ENFJ can easily fool themselves into believing they are introverted, since their Ni causes them
to be highly introspective at times. But their dominant function is still Fe, thus
an extroverted function. Zendaya’s Fe is quite clear, since she is very open, warm,
and emotionally expressive. She focuses on the emotions of those around her and wants to
create a positive and harmonious environment. But we also see a strong Se in her. There is
a certain boldness and directness to her at times and a sense of aesthetics and fashion.
She is quite grounded in the present and less detached than INFJs often appear, since her Se
is quite well developed. She seems to have clear future goals and a certain vision of where to go,
but her Ni isn‘t so strong that it would be her dominant function. She is introspective,
reflective, and can go abstract, but her Fe is clearly her preferred function.
All this points to Fe. She leads everything with it. She is generally like a glue that holds a
community together. She can look at feelings by external criteria and nurture them based on it.
Also, she expressive both verbally and through clothing.
She once said she is a “very shy, introverted person”, but this doesn’t make her an ‘INFJ’
because social introversion isn't the same as cognitive introversion,
and if you want to know the truth about someone, that someone is the last person you should ask.
Most of her answers in interviews revolve around how much she cares about making a positive
impact on other people, which is more about her Fe than her Ni. She does use
Ti to formulate answers to the questions, but her Ti exposes itself as an inferior function
whenever she tells interviewers to skip some questions that she feels uncomfortable answering
or can’t answer on the spot, because she simply doesn’t know how to answer.
Sure, INFJs may have more trouble than ENFJs with sharing their answers due to a lower Fe function,
but it’s not about coming up with answers, since Ni and Ti are stacked higher than ENFJ’s.
What Zendaya is struggling with here is not about her inability
to ‘express herself’ – we already know she can express herself well.
Her struggle is with ‘formulating a proper answer’ to such questions.
She has an inability to “specifically choose one thing.” She can’t decide for herself what
her favorite food, favorite movie, favorite color is. She clearly has a weakness in one
of her judging functions, which is concerned with decision making. More specifically,
she struggles with making decisions for herself. On the other hand, her stronger judging function
lets her effortlessly make decisions in relation to others. Again, she relishes in her Fe.
She said she wishes she could expand her vocabulary,
but she rarely reads books because she gets bored, but she’s trying to get better at that.
She also cited a modern director in a show she starred in as her favorite writer. There’s nothing
wrong with that, but it’s simply that she has less experience with books and literature and instead
finds herself more engaged in the acting industry, which seems to stimulate her tertiary Se.
An INFJ with inferior Se, however, would more likely be drained at having to use Se all the time,
but Zendaya repeatedly mentions how grateful she is to get to do what she does for a living,
and that it doesn’t feel like work for her. Se seems to energize her more than drain her.
She loves her work and loves being surrounded by creative and talented people like herself.
She says she wants to live in complete isolation, but then immediately says that she also wants
to live in NYC as she loves the fast paced environment. It seems more like a balanced
Se that’s somewhere in the middle instead of as an inferior function. It’s likely that her
inferior Ti is causing her to be so undecided between living in a quiet city and living in
a crowded city. An INFJ would simply choose the quieter city and wouldn’t be torn by that choice.
Zendaya’s viewpoints indicate that her Ni is strong, but even so, it’s not a dominant function
as Fe seems to act as a filter for her viewpoints. When she gets asked a question that she can give a
proper answer to, she gets straight to the point. INFJs generally struggle more with this.
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