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A fascinating online personality test judges me to be "INTJ - The "Strategist""...

INTJs are introspective, analytical, determined persons with natural leadership ability. Being reserved, they prefer to stay in the background while leading. Strategic, knowledgable and adaptable, INTJs are talented in bringing ideas from conception to reality. They expect perfection from themselves as well as others and are comfortable with the leadership of another so long as they are competent. INTJs can also be described as decisive, open-minded, self-confident, attentive, theoretical and pragmatic. [emphasis mine .ed]

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[INJT's ]"...approach reality as they would a giant chess board, always seeking strategies that have a high payoff, and always devising contingency plans in case of error or adversity."The Portrait of the Mastermind Rational (iNTj) (Keirsey)

"...observer, values solitude, perfectionist, detached, private... does not talk about feelings, hard to impress, analytical, likes esoteric things..."- Jung Type Descriptions (INTJ) (similarminds.com)

"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."- INTJ Profile (TypeLogic)

Much of that is spot-on. But I am NOT Mr. Spock; he would never drink a half-bottle of mescal just to race for the privilege of eating the worm. Unless of course there was a logical rationality behind it. Me, I'll drink as much as needed to reach the worm, because it is there.

Some notable INJT's (besides the fictional Starling and Lecter) include a couple decent presidents (the quote in my current blog header is from one of 'em). Oh, and Sir Isaac Newton, William F. Buckley, Jr., Donald Rumsfeld, and (wtf!) Ahnold Schwarzenegger.

But why so many fictional bad apples? Lecter, Vito Corleone, and 'Deadly Viper' Cottonmouth.  Must've been a wrong turn somewhere in their creator's imaginations.

Well, go forth and take your own test. Put your results in the comments if you like. Given that I'm a loner-sort, I could care less if you do or not, really.  ;)
 

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