Ni + Fi

Markers of the Combination of Two Simultaneously Strong Functions: Ni + Fi

  1. I instantly catch other people’s ironic meanings - when one thing is said formally, but the exact opposite is implied.
  2. I am always very sensitive to and foresee the consequences of this or that word or step of mine.
  3. I usually somehow automatically adapt to another person, always trying to speak in a “language” they understand (and it does not require any effort from me to overcome myself).
  4. In relationships, I know how to be flexible, that is, where necessary, I know how to play along, where necessary, I know how to remain silent.
  5. In conversations with people whom I want to influence, I rarely express myself directly, usually even give advice half-hints, as if “feeling out”.
  6. I easily guess about a person’s interests and goals by their individual actions.
  7. I can hide my true attitude towards a person behind my facial expression.
  8. In my imagination, I often play out certain sequential situations rather than solve riddles set before me or compare something with something else.
  9. I can almost always predict how even a completely new and unfamiliar person will act in a specific situation with clear, well-known conditions.
  10. I often think over the surrounding intrigues so as not to slip and make a mistake.
  11. I am flexible in my choice of conversation style and say out loud and “show out” only what is suitable for conversation in a given situation and with a specific person.
  12. There is no point in resisting the world, you can only adapt.
  13. I like to study my acquaintances in different situations, guessing about their actions: like, why, and why. 14. I have very poor orientation in an unfamiliar place, even if I have a map at hand. 15. I get bruises on my body very easily, even from minor contusions.
  14. I easily come up with some kind of plot stories.
  15. I love to listen to all sorts of news and gossip.
  16. I willingly seek out and quickly see all the “weak spots” in the character and life of any person with whom I communicate, even for a short time.
  17. I am far-sighted and prudent in my relationships with people.
  18. I have an excellent physique.
  19. It is easier for me to estimate how long I have been on the road than how much distance I have covered.
  20. In company, I like to joke, play with hints and the ambiguity of words.
  21. I almost always instantly guess the reason why I was called somewhere.
  22. I never meddle in other people’s work problems.
  23. I consider myself a very perceptive person in relation to people’s capabilities.
  24. The specific characters, weaknesses and actions of people I know occupy me more than world justice.
  25. I have good diplomatic skills in any situation - I never dig in my heels or linger in an unfavorable position, I foresee the consequences and further developments, I know how to advance, retreat, and maneuver.
  26. Sometimes I notice that it is difficult to carry out a chain of various alternating movements - either pauses occur when moving from one movement to another, or the old movement begins to repeat itself automatically several times.
  27. I can, as it were, “feel” any person, any phenomenon from the inside.
  28. Over the past three years, I have had a sensation of vibration in my stomach, as if butterflies were fluttering there.
  29. It is usually easy for me to adapt to someone else’s mood, whatever it may be.
  30. I lose interest in the same game (whatever it may be) if I play for more than three hours straight.
  31. I am ethically flexible and can adapt to different people.
  32. I am always skillfully polite to those I need at the moment.
  33. My interest in scientific matters is rather superficial, in any case, I would not choose a profession in this or a purely technical field.
  34. I like to notice and remember how people’s behavior deviates from the moral and ethical canons they supposedly recognize.
  35. It happened that I lied in stories to seem more interesting.
  36. I do not have problems in communication and feelings.
  37. Based on individual actions of people, I often draw conclusions about what common interests and desires lie behind them.
  38. I know how to direct the behavior of acquaintances in a direction that benefits me, as if “pushing” the right buttons.
  39. I would make a good diplomat.
  40. I often feel unclear thoughts, brain fog.
  41. In my work, I do not like to “clean up details”, I leave that to others.
  42. It is true that I find it rather boring and uninteresting to compare the details of different objects and look for patterns that they have in common.
  43. I know how to flexibly pacify and establish relationships in a team.
  44. Almost every day, many times I feel that I lack some opportunities and resources.
  45. It is difficult for me to instantly figure out the difference between “brother’s father” and “father’s brother”.
  46. As a child and adolescence, it sometimes seemed to me that if I was riding on public transport, one of my fellow passengers was looking at me with disapproval, contemptuously assessing my appearance.
