INTJ
Blahblah, Lasereth, Atreides88 - nice to meet others that fall into the 1%. What are you doing wtih your exceptional planning capabilites? Has anyone suckered you into leadership roles recently?
All of the description is dead on, but here's a part that speaks about my experience over the past several months:
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they can hardly rest until they have things settled and decided. But before they decide anything, they must do the research. Masterminds are highly theoretical, but they insist on looking at all available data before they embrace an idea, and they are suspicious of any statement that is based on shoddy research, or that is not checked against reality.
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When planning for graduate school and for our wedding, I spent hours, days, months - researching every possibility. But after seeing every possibility, the decisions came quickly. Learned my tastes and interests, went with what was best.
With graduate school, I read every journal in my field in a six month time frame. I found the areas of plant biology that I found most interesting. I researched each professor that was engaged in these specific areas. I found the ones whose work I liked best. I contacted them and expressed interest. I applied to three programs, in three very different areas of plant biology. Two programs had no funding and therefore rejected my application. I chose the third. I am quite content with the result.
I recall my sister's shock when, after 6 hours of looking through every recent line by major wedding designers, I narrowed down my ideal dress, found the least expensive online source, took my measurements, then ordered it before the day was through. To her, it seemed impulsive because of the speed. To me - carefully planned, cautiously executed. Why agonize when it was quite obviously the best? A week later, the price went up by $100.