I am an INTROVERT

<p>I tested as an INTJ in my early 20s, then as an ENTJ in my 30s. I think that “E” is a “learned behavior”, and I really am an INTJ at heart. So adding myself…</p>

<p>ESTJ - Fallgirl, Kiddie
ESTP
ISTJ - atomom, mereluvs2run, Kiddie’s daughter
ISTP
ENTJ - cobrat, noimagination, Consolation
ENFP
INTJ - Pizzagirl, soccerguy315, harvestmoon1, Joblue, Martina99, kitty56’s D, intparent
INFP - LasMa, QuantMech
ENFJ
ENTP - LoremIpsum
INFJ - Emily0722 , downtoearth, bookworm, poetgrl, hyperJulie DTE, D2.
INTP - pelicularities, fendergirl, LoremIpsum’s youngest, BunHeadMom, emberjed
ESFJ - eddieodessa
ESFP
ISFJ - frazzled1, opnopgod, kitty56
ISFP</p>

<p>adding descriptions</p>

<pre><code>The 16 MBTI® Types
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<p>ISTJ
Quiet, serious, earn success by thoroughness and dependability. Practical, matter-of-fact, realistic, and responsible. Decide logically what should be done and work toward it steadily, regardless of distractions. Take pleasure in making everything orderly and organized – their work, their home, their life. Value traditions and loyalty.</p>

<p>ISFJ
Quiet, friendly, responsible, and conscientious. Committed and steady in meeting their obligations. Thorough, painstaking, and accurate. Loyal, considerate, notice and remember specifics about people who are important to them, concerned with how others feel. Strive to create an orderly and harmonious environment at work and at home.</p>

<p>INFJ
Seek meaning and connection in ideas, relationships, and material possessions. Want to understand what motivates people and are insightful about others. Conscientious and committed to their firm values. Develop a clear vision about how best to serve the common good. Organized and decisive in implementing their vision.</p>

<p>INTJ
Have original minds and great drive for implementing their ideas and achieving their goals. Quickly see patterns in external events and develop long-range explanatory perspectives. When committed, organize a job and carry it through. Skeptical and independent, have high standards of competence and performance – for themselves and others.</p>

<p>ISTP
Tolerant and flexible, quiet observers until a problem appears, then act quickly to find workable solutions. Analyze what makes things work and readily get through large amounts of data to isolate the core of practical problems. Interested in cause and effect, organize facts using logical principles, value efficiency.</p>

<p>ISFP
Quiet, friendly, sensitive, and kind. Enjoy the present moment, what’s going on around them. Like to have their own space and to work within their own time frame. Loyal and committed to their values and to people who are important to them. Dislike disagreements and conflicts, do not force their opinions or values on others.</p>

<p>INFP
Idealistic, loyal to their values and to people who are important to them. Want an external life that is congruent with their values. Curious, quick to see possibilities, can be catalysts for implementing ideas. Seek to understand people and to help them fulfill their potential. Adaptable, flexible, and accepting unless a value is threatened.</p>

<p>INTP
Seek to develop logical explanations for everything that interests them. Theoretical and abstract, interested more in ideas than in social interaction. Quiet, contained, flexible, and adaptable. Have unusual ability to focus in depth to solve problems in their area of interest. Skeptical, sometimes critical, always analytical.</p>

<p>ESTP
Flexible and tolerant, they take a pragmatic approach focused on immediate results. Theories and conceptual explanations bore them – they want to act energetically to solve the problem. Focus on the here-and-now, spontaneous, enjoy each moment that they can be active with others. Enjoy material comforts and style. Learn best through doing.</p>

<p>ESFP
Outgoing, friendly, and accepting. Exuberant lovers of life, people, and material comforts. Enjoy working with others to make things happen. Bring common sense and a realistic approach to their work, and make work fun. Flexible and spontaneous, adapt readily to new people and environments. Learn best by trying a new skill with other people.</p>

<p>ENFP
Warmly enthusiastic and imaginative. See life as full of possibilities. Make connections between events and information very quickly, and confidently proceed based on the patterns they see. Want a lot of affirmation from others, and readily give appreciation and support. Spontaneous and flexible, often rely on their ability to improvise and their verbal fluency.</p>

<p>ENTP
Quick, ingenious, stimulating, alert, and outspoken. Resourceful in solving new and challenging problems. Adept at generating conceptual possibilities and then analyzing them strategically. Good at reading other people. Bored by routine, will seldom do the same thing the same way, apt to turn to one new interest after another.</p>

