Before I was tagged in the Book Personality Challenge I had no idea it existed, but I do love personality quizzes and this one looked like a lot of fun so I was very excited to get around to it. I was tagged by Meghan at Meghan’s Whimsical Explorations & Reviews. Thanks so much for the tag Meghan, I had a lot of fun with this one.
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What is your MBTI personality type?
Advocate Personality (INFJ, -A/-T)
The Advocate personality type is very rare, making up less than one percent of the population, but they nonetheless leave their mark on the world. As members of the Diplomat Role group, Advocates have an inborn sense of idealism and morality, but what sets them apart is that they are not idle dreamers, but people capable of taking concrete steps to realize their goals and make a lasting positive impact.
What is your personality like?
Advocates tend to see helping others as their purpose in life, but while people with this personality type can be found engaging rescue efforts and doing charity work, their real passion is to get to the heart of the issue so that people need not be rescued at all.
While I wouldn’t say it’s my purpose in life I am always willing to help people, whether that be while at work with system issues, or at home talking through problems with my friends. My job actually involves overseeing a team, and people know they can come to me for help if they ever need it.
They are decisive and strong-willed, but will rarely use that energy for personal gain – Advocates will act with creativity, imagination, conviction and sensitivity not to create advantage, but to create balance.
While I do see myself as a creative, imaginative, and sensitive person I really wouldn’t say I am decisive or strong-willed. It takes me ages of going back and forth to make up my mind, and people can easily change my mind as well. I’m not a pushover or anything, I just adjust my opinions as people offer their own points of view.
If you were a character in a book, what would be some of you character strengths and flaws?
Strengths:
- Creative – Yes, this is definitely something I would say is a strength of mine.
- Insightful – Maybe on a good day.
- Determined and Passionate – I wouldn’t say I’m determined but I would say I’m passionate.
Weaknesses:
- Sensitive – Sometimes I can be overly sensitive so definitely a weakness of mine.
- Extremely Private – Yes. If there is one strength/weakness that I would say defines me overall it would be this one.
- Perfectionist – I don’t see this as a weakness so much, just of wanted to do the job to the best of my ability.
- Can Burn Out Easily – Yes, and this is something I think I need to work on.
I found that I shared more of the Advocate weaknesses than strengths; what does that say about me?
Do any authors share your personality type?
The only author I got was Goethe, who I’ll admit I’ve never heard of before. However there were a few other notable people who have Advocate personalities including Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, and Morgan Freeman among others.
What fictional characters share your personality type?
There were plenty of fictional characters who share my personality type, all I’ve heard of and some even favourites of mine. Jon Snow from Game of Thrones, James Wilson from House M.D. Aragorn and Galadriel from Lord of the Rings, and Aramis from The Three Musketeers.
If you were a character in a book, what job would you have?
Apparently Advocates need to find meaning in their work. That, combined with an Advocates desire to help and connect with people means in a book my job would possibly be something in healthcare; a doctor, psychologist, counsellor, or maybe a teacher if I went that route.
In my real life I think my actual job my Advocate personality quite well. I help oversee a team, and connect with people that way.
What personality type would complete your OTP?
Advocates look for depth and meaning in their relationships. So based on this my book character wouldn’t be one who jumps into a relationship in the first book of the series, instead I’d take the time to find someone who I can truly connect with.
Also Advocates don’t easily forgive manipulation or lying, so at least I have the comfort of knowing my book character wouldn’t have a relationship filled with unnecessary angst. I hate that trope.
Who are some fictional characters that would complete your OTP?
I can’t really bring myself to separate these characters so one could be the other half of my OTP so I changed my answer for this question slightly.
One of my bookish OTPs who I think define the Advocate personality when it comes to relationships are Natalie and Beau from The Love That Split the World by Emily Henry. It’s a beautiful book and they have a beautiful relationship. While writing my answers for this tag and looking through my bookshelves for possible characters to answer this question Natalie and Beau just fit perfectly.
