INTJ
There are too many INTJ’s here. Someone must die.
ISTP, also known as an Artisan - Crafter.
"In a sense, Crafters don’t work with their chosen tools so much as they play with them. In your own life this may mean that your free time finds you tinkering with home improvement projects, working on your car, or doing crafts from knitting to woodwork. Rather than schedule this personal time, you’re more apt to start new projects on impulse. Like all the Artisans, Crafters are people who love to keep moving. Your type seems to know instinctively that most activities are more enjoyable, and sometimes more effective, if done spontaneously.
You can thrive on excitement, particularly the rush of speed. Racing, water-skiing, and surfing – these are the kinds of activities that tend to appeal to you. Of all sixteen types, Crafters are most likely to be risk takers, pitting themselves, or their techniques, against chance or the odds. By being more fearless than most in your leisure time activities, you may sometimes expose yourself to dangerous situations or the potential for injury. You may want to try to keep a balance between exhilaration and sensibility.
Because you’ll often communicate through action rather than words, you can be hard to get to know. At times when you’ve lacked expressiveness, you may have found yourself a bit isolated, especially at school or on the job. Socially, however, this really isn’t a problem. Mostly, because you’ll tend to surround yourself with people who enjoy one another through shared experiences. Ordinarily it will be the great things you do with your friends, rather than the great talks you’ve had together, that you’ll value most.
Crafters can be wonderfully generous and loyal to your friends, teammates, and sidekicks. You may even give up your nights and weekends to help the people you care about with everything from building projects to simple home repairs. However this pliant and easygoing nature doesn’t spill over to all areas of your life. In fact, you can be fiercely insubordinate to those in authority, especially when you see their rules as unnecessarily confining. But rather than go against regulations in an openly defiant manner, you’re more apt to quietly ignore them. More than anything, you may simply want the freedom to do your own thing. You’re the kind who is proud of your abilities and wants to be able to express them at will. "
I think I agree w/ about 75% of that.
ISTJ
I’m also a Leo and born in the year of the Ox.
It would be interesting to see what the stats would be for T-Nation. Is there any trends in the types that are drawn to T-Nation?
The Locker Room should all post their scores.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
There are too many INTJ’s here. Someone must die.[/quote]
X you crack me up. I have to agree though there seems to be more INTJ’s here in the Nation. Another reason I keep in the back ground, try to keep my mouth shut, and carry a large heavy stick in case I have to convince a INTJ to leave me to my do good works.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
INTJ
Of the four aspects of strategic analysis and definition, it is the contingency planning or entailment organizing role that reaches the highest development in Masterminds. Entailing or contingency planning is not an informative activity, rather it is a directive one in which the planner tells others what to do and in what order to do it. As the organizing capabilities the Masterminds increase so does their inclination to take charge of whatever is going on.
It is in their abilities that Masterminds differ from the other Rationals, while in most of their attitudes they are just like the others. However there is one attitude that sets them apart from other Rationals: they tend to be much more self-confident than the rest, having, for obscure reasons, developed a very strong will. They are rather rare, comprising no more than, say, one percent of the population. Being very judicious, decisions come naturally to them; indeed, they can hardly rest until they have things settled, decided, and set. They are the people who are able to formulate coherent and comprehensive contingency plans, hence contingency organizers or “entailers.”
Masterminds will adopt ideas only if they are useful, which is to say if they work efficiently toward accomplishing the Mastermind’s well-defined goals. Natural leaders, Masterminds are not at all eager to take command of projects or groups, preferring to stay in the background until others demonstrate their inability to lead. Once in charge, however, Masterminds are the supreme pragmatists, seeing reality as a crucible for refining their strategies for goal-directed action. In a sense, Masterminds approach reality as they would a giant chess board, always seeking strategies that have a high payoff, and always devising contingency plans in case of error or adversity. To the Mastermind, organizational structure and operational procedures are never arbitrary, never set in concrete, but are quite malleable and can be changed, improved, streamlined. In their drive for efficient action, Masterminds are the most open-minded of all the types. No idea is too far-fetched to be entertained-if it is useful. Masterminds are natural brainstormers, always open to new concepts and, in fact, aggressively seeking them. They are also alert to the consequences of applying new ideas or positions. Theories which cannot be made to work are quickly discarded by the Masterminds. On the other hand, Masterminds can be quite ruthless in implementing effective ideas, seldom counting personal cost in terms of time and energy.