<p>ESTJ
Practical, realistic, matter-of-fact. Decisive, quickly move to implement decisions. Organize projects and people to get things done, focus on getting results in the most efficient way possible. Take care of routine details. Have a clear set of logical standards, systematically follow them and want others to also. Forceful in implementing their plans.</p>

<p>ESFJ
Warmhearted, conscientious, and cooperative. Want harmony in their environment, work with determination to establish it. Like to work with others to complete tasks accurately and on time. Loyal, follow through even in small matters. Notice what others need in their day-by-day lives and try to provide it. Want to be appreciated for who they are and for what they contribute.</p>

<p>ENFJ
Warm, empathetic, responsive, and responsible. Highly attuned to the emotions, needs, and motivations of others. Find potential in everyone, want to help others fulfill their potential. May act as catalysts for individual and group growth. Loyal, responsive to praise and criticism. Sociable, facilitate others in a group, and provide inspiring leadership.</p>

<p>ENTJ
Frank, decisive, assume leadership readily. Quickly see illogical and inefficient procedures and policies, develop and implement comprehensive systems to solve organizational problems. Enjoy long-term planning and goal setting. Usually well informed, well read, enjoy expanding their knowledge and passing it on to others. Forceful in presenting their ideas</p>

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<p>That’s an interesting idea, and I’d like to hear more discussion about this: do people’s MB personalities change due to external real-world circumstances? I did not take the MB test until I was almost 50 and came up ENTP. I wonder if it might have been different when I was young? By that time, I had traveled widely (65+ countries) and often on my own, because it was impossible to regularly coordinate trips with others I knew.</p>

<p>So hoping on a plane and wandering around South America for 3 weeks, alone, is pretty much going to force one to “push” one’s “E” side on a daily basis. I also wonder about the P vs. J. Here’s the difference, based on one quote I found:</p>

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<p>It would seem that dealing with different cultures, different rules and different languages on a regular basis would demand a “flexible and adaptable lifestyle,” unless you go the package-tour route, which never appealed to me.</p>

<p>Of course, this is a “chicken and the egg” type question. Was it necessary for me to have this personality type to be drawn to traveling in the first place, or did traveling adapt my original “default” personality?</p>

<p>Thoughts?</p>

<p>I tested as an ESFJ; the description above feels right to me. DH has worked a lot with Myers Briggs over the years in HR and he can usually “call” people’s MB type once he knows them. As an only child, I always considered myself an introvert, but DH explained that the E vs. the I in Myers Briggs has a lot to do with how you process information. I need to “talk things out” while I live with three I’s who’d rather chew it over internally. </p>

<p>ESTJ - Fallgirl, Kiddie
ESTP
ISTJ - atomom, mereluvs2run, Kiddie’s daughter
ISTP
ENTJ - cobrat, noimagination, Consolation
ENFP
INTJ - Pizzagirl, soccerguy315, harvestmoon1, Joblue, Martina99, kitty56’s D, intparent
INFP - LasMa, QuantMech
ENFJ
ENTP - LoremIpsum
INFJ - Emily0722 , downtoearth, bookworm, poetgrl, hyperJulie DTE, D2.
INTP - pelicularities, fendergirl, LoremIpsum’s youngest, BunHeadMom, emberjed
ESFJ - eddieodessa, RobD
ESFP
ISFJ - frazzled1, opnopgod, kitty56
ISFP</p>

<p>I can only comment on my own shift from “I” to “E”. In my mid-20s to mid-30s I worked for a big consulting firm where I had to schmooze as part of my job. I kind of got my butt kicked sometimes for being too “I”, and by necessity I had to adapt. To my surprise I found that I actually LIKED some people (I know, I know…) and even enjoyed going to an event where I didn’t know anyone ahead of time. I learned to start conversations and make small talk. And when I took MB a second time near the end of that period I was more “E” than “I”. But I still think my true nature is an “I”. I don’t need a lot of interaction with others to feel charged for the day. Today was a good day at work because I had no meetings and got to just sit at my desk and work all day without interruption (I sit in a back corner cube, so other saying hi to a co-worker in the hall and talking to the lady behind the counter in the deli, I did not talk out loud to one other person during work today). And I liked today a lot better than most days at work.</p>

<p>I always thought it was a lot of baloney too, but actually the ISTP description, especially the bad parts of it are very true! It even says I might be a good engineer (architect is pretty close!) I was only bearly an I.</p>

