What is your strongest function of the Myers-Briggs letters ( Read more... )

Have you ever gotten into a conversation/debate/arguement where you are carefully laying out your side in a logical arguement backed up with evidence only to have them respond with something that profoundly demonstrates either a complete lack of logical thought or a complete disregard for evidence ( Read more... )

Emotional Logic... hee hee... or the Rational way of life. :)

More than one person has said that I am very organized. This has happened as an adult within the past 2 years. One was a professor I had, another one is a casual friend of mine ( Read more... )

The following conversation would drive me bonkers:

Q: "Do you want ice-cream?"
A: "I like ice-cream."

I was vaguely wondering about NT attitudes towards credit cards. I know we don't like debt, and I assume the majority of us generally keep spending low enough that we never incur interest on our credit. However, with cash back programs that return between 1% and 5% on purchases, it strikes me as a no-brainer that using such credit cards would be ( Read more... )

What do you spend money on? Do you stay within your means or are you in debt? Are material goods important to you ( Read more... )

Rationals play not so much to have fun but to exercise their ingenuity in acquiring game skills... although it is too much to say Rationals are grim in their recreational activities, they can be quite unhappy with themselves when they fail to eliminate errors. When an NT plays sports, or even cards and board games, there must be continuous ( Read more... )

I have taken a half-dozen comparable personality tests. In each, my J/P preference approaches 50/50. I exhibit the traits of both an INTJ and an INTP. I am uncomfortable with leaving the problem unsolved.

Does anyone have tips or tricks for sussing out the dominant traits? Is there any pertinent article on Judging vs Perceiving that you might

As an INTJ female, my behaviour does break quite considerably with traditional gender expectations: I avoid talking about emotions, I am aggressive and competitive, I argue my case logically rather than, say, look for common ground. I also don't as a rule wear make-up or high heels, though I do wear skirts and have long hair. All in all, however, I ( Read more... )