  47. What films irritate you least? - 1) Tearful melodramas. 5) Horror films about secret psychopaths.
  48. Sentences like “Petya is shorter than Vasya, and Petya is taller than Seryozha” make me think a lot about who is taller in this trinity - it’s hard to figure out in my head who is taller than whom.
  49. Without looking at the clock, I can always tell the time very accurately - as if I had a clock inside me.
  50. I instantly see a “weakness” in another person and what exactly it is.
  51. If life forces me to, then I can quite skillfully lie, hiding my true likes and dislikes.
  52. In the course of conversations, I love to laugh, to make fun of other people’s immorality and depravity.
  53. I am often bored, I do not know how to find and receive pleasure in the ordinary course of life.
  54. My self-esteem is constantly jumping, and it is often very low.
  55. I am not afraid of surprises in conversations once started and usually know a few seconds in advance what they will say and what I will say, and usually I even feel in advance how the conversation will end.
  56. I periodically have internal muscle pain in my arms or legs, not related to blows, sprains and injuries - that is, without previous causes.
  57. I often experience despair and hopelessness for a long time.
  58. I am good at foreseeing developing events in order to take timely measures, or even slightly push events in my favor.
  59. I am not on anyone’s side, I am always on my own.
  60. As a rule, in conversation I almost always involuntarily adapt to the interlocutor - I will speak differently with a carpenter than with a plumber; with a physicist - differently than with a chemist.
  61. Feelings and relationships between people are more interesting to me than events in politics and business.
  62. My breathing is often somehow constrained, as if the air has somehow become different and there is not enough for each breath (at the same time, I sometimes feel some kind of tightness in the lower part of the neck and in the chest)
  63. If the phone rings, then usually from the very beginning of the conversation its entire scenario and future course become roughly clear to me in advance.
  64. It is difficult for me, guided only by a guidebook map, to find my way in a new city.
  65. I don’t really trust others, because even under the most favorable circumstances, I tend to fear the worst.
  66. It’s easier for me to control the mood of one person nearby than the mood of an audience or a crowd.
  67. In noisy places - for example, at a disco, in a workshop, next to a working turbine - I don’t feel excited, but rather stunned and quickly become tired.
  68. I often experience a quiet melancholy and a feeling of oppressive heaviness in my soul.
  69. Physics, mathematics, engineering and chemistry are not the areas in which I would like to work.
  70. When I’m nervous, I completely lose my appetite, sometimes I even start to feel sick (nausea) “from nerves”.
  71. I assess the degree of risk very well, often give advice to exercise caution and prudence in order to avoid the surprises and troubles I predict. 74. I would prefer to work more with my tongue than with my hands.
  72. I am an attentive and sensitive person to people’s behavior, and therefore not very trusting.
  73. I often worry about someone’s attitude towards me.
  74. I have poor spatial memory.
  75. If I help someone, I often think that he will not succeed anyway.
  76. In dealing with people, every second time or even more often I am forced to use cunning and slyness.
  77. I can’t stand it when people look me straight in the eyes, I look away.
  78. When playing cards, I easily and sincerely begin to complain out loud about someone else’s luck in the deal and the fact that I “don’t have the cards”.
  79. I like to watch scary horror movies with monsters.
  80. Better than many others, I can hide and not show my negative attitude towards other people’s prejudices. 84. Irony and sarcasm are personally closer and more understandable to me than optimistic romanticism.
  81. I am very flexible in behavior.
  82. There is no point in fighting for anything or trying to change anything in life - no government anywhere will ever be interested in the fate of a simple, innocent person.
  83. I feel an understandable and slightly hostile envy of people who have more fashionable and expensive things than me.
  84. After meditation, I feel much more confident, calmer, and generally better.
  85. I often experience the feeling of pleasant foresight and hope. 90. I know how to never quarrel with friends, as well as with influential and important people.