Interesting. Only 1%?[/quote]
I don’t know about you ProfX. But when I read this, it seemed to describe me quite well.
ENTJ, with preference strengths of 78, 50, 62, and 11, respectively.
Qualitative analysis of your type formula
You are:
* very expressed extrovert
* moderately expressed intuitive personality
* distinctively expressed thinking personality
* slightly expressed judging personality
That seems about right.
intp
but moderate moderate slight moderate
someone(professional) once told me that i am like the center of a yin yang, so that sort of fits this profile
INTJ
ENTP
Extroverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
11 38 12 11
Still reading to see what that means.
ISTJ - The Inspector
Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
33 38 25 56
“Even on vacation, Inspectors tend not to be attracted by exotic foods, beverages, or locales.”
Dead wrong. But everything else is pretty accurate.
Seems to be a lot of “Thinking Judging” types on the board… Or does that have to do with higher number of males here?
Seems almost everybody has a T as the 3rd letter of this classification.
No pun intented, but what percentage of the population is of the T-type?
Took it again, and thought more about the responses. INFP- Healer idealist
"Healers have a profound sense of idealism derived from a strong personal morality, and they conceive of the world as an ethical, honorable place. Indeed, to understand Healers, we must understand their idealism as almost boundless and selfless, inspiring them to make extraordinary sacrifices for someone or something they believe in. The Healer is the Prince or Princess of fairytale, the King’s Champion or Defender of the Faith, like Sir Galahad or Joan of Arc. Healers are found in only 1 percent of the general population, although, at times, their idealism leaves them feeling even more isolated from the rest of humanity.
Deeply committed to the positive and the good, yet taught to believe there is evil in them, Healers can come to develop a certain fascination with the problem of good and evil, sacred and profane. Healers are drawn toward purity, but can become engrossed with the profane, continuously on the lookout for the wickedness that lurks within them. Then, when Healers believe thay have yielded to an impure temptation, they may be given to acts of self-sacrifice in atonement. Others seldom detect this inner turmoil, however, for the struggle between good and evil is within the Healer, who does not feel compelled to make the issue public. "
So I’m a massive idealist. Big surprise huh?
[quote]Midwest_Man wrote:
Do you know the basis of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator? Do you know who Myers and Briggs were or their qualifications to create such a test? Or are you just another victim of the Forer effect because your MBTI type sounds just like you?
Check out this link to learn the answers:
http://skepdic.com/myersb.html
I do business consulting and facilitation and I refer to Myers-Briggs as “astrology for business.” A lot of consultants and facilitators sell MBTI testing to their customers - my conscience won’t let me.
It’s a shame that Myers-Briggs is better known than Bertram Forer. Kind of like how Dr Phil is better known as a “fitness expert” than any of the T-Nation staff/writers.[/quote]
Bingo.
I’ve gotten INTJ on these tests, but I will swear that any of the possible types also sound like me. They seem to be very general, and play to the ideal that most think they are (me included!).
But hey, if it gives you that warm-tingly feeling, so be it.
-FC
ENFP here…
AARP
All eyes turn as the only ESFP enters the room. Finally someone musters the intestinal fortitude to approach him. " Hey man… thought you ought to know your fly is open". The ESFP turns and heads for the door and is heard to mutter “damned introverts don’t know a good joke when they see one”.
ESFP
2nd in a row
INTJ–bothers me that I am in the ProfX camp, but such is life…