Who am I?

[jennythereader]

I did one of those online Myers-Briggs style tests today, and got the same results that I've been getting ever since I was 13: Very strongly Introverted, strongly Thinking, and less strongly iNtuitive and Perceiving.

The results page on this test had a link to this profile of an INTP.

It seem like a fairly accurate description of my thought process and mindset, especially this part

"INTPs thrive on systems. Understanding, exploring, mastering, and manipulating systems can overtake the INTP's conscious thought. This fascination for logical wholes and their inner workings is often expressed in a detachment from the environment, a concentration where time is forgotten and extraneous stimuli are held at bay. Accomplishing a task or goal with this knowledge is secondary."

What I'd like to know is, does this profile do an accurate job of describing the way I actually behave?

Edited at 5pm, so that it would make sense to somebody who isn't me.

Comments

[sioneva.livejournal.com]

My husband tests as INTP and while I don't know that I'd pick you out as that in particular (just knowing someone online can make it a bit hard to distinguish!), I would say I'd definitely peg you as an INXX, at the very least :)

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

So, what things about my posts would you say are clearly IN?

[sioneva.livejournal.com]

The way you write is. This is an extreme stereotype but most extroverts tend to be far less organized in their writing, at least in a blog/journal context. There's a quietness about introvert blogs, as opposed to a greater exuberance and spontaneity about extrovert blogs.

I spend a lot of time re-writing my entries until they say *exactly* what I want (and even then I'm generally not entirely satisfied). So does my husband. I would call that an IN trait.

[sioneva.livejournal.com]

Just to clarify - I don't mean that INs can't have exuberant, spontaneous blogs, but my experience is that most INs have a more elegant style of writing, or at least a more thoughtful one.

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

That sounds like me. One of the reasons I do posts of real substance so rarely is that I put so much effort into figuring out the perfect way to phrase something that by the time I do get it just right, I'm sick of it and can't be bothered to actually type it out.

[sioneva.livejournal.com]

Graham's the same. The way he says something is almost more important than the substance sometimes, I think, in the sense that if it doesn't mean exactly what he wants it to, he won't post it. He writes very infrequently because he's so precise about his wording.

He told me today that my latest rant in garden_delights was too rambly and that I should tighten it up. That's the sort of thing he says, if infrequently (and I usually ignore him ;) )

his journal is targaff if you want to look. Maybe he's a kindred spirit!

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

I'll check him out.

The other factor, for me at least, is that when I have something important to post about, its usually because I'm trying to figure out how I feel about it. So in the process of deciding how to write about it I resolve my questions and no longer need to write about whatever it was.

[siderea]

I haven't encountered you enough f2f to say, but certainly nothing about what I have seen from our brief contact at Arisia or from your journal would contradict it. You don't write (at least on filters I am on :) to the same sort of volume my known INTP women friends do (lately I seem to be collecting female INTP friends!)

The LJ comm for INTPs is jmbt_intp. Not sure how active it is at the moment.

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

Thank you for telling me about the comm. I'll check it out.