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Is your personality, a make-up of what you are in the perceived reality – in the reality of somebody outside your sphere but close enough through study to construe what you are in his/her reality?

A couple of years ago, when designing a blueprint for creating a concept for a Business Lifestyle magazine, both my partner and I foresaw the slant to shape, and guide what lifestyle should be as an element on its own without cause to slant to either approach of psychological thoughts, and schools of thoughts.

Assuming you’re an engineer, with empirical knowledge and expertise in that area, would you consider that you would, as you would have ‘perceived’ yourself, dress, or read in a certain manner? Would your driving a certain automobile brand over another, reflect your whole being, as an engineer? And what about your being, human? Would that reflect something else all together and if so, where do you delimit the line between your being an Engineer, and you as a human?

Coming to a conclusion that a lifestyle, and personalities aren’t subjective, the phenomenological assumption of personality, and of reality is but one of several possibilities – what appears to someone else does not have to be thought of as existing in that person’s mind. Personality must be knowable, and ‘defined’ in terms of how it is known. How would you dress, or which friend-set would you most likely have if you happened to be a teacher? Lifestyle, as much as it is defined into stereotypical sets in the contemporary world, shouldn’t be a definable element in a given lifestyle – it should just re-define the complexity of the human psyche. Being an engineer does not define you into a statistic – you could equally enjoy travelling and might even be generous, as opposed to one from a different background and upbringing. Nor does reading Kafka determine you to be narcissist, avaricious, and twenty years ahead of time. As complex a psyche can be, the Spirit in all its taintless-ness, shape the entity that you are irrespective the bents you adhere to in your perceived apparent, and illusory reality as being determined in the twenty-first century by savants, and theosophies alike.

Whether people first hear about the two kinds of perception and two kinds of judgment as children, high school students, parents or grandparents, the richer development of their own type can be a rewarding adventure for the rest of their lives. — Isabel Myers

According to Carl G. Jung, pioneer psychologist, and Isabel Briggs Myers, creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, there are sixteen psychological types to determine an entity, giving a broader picture as to how these developed, through growth, and self-development and encompasses how the world outside perceive the ‘reality’ of such psyche, and decisions are made.

Jung, noted that, although everyone takes in information and makes decisions, some people prefer to do more taking in information {perceiving} whilst others prefer to do more decision making {judging}. In 1921, Jung published Psychological Types, introducing the idea that each person has a psychological type. The academic language of the book made it hard to read and so few people could understand and use the ideas for practical purposes. During World War II, two American women, Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother Katharine Cook Briggs set out to find an easier way for people to use Jung’s ideas in everyday life. They wanted people to be able to identify their psychological types without having to sift through Jung’s academic theory.

The personality behind AainaA

After having being probed at eleven, by a Mind Specialist on invitation by a local university, my parents were told that I account for the minority percentage of the world in personality types {its no wonder that I grew my first grey hair at nine!}. I brushed it aside of course, feeling that ‘experts’ could not specifically determine and sanction what the ‘entity’ I would fashion myself to be then, for the future, according to their studies. Living the Spirit, I sought to question them the same about the genomic make-up of a certain nuclei within the genes and how that would relate to the make-up of the whole structure of the being, human. Till today, that question has yet to be answered, or debated by psychologists, amongst friends, and experts.

ITNJ

Having learnt over the years, about these ‘type’, a glimpse of how I thought, and reacted to a certain given quandary, and how the reaction is atypical and related to the indexes that have being resolved by Jung, and Isabel I apparently am of the ITNJ trait which conspicuously is independent, original, analytical, and determined. The personality with the ITNJ ‘strain’ have an exceptional ability to turn theories into solid plans of action — Highly value knowledge, competence, and structure; Driven to derive “meaning” from their visions, I am perceived in the ‘outside’ illusory world as a long-range thinker with a very high standard of expectations for performance, and expecting the same of others {but shouldn’t that be the requirements for excellence?}. As natural leaders, they are known to rarely follow but do so, if they trust existing leaders.

In short laymen’s term, I’m your typical non-conformist, which most companies dread hiring because as much as most contemporary companies crave for being world class, hiring non-conformists, are rare – because we do not ‘fit’ into that square peg – we just think differently!

I could have been a scientist, but I was not given the opportunity, nor was I given any opportunity to discover the personality that I was then, at that early age shaping my tomorrow, today. If these minor few ITNJ personalities are the ones that are crucial in any government or societal makeover, how come I’m still at this age, unwaged? Doesn’t the World need an ITNJ personality anymore?

