College Life ISFJ Needs Fun Time Planning!

The college life ISFJ will by typified by great and lasting friendships.ISFJs are among the easiest to get to now of all the 16 Myers Briggs personality typesonce you get by the Introversion.

If allowed and guided the ISFJ will depend upon their natural personality tendencies to pick majors and minors with a view toward career security.

They will typically gravitate toward college majors and minors such as:
• Human Services
• K-12 Teaching
• Health Care
• Office Work

ISFJs learn best by:
• Having professors who are clear, precise and realistic.
• Remembering facts.
• Being presented with practical realities and issues.
• Studying real human experiences and environments.

When studying, reading and writing the ISFJ will:
• Prefer to study alone.
• Tend to enjoy reading what is real especially if it has a human interest.
• Write best by first recording the facts they are sure of.
• Earn much higher grades by hard and thorough work.
• Revise drafts based upon facts, moving from the specific to the general.

Like other "Sensing Judgers" the ISFJ approacha to fun will be secondary.

As related to fun the ISFJ will:
• Need to plan time for fun, they are way too serious.
• Be reluctant to accept social leadership in groups, but will step up if asked first.
• Tend to date much less often than no "SJ" types.
• Socially will go to great lengths to help a roommate or a friend!

Possible Stressor's for the ISFJ:
• Among females, the ISFJ is one of the least assertive types.
• The ISFJ may lack self confidence regarding social or academic abilities.
• May have difficulty beginning college because of separation from family and friends.
• May be undervalued because of their quiet and reserved demeanor.
• May be burdened by having agreed to help too many others.
• They can get "taken for granted' very easily!

If living on campus, roommate stress is one of the larger sources of stress for collegestudents. This can be huge for the ISFJ student as they tend to "take care of friends" way toomuch.

If the ISFJ can identify early on any perceived personality differences between them and theirroommate(s) they can better handle potential conflicts and irritations; to say nothing of notbeing taken for granted so much.

ISFJ can combat stress by:
• Leading with their work ethic; they don't quit until experience tells them they are wrong.
• Naturally relying on their past experience to deal with present problems.
• Learning to put more trust in their own hunches, intuition and imagination.
• Need to learn to act more assertively.
• Need to work on developing greater self-confidence.

It is estimated that 40% of college students are "SJs" as is the ISFJ. So college can bea wonderful time for the ISFJ.

The college experience can be optimized by the ISFJ by understanding better theirnatural tendencies for learning styles, picking college majors, and preferences forcollege fun and much, much more!