I was cheesed off because I just missed out on being an idealist - which is how I fancy myself - and doubly cheesed off because I ended up as a counsellor. Like Job, the thing I feared most has been visited upon me. I am damned to endless sessions sitting in a circle holding a coffee cup, nodding at people I think are nutcases and interjecting the occasional inane backchannelled “Mmm” and “Yeah”. Next thing I’ll be asking people to “verbalise” and to “get in touch with their feelings”, and telling them that I feel their pain.
That’s okay…you can start a t.v. show and a magazine (called “r”?), make a billion dollars, help lots of people have better lives, and occasionally give everyone in your audience lots of gifts. It’d be a great life all in all. Here’s how:
Now, now, Starvers, that was a bit below the belt. I have watched very little Oprah (and intend to keep it that way) but my wife rather enjoys it. However, I should add, as a pragmatic Chinese person - the trouble, not me - she hasn’t lost her stunned-ness at how and why people will “open up” and tell the most nutty stories on TV. Oprah surely represents the lowest common denominator in mainstream instant, addictive vicarious gratification.
As for Dr Phil, well I find him rather humorous. But, is he just more subtly clever than Oprah - the slow slurring southern speech, the self-depreciating humour, the studied lack of defensiveness - or is he actually a good bloke? Does he really help people?
Can a TV doctor be any more efficacious than a TV evangelist, or does the medium allow of only one answer to that question?
Right - I need a lie-down after that portentous crap!
I meant to congratulate you on being an Innovator. It didn’t go unnoticed.
I scored somewhere between “Fools, I’ll Destroy them All!” and “Quiet, Kind of a Loner.”
By that I mean “strategist.”
resolver
mastermind. I wish I had something cute to say. . . .
This is indeed testing for the dichotomous scales found on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (see my Wikipedia article here).
I think these things are ridiculous, but then this thing told me I am a
Mastermind.
This is the smartest quiz ever.
You think ‘they’ are ridiculous, but then again, what exactly do you know about ‘them’ ? Hearsay?
Not at all, roger. I just thought that this might be a way you could employ your counsellorial talents in a rewarding way. 
Well, not to be an Oprah apologist or anything, but she’s quite a bit above the Jerry Springer type of show. I really do think she helps people and her shows aren’t nearly as salacious as the others. If I remember correctly she made a conscious decision some years ago to take her show in a more substantive and less sensational direction.
I think he does just what he says: getting people to thinking about their situation in the correct light and how to take the proper steps to better their situation. As for the rest, he’s quite a sharpie. I think everything he thinks, says and/or does is for a specific reason. I think he’s essentially a good “bloke,” but I also think it would be hard to stay on his good side. I wouldn’t be comfortable around him on a social basis.
Not a bit of it, old chum. I always enjoy your take on things. 
And thanks for the congratulations on my rating as an Innovator. It was surprising how closely that test described me.
Ah just noticed this thread.
Another Realist here, no surprise.
Yet another Mastermind.
Oh My! This is me too!
Little do they know…oops somebody noticed me, time to hide under my rock
Supervisor.
Now dammit, everybody back to work.
Big Thinker.
Stupid name.
I have just taken the Jung test you cited and my results are as follows:
INTJ
Introverted 44 Intuitive 67 Thinking 33 Judging 1
Apparently I am a
moderately expressed introvert
distinctively expressed intuitive personality
moderately expressed thinking personality
slightly expressed judging personality
I will have to compare these results with my original test which gave me a personality type of mastermind.
“mastermind” is INTJ as well.
If you are taking a “Jung” test, you may find it interesting to learn that he did not believe they were traits that could be “moderately expressed”, but rather just a preferred order of doing things in your psyche (types). The whole point in figuring out your type is to figure out this order. To be honest, Jung had nothing to do with this whole type movement. He just talked to his patients until he knew their order.
Here is your order for INTJ:
First: Introverted Intuition: “Looks to what will be and what the deep significance of something is. This process often tunes in to aspects of universal human experience and archetypal symbols.”
Second: Extraverted Thinking: “Extraverted Feeling is concerned with the likes and dislikes of others and what is socially appropriate. It organizes the external world according to interpersonal relationships.”
Third: Extraverted Feeling: * * Extraverted Feeling is concerned with the likes and dislikes of others and what is socially appropriate. It organizes the external world according to interpersonal relationships.*
Fourth: Extraverted Sensing: Extraverted Sensing is perceiving information from the five senses and being drawn to focus on the moment and the experience of the here and now.
Also interesting is that Jung did not have a J/P dichotomy, nor did he use the acronyms, so this test is full of shit!
I’m a “INFP”, apparently.
Whatever.
Apparently I’m an “Opera User”.
Rant: I have no idea why in this day and age what browser you use should be such an insurmountable problem for web page designers. There’s a lot of browsers out there guys, get used to it.