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A few people have been posting Meyers-Briggs test results, presumably snarfed from some automated testing/scoring site on the web.
I just got to go through the personal hell that, for me, is the Meyers-Briggs test, for the fourth time in my life. All of these have actually been on paper, scored by the nice official folks at CPP in Palo Alto... only because if I don't have to take it I won't, so that lets a web-based test right out!
1st time: INTJ, very strong.
2nd: INFP, with the I strong and the rest weak.
3rd: IN-P, with the P even weaker than before.
4th: ---- (rated INTJ again, each by ONE POINT; every one of them considered inconclusive by professionals.)
Probably score number four gives some insight into why taking this test is hell for me. The answer to EVERY SINGLE DAMNED "would you rather X or Y" question is "Yes".
(To paraphrase a well-known tennis player, about being pigeonholed: I'm bisexual. I'm even ambidextrous. Just call me CJ.)
The first time I ever took it I was in the Army, and as the results were explained I learned I was the rarest type in the armed services. I was unsurprised. Hard to think of a place less well-suited for an INTJ. (Hard to think of a place that needs them more.)
I think today I'm actually driven by an inner need to do and be everything. I think I'm semi-consciously forcing myself to be centrist. I want to see both sides of a question. I want to be adept at as many different ways of moving through the world as possible. I want to have a plan AND be flexible about it, think AND feel, see the big picture AND the details, recharge with social time AND through alone time.
On the S/N scale, I think I've succeeded. I am sooooo both. I bet that's what makes me a good pilot, good Challenge square dancer/caller, good computer programmer.
Still can't stand people who keep me waiting. Maybe that's my one J point. :)
I just got to go through the personal hell that, for me, is the Meyers-Briggs test, for the fourth time in my life. All of these have actually been on paper, scored by the nice official folks at CPP in Palo Alto... only because if I don't have to take it I won't, so that lets a web-based test right out!
1st time: INTJ, very strong.
2nd: INFP, with the I strong and the rest weak.
3rd: IN-P, with the P even weaker than before.
4th: ---- (rated INTJ again, each by ONE POINT; every one of them considered inconclusive by professionals.)
Probably score number four gives some insight into why taking this test is hell for me. The answer to EVERY SINGLE DAMNED "would you rather X or Y" question is "Yes".
(To paraphrase a well-known tennis player, about being pigeonholed: I'm bisexual. I'm even ambidextrous. Just call me CJ.)
The first time I ever took it I was in the Army, and as the results were explained I learned I was the rarest type in the armed services. I was unsurprised. Hard to think of a place less well-suited for an INTJ. (Hard to think of a place that needs them more.)
I think today I'm actually driven by an inner need to do and be everything. I think I'm semi-consciously forcing myself to be centrist. I want to see both sides of a question. I want to be adept at as many different ways of moving through the world as possible. I want to have a plan AND be flexible about it, think AND feel, see the big picture AND the details, recharge with social time AND through alone time.
On the S/N scale, I think I've succeeded. I am sooooo both. I bet that's what makes me a good pilot, good Challenge square dancer/caller, good computer programmer.
Still can't stand people who keep me waiting. Maybe that's my one J point. :)
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No KIDDING. I don't know how any N types survive long enough to become high-ranking strategists. They're actively ridiculed.
Then there's the overwhelming E types, who cannot @#$!ing understand that if they don't leave an I alone some of the time, then pretty soon he better not be trusted with live ammo.