching anything. My second choice would be to switch from an INTx to an ENTx