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Old 01-07-2010, 05:35 PM   #1
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Think about it.

an INTJ on a reality TV show full of super dramatic extroverts. (like MTV's real world)

What would happen...

Would he leave?
Would he be the moderator of the house?
Would he share A LOT less camera time then anyone else since camera time is based on how much drama you create?

I think he/she would be the quite one, the one in the background. He would have very very little camera time due to his non-dramatic nature. He may end up leaving the show after 1 day because he believes everyone else to be extremely immature.
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Old 01-07-2010, 05:48 PM   #2
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An INTJ would be voted off first... shitty social skills.
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Old 01-07-2010, 09:02 PM   #3
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The INTJ would poison all of the others in one fell swoop, calmly listing the faults of each as they wriggled on the ground helplessly with rectal prolapses..
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Old 01-07-2010, 09:50 PM   #4
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people watching would fall asleep from boredom, intjs wouldn't let the camera catch them doing anything that makes for "good" reality tv lol
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Old 01-08-2010, 04:51 AM   #5
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An INTJ would be voted off first... shitty social skills.

Ya, really.

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Old 01-08-2010, 07:35 AM   #6
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I dunno... If you went in with a strategy to be nice to everyone, and just let the drama swirl around the 'E's, and then look to manipulate the situation in a very logical manner such that each person, in turn, looks the worst and is voted off....
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Old 01-08-2010, 10:10 AM   #7
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Yeah, if one went into it with a fully thought out plan... it'd be on. Especially if the said INTJ has even the SLIGHTEST bit of social skill and social confidence (better than skill sometimes imo)
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Old 01-08-2010, 11:00 AM   #8
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The INTJ would poison all of the others in one fell swoop, calmly listing the faults of each as they wriggled on the ground helplessly with rectal prolapses..

A few days of observation, and then all out war - sounds fun
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Old 01-08-2010, 01:54 PM   #9
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We'd verbally batter all the other contestants into submission.
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Old 01-08-2010, 04:15 PM   #10
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That person would be the boring one that stuck around for half the show with little face time (or whose face time was critiquing others on a private camera). In the season review, 90% of viewers would only vaguely remember said person and would be stunned that they outlasted other more notable members.
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Old 01-08-2010, 04:54 PM   #11
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I will not speak for others, but this INTJ would not be caught dead on a reality TV show. Its not reality anyway. Its a human zoo.
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Old 01-08-2010, 05:06 PM   #12
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I know. Reality show = Tartarus. If the Olympian gods wanted to punish Sisyphus nowadays, they'd cycle him through reality shows instead of pushing the boulder.
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Old 01-08-2010, 05:07 PM   #13
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  Originally Posted by Polar Bear INTJ
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That person would be the boring one that stuck around for half the show with little face time (or whose face time was critiquing others on a private camera). In the season review, 90% of viewers would only vaguely remember said person and would be stunned that they outlasted other more notable members.

That's what I thought too. In something like Survivor or Big Brother, they'd lurk in the shadows and all the other participants would forget they were there, so they wouldn't as often be considered for voting out. But then there'd be an immunity challenge that the INTJ would excel in, and everyone else would be like, "oh yeah, I forgot that guy existed for a while, but s/he is now on my radar." Simply put, an INTJ on a reality show would be a dark horse.

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Old 01-09-2010, 09:47 PM   #14
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I think if I were stuck in a reality show I'd basically end up in a fistfight and probably get kicked out.

But anyway, there most certainly has been an INTJ on some reality show. THere are a ton of reality shows and it's inevitable that one would end up on a show. Like the Asian doctor girl on the "Pedro Zamora" season of "Real World". She ended up boning Judd, who was likely an ENFJ. But she was barely on the show...always working. She seemed maybe ISTJ or INTJ. She was really boring and added zero drama to the show.
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Old 01-11-2010, 12:37 PM   #15
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Some INTJs can do a good job "becoming another personality" for the sake of an occasion (especially those with a weak "I"). The ESTJ persona, with an internal NTJ thought process would probably last very long. Depends on the person, I guess.

 

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Old 01-11-2010, 01:42 PM   #16
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If the INTJ had the goal of winning, he/she would do whatever it takes to win. If that means socializing for 8 hours, I would do it. But please, cover your ears when I scream my lungs out from depression.
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Old 01-11-2010, 02:39 PM   #17
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If an INTJ could show enough personality to get through the application process and actually be selected to be on a reality show in the first place:

I think an INTJ would only go onto a reality show that had a very 'private' confessional booth where they could rant and rave about all the shortcomings and shortsighted plans of the other participants. That would keep up their drama quotient and keep the producers from targeting the INTJ for 'removal', if not actually have them planning to use that later to stir up some drama, so in that regards they might be protected a bit. The producers would definitely do the editting spin on an INTJ, with options to edit them as whiney, condescending or conniving...or some combo.

As for actual performance, since they'd have to have a plan going in, they'd know to definitely start out quiet and observe. Controlling the urge to tell everyone the best way to do stuff out of frustration would be the biggest challenge. The dark horse position with a little contrived weakness to make it late in the game would be the most likely path.
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Old 01-11-2010, 05:04 PM   #18
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I can't speak for other INTJs, but I would speak as little as possible and just wait for the whole thing to be over.
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Old 01-11-2010, 05:37 PM   #19
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Old 01-12-2010, 12:41 PM   #20
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People would... DIE!

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Old 01-27-2010, 06:13 PM   #21
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  Originally Posted by psychosylocibin
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Think about it.

an INTJ on a reality TV show full of super dramatic extroverts. (like MTV's real world)

What would happen...

Would he leave?
Would he be the moderator of the house?
Would he share A LOT less camera time then anyone else since camera time is based on how much drama you create?

I think he/she would be the quite one, the one in the background. He would have very very little camera time due to his non-dramatic nature. He may end up leaving the show after 1 day because he believes everyone else to be extremely immature.

Intj in a reallity show? it would become a freak show immediatelly.

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Old 01-28-2010, 03:40 AM   #22
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I would pretend like I was going to murder them all with a sharp hatchet, and then I would murder them all with a sharp hatchet.
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Old 01-28-2010, 02:51 PM   #23
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I think they did once. This guy who went to harvard.. He was pretty boring and stayed out of trouble. They would air him reading poetry/rap to the camera... He had issues with needing to impress his dead father.


(Don't ask me how I know any of this.)
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Old 01-28-2010, 06:06 PM   #24
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I can see an INTJ playing the role of a psychologist. Then turning the show into a group therapy session.
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Old 01-28-2010, 07:55 PM   #25
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I'd probably throw on an ESTP mask and go for it
why not :o
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