# What is your Myers-Briggs type? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 27, 2009, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165 "2009-01-27T01:31:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![The\_Blue-Sighted\_Shadow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@The\_Blue-Sighted\_Shadow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Blue-Sighted_Shadow)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/121 "2009-01-30T19:05:19Z")
INTP, occasionally INTJ, although that’s less often as I get older. ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/122 "2009-01-30T23:48:49Z")
Consistently INTJ. Like purplehaze2007 and XJETGIRLX I love process re-engineering. Keeps me busy/distracted at work. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/123 "2009-01-31T00:02:01Z")
ISTJ here, as well. ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/124 "2009-01-31T00:24:03Z")
ESFP here, though all four values are expressed “slightly” with E the strongest at 22% and S the weakest at 1% (!). ---
**Author:** ![happiness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@happiness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happiness)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/125 "2009-01-31T04:51:41Z")
I’m an ENFJ, which I think is consistent with the last few times I’ve taken it. ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/126 "2009-01-31T06:53:41Z")
ISFJ ---
**Author:** ![Public\_Animal\_No.9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Public\_Animal\_No.9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Public_Animal_No.9)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/127 "2009-01-31T18:16:32Z")
INTJ, but very close to ISTJ. It appears that, in addition to the other characteristics ascribed to INTJs, we seem to be very active in responding to message board threads about M-B types. ---
**Author:** ![Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walker_in_Eternity)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/128 "2009-02-03T12:21:02Z")
> [@BumBoat\_Magdalena](#): > > I am an INTP. Nice link **Walker in Eternity**. That personality type may be rare in the population, rarer among women, but I think I can say with near certainty I’m the only INTP preschool teacher. Thanks for the comment. It’s nice to be unique. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/129 "2009-02-03T14:45:33Z")
I’m on the borderline between INTP and INFP. I’ve tested as both at different times. I’m very strongly I - almost to the maximum; reasonably N, and moderately P. ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/130 "2009-02-03T15:10:23Z")
INTJ. I just had one done on me by my therapist and received the results last Friday. The most interesting thing about all of it is that right there in the write-up about INTJ, it said they have a tendancy to over-drink. Helllooooo, recovering alcoholic here! Weird, and so, so true. (It also said that I always think I’m right [true], that I can’t stand incompetence [very true] and that I’d do well in Managment positions [very, very true].) ---
**Author:** ![Butterscotch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dc4da7/32.png) [@Butterscotch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Butterscotch)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/131 "2009-02-03T16:06:16Z")
INTJ, and having read the blurb on the web-site, I have never been so well described… ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/132 "2009-02-03T16:31:34Z")
> [@EmAnJ](#): > > right there in the write-up about INTJ, it said they have a tendancy to over-drink. Nonsense. We drink exactly the right amount. Everybody else drinks too little. ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/133 "2009-02-03T16:37:56Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Nonsense. We drink exactly the right amount. Everybody else drinks too little. Ha! Exactly, because no one else can quite meet our standards either. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/134 "2009-02-03T21:06:34Z")
I am a hardcore textbook INTJ. I have often thought about sending a link to the description of INTJ profiles to some of my friends, hoping that might smooth over some of my relationship difficulties. I actually have done that on occasion, when the description explains what my motives are better than I can. I was in shock the first time I read it though, suddenly things clicked like they never had before for me. Maybe it’s not that scientific, but it sure seems accurate. ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/135 "2009-02-03T21:09:18Z")
Have any of you who’ve taken the test and read the profile for your type changed the way you acted or thought about yourself? ---
**Author:** ![ShotgunZen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@ShotgunZen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShotgunZen)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/136 "2009-02-03T22:40:52Z")
I was ENTJ many years ago, and just took the online free version and got the same results. Does seem to be quite the representation of us here. ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/137 "2009-02-04T04:01:08Z")
> [@Public\_Animal\_No.9](#): > > INTJ, but very close to ISTJ. > > It appears that, in addition to the other characteristics ascribed to INTJs, we seem to be very active in responding to message board threads about M-B types. I have company! And yes, INTJ does seem to be very common on these boards. I think the fact that I’m very closely between ISTJ and INTJ is very interesting, especially when I consider my political worldview. I think the ISTJ is where my conservative, moralistic side comes in, but it is countered by my liberal, freethinking INTJ side, and it’s probably why I’m a conservative-leaning libertarian with relatively strict personal values. I can’t say I’ve ever felt a need to over-drink, but I’ve never actually drunk at all, so who knows (hopefully not)? However, I’m definitely secure in the other categories of I, T, and J; their counterparts do not describe me at all. Valete, Vox Imperatoris ---
**Author:** ![Flipshod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f19dbf/32.png) [@Flipshod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flipshod)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/138 "2009-02-04T15:21:54Z")
> [@EmAnJ](#): > > INTJ. > > I just had one done on me by my therapist and received the results last Friday. The most interesting thing about all of it is that right there in the write-up about INTJ, it said they have a tendancy to over-drink. Helllooooo, recovering alcoholic here! Weird, and so, so true. > > (It also said that I always think I’m right [true], that I can’t stand incompetence [very true] and that I’d do well in Managment positions [very, very true].) INTJ here. I took the test years ago in an MBA class, and I was the only INTJ. (Mostly Es there.) In our analysis, the prognosis for INTJs was either a CEO or homeless wino–which kinda fits the tightrope I walk in life. ---
**Author:** ![Theodore\_Striker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Theodore\_Striker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theodore_Striker)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/139 "2009-02-04T18:46:36Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > I (INFP) absolutely have to feel like what I am doing is making a meaningful difference for somebody or some worthy cause, or I get very quickly bored and disconnected (in my current iteration I’m a tutor, and I love it). Mindless pointless busywork is anathema to me. Man, I can’t tell you how much better that makes me feel. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165/140 "2009-02-04T20:47:01Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > I’m on the borderline between INTP and INFP. I’ve tested as both at different times. > > I’m very strongly I - almost to the maximum; reasonably N, and moderately P. I borrowed a Myers-Briggs book from the library and revisited the test. I am now solidly INFP. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-myers-briggs-type/483165.md?page=8)