take the Myers-Briggs Personality Test

I’ve taken personality tests at the following websites:

1. HumanMetrics
2. Personality Test Center
3. Similar Minds

...and I (lol) keep scoring a tie between INTJ and INFJ.

Introverted (I) 79.17% Extroverted (E) 20.83%
Intuitive (N) 66.67% Sensing (S) 33.33%
Thinking (T) 50% Feeling (F) 50%
Judging (J) 75% Perceiving (P) 25%

“INTJ – ‘Mastermind’. Introverted intellectual with a preference for finding certainty. A builder of systems and the applier of theoretical models… And ‘Scientist’. Most self-confident and pragmatic of all the types. Decisions come very easily. These are the most independent of all types. They love logic and ideas and are drawn to scientific research. They can be rather single-minded, though.” 1-2% of the total population.

“INFJ – ‘Author’. Strong drive and enjoyment to help others. Complex personality… Also, these are serious students and workers who really want to contribute. They are private and easily hurt. They make good spouses, but tend to be physically reserved. People often think they are psychic. They make good therapists, general practitioners, ministers, and so on.” 1-1.5% of total population.

Two categories to describe one individual? I think that’s possible. People are unique and complex. We don’t always fit neatly into little boxes.

I find the term “Mastermind” somewhat hard to swallow…lol. And the descriptions I’ve read of the INFJ personality seem to fit me a little better.

But maybe it really is possible to be both. Hmmm?

I found their online site, coughed up the requisite bucks, & took their assessment. Mark this one done! *smile8

I went to http://www.myersbriggs.org and it seems like something I took years ago for my work.

Introverted – 82%
Sensing – 59%
Feeling – 55%
Judging – 64%

Your Type is INTJ
Introverted 33%
Intuitive 25%
Thinking 25%
Judging 78%

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… INTJs are known as the “Systems Builders” of the types, perhaps in part because they possess the unusual trait combination 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.

Famous INTJs:
Augustus Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus)
William J. Bennett, “drug czar”
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Hannibal, Carthaginian military leader
C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California
Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor
General Colin Powell, US Secretary of State
Lance Armstrong
Calvin Coolidge
Thomas Jefferson
John F. Kennedy
James K. Polk
Woodrow Wilson
Cassius (Julius Caesar)

Mastermind
Masterminds correlate with the INTJ Myers-Briggs type, and are introspective, pragmatic, directive, and attentive. Masterminds are highly capable leaders as contingency planning and entailment organizing is highly developed in them. Both contingency planning and entailment organizing are directive activities that tell the planner what activities to do and what order to do them in. Despite their leadership capabilities, masterminds prefer to stay in the background until others demonstrate ineffective leadership. However once in a position of power, Masterminds are highly efficient and willing to adopt useful ideas.

Masterminds are strong willed, self-confident and decisive. They are also highly theoretical and are the most open-minded of all the role variants[citation needed]. Before a mastermind adopts a theoretical notion, they insist on researching all of the available data and checking the idea against reality. Masterminds are suspicious of theories based on poor research and will discard ideas that cannot be effectively implemented.

Masterminds are highly pragmatic and will put forth a lot of time and effort in order to implement effective ideas. They are driven to solve complex problems and to create organized, decided, and executed solutions. Masterminds tend to say positive statements instead of negative ones, preferring to focus on how to make the organization more efficient in the future rather than dwelling on past mistakes.

The following individuals are identified as Masterminds:

Friedrich Nietzsche
Augustus Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus)
Hannibal (Carthaginian Military Leader)
Stephen Hawking
Ulysses S. Grant
Niels Bohr
Peter the Great
John Maynard Keynes
Lise Meitner
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ayn Rand
Isaac Newton
Donald Rumsfeld