Valerie Lin MBTI Personality Type
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What personality type is Valerie Lin? Valerie Lin is an INFJ personality type in MBTI, 4w3 - sp/so - in Enneagram, RCOAI in Big 5, in Socionics.
"As a child when I went to the city with my mother, we used to walk for an hour to the city because we had no car and it actually wasn't that far. And my mom loves to go on long walks, so I had to begin to love it too. And we always walked along a river and had to cross a bridge, and I always hooked my arm into my mother's so that I wouldn't have to pay as much attention to walking forward and could look to the side while walking. So I could watch the river, observe the behavior of water. And I tried to squeeze my eyes and I wished I could stop and slow down time for a while just to see why the water looks the way it does. And I know I can take a picture, but taking a picture does not feel like seeing the water in real life. I don't know how to say this but I feel like now, when I look at the water I understand it more than me as a child. And it feels like understanding water has also something to do with understanding life, so yeah, this is really hard for me to explain, and I know, a really abstract thought. Sometimes I have a statement in my mind and I just know it's true but I can't provide any arguments to support it yet, so this is a really early thought. Actually an old thought, but still in an early stage" https://youtu.be/XcvI-0Mk0xg Something she said at the end of the video, showing the creative process of Ti, combined with Ni. With Ti the idea is created in the mind first, and then it is developed and connected to arguments, which in time would make it complex and allow better expression of it. Te is more objective, argument-based, so Te users don't have issue with expressing thought the same way, even when having to explain it at the incipit. "I paint the people smiling because when I go to a museum or I see a lot of paintings the people look really grumpy and have pain and.. I understand why they painted like that, but I don't want you to feel pain or sad when you look at my paintings." https://youtu.be/AAXJXReDGa4 Fe (especially when on Ni-Se axis) is more concerned with the outward expression of feelings instead of the inner experience, and also with how those feelings are perceived by others. I see almost no creative process when it comes to her identity and outward expression of it, besides the fact that she is an artist with an educated sense of esthetics, and she likes seeing beautiful things. I could have argued she is maybe ENFJ. But, not only in the paragraph I posted here, but in older videos as well, I remember how she described having issues with being present and aware of her environment generally, so I think she is rather Se inferior. She also has more focus on analysis, understanding and self-improvement, instead of building social connections, showing Fe is used as a tool, rather than an end-goal. All those instances in which she speaks about being true to the self come from realization of what was lacking in her. People put such emphasis and give advice/critique also when they are struggling to overcome traits they perceive as weak or lacking in themselves. It doesn't necessarily mean that those traits are a part of their cognition. Like what she claimed in this quote: "I used to be surrounded by many people, but it was senseless pastime and I felt empty. Disconnecting from things that make you feel bad will bring you time and opportunities for new connections. Don't fill the gaps with the very first opportunity you get, otherwise you won't come out of your cycles. I seriously spent the last six months almost alone. Maybe I met one to two people once a month, and sometimes even no one. I had so much more time for my own interests and lost my fear to be alone. I still have people around. I'm there for them when they need something and they understand that I want to work on my own things (...) I used to be very confused and disorientated. Everybody has an opinion and if you don't know yourself that well you will easily get influenced without realizing it. And there are people who have bad intentions who try to manipulate you." The most common theme, present in most of her videos (if not all), and something she mentioned repeatedly about herself, is her desire to achieve mastery in the things she does. A constant need for perfection, mastery, excellence and transcending the limits. I don't see why people saw her as Enneagram 4 at all. "Anything that is important to me has to be done with excellence. Always aim for mastery. Whatever even if it's just for fun, I just like to see what I am capable of doing. And I fail, but I still re-try it over and over. Do you see? I even respect the making of pigments. I approach everything with respect. And when you do things with respect, valuing the things, you do them great. (...) I had so many jobs, and one of them was to unpack clothes in a warehouse, and even though it was not my dream job, I still did my best. (...) How you do anything is how you do everything."
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