shared books

It's interesting that the members of this group have few shared books (or is that just my perception?). I know that personality and interests don't always overlap.

INFJs are a variegated lot, and of this writing we only have a handful of members. One INFJ I know has a library 3/5ths the size of mine with almost as much history and considerably more science, engineering, computer science, and science fiction. We've very few books in common. Another has only a few shelves of books, nearly all of them astrology, New Age, Kennedy and fantasy. The only books I share with her are Tolkein's, LOL!

I'd venture to say that while spirituality would be the common interest, mine are all over the lot. I'm a fox, not a hedgehog.

OK I'll bite - what's a fox/ hedgehog?

I'm alluding to a famous saying by Archilochus, commonly known nowadays via Isaiah Berlin's famous essay on Tolstoy: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one BIG thing."

http://www.kheper.net/topics/typology/Fox_and_Hedgehog.html

Perhaps this diversity is, to a degree, a defining aspect of INFJ personality?

That's not a criterion in the MBTI, but that said curiosity does have some connection with intuition. Not that I'm able to solve the Poincare conjecture, mind you! (Check today's NYT for that allusion.) Cheers!

The shared books are changing a little more now there are more members, I see.

Slowly but surely. I wonder at what rate the rising curve of shared books increases...?

Yikes! I own none of the shared books! I blame it on my classroom books... :)

Chelsea :)

Who could resist joining a group which contains not one member of their Top 50 Similar Libraries and of whose Most Commonly Shared Books they share not one? An INFJ? Probably won't stay long. On the other hand.....

I can’t believe there’s a group for INFJ, and that I stumbled onto it. I actually used it as an “about me” description on my profile page just for a goof; didn’t think anyone would get it. (Maybe I’ll put it back.)

I took the M-B test twice, twelve years apart. I had completely forgotten about the first time until I found the old results in a drawer and was shocked at how nearly identical the results of the two tests were even though my life had seemingly dramatically transformed over those dozen years. There must be something to it.

The INFJs here have been quiet for 3 years?!

@12 Well we are a rare type :)

MGP

I wonder if we as individuals in this group share more books in common with members of the Legacy Libraries. I share the most books with Carl Sandburg.