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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Personality Profile

Thanks to JeremyZ for posting on his personality. This led me to a wonderful profile instrument, and here is my personality profile:

Click to view my Personality Profile page

Personality page has these quotes on the INTJ:

"...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."

"...observer, values solitude, perfectionist, detached, private... does not talk about feelings, hard to impress, analytical, likes esoteric things..."
- Jung Type Descriptions (INTJ) (similarminds.com)

"To outsiders, INTJs may appear to project an aura of "definiteness", of self-confidence. This self-confidence, sometimes mistaken for simple arrogance by the less decisive, is actually of a very specific rather than a general nature; its source lies in the specialized knowledge systems that most INTJs start building at an early age. When it comes to their own areas of expertise -- and INTJs can have several -- they will be able to tell you almost immediately whether or not they can help you, and if so, how."
- INTJ Profile (TypeLogic)

"At work, INTJs use their conceptual strengths to analyze situations and then develop models to understand and anticipate through relentlessly to reach their goals. They will continue on with their plans, even in the face of adversity and data that might suggest to other more practical types that their goals are no longer feasible. By nature, INTJs are independent individualists."

"INTJs are natural leaders, although they usually choose to remain in the background until they see a real need to take over the lead. When they are in leadership roles, they are quite effective, because they are able to objectively see the reality of a situation, and are adaptable enough to change things which aren't working well. They are the supreme strategists - always scanning available ideas and concepts and weighing them against their current strategy, to plan for every conceivable contingency. "
- Portrait of an INTJ (The Personality Page)

This stuff is fun.

2 comments:

jeremy zach said...

You are a free thinker.

What famous people do you take after?

Pascalian Awakenings said...

Augustus Caesar
C. S. Lewis
Colin Powell
Sir Isaac Newton
Thomas Jefferson

Fictional:
Hannibal Lecter
Clarice Starling
Gandalf
Ellen Ripley from "Alien"
Mr. Burns from "The Simpsons"

Jeremy, on that link I sent you Dr. Grant goes through showing the four temperaments in the four main characters of Star Trek:

Scotty -- SJ
Dr. McCoy -- NF
Kirk -- SP
Spock -- NT