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Well, maybe not the problem. But it makes sense. I have gotten this before, from official testing, but thought to do one of those silly online tests to see if it still held water. It appears that I am still an INTJ personality type. What does that mean? I have a link and the beginning of the article below.
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Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging
by Marina Margaret Heiss
Profile: INTJ
Revision: 3.0
Date of Revision: 27 Feb 2005
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. INTJs know what they know, and perhaps still more importantly, they know what they don't know.
INTJs are perfectionists, with a seemingly endless capacity for improving upon anything that takes their interest. What prevents them from becoming chronically bogged down in this pursuit of perfection is the pragmatism so characteristic of the type: INTJs apply (often ruthlessly) the criterion "Does it work?" to everything from their own research efforts to the prevailing social norms. This in turn produces an unusual independence of mind, freeing the INTJ from the constraints of authority, convention, or sentiment for its own sake.
---------------------------------------------------------------And, it probably does cause difficulties when dealing with certain other types, especially those who live in the feminine... I mean feeling. Ha! I am a doubting Thomas. Though if you remember rightly, Christ did not beset Thomas and toss him out. There are reasons to doubt and their is a need for doubt. If too, their is a need for faith. It seems we might just have those two in some odd order. Then again, everybody does, they are just disordered differently. So there. :p
I am not sure if we can change what we are, how much our own actions create these patterns, how much is genetics, or how much the outside world plays a part. I only know that I would have it no other way, for my part. We seem to be a small minority, 1 percenters if you believe the writings. Which probably puts us out socially. I do not think it is necessarily geekiness, it is more that we go too deep in conversations and possibilities so that we bore even those who love us to tears, regardless if we are discussing the weather, a motor, or our relationship with our mother. And, we plan. Though the best planners among us know that a plan is a piece of paper we hold as we leave a building and head out into a hurricane. That paper IS important, but uhm, liable to change... significantly. All said and done, that is the way of it. I am comfortable with that.
Given this, I think one might now understand why being plagued by exhaustion, no matter how much it "pays", is anathema to me. It is why I keep looking for the source and a fix. My illness to me is like a programming bug to one like me who programs. The human mind and body are just a bit more complex and I really do not have the expertise to find the problem organically. As an engineering type, however, I realize I do not need to find the exact cause nor an exact fix for it, if I can find the major difficulties and find simpler means of avoiding, fixing, or rendering those problems otherwise nonbinding. There is even a possibility of using the problems themselves as positives, much the way scientists not only learned to overcome gravity but learned to use that as a source of propulsion. I am, well, still working on it. Frustrating to be sure.
Oh, if you are curious, you may go here to find out for yourself. I am not sure how accurate these online tests are. As I said, this only confirms two or three other "official" tests I have taken. If you end up being the nose picking village idiot type, do not even look at me cross-eyed (unless, of course, you are cross-eyed, for which I make some exceptions).
Whenever I have taken the test (numerous times), I end up INTJ/P.
ReplyDeleteI put J/P because I nearly always score right at or very near the equal point between judging/perceiving.
When I examine myself from inside myself, I see that this is true from this perspective also, although I think I tend a tad more toward perceiving unless I am quite certain about an issue.
Birds of a feather, eh? You know the overwhelming majority of Vox's readership is either INTJ or INTP?
"INTJs apply (often ruthlessly) the criterion "Does it work?" to everything from their own research efforts to the prevailing social norms."
ReplyDeleteI certainly have that.
"INTJs apply (often ruthlessly) the criterion "Does it work?" to everything from their own research efforts to the prevailing social norms."
ReplyDeleteI certainly have that.
D.C.,
ReplyDeleteMost certainly birds of a feather! I do have a bit of a love hate relationship with the deal though. It does set me outside of many social circles, though I can usually overcome some barriers with a little charm, if I happen to have a little of that in my back pocket at any given moment.
Well, Vox readers may be that way, but I do not seem to fit in there at all. It may be my disregard of libertarianism in it's purer forms, or the Libertarian party at all, or that I think outside of their box quite a bit. It is odd to be a stranger among otherwise brothers though. If I am sort of used to that.
MK,
That is the one thing I do love about this idea. If it don't work, fix it or toss it. If it does, leave it alone! Of course, that sharp absolutism is probably what tends to make us not fit in.
Discussing alternative or renewable power sources with many academics puts me outside. As an engineering student, I have studied various aspects (if lightly for my own part, since there are others who do the work and keep it current). However, most academics do not care about what is, only what could be. I like to say, well, it could be that butterfly wings really do start hurricanes too, but I wouldn't bet my nations energy supply on increasing the number of butterflies and creating devices to cull the energy from hurricanes. Bah!
D.C.,
ReplyDeleteAnd no slight to your decision to use renewables. You knew what you were walking into, you did it with eyes wide open, and your purposes are quite different and commendable. Just didn't want you to get in a huff too! (And, yeah, I have been known to get in a snit for perceived slights, so I AM transferring here... tending the flock you might say. Ha!)