MBTI

Architect

Analysts INTJ

Imaginative and strategic thinkers, with a plan for everything

'Managed to not get cornered by riot police, do need to buy a zoom lens.

IME Si users are very in their own heads about sex... it's almost like they're playing some kind of memory-movie in their minds rather than paying attention to what's in front of them. Se users...

I think paper books are easier to take notes in and the difference in medium alone improves my focus, so I prefer them when it's convenient to get them, but for reasons of space/economy/y'know I...

I rarely speak about my interests with anyone, because it seems like I rarely find anyone it's useful to speak about them with. It's possible I'm being arrogant and passing over opportunities that...

Even if people are naturally independent, if they're realistic too they will tend to focus on reasonable/functional rather than absolute independence. People too hardcore about it hobble themselves...

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Taking Ichazo's work on its own, this stuff never really seemed hard to me in theory. (But like all archetypal systems, it shouldn't be reified and realistically it will sometimes have to be fudged...

Similar to what Figure indicated, I don't think it's that there are so many sx INTJs, I think it's that many people fail to understand how soc can operate in independent introverts and assume they...

so/sx 5, and also a strong introvert MBT/JCF-wise if you want to mix theories, and I wouldn't necessarily say I'm less withdrawn overall. It seems like so doms can be very acutely sensitive to other...

INFP (Mother) + ESTP (Father) = INTJ (Me), XNTJ (Sister) ESFX (Maternal GMA) + ??? (Paternal GPA) = INFP XNXJ (Paternal GMA) + XSTX (Paternal GPA) = ESTP

I wear a hat shield every day. :ninja:

New acquaintance collects selfies with wandering weirdos.  I tried to smile when he asked, it was as painful for me as it looks.  https://i.imgur.com/1KEjorJ.jpg

I don't really 'change my emotional mind' as often as some (most?) people do either, I've noticed, but I have still found that there's a correlation between how openly I express something and how...

I'd like to think I don't have a lot of these that are petty. Phrases that are commonly used to shut down conversation by passive-aggressively making it impossible for the person they're directed at...

It's been a stressful year, and knock on wood, but it seems some kind of cosmic click is taking place. I've been catapulted into finally starting my MS in Data Analytics and a trip I've wanted to...

Lol It's Not Actually Hard Tho: How to Succeed at Things That Supposedly Take Years of Training While People with Years of Training Give You Side-Eye

I don't think my wardrobe is very cohesive at the moment. Although my actual taste is pretty distinctive saving time, saving money and being practical all override my other preferences, or have...

No hate but I find I don't understand Si and Fe. The experience of what it must be like to use them really eludes me. Si is easier to co-exist with because it's perceptive rather than judging, but...

This is all accurate to my experiences (internal and external) as well. I also don't think concern about being judged is specifically related to being a 5 (nor, actually, do I think it's...

I'm more preoccupied with issues of shame/uniqueness than most other fives, put simply.

Dislike isn't something I feel very strongly usually anyway. I do what I need to do to accomplish what I feel I need to accomplish, or at least that's the ideal. I will try new things for the sake...

I kind of have a bell curve going if you look at level of appreciation for me v. how well the person knows me/how open I am. I'm extremely distant so people who don't know me well think I'm a bit of...

Feeding Ni passively (podcasts, documentaries, etc.) Feeding Ni actively (reading, learning new skills) Data analysis and pre-analytic engineering Philosophy Art shit (photography, wood carving,...

By modern US standards, at least a 7 or 8, if I'm going to try rating it that way. I'm not going to post too many melodramatic details but neither of my parents are functional people, both were meth...

As far as I know Enneagram type isn't (theoretically) more transient than MBTI.* But it's different - more about motivation whereas MBTI, if you go as far as cognitive functions, is about thought...

YMMV on what you want to call it but being concerned about aggression from a fellow customer in a public place when you complained to him about wait time, unless there was a response that indicated...

It sounds like irrational fearfulness is a feature of his personality and you're aware of it so I don't think I have much more to add. For realism's sake I'm compelled to say that being a minority...

I get what you're saying about INTJ intentions being misapprehended, and that can be a problem, but ironically this anecdote just makes me wonder if your friend is irrationally afraid of black...

If it makes you feel any better, the extent to which non-compete contracts are enforceable varies a lot. They're often used just to cow employees that aren't aware of how to get around them into...

Lol, if someone loses interest in you once you're gotten, in whatever way and at whatever speed, it's near invariably because you weren't innately interesting to them. Although you shouldn't...

It really just depends on what you mean by strong. There isn't any function I wholesale dislike or any category of [function] users I wholesale can't appreciate. Asses for every seat and what...

There's no way to know exactly why he did it without asking, which he clearly doesn't want you to do, so just try not to worry about it. Maybe his mentality has changed, his life circumstances...

I give apologies any time I think I've made a mistake and someone has been unfairly disadvantaged by it and I expect* them when circumstances are reversed. *Well, that is, I don't expect them in...

Yep, I do. But I don't think health of coping mechanisms is mostly defined by personality type. I had to get over not liking to talk about my feelings at least in certain contexts (therapy, for...

INTJ - I can come across as quite sensitive/nervy. I am quite sensitive/nervy. But they're separate observations: at any given moment, if I seem confident I'm probably more insecure than I...

I relate to this a lot. The cost-benefit analysis I do is automatic and implicit for the most part - like carrying dowsing rods when interacting with the person and watching them like a hawk. It...

1. What wakes you up most mornings (alarm, pets, kids, etc.)? Cellphone alarm, dog interference prevents snooze from working because he's learned that alarm = take a wiz. 2. Which historical...

I'm very good at ending things once I've decided to do it. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, and occasionally have given them more than they've earned. That just reinforces my...

Might interest you. It did me, because it's a nice consolidation of an argument I spent a lot of time making as a teenager... which was of course due entirely to foresight and had nothing to do with...

I really think the most prominent characteristic of my overall focus on aesthetics is that when I'm paying attention I'm really paying attention and when I'm not paying attention, I'm not paying...

The interesting thing about spite is that it isn't manipulative. Usually people that do it are beyond trying to get anything from you. It's about hurting and nothing else. And I find it difficult...

Symbolically, it kind of implies a parental dynamic... children look up to parents, physically. In practice, if you really want to speculate about our Distant Evolutionary Past or whatever, I'm...

Maybe stereotypically, but as someone who is petite, I think this is only half right in reality. I don't really feel the need to assert dominance as such most of the time let alone do so overtly...

INTJ - I don't care for it when I think it's being used in an infantilizing way, but also recognize that it's usually just used as an equivalent to guy because it's single syllable and starts with...

Others - Not important except in a sexual context,* very important in that context in the sense that there must be a minimum amount of sexual attraction for me to consider being with them in that...

I don't know that I can strictly get them met through one-on-one relationships, but the orientation of my instinct is extremely abstract/large-scale. It's a drive to be useful to...

Not that protective. 99% of things done in living spaces don't require advanced systematizing and worrying about it is something I'd consider a misapplication of my time. I try to keep my...

Fi, Se, and I like other people with dominant intuition whether or whether not it's oriented the same way.

Myers-Briggs dichotomies and Jungian CF tests don't really give readings on the same thing. They're essentially separate typology systems with a confusion of shared terminology (ditto Socionics)....

I had an argument with a girl in my Kindergarten class about this. Her MLK Day coloring book picture turned out more true-to-life looking than mine so I guess she won.'