I re-took the Jung/Meyers-Briggs tonight for funsies...
Yes I am still INTJ (a moderate one). A Mastermind. I think once, briefly, I ventured into INTP (architect) territory, but I have regained my sanity.
And this is what it says...
We INTJs are confident, which can be "mistaken for simple arrogance by the less decisive"...we know what we know, and also what we don't know. We are pragmatic. We are perfectionists and improvers, questioners and researchers; we are freed "from the constraints of authority, convention, or sentiment for its own sake...Anyone considered to be 'slacking,' including superiors, will lose their respect - and will generally be made aware of this."
We are impatient of social ritual and inherently unconventional. We are private and impassive, misunderstood. "Personal relationships, particularly romantic ones, can be the INTJ's Achilles heel. While they are capable of caring deeply for others (usually a select few), and are willing to spend a great deal of time and effort on a relationship, the knowledge and self-confidence that make them so successful in other areas can suddenly abandon or mislead them in interpersonal situations" (BOO D: ).
INTJs expect people to make sense and act rationally, which may result in a "peculiar naivete"...but we are highly capable leaders who "are not at all eager to take command, preferring to stay in the background until others demonstrate their inability to lead" (...okay, true). Essentially...problem-solving and intuitive rational whatsit.
Mr Darcy was an INTJ. Also JFK. And Dan Aykroyd. And Gandalf. It seems like there are a lot of men who are masterminds, and not a lot of women.
It says for a job, I should be an engineer, an inventor, a lawyer...or an assassin.
Yesss...
It also says that INTJs are only 1% of the population...but I know at least two other people who have taken this test and been diagnosed as such. So maybe we all hang out in a mob? Or maybe we just like taking quizzes. Or mayyybe, we're all just some other personality category that likes to think they're mastermindy.
Anywho, you can take it yourself (if you haven't already...) online.
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I'm still the Field Marshall: it's all about contingency plans. Or as one analysis put it, "Few other types can equal their ability to remain resolute in conflict, sending the valiant (and often leading the charge) into the mouth of hell." Oh, hell. At least Napoleon, Nixon, Hillary Clinton, and Maggie Thatcher are charging right alongside me.
I'm ENFJ (The Giver/Teacher) which puts me with Ronald Reagan (Yay!) and Barack Obama (Boooooo.).
John is INFJ, which puts him with Chaucer, Mother Teresa, and Shirley Temple!
Okay, I just took this again (last time was senior year of high school), and I can join Emily as an INTJ, though a very moderate one... the 'T' bit has merely a 1% preference. The others aren't much better, and only one quality - the 'Judging' is higher than 50%. So I basically straddle the INTJ/INFJ fence. A mugwump Counseling Mastermind, I guess. I identify more strongly with INTJ.
Emily: The reason there are so many INTJs, but only comprise 1% of the population is because we're too busy assassinating each other. Assassins are also super-secret and therefore do not show up on censuses. Well known fact. And as for lawyers...
words of wisdom...watch your back mr jennette, as the little patience i have with social graces will certainly not spare you, even if you are my friend's bf.
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