My tags:
- Ash at The Infinite Library
- Camilla at Reader in the Attic
- Kate at Reading Through Infinity
- The Orangutan Librarian
As for everyone else out there reading this post let me know what your MBTI personality type is, and which fictional character would complete your OTP? And if there’s anyone else out there who wants to take part, consider yourself tagged. Just send me a link to your post in the comments so I can see what your answers are.
Nice post!
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Thanks. 🙂
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This tag is super interesting! My best friend share your same personality type. I’m curious to see how mine will turn out as INTP
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If you want feel free to take part as well. There seems to be a lot of us with the same personality on WordPress so I’d be curious how yours turns out too. 😀
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Oh that’s such a cool Tag, I love it! 🙂
Also: I’m a fellow INFJ *high five* 🎉
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Thanks, and yay! 😀 INFJs are rare but we seem to all be blogging, because there are a lot of us on WordPress! 😀
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Maybe us INFJ’s are more likely to be bloggers/readers, that would be something to research 😀
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If we all have roughly the same personality type that would make sense wouldn’t it? 🙂
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Hmm, I remember taking this test a few years ago, and I’m pretty sure I was an Advocate as well, which fits my personality to the tee. Awesome tag! 🙂
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Yeah there seem to be plenty of us on WordPress blogging so it wouldn’t surprise me if you were. 😀 Thanks!
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I love psychology, especially the MBTI! I’m an ISFJ but I find that ISFJs are often quite similar to INFJs. I find it so much fun to see what personality types other people get! Great post!😊❤️
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Yeah it was definitely interesting reading up about my personality type, and just taking the test in general. 🙂
I feel like I should read up on the other personality types, but if there’s only one letter different between INFJs and ISFJs we can’t be too different cant we?
Thanks so much. 🙂 ❤
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Oh I love reading these posts! I’m just fascinated by psychology and even though this is obviously not an exact science it’s so interesting to see what everyone gets and how well or not they fit into the results 🙂 I haven’t met you personally (unfortunately) but I could tell your answers were very honest and fit well into my idea of you (if that makes sense).
I don’t know what my personality type is but I’ve seen some bloggers with the INFJ type, which is intriguing considering it’s a “rare” type of personality. Maybe all the bookworms have it and no one else does? 😛 I’d say it’s fitting.
I’ll be curious to find out my type now, but it’ll take a while before I get to it (I think I was tagged for this before or at least something similar). Anyway, I really enjoyed reading your post, Beth! Keep being a wonderful and caring person, and just generally lovely to everyone ❤ Always love chatting with you!
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Yeah it was definitely interesting seeing what the site said about my personality, I do think a lot of it fit so it’s an accurate test in my opinion. 🙂 Aww, thanks so much Sophie, and yeah that does make sense and I know what you mean. While not all aspects of INFJ fit my personality I feel like most of them did.
Yeah that’s what I noticed, there’s not many INFJ people out there but it seems like we’re all blogging. Maybe that’s just another aspect to our personality.
I’m curious as well, you’ll have to let me know when you find out because I’d be interested in the answer.
Thanks so much Sophie. As always I love chatting with you too. 🙂 ❤
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I will, definitely! I don’t know why I haven’t done the test yet, probably just forgotten about it hahaha
Thank you, Beth! ❤
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Oh I know that feeling, I have a terrible memory so at any one time there are so many things I’ve forgotten about. 🙂
That’s all right! ❤
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Pretty cool personality to get! It’s soooo greeeeen! ❤ This particular personality test is nice to test over time. I feel like a lot changes in our answers for these in particular!
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Yeah I do think this one fits me the best (based on what I’ve read of the others that is), and I loved the graphics the website had so I just had to include them on my post.
