My sister and I have grown up having relatively similar personalities with some slight differences. My sister is what according to personalitypagecom would be known as INFP or The Idealist. My sister, like myself, will take things into perspective and relate them to past events in our own lives when people are having a rough time and as such we will try our best to help people out, I for one would be categorized under what is known as ISFP or The Artist, although I share some of the same. Coping mechanisms as my sister and enjoy helping people as much as she does, there are some fairly distinct differences between our personality types I am more creative than my sister, I like things to be less precise, and more beautiful, and I enjoy searching for the meaning instead of it being laid out for me. My mom on the other hand, is the complete opposite of the both of us.
She is what is described as The Doer or ESTP, My mother is very outgoing compared to the two of us and she knows how to get things done fast and properly; something we both lack. She has, throughout my life been who has taught me how to be as tolerable and friendly to people as I am, she has shown me the importance of going out and doing versus sitting back and waiting for what you want to come to you. Although she is about as opposite as it gets from my sister and I and it can get on our nerves, it is a very good thing that she is different. For example, I am, for the most part, a shut in. ISFPs are not really interested in being a leader, as I have shown in most of my life. I tend to stray far from being a leader, I enjoy listening to others talk and not interfering. When spoken to, I like to give short, sincere answers rather than lengthy or metaphoric answers. I would most enjoy being by myself working on a project or a piece of art.
One example of this is that for the past year, I have been working finishing writing and recording my very first solo album I enjoy the process of writing music and recording it. The real joy comes from creating something complete and heart-filled from nothing, creating something that you can completely call your own and it reflects who you are, be it in a positive or negative way. While writing my album I have found out that not only do I not enjoy talking very much, I also don’t enjoy singing, rather, I don’t enjoy having words in the music I have written. For about four months I had dabbled in adding some spoken word or chorus’ over the music I had been writing, most of it being acoustic. As it turns out, while I continued writing the words I had planned out to go over the instrumentation didn’t fit at all as well as I had planned so I scrapped them, leaving the instruments to talk for themselves. In my head instruments can be much, much more powerful than words.
127 our experts are availableright now
Although I don’t have that much of a knack for words within my work, the person that has the most similar personality to me, my sister, does. My sister, Ellie is a Poet, a Deep thinker and a Teacher, although there is a specific “Personality Type” for the teacher, I don‘t think that she quite fits into it as well as she does INFP. My sister, as I am is a quiet individual, although she enjoys to spread her vast amount of knowledge with others. She is a first grade teacher and she does a great job at it, Part of the reason that I think she is a great teacher is the fact that she tries her hardest to relate to the students and tries her hardest to teach them what they need to and takes her time figuring out which students need individualized learning plans. Morally, my sister is one of the most, in my opinion, morally sane people I know. It might have something to deal with growing up in a family of mental illness or having to deal with mental illness in herself, as well as, along with many trips to the psychiatric ward in the family.
My sister, has been a published poet since she was sixteen, and much like myself with my music, that is the one thing that she is completely passionate about. She takes her writing very seriously, almost as seriously as being a teachert The day that she first became published was one of the best days of her life, Even years later she still will get letters in her PO, box saying how her poetry has helped people out so much and that they look up to her as a writer. As for my mom, she’s kind of the opposite of both of us. My mom, is very outgoing, she enjoys starting conversations with people, whether she knows them or not, she is what as known as an ESTP or “The Doer”. As that goes, my Mother enjoys trying to get us out in public and doing as many things as possible as often as possible.
As one might guess, my Sister and I usually have a problem with this, but my Mother always ends up convincing us by saying things such as “How are you going to know if you don’t enjoy doing it if you don‘t at least try it’. One example of one of these times is when I had the chance to walk one of the wrestlers in at a local wrestling outfit‘s match I was throwing a fit about it because of how nervous I was that l was the one out of my family that was picked to do it, but after hours of trying to convince me my mom finally coerced me into doing it. It ended up being one of the most entertaining things that I had ever done. As one could tell by reading this essay, my sister and I have very similar personality types, and as such we get along well. On the contrary, my mother is the opposite of us. Instead of that affecting us negatively, it affects us rather positively because my mother uses her differences to help us get over our how introverted we can be from time to time.
References
- personalitypage.com – INFP (The Idealist)
- personalitypage.com – ISFP (The Artist)
- personalitypage.com – ESTP (The Doer)
- National Institutes of Health – The Role of Personality Traits in Predicting Psychological Well-being
- Psych Central – Personality Quizzes
- Verywell Mind – The Big Five Personality Dimensions
