Muerteify
06-11-2008, 06:09 PM
Hi, folks. I'm new here. After lurking around a bit, as we INTJs are wont to do, I thought I'd come out from behind the shrubs and make myself known.
I'm from Austin, Texas, where this evening it has cooled down to 96 degrees F. I long from the cooler climes of my childhood!
I discovered I was an INTJ about five years ago, in a work-related seminar the day I came back from my mother's funeral. Though I was not the only introvert in the seminar, I was the only INTJ. I learned being an INTJ is a pretty cool thing! By the time I left class, I was deeply relieved, even proud of wearing my INTJ badge. I understood, poignantly at this point, why my mother and I had had always had such a hard time relating to each other. She most likely was an ESFJ; my introversion was aloofness and moodiness; my intuition was frivolous and meant I lacked common sense. My thinking nature meant I wasn't as loving as her other, feeler, daughters. But because of those qualities and our common Js (my sisters are Ps), Mom had made me executrix of her will. There had already been some tension between my sisters and me over settling the estate, as you might imagine. That Myers-Briggs seminar saved what was left of our family. I gained a lot of empathy for my INFP sisters.
My workplace is very into Myers-Briggs, so my co-workers and I have taken advanced assessments and training, and I'm happy to say that not only am I still proud of being an INTJ, I have learned to appreciate and learn from our extroverted, sensing, feeling and perceptive friends. Nevertheless, it sure has felt good to read all these INTJ posts. Man, do I identify!
I'm from Austin, Texas, where this evening it has cooled down to 96 degrees F. I long from the cooler climes of my childhood!
I discovered I was an INTJ about five years ago, in a work-related seminar the day I came back from my mother's funeral. Though I was not the only introvert in the seminar, I was the only INTJ. I learned being an INTJ is a pretty cool thing! By the time I left class, I was deeply relieved, even proud of wearing my INTJ badge. I understood, poignantly at this point, why my mother and I had had always had such a hard time relating to each other. She most likely was an ESFJ; my introversion was aloofness and moodiness; my intuition was frivolous and meant I lacked common sense. My thinking nature meant I wasn't as loving as her other, feeler, daughters. But because of those qualities and our common Js (my sisters are Ps), Mom had made me executrix of her will. There had already been some tension between my sisters and me over settling the estate, as you might imagine. That Myers-Briggs seminar saved what was left of our family. I gained a lot of empathy for my INFP sisters.
My workplace is very into Myers-Briggs, so my co-workers and I have taken advanced assessments and training, and I'm happy to say that not only am I still proud of being an INTJ, I have learned to appreciate and learn from our extroverted, sensing, feeling and perceptive friends. Nevertheless, it sure has felt good to read all these INTJ posts. Man, do I identify!