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The Psychological Answer |
For those of you who have never taken a Myers-Briggs type of personality test, let me give a very brief and very amateur explanation (for more information, ask your local psychologist). The primary idea is that the personality can be generalized into four categories of behavior:
So, depending on which leaning you have for each of these four categories, you can get sixteen different combinations of traits. I've taken tests of this type from time to time in my educational career, and have come up as a INTJ: Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking and Judging.Introversion versus Extroversion
Sensing versus Intuitive
Thinking versus Feeling
Judging versus Perceiving
Below, I've included two links to web pages giving the details of the INTJ personality. I especially like the second link, because a psychologist (with FAR too much free time, if you ask me) went to the trouble of identifying fictional characters that match the INTJ personality. I find it fascinating that I have the same personality type as both Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter (from The Silence of the Lambs) and Professor Moriarty, evil mathematical nemesis of Sherlock Holmes (from the short story The Final Problem).
Portrait of an INTJ
Another Portrait of an INTJ