  86. I believe that a person initially owes nothing to the country in which he was born.
  87. I often experience a state when I am fed up with everything.
  88. I would like to come up with some kind of fraudulent schemes for taking money from citizens.
  89. As a rule, I can always explain in words why another person I know in a certain situation acted differently than I would have done in his place.
  90. My writing often contains sarcasm.
  91. I can be offended and deeply hurt even by a disapproving expression on someone else’s face.
  92. My limbs sometimes go slightly numb and feel cold. 98. The promised reward plays a decisive role in my interest in work.
  93. I have been having a lot of bad luck lately, and I feel completely “out of sorts” and not like usual.
  94. I often feel like something is constantly vaguely “spinning” in my head - either scraps of words, or thoughts, or something else, and this spinning makes it difficult to concentrate, and in general it is intrusive, uncomfortable and unpleasant.
  95. Frequent anxiety attacks are common for me.
  96. I notice that I have problems with my memory - I often forget what I would like to remember.
  97. The way some people speak in a loud voice irritates me.
  98. I often think and reflect on past events.
  99. I love playing Mafia (guessing who got the Mafia card based on the players’ reactions and convincing others of my point of view), and I often win.
  100. As a child and teenager, I often had an obsessive feeling that I was ugly and awkward, and that people around me seemed to notice it.
  101. I rarely react immediately to an insult; it’s better to take revenge later.
  102. I know how to establish contact with anyone if necessary.
  103. I remember many instances of my awkwardness that have occurred over the past year (more than three).
  104. There are attacks when my heartbeat slows down and my body becomes covered in sweat.
  105. If a person or even an object irritates me, I begin to ignore them, to the point that they seem to cease to exist in the surrounding space for me.
  106. Sometimes I spend the whole evening thinking and worrying about what I need to do, what I haven’t done, or what I can’t do, what needs to be done, or what will happen if something isn’t done, etc.
  107. I am often in a sad mood.
  108. I feel somehow uncomfortable in open spaces, I prefer to spend time in a small room.
  109. My body lacks muscle tone.
  110. I often get short of breath during physical exertion.
  111. I like and know how to use “workarounds” on the way to a goal.
  112. I am often prone to timidity, which manifests itself in a sudden feeling of threat from the outside and a desire to immediately freeze in place. 119. I make sure that people do not come too close to me when talking.
  113. When I am nervous, I often feel my heart rate increase.
  114. I often think painfully in the evening about the mistakes I made during the day.
  115. For me to want some “bodily pleasures”, my friends have to make a lot of effort.
  116. I know very well what specific interests unite the people I know.
  117. I am a very self-confident person, flexible and ready for new things.
  118. I will worry for several days if one of my friends or family members tells me that I have an unpleasant odor from my armpits, feet or mouth.
  119. My positive predictions usually come true.
  120. I almost never managed to assimilate the lecture material directly in lectures - at some point I was sure to “drop out” of the explanations, and then I always had to re-assimilate the material, reading the textbook and notes with my own eyes.
  121. Sometimes during conversations I don’t know what to do with my hands.
  122. Marriage is not really necessary or important for having and raising children.
  123. I often suffer from a lack of self-confidence and assertiveness.
  124. I really love those kinds of rides (roller coasters, loop-the-loops, etc.) that take your breath away.
  125. I am gentle and sympathetic, unless I am forced to do something that is boring or that I do not know how to do - then I am capricious.
  126. I often have a feeling of depression: it seems that I give a lot to life, and get nothing from it.
  127. I very rarely carefully read the regulatory documents.
  128. In most situations, I am very dodgy when trouble threatens.
  129. I would be pleased to often attend all sorts of social receptions and parties.
  130. I usually benefit from any situation.
  131. I usually have anxiously sad eyes.
  132. Loud laughter and “throwing on the chest” with tears seem vulgar to me and never evoke sympathy.
  133. It is not difficult for me to adapt to the “cockroaches” of any new management.

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