What is the INTJ personality type?

From Personality Hacker:

"If you look at most profiles about the INTJ personality type, they’ll focus on the Mastermind quality of the INTJ. Long range strategy, designing truly complex systems that can be replicated, finding the weaknesses in infrastructure… INTJs are the walking think tanks that streamline the world.

But there’s only so much think tanking the world wants done...Regardless, most INTJs are not utilizing the full wattage of their problem-solving, think tanking abilities. So there’s always this feeling, however deep and unconscious, that their talents – or even they, themselves – are being ‘wasted’."

My Perspective:

I don't actually see myself as a walking think tank per se.  However, since I was introduced to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and tested as an INTJ I have found it a helpful tool in self discovery and in understanding why someone (not you) thinks the way that they do.  Puzzled at why a simple subjective test was paying me such a high compliment I decided to get really scientific with it and took the test at random times during the day, evening, and night for a month and averaged together my results.  Regardless of the fact that I somehow lost the data in a computer move I can confirm that with the exception of a few tests I scored as INTJ.  I have since accepted this as an accurate model of my interior cognitive wiring.  This is not a diagnostic of me as a person.  MBTI only describes the way that I "show up" to the world and naturally approach cognitive tasks.

Resources for Understanding

Updated: 06/15/2023

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