<p>ESTJ - Fallgirl, Kiddie
ESTP
ISTJ - atomom, mereluvs2run, Kiddie’s daughter
ISTP - mathmom
ENTJ - cobrat, noimagination, Consolation
ENFP
INTJ - Pizzagirl, soccerguy315, harvestmoon1, Joblue, Martina99, kitty56’s D, intparent
INFP - LasMa, QuantMech
ENFJ
ENTP - LoremIpsum
INFJ - Emily0722 , downtoearth, bookworm, poetgrl, hyperJulie DTE, D2.
INTP - pelicularities, fendergirl, LoremIpsum’s youngest, BunHeadMom, emberjed
ESFJ - eddieodessa, RobD
ESFP
ISFJ - frazzled1, opnopgod, kitty56
ISFP</p>

<p>I am INTP.</p>

<p>ESTJ - Fallgirl, Kiddie
ESTP
ISTJ - atomom, mereluvs2run, Kiddie’s daughter
ISTP - mathmom
ENTJ - cobrat, noimagination, Consolation
ENFP
INTJ - Pizzagirl, soccerguy315, harvestmoon1, Joblue, Martina99, kitty56’s D, intparent
INFP - LasMa, QuantMech
ENFJ
ENTP - LoremIpsum
INFJ - Emily0722 , downtoearth, bookworm, poetgrl, hyperJulie DTE, D2.
INTP - pelicularities, fendergirl, LoremIpsum’s youngest, BunHeadMom, emberjed, Halogen
ESFJ - eddieodessa, RobD
ESFP
ISFJ - frazzled1, opnopgod, kitty56
ISFP</p>

<p>I - 28, E - 8
N - 25, S - 11
T - 23, F - 13
J - 26, P - 10</p>

<p>I feel so unspecial now. :…(</p>

<p>If anyone cares… very strong I, strongest possible N (no trace of S), moderate T, slight P.</p>

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<p>I have a different take on this. Introversion/extraversion isn’t a matter of how much you interact with people. It’s whether you find that interaction energizing or draining.</p>

<p>I once took a cruise with a big group, which meant that I had to be “on” all day, every day. Having to make conversation at every meal, having to make conversation on excursions, nothing but chitchat morning noon and night – as an introvert, it exhausted me. My favorite times of that cruise were when I’d sneak away to a quiet corner with a book. </p>

<p>While on that cruise, I met a guy who said he was cruising alone. It sounded like heaven!</p>

<p>I’m INFJ.</p>

<p>ESTJ - Fallgirl, Kiddie
ESTP
ISTJ - atomom, mereluvs2run, Kiddie’s daughter
ISTP - mathmom
ENTJ - cobrat, noimagination, Consolation
ENFP
INTJ - Pizzagirl, soccerguy315, harvestmoon1, Joblue, Martina99, kitty56’s D, intparent
INFP - LasMa, QuantMech
ENFJ
ENTP - LoremIpsum
INFJ - Emily0722 , downtoearth, bookworm, poetgrl, hyperJulie DTE, D2, NJTheatreMom
INTP - pelicularities, fendergirl, LoremIpsum’s youngest, BunHeadMom, emberjed, Halogen
ESFJ - eddieodessa, RobD
ESFP
ISFJ - frazzled1, opnopgod, kitty56
ISFP</p>

<p>I’m an I but you wouldn’t know it at work, since I overcompensate like crazy. I’m also in the middle of the N/S continuum, but as far over on the T scale as it is possible to be. We just went through this at work, and I find the Fs in our team make me nuts–everything is an opportunity for drama. LoremIpsum, I think the determining question for the J/P is whether you like surprises and prefer to be spontaneous, rather than the ability to be flexible; personally, I would really rather know in advance, and I hate having to switch proverbial horses just before deadline.</p>

<p>ESTJ - Fallgirl, Kiddie
ESTP
ISTJ - atomom, mereluvs2run, Kiddie’s daughter
ISTP - mathmom
ENTJ - cobrat, noimagination, Consolation
ENFP
INTJ - Pizzagirl, soccerguy315, harvestmoon1, Joblue, Martina99, kitty56’s D, intparent, Sop14’sMom
INFP - LasMa, QuantMech
ENFJ
ENTP - LoremIpsum
INFJ - Emily0722 , downtoearth, bookworm, poetgrl, hyperJulie DTE, D2, NJTheatreMom
INTP - pelicularities, fendergirl, LoremIpsum’s youngest, BunHeadMom, emberjed, Halogen
ESFJ - eddieodessa, RobD
ESFP
ISFJ - frazzled1, opnopgod, kitty56
ISFP</p>

