What prompted you to come here?

[phoenix]

So what triggered your interest in your MBTI that brought you to this forum?


For me, the link to the humanmetrics test was posted on a forum where I lurk...
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I lurk because, like so many highly populated forums, the majority of posters are rather immature. I appreciate the poilitical viewpoints, but not the typical level of discourse.

From there I took the test, and thus found this little slice of the net. And I'm VERY glad I did!


So? How about you?

[Firelie]

I met an INTJ online elsewhere and enjoyed my conversation with him so much that I thought I'd find some others.

[MichaelH]

I'm tired of living on a planet full of aliens and want to hang around (virtually) with people that are sane!

[anul]

I wanted to see other INTJ's interact with each other, because they tend to be weird.

[Rei]

My best friend introduced me to it.
The accuracy of the analysis blew me away... I had to check it out.
Then curiosity got the better of me, and I wondered if there were other people that were THAT similar to me.
So here I am...

[qwerty]

All my life I've known I was different to the people around me. As a kid I grew up in a town where being a loner kid who only spoke to ask questions was weird... I found this site after I stumbled across the human metrics tests and found an answer (my personality) that seemed to explain how I could be wired differently to everyone else.

I'm glad I found it.

[rwyatt365]

Many years ago the job that I was working at the time introduced MBTI as a way for the supervisory and managerial staff to "relate" to their subordinates more effectively. I took the test, discovered I was an INTJ and promptly forgot about it.

About 6 years ago I re-discovered MBTI while searching for "something" to help bridge some gaps between my 2nd wife and I in our relationship. We had a house full of "How to save your marriage" books, one of which was "Please Understand Me II". In that book was another MBTI test - we both took it and tried to use the results to explain how either of us thought (the preposition being that if I know how you think, I can begin to relate to you in ways that you can understand). Finding out (again) that I was INTJ, and that I was "weird" (i.e. unlike most other people and a minority in the general population) didn't help much.

Cut to 2007...so I'm sitting at work one day, bored to tears and cruising the 'Net, and I'm Googling "personalities" for no particular reason (or so I thought!) and I come across another test, which yields the same result as before, which leads me to Google INTJ, which shows this forum on the first page of the results. Of course I was fascinated by Jezebel, captivated by Rei, intrigued by Tarrick - by the end of that day I had probably posted 5-10 messages.

...and the rest is history!! ;D

[biased]

I started to analyze my flaws and had to find an answer to why I was the way I was then I remember Jung.

[Opti]

I was oblivious to personality profiling until i had the strangest recruitment interview with my current employer. Anyway .... In my research to find out about personality profiling & the recruitment process I took the MBTI test over 2 years ago and came out as INTJ. I didn't think anymore about it after reading it - I just wasn't interested. More recently a lot has happened in my life & work and I wanted to find out a little more about myself. I took every online test possible over weeks, the outcome almost always intj - twice I came out as istj (same test). If truth be known when reading MBTI profiles I can find something in them that suits me. I sometimes even wonder if I am a sociopath. :scared: :D

So I found this forum via surfing for INTJ & joined (can't remember exactly where the link came from). I am trying not to read too much into personality profiling, so tend to read the forum for similarities and differences as opposed to one dimentional research.

[Max T]

Reached a career reflection point at age 30 (this year).
Wondered why I wasn't progressing at the rate I expected.
Analysed my flaws (as Biased mentions) and behaviour and saw a pattern.

This pattern partly matched what other INTJs had written here:
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(interesting reading).

So MBTI perhaps had more merit than I previously thought.
Looked around for INTJ forums, couldn't find one... then found this- a forum I gather was started only some weeks ago.
:)