As a personality enthusiast, you meet two kinds of people in life: the kind of people who immediately pounce and say, “Ooh, what’s your type?” and the kind of people who roll their eyes and change the subject. I’ve met more of the latter (and they’ve met more of me) than either of us care […]
Typology
Gender and Personality
Women are from Venus, men are from Mars. Boys and girls are fundamentally different; it’s just in their biological makeup! Right? That’s an assumption I have found that many people are a little too comfortable making. When you walk between the genders (or through them, or past them), you see a different world. One in […]
Functions of an INTJ
I know we’ve talked a bit about cognitive functions, especially in regards to the INTJ. But I want to share an old post I wrote for my now defunct blog The INTJ Way because I had fun examining my personal relationship to each of the cognitive functions. Keep in mind that this applies to me […]
An INTJ’s Flaws
We all have flaws. Spend time in any non-INTJ MBTI group and you will hear all about how INTJs act in relationships. How they’re insensitive trouble-shooters, they lack compassion, they’re not emotional. All of those things vary according to the individual, of course, but it made me think about how I and N and T […]
I+N+T+J
Transcript: First panel: I: But didn’t we already see some people last week? Second panel: N: Don’t think of metaphysics as something esoteric, think about it as something we live every day. Are we real? Why do we assume we’re real? What is real? Let me tell you about this theoretical framework I’m into! Third […]
Types in Crisis
What does it look like when our cognitive functions go awry? I’ll use myself as an example. I’m a fairly mentally-organized person. I make a plan from the collected ideas in my head and funnel them into a strategy to execute in the real world. I’m good at keeping my mind orderly and organizing resources […]