<p>Here’s an example of I: about 10 years ago, I did one of the 3day/60 mi breast cancer walks by myself. It was great - I walked quietly with my on thoughts, but if I met up with interesting people I chatted - but then I had the freedom to say “nice chatting with you” and move on. People asked if I got lonely. Honestly, no. I don’t think I’ve ever felt being lonely in my own life. I can, and have, gone sightseeing in foreign countries by myself and never been the least bit lonely.</p>

<p>I can be very outgoing if I want. But it’s just not how I recharge. That’s what makes me an I.</p>

<p>Do you have a link to the online test to see what type you are?</p>

<p>EPTR, this is the one I took: </p>

<p>[Personality</a> test based on Jung and Briggs Myers typology](<a href=“http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm]Personality”>Personality test based on Jung and Briggs Myers typology)</p>

<p>Unsurprisingly, I am an INTJ - but only moderately. I do, however, have a strong preference of judging over perceiving. Yikes. </p>

<p>ESTJ - Fallgirl, Kiddie
ESTP
ISTJ - atomom, mereluvs2run, Kiddie’s daughter
ISTP - mathmom
ENTJ - cobrat, noimagination, Consolation
ENFP
INTJ - Pizzagirl, soccerguy315, harvestmoon1, Joblue, Martina99, kitty56’s D, intparent, Sop14’sMom, sabaray
INFP - LasMa, QuantMech
ENFJ
ENTP - LoremIpsum
INFJ - Emily0722 , downtoearth, bookworm, poetgrl, hyperJulie DTE, D2, NJTheatreMom,
INTP - pelicularities, fendergirl, LoremIpsum’s youngest, BunHeadMom, emberjed, Halogen
ESFJ - eddieodessa, RobD
ESFP
ISFJ - frazzled1, opnopgod, kitty56
ISFP</p>

<p>I took the test and I am ENFP.</p>

<p>INTJ here.</p>

<p>I’d like to clear up some misconceptions that introverts don’t like people, don’t like to talk, and don’t know how to have fun. </p>

<p>The truth is we like genuine people and tend to have a few very close friends who we respect and cherish; don’t generally care for small talk, but if it’s something we’re interested in, you can’t get us to shut up; and like to have fun in small groups or at home, not where there’s large crowds and a lot of activity. We are also individualists and don’t like to follow the crowd or do things just to be popular, so sometimes can be seen as different or aloof. And, although introverts only make up 25% of the general population, our percentages increase with increasing IQ.</p>

<p>Audiophile, wish there was a like button</p>

<p>Adding EPTR & audiophile:</p>

<p>ESTJ - Fallgirl, Kiddie
ESTP
ISTJ - atomom, mereluvs2run, Kiddie’s daughter
ISTP - mathmom
ENTJ - cobrat, noimagination, Consolation
ENFP - EPTR
INTJ - Pizzagirl, soccerguy315, harvestmoon1, Joblue, Martina99, kitty56’s D, intparent, Sop14’sMom, sabaray, audiophile
INFP - LasMa, QuantMech
ENFJ
ENTP - LoremIpsum
INFJ - Emily0722 , downtoearth, bookworm, poetgrl, hyperJulie DTE, D2, NJTheatreMom,
INTP - pelicularities, fendergirl, LoremIpsum’s youngest, BunHeadMom, emberjed, Halogen
ESFJ - eddieodessa, RobD
ESFP
ISFJ - frazzled1, opnopgod, kitty56
ISFP</p>

<p>It’s interesting, because a lot of the ORM types :wink: on this list are actually URMs in “real life.”</p>

<p>I guess we like this means of communicating.</p>

<p>I’m ENFJ</p>

<p>10 char</p>

<p>ESTJ - Fallgirl, Kiddie
ESTP
ISTJ - atomom, mereluvs2run, Kiddie’s daughter
ISTP - mathmom
ENTJ - cobrat, noimagination, Consolation
ENFP - EPTR
INTJ - Pizzagirl, soccerguy315, harvestmoon1, Joblue, Martina99, kitty56’s D, intparent, Sop14’sMom, sabaray, audiophile
INFP - LasMa, QuantMech
ENFJ
ENTP - LoremIpsum
INFJ - Emily0722 , downtoearth, bookworm, poetgrl, hyperJulie DTE, D2, NJTheatreMom, Viewer
INTP - pelicularities, fendergirl, LoremIpsum’s youngest, BunHeadMom, emberjed, Halogen
ESFJ - eddieodessa, RobD
ESFP
ISFJ - frazzled1, opnopgod, kitty56
ISFP</p>