AndOnly
06-29-2008, 01:12 PM
Hi, found this forum a few days ago. I don’t know how much I will participate, but I would like to tell you about my experience as an INTJ. BTW: I am from Norway.
I was bored at school, bored when talking to people, bored at work. I never read a book, and if I did it was to get through school. My brother calls me “Mr Bombastic”, because I am able to be convincing even if I don’t know the facts. I don’t feel comfortable in situations where people try to relax from work, they have nothing to talk about that catches my interest.
One day I asked myself the question “Where do all these problems come from?”, I am working in IT. Since that day I have never turned back. I started to read articles, many books, joined discussion forums. Right now I am reading about System Thinking and Cybernetics. I have finally discovered something worth my attention. I like to understand what it is about the way we do business that creates problems. I like to understand how things work. I talk to people to collect information. Before in meetings I was quite, because I have to do a lot of thinking before I talk, but now most of the time I have already done the analysis. I have a lot of facts: theoretical and examples people have given me. Because of this people pay attention when I talk. I have so many opinions and ideas I like to share that people have mistaken me for an E instead of I. I like to share my knowledge, and I like it when people are sharing theirs with me. From never reading books I am sharing books with my colleagues. They are all books of facts of course. I have no problem speaking up to authority as long as I feel that I have facts to back me up.
The first think I did when I started to read about something called Root Cause Analysis was to make a model explaining the concept to my colleagues. I always find something wrong with systems and the way we do things. I always find something wrong with myself. I always deliver my reports on the agreed dates, never earlier because I never seem to be happy about the work. If someone postpones the delivery date one week I will have to work on the report one more week even if I easily could have delivered it on the first agreed date. I hate it when people don’t keep appointments or are late. I don’t like it when people don’t show interest in their work or are under-qualified to do the job.
To me finding the one thing that seem to interest me has been like the movie Awakenings with Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. I have found that I do my best thinking when writing and I get a lot of ideas when having a long walk alone. I need a lot of time to read a book because I get all these ideas I have to write down or think about. You see connections all the time, right?
One day at work we did a MBTI test and I came out as an INTJ. I had the same experience as most of you: suddenly everything made sense. Mostly I am happy that I know more about how people see me and how I am able to scare the living… out of the strong F people. Also, the two people I had chosen to work closes with turned out to be the only INTJ people (of those tested) beside me in our company. Strange (?), I don’t think it is… ;) BTW: don’t get me started on planning!
I was bored at school, bored when talking to people, bored at work. I never read a book, and if I did it was to get through school. My brother calls me “Mr Bombastic”, because I am able to be convincing even if I don’t know the facts. I don’t feel comfortable in situations where people try to relax from work, they have nothing to talk about that catches my interest.
One day I asked myself the question “Where do all these problems come from?”, I am working in IT. Since that day I have never turned back. I started to read articles, many books, joined discussion forums. Right now I am reading about System Thinking and Cybernetics. I have finally discovered something worth my attention. I like to understand what it is about the way we do business that creates problems. I like to understand how things work. I talk to people to collect information. Before in meetings I was quite, because I have to do a lot of thinking before I talk, but now most of the time I have already done the analysis. I have a lot of facts: theoretical and examples people have given me. Because of this people pay attention when I talk. I have so many opinions and ideas I like to share that people have mistaken me for an E instead of I. I like to share my knowledge, and I like it when people are sharing theirs with me. From never reading books I am sharing books with my colleagues. They are all books of facts of course. I have no problem speaking up to authority as long as I feel that I have facts to back me up.
The first think I did when I started to read about something called Root Cause Analysis was to make a model explaining the concept to my colleagues. I always find something wrong with systems and the way we do things. I always find something wrong with myself. I always deliver my reports on the agreed dates, never earlier because I never seem to be happy about the work. If someone postpones the delivery date one week I will have to work on the report one more week even if I easily could have delivered it on the first agreed date. I hate it when people don’t keep appointments or are late. I don’t like it when people don’t show interest in their work or are under-qualified to do the job.
To me finding the one thing that seem to interest me has been like the movie Awakenings with Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. I have found that I do my best thinking when writing and I get a lot of ideas when having a long walk alone. I need a lot of time to read a book because I get all these ideas I have to write down or think about. You see connections all the time, right?
One day at work we did a MBTI test and I came out as an INTJ. I had the same experience as most of you: suddenly everything made sense. Mostly I am happy that I know more about how people see me and how I am able to scare the living… out of the strong F people. Also, the two people I had chosen to work closes with turned out to be the only INTJ people (of those tested) beside me in our company. Strange (?), I don’t think it is… ;) BTW: don’t get me started on planning!