iNTj — Rational Mastermind

According to the Jung Typology test, (a.k.a. MBTI, Keirsey Temperament Sorter) I'm a Rational Mastermind, or iNTj.

Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
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More than Keirsey's description, I found  J. Butt & M. M. Heiss's take on iNTj to be quite insightful:

- "INTJs know what they know, and perhaps still more importantly, they know what they don't know."

- "INTJs do not readily grasp the social rituals; for instance, they tend to have little patience and less understanding of such things as small talk and flirtation. To complicate matters, INTJs are usually extremely private people, and can often be naturally impassive as well, which makes them easy to misread and misunderstand. Perhaps the most fundamental problem, however, is that INTJs really want people to make sense. :-) "

How true! :-)

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18 Comments

  • shrivridhi wrote:

    I am an INTJ in india and have always found myself impa­tient with social rit­u­als , awk­ward and extremely shya and quiet .…its tough being an INTJ woman in India .. i con­stantly devise new strate­gies to over­come my situaltions .…

  • JGrace wrote:

    I am also an INTJ. My scores were very sim­i­lar to yours except that my intu­itive was in the 70s. Although some of the infor­ma­tion I’ve found about this per­son­al­ity seems to fit me, not all of it does.

  • o well I came here to tell u tht INTJ or not u are a good intu­itive mind and uparse a per­son that is artic­u­late too, (so oth­ers get to know whats been thought)and its nice to read ur blog when u take care to write! So do pl come out and write :) but then I saw ur think­ing score n the cmmnt abt ppl hvng to mke sense etc, thght I wd take the test too n share the result wth u as smthng related to ur post mght be of bet­ter intrest to you — so here goes 67 50 1 22

    As u see I scored zero on think­ing :) I rely heav­ily on intu­ition and judge­ment n most of the times I get by esply wth chil­dren m quite accu­rate, I mean I dont really care much abt tht score. If intu­ition means using facts, expe­ri­ences, con­clu­sions, data get stored sub­lim­i­nally, some­where n u are still able to draw on it, makes sense to use it too, why to waste it?

    But if it doesnt, then I guess I ought to resign or smthng and retrain me to think ;) long and short of it is, its curi­ous how an Unquiet Mind elo­quent, went quiet, makes one feel uneasy, nai? Take care.

  • artic­u­late — I meant u hve the rare abil­ity to trans­late ur ideas n thoughts in code — lan­guage. lot of good minds know can think thngs thru but r inarticulate.so what they see or do come to knw unshared, un-jaaney rah jaatey hain

  • O, n of course I think things thru, just that I dnt feel the need 2expln/articuate them (wh gets me in trou­ble, pple ‘see’ am recmm­ndng smthng but they dont get to knw ‘why’), its like raw mate­r­ial tht gets stored in the bkgr some­where 2be put 2use whn necess, if the thought works, well, its used again and again till it gves ground for con­vic­tion at sme point, n then tested agn as such and ulti­mately gets rejected for smthng bet­ter newer n so I guess, cache khali hota jata hain for sur­vival ;)
    btw, what are the other ‘types’ whr does one read abt them?(yeah, am lazy)Do ad-men use such stud­ies?
    How do they do their pro­fil­ing? wd u know?

  • KSmith wrote:

    for instance, they tend to have lit­tle patience and less under­stand­ing of such things as small talk and flir­ta­tion. To com­pli­cate mat­ters, INTJs are usu­ally extremely pri­vate peo­ple, and can often be nat­u­rally impas­sive as well, which makes them easy to mis­read and misunderstand.”

    If only the few friends I have under­stood that. Though I think if I try to explain myself I’m going out of my way and it’s not worth my time.

  • 89 50 50 1
    it HAS changed :) had guessed it would have.I like it when my the­o­ries stand vin­di­cated :) am not less intu­itive now, but more think­ing and less judg­ing as I do not need it right now that much, when I come to staffing, and fram­ing the pol­icy docs, guess I would need that, then will it change again?

    am building-designing a resource cen­tre, you know, and map­ping out and stream lin­ing our teacher train­ing pro­gram, which is very diff from teach­ing a lan­guage class.
    thanks for your reply, and con­grat­u­la­tions on your baby daugh­ter, I have had a God­son too, he would be a year old soon — posted his pics on my blog under the head­ing Mother Me?

  • oops sorry abt the typos there:congratulations on hav­ing your baby daugh­ter and enjoy­ing your time with her
    hope you share the expe­ri­ence of what it is like, beinf a new parent.

  • http://www.humanmetrics.com/rot/Inspired.asp
    this is really who I am but the blog some­how doesn’t show it or the clas­si­fiers are in dis­so­nance with the MBTI norms?

  • KSmith wrote:

    Not to men­tion even then I doubt they’d get it.

  • Nope — it isn’t worth the time or effort! I’ve real­ized that after a long, long time!

  • Rolling — thanks for your appre­cia­tive com­ments, and apolo­gies for the delay in respond­ing. An Unquiet Mind was away from the blog, but not quiet at all — it was mostly play­ing with its ram­bunc­tious two-year old daughter!

  • It is inter­est­ing how your style of writ­ing reveals your style of think­ing that is very dif­fer­ent from mine! :-)

    Just google MBTI to find out about other types and more about this ‘per­son­al­ity typ­ing’ busi­ness. It is fre­quently used in uni­ver­si­ties, research insti­tutes, career plan­ning, employee eval­u­a­tions, etc. Because ads typ­i­cally have no way of tar­get­ing spe­cific per­son­al­ity types, I don’t think they are used by ad-men at all.

  • O yes, we think dif­fer­ently is why read­ing your reviews etc is inter­est­ing, only, some­where there is an adher­ence to, some sense of the intan­gi­ble, that is easy to relate to and it is like we are see­ing things from within the same coun­try, even tho we might be stand­ing at dif­fer­ent locii.

  • All the best for build­ing your resource center!

    BTW, if your MBTI fluc­tu­ates so often, the test doesn’t seem to be work­ing! :-) MBTI can change grad­u­ally over a long period of time, but not fluc­tu­ate sharply from time to time, depend­ing on one’s life circumstances.

  • In some intan­gi­ble way, I exactly under­stand what you mean. :-)

  • Thanks, yes, I will…lots of stuff on my plate these days!

  • I’m not sure whether or how the Risk Pro­filer test is con­nected or related to MBTI. It seems a com­pletely dif­fer­ent test alto­gether, so there’s no ‘dis­so­nance’ really.