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Saturday, November 22, 2008

INTJ - Following UP on Myers Briggs

After making the previous post, I began to think back to the last time I got caught up with the Myers Briggs personality type assessments, and I realized that the ISTP type wasn't my usual result. In fact, I most often come out INTJ. So I went online and did a quickie assessment, and sure enough, once again I was INTJ -- although with only moderately expressed introverted, intuitive, and thinking qualities, but strongly judgmental. Now that strikes me as much more likely, especially the judgmental:
To outsiders, INTJs may appear to project an aura of "definiteness", of self-confidence. This self-confidence, sometimes mistaken for simple arrogance by the less decisive, is actually of a very specific rather than a general nature; its source lies in the specialized knowledge systems that most INTJs start building at an early age. When it comes to their own areas of expertise -- and INTJs can have several -- they will be able to tell you almost immediately whether or not they can help you, and if so, how. INTJs know what they know, and perhaps still more importantly, they know what they don't know.
Alas, INTJ is a fairly typical result for academics. I knew that Keith Richards and Frank Zappa didn't sound right. Famous INTJs include C.S. Lewis and William J. Bennett, but also Martina Navratilova, Chevy Chase and Arnold Schwarzenegger. See what I mean.

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