I am currently in the process of writing an INTJ description/philosophy page to add to the website.  It will focus on some of the less talked about aspects of the INTJ and more importantly it will be written from the perspective of an INTJ rather than some random person who writes MBTI descriptions for a living.

More later on this…

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I found this hilarious website with the “real MBTI”: http://www.xeromag.com/fun/personality.html

Here is the description of the INTJ (me):

INTJ: The outside contractor

INTJs are solid, competent personalities who may seem aloof and even arrogant, but who are typically highly skilled in any field which interests them. INTJs are confident in their skills and knowledge, self-assured, and imaginitive; their exceptional problem-solving skills make them ideal architects, auto mechanics, and tools of the evil empire. While it requires the driving will to conquer of an ENTJ to imagine the Death Star and the evil genius of an ENTP to invent its devastating weapons systems, the skill and technical prowess of the INTJ is what makes the whole thing work.

The INTJ sees life as a problem to be solved. For that reason, the INTJ is the person a company brings in from the outside to streamline production processes and identify redundant assets for termination. The INTJ’s combination of analyticial problem-solving skills and complete and utter disregard for the morality or consequences of his actions also make him ideal for the job of hatchet man, CIA operative, and helpdesk operator.

RECREATION: INTJs are often baffled by the strange and incomprehensible recreational rituals of other people, such as going to parties, watching television, and having sex. Instead, they prefer to spend their leisure time installing twin missile launchers in their cars to deter tailgaters and playing chess with megalomaniac CEOs of the Tyrell corporation.

COMPATIBILITY: Silly person, INTJs don’t have relationships! They may, however build their own friends.

Famous INTJs include J. F. Sebastian and Sgt. Apone.

And INTP (Brian) one is even funnier:

INTP: The Egghead

The typical INTP is a logical, abstract thinker whose intellect is ideally suited to understanding pure mathematics, linguistics, formal logic theory, and other pursuits unsuited to making a real living. The INTP can often understand even the most subtle nuances of lattice quantum chromodynamics, but cannot perform more concrete tasks such as dressing himself, operating a motor vehicle, or opening a door. An INTP may be able to tell you how to construct a nuclear reactor from a coconut and two pieces of string, but may be completely incapable of fixing a hole in a boat.

The INTP is really only suited to two careers: college professor and game show contestant. Of these career choices, only one offers the financial rewards which allows him to suport himself; for that reason, INTPs often take the other path, and become tenured academics.

RECREATION: Surprisingly, INTPs are often the hit of the party–not for their sometimes annoying habit of turning every discussion into a debate about semantics nor for their fascinating stories about Pierre de Fermat’s habit of writing things in the margins of his books, but for the fact that they often show up with their pants on backwards and that if you put a Post-It note reading “Kick Me” on an INTP’s back, he won’t notice it no matter how many people kick him. That kind of entertainment never gets old.

COMPATIBILITY: INTPs make ideal companions to INTJs, as neither of them notices they’re in a relationship.

Famous INTPs include Pierre de Fermat and almost everyone who knows what Pierre de Fermat wrote in the margins of his book.

Too good…

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We are all INTJs, that is what.

I have had a growing interest in Sherlock Holmes (as I have mentioned in a previous post) and I have been reading all of the short stories and novellas written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  Brian and I have also watched The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 5 DVD set and it is quite excellent.  I have much enjoyed reading the stories and then see them play out on film.  In some ways the film version is entirely different because it is not so much from the perspective of Watson like the books are - this does give the watcher an advantage in being able to more closely follow along in the story and it provides more clues earlier on in the story.

I also happened upon  a discussion thread on how most villains in stories seem to be INTJs while the hero tends to be ISTJ or INTP.   I found this to be  a bit of interesting speculation.  Brian and I were just discussing how it is interesting that both Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty are both INTJs who have profound respect for the other’s intellect but at the same time they are both the other’s arch nemesis.  It is clear that one has chosen ‘good’ and the other ‘evil’ and they fight it out at Riechenbach Falls.  As I mentioned to Brian - INTJs seem to fight it out amongst one another but assert dominance over other types.  Really, this is the reason I stay away from INTJ message boards and discussion groups.  This is really the sort of thing I would like to have a conversation with another INTJ about but INTJs almost as a rule seem to hate each other and are almost unable to have a cohesive and useful conversation with one another.

