Hiroyuki Utsumi-INFP

According to the MBTI test, I seem to be called INFP.

To some extent I agree to this result. The textbook says INFP tend to be private and introspective. I would rather to value my private time and life. It is my habit when I want to get relaxed, to calmly read some of my favorite books in a rocking chair. And I often get lost in thought for myself.

Moreover the reading says INFP tends to have a talent of language and writings. I don’t know whether I have a talent of language, but I actually like to learn various new languages, especially their grammar. So, the last year, I took the comparative linguistics class at the university and studied “King Lear” in medieval Welsh a bit.

Therefore, I think the indicated personality matches me to some degree.

Comments

  1. Minori SatoMarch 10, 2022 at 7:27 PM

    I also like learning new foreign languages. When I start a new one, first of all I study grammar or pronunciation and then enjoy texts, songs, or movies.

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    1. Hiroyuki UtsumiMarch 13, 2022 at 7:57 AM

      Thank you for your comment. That is a great habit. I think the phonetic aspect of the languages and learning it are also really important.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 10, 2022 at 7:37 PM

    Getting lost in thought experience must be great that I hope to have whenever reading books. We are easily absobed into the TV and movies however I think it's not natural to concntrate into reading like you especially for technical or academic books, not novels. Learning new lamguage is quite hard for me so liking them and being talented on them seems great to me as well.

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    1. Hiroyuki UtsumiMarch 13, 2022 at 8:04 AM

      Thank you for your comment. Yes, me too. It is difficult to get absorbed in reading something especially when we don't have much interest in it, so maybe it matters what to read.

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  3. YUE XUMarch 11, 2022 at 7:31 PM

    I also like learning languages though maybe not as that much as you do. I think knowing more languages means the world around you will get bigger and bigger.

    Just like the famous philosopher Wittgenstein said " In what language do you speak, in what language do you think and what we can think is depending on what we can use to think". And I totally agree with it

    So if I don't know Japanese, I would never know such as the feeling of Wabi-sabi because you can't find it in any other language.

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    1. Hiroyuki UtsumiMarch 13, 2022 at 8:13 AM

      Thank you for your comment. I agree with you. As the theory of linguistic relativity implies, I think what language we use can strongly affect and limit the way we think.

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