Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging: by Marina Margaret Heiss
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging: by Marina Margaret Heiss
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging: by Marina Margaret Heiss
Introverted iNtuition
INTJs are idea people. Anything is possible; everything is negotiable.
Whatever the outer circumstances, INTJs are ever perceiving inner
pattern-forms and using real-world materials to operationalize them.
Others may see what isand wonder why; INTJs see what might be and say
"Why not?!" Paradoxes, antinomies, and other contradictory phenomena
aptly express these intuitors' amusement at those whom they feel may be
taking a particular view of reality too seriously. INTJs enjoy developing
unique solutions to complex problems.
Extraverted Thinking
Thinking in this auxiliary role is a workhorse. Closure is the payoff for
efforts expended. Evaluation begs diagnosis; product drives process. As
they come to light, Thinking tends, protects, affirms and directs
iNtuition's offspring, fully equipping them for fulfilling and useful lives. A
faithful pedagogue, Thinking argues not so much on its own behalf, but in
defense of its charges. And through this process these impressionable
ideas take on the likeness of their master.
Introverted Feeling
Feeling has a modest inner room, two doors down from the Most Imminent
iNtuition. It doesn't get out much, but lends its influence on behalf of
causes which are Good and Worthy and Humane. We may catch a glimpse
of it in the unspoken attitude of good will, or the gracious smile or nod.
Some question the existence of Feeling in this type, yet its unseen
balance to Thinking is a cardinal dimension in the full measure of the
INTJ's soul.
Extraverted Sensing
Sensing serves with a good will, or not at all. As other inferior functions, it
has only a rudimentary awareness of context, amount or degree. Thus
INTJs sweat the details or, at times, omit them. "I've made up my mind,
don't confuse me with the facts" could well have been said by an INTJ on
a mission. Sensing's extraverted attitude is evident in this type's bent to
savor sensations rather than to merely categorize them. Indiscretions of
indulgence are likely an expression of the unconscious vengeance of the
inferior.
Famous INTJs
Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging
by Joe Butt
Susan B. Anthony
Lance Armstrong
Arthur Ashe, tennis champion
Augustus Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus)
Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
Dan Aykroyd (The Blues Brothers)
William J. Bennett, "drug czar"
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Raymond Burr (Perry Mason, Ironsides)
Chevy Chase (Cornelius Crane) (Fletch)
Katie Couric
Phil Donahue
Michael Dukakis, governor of Mass., 1988 U.S. Dem. pres. candidate
Richard Gere (Pretty Woman)
Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor
Greg Gumbel, television sportscaster
Hannibal, Carthaginian military leader
Emily Bronte, author of Wuthering Heights
Angela Lansbury (Murder, She Wrote)
Orel Leonard Hershiser, IV
Peter Jennings
Charles Everett Koop
Ivan Lendl
C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)
Joan Lunden
Edwin Moses, U.S. olympian (hurdles)
Martina Navratilova
Michelle Obama
General Colin Powell, former US Secretary of State
Charles Rangel, US Representative, D-N.Y.
Pernell Roberts (Bonanza)
Donald Rumsfeld, former US Secretary of Defense
Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California
Josephine Tey (Elizabeth Mackintosh), mystery writer (Brat Farrar)
U.S. Presidents:
Chester A. Arthur
Calvin Coolidge
Thomas Jefferson
John F. Kennedy
James K. Polk
Woodrow Wilson
Fictional INTJs:
Cassius (Julius Caesar)
Mr. Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)
Gandalf the Grey (J. R. R. Tolkein's Middle Earth books)
Hannibal Lecter (Silence of the Lambs)
Professor Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes' nemesis
Horatio Hornblower
Ensign Ro (Star Trek--the Next Generation)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Hamlet)
George Smiley, John le Carre's master spy
Clarice Starling (Silence of the Lambs)