I do wonder if mine will change over the months/years, may be something to come back to at a future date or something. 🙂
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I did that same personality test in one of my workshops just last week and I got the same result as you! INFJs for the win! haha
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Whoo, another INFJ! 😀 According to the website we’re very rarest but there have been a few others who’ve commented on this post with the same type. Guess we’re all blogging about books! 🙂
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Hahaha that’s what I thought too. 3% of the world population and all of us are book bloggers haha
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I suppose if we all have the same general interests that wouldn’t surprise me. I imagine a lot of us are book bloggers! 😀
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This is such an awesome tag!!! I’ll have to retake the test (cos it keeps changing for me) but I really want to do this! I love how you went through this and it’s so cool that you’re like Aramis and Jon Snow!!! Loved your answers! Thanks so much for tagging me!! ❤
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Yeah, I don’t think I re-took the test because I’d already taken it once before for another tag, but now I’m wondering if maybe I would have gotten another personality type if I had. Oh well, based on what I’ve read I think this one fits me the best either way.
Yeah I may not have recognized the author but I definitely recognized the characters! 😀
That’s all right, I’ll be looking forwards to your post for this tag. 🙂 ❤
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Fair enough- I know some people who get the same results, but some people get different ones for me.
Thank you! 🙂 ❤
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I feel like I’d probably get the same results now, but maybe a few years down the line it will have changed. After all our personalities can change every so often can’t they? 🙂
That’s all right! ❤
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That’s fair! Absolutely 🙂 ❤
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Omg I’ve never met another INFJ, that’s so cool!! I was literally thinking the other day of doing themed personality type recommendations aahh 😃
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Just in the comments I’ve seen two others (three now including yourself) and we’re supposed to be a rare personality type so now I’m not sure how true that is. 🙂
Ohh, I’d love to see that post, I’d be interested in what recommendations you’d come up with for INFJs. 😀
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Maybe INFJs like blogging? x
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Yeah I think we do. 🙂
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Oh this is such a fun tag – I always love these personality tests, they’re so much fun to do and you can learn so much about yourself, and about others 🙂
Thank you for this as well, you reminded me that The Love That Split The World is on my TBR haha, I really need to get to it someday 🙂 x
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Yeah I loved taking part. 😀 I did the personality test beforehand so I knew what I was going to get, but it was answering the questions for this tag that kind of led to me learning more about myself.
Oh I hope you love it Marie, it was one of the first magical realism books I read so it definitely has a special place in my heart! 🙂 ❤
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I get INFJ sometimes when I take tests, too! I also just love the graphics on this particular test.
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According to the website INFJ’s are rare, so it’s nice to know of another one! 😀
Yeah I love them too, had to include a few of them in my post for this tag. 🙂
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Jon Snow! This looks like it’s a lot of fun, I’ll do it sometime and link it to you 😁
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I may not have recognized the author but I recognized the characters for sure! 🙂
That’d be great, I’d love to see what type you end up with, and your answers for the questions as well. 😀
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I haven’t seen anything like this before! It’s very cool and interesting! I’m going to go take the test and see what it says about me. Even though I wasn’t tagged, I think I will post this tag on my blog. It’s too fun not to!🙂 And your results sound a lot like me… so I’m curious what mine will say.
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Before I was tagged I hadn’t either (and in all honestly after I was tagged I still haven’t) but it was a lot of fun to take part in and I ended up learning a fair bit about myself as well.
Oh definitely feel free to take part in this tag, I’d love seeing your answers for this one and yeah you can see for sure if you are an INFJ as well. 😀
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Yay! I’m glad you did this! These kinds of tags are so fun! I loved reading your answers for this! 😀 That’s awesome that your job fits the advocate type! I don’t know how much my protagonist type fits my job as all I do is read copy all day 😛
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Yeah and it was fun to take part in as well, basically I ended up learning a fair bit about myself as well. I thought so too, shows I’m on the right path when it comes to my career.
I think as long as you enjoy your job that’s the main thing right? 🙂
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That’s good! Right? I learned, and confirmed things about myself. This is true, I do like what I do so I’m not complaining. 🙂
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Yep, it’s only when you don’t enjoy your job that you need to worry it’s not what you’re supposed to be doing (I learnt that the hard way).
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I am a INFJ too!!!
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Yay, guess we’re both very rare then, according to the test at least. 🙂
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