| Your Personality is Very Rare (INTJ) |
 Your personality type is logical, uncompromising, independent, and nonconformist. Only about 3% of all people have your personality, including 2% of all women and 4% of all men. You are Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Judging. |
Look, I suppose that describes me. But I never gave weight to such things, precisely because your personality is judged by choices you would "preferably" make. However, you can easily choose to do otherwise, and therefore your personality would be computed differently. But again, tests like these rank your personality based on what you would feel like choosing in any given real life situation. We should always remember that choices aren't always made on feelings (think about being forced to do something by your parents!).
I find these quote particularly amusing (straight from Wikipedia), because, well, it assumes that our life is carried out totally on feelings, ignoring the fact that everyone is sometimes required to make less than preferable choices. Of course, no person can be blamed for simplifying it such (the variables are just too many) but it would help if they could give a caveat or so, you know...
Oh, dear readers, I'm curious as to what personality type you are. Do take it and share with me your results, yah? :P
I find these quote particularly amusing (straight from Wikipedia), because, well, it assumes that our life is carried out totally on feelings, ignoring the fact that everyone is sometimes required to make less than preferable choices. Of course, no person can be blamed for simplifying it such (the variables are just too many) but it would help if they could give a caveat or so, you know...
"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 sentimentfor its own sake... INTJs are known as the "Systems Builders" of the types, perhaps in part because they possess the unusual traitcombination of imagination and reliability. Whatever system an INTJ happens to be working on is for them the equivalent of a moral cause to an INFJ; both perfectionism and disregard for authority may come into play...Personal relationships, particularly romantic ones, can be the INTJ's Achilles heel... This happens in part because many INTJs do not readily grasp the social rituals... Perhaps the most fundamental problem,however, is that INTJs really want people to make sense." - Marina Margaret Heiss, University of Virginia
4 comments:
My personality is Very Rare (like you!) and INTP (unlike you!)
Haha. Thanks. INTP huh? Well, we're still quite alike though, but for one letter removed :P
Oh, oh, does this described you, Ethan?
"Finally, the dominant Ti function means that the INTP takes his interests and beliefs very seriously. Honesty and directness when explaining these interests are usually displayed. INTPs detest facades and particulary dislike people who exhibit them. Equally, those kind of people also dislike INTPs and avoid them at all cost, for they know that the INTP will see right through them.
"The INTP's serious nature also makes them almost immune to mockery and being made fun of, at least when face to face with their mocker. If someone attempts to make a sarcastic, mocking comment about an interest of an INTP, the latter will defend himself with a pure, almost naive seriousness, explaining his position with a severe exactness, wielding his words like swords. This almost always disarms the mocker who does not expect such a penetrating defence. The INTPs defence usually also contains a subtle but biting attack thrown back in the mocker's face, chiefly because the INTP cannot entirely hide the fact that he believes his opponent to be stupid. Such confrontations might develop rapidly into physical ones, a danger that the INTP should be aware of. This ability to wield words with cutting precision is one of the INTP's greatest assests, but equally one of his most deadly traits. He is capable of using words creatively to penetrate deep into the understanding of a subject, but if not checked and wielded carelessly, his words can become highly destructive, especially where the Feeling function is heavily suppressed."
I can't deny it's a rather accurate description of me... but I like the Wikipedia one better =P
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