Introvert vs Extrovert

I challenge that introverts don't want to lead.

In my experience, some great leadership happens 1:1, and is better for it. Some people who are great in a room full of people couldn't lead you to a buffet...

 

Depends a bit on the individual, but a lot on what kind of leadership is meant. I know a crapload of rabbis and ministers who are INFP or INFJ.

 

Definitely! And Stalin too. But not FDR.

 

I'd consider myself a functional introvert. I don't like dealing with people; but I'll do what needs to be done.

 

This.

Every word.

 

They've tried to classify introversion as a psychiatric disorder.
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I find it interesting that MBTI is coming up on this board since I had posted a thread about personalities on another forum I'm on.

I haven't taken the real MBTI since high school or college, and I wasn't that interested in it back then. I have found several online versions and almost always test as an INTJ. This is a link to the test if anyone is interested: Personality test based on C. Jung and I. Briggs Myers type theory

One of the personality types groups I'm in references that as the most accurate in typing, but not necessarily on the percentages. That said, you might read a question one way on one day, and then feel differently and answer it a different way the next day. I think there also could be some bias. Maybe you want to be a certain way, or seen as a certain way, so you answer the question differently. I made the comment that as a woman, society seems to think I should be in the kitchen crying over the sandwich I'm making. So if I'm trying to conform to society I'm going to test higher as a feeler. There is no question I'm a thinker as I over-analyze everything.

Back to the original thread question - I am an Introvert and usually test at around 70% for that.

It isn't that we as Introverts can't give speeches, it's that we have to socialize and make small talk afterwards. That's usually why we have problems at parties. It's meaningless chit chat and we prefer meaningful conversations. We usually need time to recuperate afterwards if we're doing a lot of socializing or pretending to be an extrovert and some of us do this differently. As I now live with roommates, I usually go to my room and close the door and watch TV by myself, or as now - get up early so I have the living room to myself and drink my coffee in peace. My best friend would force herself to pretend extroversion for a few days or weeks, and then cut herself off for a few days from the world.

As an INTJ, there is a stereotype we have no feelings. We do have feelings, we just don't talk about them. We can be leaders, particularly if we see incompetence in the current leadership. The J for me is certain as I'm a planner. Once a decision about how I'm going to proceed with something is made, I'm relaxed, but I can be tense until I have made that decision.

We are kind of the asshole type - but I would like to point out, that we are extremely loyal in our friendships.

 

That's funny.
When I worked for DVR one of my coworkers was taking classes to give and score testing.
She used me as a guinea pig.
No matter what test I took, IQ, personality, etc. I scored dead in the center.
I hadn't tried the Briggs Meyers so I followed @PlaysWithPixels link.
When I took the test I got ENFJ.
But all my percentages were within 11%.

 

I did not care for that version of the test, though I still came up an INFP-- just barely. The versions I've usually taken have way more questions (2-5 times as many), and are more along the lines of a graduated response of like eight or ten options from "totally describes me" to "not at all like me." The comparatively few yes/no questions on this one I thought were all too likely to provide an insufficiently nuanced reflection of the questioner, especially since most of them were really not questions to which I felt it easy to answer either "yes" or "no," and there was no option of "yes, kind of, but..." or "mostly no, but...." I'll see if I can find a link to one of the more complex tests....

^^^Yes. This.

 

Yep, INTJ again.

INTJ​

Introvert(56%) iNtuitive(62%) Thinking(88%) Judging(56%)​

• You have moderate preference of Introversion over Extraversion (56%)​
• You have distinct preference of Intuition over Sensing (62%)​
• You have strong preference of Thinking over Feeling (88%)​
• You have moderate preference of Judging over Perceiving (56%)​

 

I'm ENTP.

Though I've been described as ambivert before, so I could be INTP as well.

 

Small talk kills me; I'm horrible at it. If I don't know the people at a social gathering at all, I'm even worse.

Although I'm better than I used to be.

I need to take the test that others have mentioned.
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Done.

ISTJ.....very much introverted.

 

I think some people forget that even though many INTJ's might act a certain way, there might be a few that do things a little different. There are some graphics I've found on pinterest (as well as tons of MBTI info) that allow you to figure out which of the personalities you are without testing. While I don't think the "founders" of personality theory overlooked the fact that we're all human and all unique, I think it can sometimes be glossed over. Just because you're typed as INTJ, or ESFP, doesn't mean you will necessarily act exactly that way.

That said, I occasionally test as IxTJ - meaning sometimes I'm N, and sometimes S. (Personally, I think that means I've developed both ways of taking in information.) I'm usually slightly more to the N. Ironically, my best friend is the same way, but the opposite. She tests slightly more to the S, but IxTJ.