Relevant

Myers & Briggs Foundation

Marina Heiss ITNJ definition – 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.

INTJ — Mastermind {Esprit supérieure} : Le plus indépendant et obstiné {certains diront têtu} de tous les types. Une fois qu’il a décidé soit de commencer, soit de terminer quelque chose, il fera exactement ce qu’il veut faire. Et à Dieu ne plaise que quelqu’un essaie de vous en dissuader. En raison de sa nature sélective, tomber amoureux peut prendre du temps. Type de personne qui peut passer plusieurs “bons candidat{e}s” jusqu’à trouver le/la partenaire idéal{e}. Donc, peut rester célibataire plus longtemps que ses amis et famille le pensaient. Même lorsque cette personne trouve son âme sœur, cherche à maintenir son espace personnel et sa personalité unique. Donc, a besoin d’un partenaire qui peut le/la laisser seul{e} lorsque l’envie lui en prend ; un partenaire qui lui aussi a un sens de l’autonomie et de confiance en soi très developpé et qui n’a pas besoin de rester proche de son partenaire 24 h sur 24, 7 j sur 7. Organisez des sorties qui coïncident avec la connaissance de la loi, des sciences, des affaires, de la politique, ou de n’importe quel autre sujet que votre Mastermind considère comme un secteur d’expertise. Rappel : les Masterminds s’efforcent de tout maîtriser, y compris leurs loisirs et passe-temps. Si vous pouvez encourager votre Mastermind d’afficher ses connaissances et ses compétences au cours d’une sortie, ce connaisseur intellectuel commencera à voir une lueur favorable en vous.

The ITNJ Personality – A tremendous value and need for systems and organization, combined with their natural insightfulness, makes them excellent scientists. An INTJ scientist gives a gift to society by putting their ideas into a useful form for others to follow. It is not easy for the INTJ to express their internal images, insights, and abstractions. The internal form of the INTJ’s thoughts and concepts is highly individualized, and is not readily translatable into a form that others will understand. However, the INTJ is driven to translate their ideas into a plan or system that is usually readily explainable, rather than to do a direct translation of their thoughts. They usually don’t see the value of a direct transaction, and will also have difficulty expressing their ideas, which are non-linear. However, their extreme respect of knowledge and intelligence will motivate them to explain themselves to another person who they feel is deserving of the effort.

Dealing with the ITNJ — courtesy of Heather Ann Kaldeway

1. Be willing to back up your statements with facts – or at least some pretty sound reasoning.
2. Don’t expect them to respect you or your viewpoints just because you say so. INTJ’ respect must be earned.
3. Be willing to concede when you are wrong. The average INTJ respects the truth over being “right”. Withdraw your erroneous comment and admit your mistake and they will see you as a very reasonable person. Stick to erroneous comments and they will think you are an irrational idiot and treat everything you say as being questionable. 
Try not to be repetitive. It annoys them. 
Do not feed them a line of bull.
4. Do not mistake the strength of your conviction with the strength of your argument. INTJ do not need to believe in a position to argue it or argue it well. Therefore, it will take more than fervor to sway them. 
Remember that INTJ believe in workable solutions. They are extremely open-minded to possibilities, but they will quickly discard any idea that is unfeasible. INTJ open-mindedness means that they are willing to have a go at an idea by trying to pull it apart. This horrifies people who expect “oohs” and “ahhs” and reverence.
5. The ultimate INTJ insult to an idea is to ignore it, because that means it’s not even interesting enough to deconstruct. This also means that they will not just accept any viewpoint that is presented to them. The bottom line is “Does it work?” – end discussion.
6. Do not expect INTJ to actually care about how you view them. They already know that they are arrogant bastards with a morbid sense of humor. Telling them the obvious accomplishes nothing.

We Are Not Cold and Distant — We do not see ourselves as being cruel, cold, distant, unbending, unforgiving, mean, icy or impossible but sometimes people use those words to describe us. We are factual… some might say “lawyerly.” We like references that back up ideas. When you accuse us of inappropriate past behavior and we ask when it happened, and where we were and what the weather was like and who was with us, please don’t take those questions as being argumentative or difficult. We are just trying to place ourselves back into that space and time to re-examine what you did not appreciate so we can fix it later. {Mark of the Rationale Mastermind}

Care to share your personality trait?