I also find this sort of thing interesting because I (and Brian too) are interested in INTP and INTJ interactions since almost nothing exists about how these two types function together.  I think at one time we had discussed making a profile of INTP and INTJ interactions…

More later, on some topics…

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I have been incredibly busy for a number of reasons.  I am launching my handbag line literally *right now* and have been extremely busy hiring people and working with fabric and designing bags.  Also, I visited my family in Georgia and attended to a few business related things while there.  Brian and I have also been doing more outdoor activities.  He’s been doing water activities with me lately and we are having a lot of fun.  I body boarded some treacherous shore break two weeks ago and that was fun.  Brian and I went snorkeling at Kahalu’u Beach Park in Kona and we both had a blast.  I prefer the reef when the water is deeper but I think it was better for him - he prefers it when it is more shallow.  Everything fun on this island is pretty much free or dirt cheap - it’s great.

I have been reading Sherlock Holmes lately so Brian and I also started watching the Sherlock Holmes series from the 1980’s - what a fabulous series.  I highly recommend it (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes).  Sherlock Holmes is supposed to be a textbook INTJ - it is interesting.  Brian thinks Holmes is great and he would be friends with him.  This makes sense since Brian is attracted to INTJs.  I, however, dislike every INTJ I’ve come in contact with and prefer to read things written by them or see/read things that star an INTJ.  While I like watching Holmes and reading about him I know that I would dislike him profusely if I knew him in person.  INTJs do seem to dislike one another as a rule…

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I just finished repotting some orchids. Fun times. Anyway, I came across this website written by an INTJ who did a “day in the life of an INTJ” type of thing and I thought it was hilarious but certainly could be true. Click here to read the page.

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I apparently have The Rationalist Temperament

The basic motive of the Rationalist type is the desire for power. The Rationalist desires:

Power.

Authoritativeness.

Control.

Eloquence.

Energy.

Governance.

Greatness.

Influence.

Means.

Personage.

Potency.

Prerogative.

Privilege.

Strength.

Supremacy.

Talent.

Will power.

Rationalists want to understand and gain power over nature, to understand, control, predict, and explain realities, to be seen as competent, to have, most of all, competencies, capabilities, abilities, capacities, skills, and ingenuity, to be able to do things well under varying circumstances, to constantly improve, to be free from errors, to increase their store of knowledge, to learn as much as they can, to rearrange the environment, either through constructing physical edifices or building institutional systems, to speculate about the possible motivations and thoughts of those they are with, trying to fit their experiences into some system

Architecture, Classics, Communications, Computers & Internet, Computer Games Strategy, Engineering, Information Technology, Inventions, Management Science, Mathematics, Mental Health, Military History,

Modernity, Modernism, Paranormal Phenomena, Philosophy, Politics, Political Science, Psychology, Rationalism, Research Papers, Science, Science Fiction, Weird News

AND

abstract art, abstract thinking, acquiring intelligence, acquisition of knowledge, acquisition of skill, all-work-no-play, alternate lifestyles, aphorisms, authoritativeness, autonomy, behaviorism, biologists, books, bringer of fire, building institutional systems, building systems, calmness, cardiology, categories, causality, circular causality, circular processes, clarity of vision, coherence, collecting information, compact communication, competence, competencies, competency, complex systems, complicated subjects, comprehension, compulsion to improve, constructing edifices, control, controlling, criminology, critical experimentation, curiosity, cybernetics

Positive attributes: action-oriented, adventurous, ambitious, analyzing, assertive, autocratic, autonomous, bold, calm, capable, chief, collected, competent, competitive, conceptual, confident, cool, courageous, daring, decisive, demanding, determined, direct, dominant, driver, efficient, forceful, generative, global, identifier, independent, ingenious, inventive, leader, logical, mover, objective, opinionated, outspoken, persuasive, positive, powerful, pragmatic, proactive, productive, progressive, resourceful, responsible, results-oriented, ruler, self-assured, self-directed, self-reliant, serene, skilled, strong-willed, succinct, sure, task-oriented, tenacious, tranquil.

Negative attributes: aggressive, always right, angry, argumentative, arrogant, bossy, calculating, cold, crafty, critical of others, demanding, distracted, dominating, domineering, doubting, frank, harsh, headstrong, impatient, impulsive, insensitive, intolerant, lord over others, manipulative, merciless, nervy, power-oriented, preoccupied, proud, pushy, rash, resistant, sadistic, self-serving, severe, short-tempered, skeptical, solipsistic, stubborn, tactless, tough, tyrannical, unaffectionate, unsympathetic, workaholic.

Types

Aggressive

Idiosyncratic

Inventive

Solitary

Noteworthy Examples

Napoleon Bonaparte, Julius Caesar, Al Capone, Charles Darwin, Bette Davis, Rene Descartes, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sigmund Freud, Mikhail Gorbachev, Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick, Douglas MacArthur, James Madison, Fidel Castro, Karl Marx, Isaac Newton, Friedrich Nietzsche, Aristotle Onassis, H. Ross Perot, Pablo Picasso, Edgar Allan Poe, Ezra Pound, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jean Paul Sartre, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Joseph Stalin, Mark Twain, Albert Einstein

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