These Henry VIII quizzes and such have returned me to thinking about those intrepid personality tests developed by Meyers-Brigg called (strangely enough) the Meyers-Brigg personality tests.
I am an INTJ. I have always been an INTJ, no matter how many years elapse between times of taking the test. If you haven't taken the test in real life, you can get one online (sort of, not the real official one, but the Keirsey version) here.
What's an INTJ? Explanations abound on the internet, but the short version is Intuitive Coordinator, or as the Please Understand Me book describes it, the Mastermind. Bwahahahaha! Here's more than you ever wanted to know about INTJ. Many of the statements are so dead right its hilarious. Like this one:
"Thus INTJs sweat the details or, at times, omit them. 'I've made up my mind, don't confuse me with the facts' could well have been said by an INTJ on a mission."
or this one:
"INTJs know what they know, and perhaps still more importantly, they know what they don't know. "
Don't you want to know about your own type?
I am fascinated by the MB and the Keirsey temperament sorter. I would love to know what everyone else is if you have taken the test!
Hi Sheila,
Well you've smoked me out of lurkdom. I'm enjoying your blog and look forward to your entries. One never knows where you'll go next. I too am an INTJ. Did you know that this is the least common type of the 16? I guess the world is lucky there aren't more of us after all! Hang in there.
aHA! I secretly suspect that knitters as a group contains a higher percentage of INTJs than society at large :-) I'm so glad you spoke up!!
Posted by: Sheila on April 8, 2003 12:54 PMHeehee, I have taken that test about 5 times over the last 20 years and the results have varied. I have always teetered at the T/F border, moving back and forth across it by a point or two. I have always been off the scale on N and J, and swing wildly back and forth between I and E depending upon what my life was like at the time and who the other people in my life were. So, SOMETIMES I'm an INTJ....
I think being a J has something to do with how I handle WIPs - Js are way uncomfortable with having decisions hanging over their heads and an overabundance of openended possibilities, and feel much better after they've decided. Do you suppose that justifies my tendency to obsess about what my next color project will be when I finish the one I'm working on?
Posted by: CarolineF on April 9, 2003 06:43 AM