{"id":41,"date":"2011-08-23T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/2011\/08\/23\/mbti-personality-test-says-im-an-intj\/"},"modified":"2015-02-18T14:29:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:29:21","slug":"mbti-personality-test-says-im-an-intj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/2011\/08\/23\/mbti-personality-test-says-im-an-intj\/","title":{"rendered":"MBTI &#8211; Personality Test says I&#8217;m an INTJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator\">The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator<\/a> suggests <b>I am an INTJ<\/b> (Or, as I prefer and later discovered, an <b>INtj<\/b> with the T and J parts not being as distinct)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>INTJ stands for Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging<\/strong> and basically describes how I think and view the world. So in other words, I get my energies more from being alone than with people, I am analytical and observational rather than instinctual, I value rational thought more than feelings, I make judgements more than keeping my opinions open. That doesn&#8217;t paint the full picture, but you get the idea! Some might describe INJTs and &#8220;cold geniuses&#8221; opposed to &#8220;bubbly drama queen&#8221;, which you might get from, say, an ESFJ.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>My MBTI personality type has advantages, but also disadvantages.<\/strong> I&#8217;m hoping that by having them highlighted I will be able to better understand myself and other people, and thus make my life a little easier.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Descriptions about INTJs on the net sum me up pretty well and in a way it saddens me that I apparently am not capable of thinking outwardly or emotionally like most people. I am self obsessed by definition and in reality it\u2019s true! It\u2019s not that I am like that because I am bad and choose to be, but I am like that because it\u2019s the core personality I was (perhaps) born with. There\u2019s little I can do about it despite my efforts and good intentions.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I wonder about all the automatic responses I have to things and the way I go about communicating&#8230;<\/div>\n<div>For example, it is true that many men have difficulties with the ladies, but the fact that I so far have felt totally incapable of flirting must be putting me at a big added disadvantage! For some girls, flirting and banter is imperative, and if am a naturally bad \u2018socializer\u2019, I will be disregarded way before I\u2019ve even been given the opportunity to show my strengths. It sucks.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In fact last year I saw my MBTI result as a large reason why I have been depressed. It was only after discovering the INTJ Forum that I realized not all INTJs are depressed, and not all are alike in many other ways. My INTJ-ness is certainly a part of my problem but I&#8217;ve concluded it&#8217;s only a problem when combined with a neurotic trait- something which the Global 5\/ Big 5\/ SLOAN personality indicator covers. I&#8217;ll go into more detail about that later \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator suggests I am an INTJ (Or, as I prefer and later discovered, an INtj with the T and J parts not being as distinct) INTJ stands for Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging and basically describes how I <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/2011\/08\/23\/mbti-personality-test-says-im-an-intj\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  MBTI &#8211; Personality Test says I&#8217;m an INTJ<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personality-types","category-self-understanding"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p68SmO-F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benkrefta.com\/transformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}