Personality

Even the best of us sometimes succumb to personality tests. Today I did, to the standard four-letter psychological test, Myers-Briggs or whatever. I remembered why I dislike them so much. They are, as a wise man said, the equivalent of saying:

"Here, I have a series of boxes. Which one do you fit into?"

Before I saw them this way, when I was a positivist, I used to have a lot of trouble with them. I'd take one, and then I'd be agonising about whether I was INTP or ENTP. I spent an afternoon considering it once, I think. Today the test gave me INFP.

To be fair, INFP fits me pretty well. So does INTP, INFJ, INTJ, ENFP, ENTP, ENFJ and ENTJ. You see the problem with the test here: I hold characteristics of anything with an N in it (interestingly, in the test, the N is very strongly expressed). This makes sense, since intuition is such an important part of the way I think. If I lost intuition, I would be very literally crippled.

Take that, Jung. Personality is more compex than 16 boxes!

Anyway, today I had the following thoughts:

• Instead of having plain old sizes in coffee shops, we should go more for the JapaneseVideoGame conception of size: things improve and have things added as they get larger. The small drink is plain and small, the medium drink is mediumsized and has say... whipped cream, and the large one is largesized and has whippedCream+chocolateSauce.
• Life would be far more interesting if capitalism didn't adhere so much to economics. If it just did things for the hell of it. See the above point.
• I put a £1.75 tip in the tip jar for the coffee shop, because the girl looked like she was having a bad time. She was also rather pretty, which made me a little more nervous than I usually am interacting with shop employees. I meant to tip even more, but I didn't by accident, and it would've been weird to go back and tip more, I think.