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Oct. 20th, 2007
fighting with myself.
Oct. 20th, 2007 03:23 pmI take the Jung personality test every six months or so, and I haven't changed since high school. I do not consciously keep trying to get this result. I didn't think I even liked certainty. Kiersey's profile is actually my favorite description, probably because it's by Kiersey instead of some schmuck in psychology school:
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Although the Enneagram results are sort of new to me. Apparently most INTJs test as a Type 5, not 3. I've always suspected that my locus of control is external rather than internal, which according to psychology texts is very bad. Makes you think you're not in control of your own life, makes you more prone to depression, makes you fatalistic, makes you - if you were a dog in a lab - let yourself be electrocuted despite the open door (escape) because you don't believe that the door is really open.
But wait, according to being an INTJ, I should be internally, rather than externally, motivated. The Scientist, it says. But I am not a Scientist, and God is the ultimate INTJ.
I do appreciate, however, some of Amanda Doerr's advice for "dealing with INTJs":
1. Be willing to back up your statements with facts - or at least some pretty sound reasoning.
2. Don't expect them to respect you or your viewpoints just because you say so.
3. Be willing to concede when you are wrong.
4. Try not to be repetitive. It annoys them.
5. Do not feed them a line of bull.
6. Expect debate.
7. Do not mistake the strength of your conviction with the strength of your argument.
8. Do not be surprised at sarcasm.
9. Remember that INTJs believe in workable solutions.
10. Do not expect INTJs to actually care about how you view them. They already know that they are arrogant bastards with a morbid sense of humor. Telling them the obvious accomplishes nothing.
However, I do not appreciate having as one of my suggested careers "dictator" - referring, I guess, to other INTJs: Caesar, Hannibal (both the original and Lecter), Peter the Great, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, JFK, Woodrow Wilson. I take heart in someone's decision that Batman is an INTJ, as well as Clarice Starling and Gandalf, although I'm not sure about Mr. Darcy's inclusion, but then again, Jane Austen is an INTJ. Maybe he's really an author-insert. Nietzsche - cool. Ayn Rand - not so much. And so on. Unsurprisingly, women get more flak for showing their INTJ tendencies than men (Q: Are female INTJs less feminine than women of other temperaments? A: Female INTJs are just as feminine as they want to be. They can be just as sweet and sexy as the next women if they feel like. They are just opinionated and don't put up with stupidity for long.), which may reflect the distribution of gender in my list.
| INTJ - "Mastermind". Introverted intellectual with a preference for finding certainty. A builder of systems and the applier of theoretical models. 2.1% of total population. |
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Although the Enneagram results are sort of new to me. Apparently most INTJs test as a Type 5, not 3. I've always suspected that my locus of control is external rather than internal, which according to psychology texts is very bad. Makes you think you're not in control of your own life, makes you more prone to depression, makes you fatalistic, makes you - if you were a dog in a lab - let yourself be electrocuted despite the open door (escape) because you don't believe that the door is really open.
But wait, according to being an INTJ, I should be internally, rather than externally, motivated. The Scientist, it says. But I am not a Scientist, and God is the ultimate INTJ.
I do appreciate, however, some of Amanda Doerr's advice for "dealing with INTJs":
1. Be willing to back up your statements with facts - or at least some pretty sound reasoning.
2. Don't expect them to respect you or your viewpoints just because you say so.
3. Be willing to concede when you are wrong.
4. Try not to be repetitive. It annoys them.
5. Do not feed them a line of bull.
6. Expect debate.
7. Do not mistake the strength of your conviction with the strength of your argument.
8. Do not be surprised at sarcasm.
9. Remember that INTJs believe in workable solutions.
10. Do not expect INTJs to actually care about how you view them. They already know that they are arrogant bastards with a morbid sense of humor. Telling them the obvious accomplishes nothing.