Ahh! The Irony of the Idealist!

My Myers-Briggs obsession has yet to subside. I'm currently reading a book called Please Understand Me II (this title cracks me up) by David Keirsey, and it's awesome. He suggests 4 personality groupings based on M-B letters. They are as follows:

• SPs-- Artisans
• SJs-- Guardians
• NFs-- Idealists
• NTs-- Rationals

So, according to this system, I am an Idealist... no surprise there. Here's an excerpt about the Idealists:

Idealists often dedicate their lives to this kind of self-realization-- seeking to become realized, trying to get in touch with the person they were meant to be, and to have an identity that which is truly theirs... Idealists regard this search for identity as the most important enterprise in their lives... But even more mystifying is the paradox coiled at the very center of this search, namely, that the search for Self is fundamentally incompatible with the achievement of finding the Self. For many NFs the search for Self is a quest which becomes very much an end in itself, and which can come to dominate their lives. Thus, the Idealists' truest Self comes to be the Self in search of itself, or, in other words, their purpose in life becomes to have a purpose in life. But how can one achieve a goal when that goal is to have a goal? Intent on becoming themselves, Idealists can never truly be themselves, since the very act of reaching for the Self immediately puts it out of reach. In their enthusiasm for self-discovery, then, Idealists can become trapped in a paradox: they are themselves only if they are searching for themselves, and they would cease being themselves if they ever found themselves.

Ummm, I feel like someone should cue "Killing Me Softly" (the Fugees version), because Keirsey is telling my life with his words.

Also, I love the line "trapped in a paradox," because it reminds me of Austin Powers being trapped in a nutshell.

That is all. Sorry for once again taking everything back to Myers-Briggs; I have a problem.