Are you a thinker, an innovator, laid back or aggressive?
While 'profiling' gets a back reputation, I do think there is some insight that can be gained taking 'personality tests'. There are different tests, and they get comprehensive...but you can try a quick/free Myer's-Briggs test online at the following site:

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

Take the test, and tell all!

What is your type? (And MA style)

Your Type is
ENFJ

Extroverted 78%
Intuitive 38%
Feeling 62%
Judging 33%

Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:
very expressed extrovert
moderately expressed intuitive personality
distinctively expressed feeling personality
moderately expressed judging personality

...sure...

Took the test.

I refuse to put them on the forum as I fear they might incriminate me!

Your Type is
ESTP
Extroverted 11%
Sensing 12%
Thinking 25%
Perceiving 11%

Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:
slightly expressed extrovert

slightly expressed sensing personality

moderately expressed thinking personality

slightly expressed perceiving personality

i hate these things. i'm not self-critical enough..or i don't want to be... to know if they're actually right.

INTJ. Read it and weep, boys. I am the Rational Mastermind...so Pinky and me are planning on taking over the world.

Don't forget to follow the links on the top of the results page ...it will go into more detail (and we all love to read about ourselves). From there, you can explore other types as well.

http://typelogic.com/
http://keirsey.com/

Type: ESFJ

slightly expressed extrovert
slightly expressed sensing personality
moderately expressed feeling personality
moderately expressed judging personality

Extroverted = 22
Sensing = 12
Feeling = 38
Judging = 33

Have absolutely no idea what this is suppose to mean. Over all ... I'm a good guy ... loyal ... dedicated ... helpful and a hard worker at what ever I do.

EDITED: Martial Art type in profile

Your Type is
ENFJ
Extroverted Intuitive Feeling Judging
67 25 38 11

You are:
distinctively expressed extrovert
moderately expressed intuitive personality
moderately expressed feeling personality
slightly expressed judging personality

The doctor says im a teacher, idealist and only 2-3% of the population have thoughts traits.

grooovy....................... LOL LOL

In my AER222 -Engineering Design & Graphical Communication's course in my first year of university we had to do this test, expcept more in depth, more annoying and more time consuming (found here-http://deed.ryerson.ca/cgi-bin/pti/q.pl?c=OTHER) to place us in groups for our term project so that we could "work togeather" better. It worked fine for my group but there were other groups that were so way off they almost failed the project because they just couldn't get along and work togeather.

INFJ

Introverted 22%
Intuitive 25%
Feeling 12%
Judging 44%

Slightly introverted
moderately intuitive
Slightly feeling
Moderately Judging

MA's I study: Kali/Escrima and Savate

i like this test, it makes me seem far calmer and more retiring than i am

Here's mine:

Your Type is
ISTJ
Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
33 62 25 78


ISTJ type description by D.Keirsey
ISTJ type description by J. Butt



Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:
moderately expressed introvert

distinctively expressed sensing personality

moderately expressed thinking personality

very expressed judging personality

Now, please leave me alone while I determine exactly how sorry I should feel for all you worthless jackasses.

Edit to add: Check my bio for my MA resume

Your Type is
ENFP
Extroverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving


You are:
slightly expressed extrovert

slightly expressed intuitive personality

slightly expressed feeling personality

slightly expressed perceiving personality


...huh?...can't they speak normal Anglish!

Extroverted 1%
Intuitive 75%
Feeling 12%
Judging 33%



You are:
slightly expressed extrovert

distinctively expressed intuitive personality

slightly expressed feeling personality

moderately expressed judging personality

Are those good things???

Hello Everyone! This is my first post here, so here it goes!

My test results: INTJ-
Introverted
Intuative
Thinking
Judging

Moderatley expressed introvert,
Moderatley expressed intuative personality,
Moderatley expressed thinking personality,
Slightly expressed judging personality.

and im a "rational mastermind?" Ooooo...?

Martial arts: began in aikido, year later started Goju, Kobudo, Aikijujitsu. Did those for a few years. Currently doing hsing-i, bagua, hung gar, and northern shaolin.
Basically just started those.

Your Type is
INTJ
"Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
56 25 38 56
You are:
moderately expressed introvert
moderately expressed intuitive personality
moderately expressed thinking personality
moderately expressed judging personality

To outsiders, INTJs may appear to project an aura of "definiteness", of self-confidence. This self-confidence, sometimes mistaken for simple arrogance by the less decisive, is actually of a very specific rather than a general nature; its source lies in the specialized knowledge systems that most INTJs start building at an early age. When it comes to their own areas of expertise -- and INTJs can have several -- they will be able to tell you almost immediately whether or not they can help you, and if so, how. INTJs know what they know, and perhaps still more importantly, they know what they don't know.

INTJs are perfectionists, with a seemingly endless capacity for improving upon anything that takes their interest. What prevents them from becoming chronically bogged down in this pursuit of perfection is the pragmatism so characteristic of the type: INTJs apply (often ruthlessly) the criterion "Does it work?" to everything from their own research efforts to the prevailing social norms. This in turn produces an unusual independence of mind, freeing the INTJ from the constraints of authority, convention, or sentiment for its own sake."

Wow, that is scary how spot on it is.

I am an INTP
Introverted 67%
Intuitive 50%
Thinking 25%
Perceiving 11%
Distinctively expressed introvert, moderately expressed intuitive personality, moderately expressed thinking personality and slightly expressed perceiving personality.
I may appear arrogant, apparantly. I can assure you this is not so, I just do not suffer fools...or anyone who disagrees with me!

I practice Karate.

Type INTJ

Introverted 44%
Intuitive 62%
Thinking 38%
Judging 56%

Moderately expressed introvert
Distinctively expressed intuitive personality
moderately expressed thinking personality
moderately expressed judging personality

I study Choy Li Fut
Thanks for putting the test up.

Kevin

ENTJ
Extroverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
78 75 12 22

You are:
very expressed extrovert

distinctively expressed intuitive personality

slightly expressed thinking personality

slightly expressed judging personality

These things are never really me. I think a lot more i believe.

Im an ENTJ... I'm gonna rule the world one day. Prepare for the new world order.

Raul

INTJ
25-33-88-25
(so basically, a geek. )

ENFP

Why do I feel like I shouldn't know this all of a sudden? lol

-John

Your Type is
INTJ
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
78 25 12 11

If I do so little thinking, why am I a rational mastermind? I'm confused!

Quote:

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Of the four aspects of strategic analysis and definition, it is the contingency planning or entailment organizing role that reaches the highest development in Masterminds. Entailing or contingency planning is not an informative activity, rather it is a directive one in which the planner tells others what to do and in what order to do it. As the organizing capabilities the Masterminds increase so does their inclination to take charge of whatever is going on.

It is in their abilities that Masterminds differ from the other Rationals, while in most of their attitudes they are just like the others. However there is one attitude that sets them apart from other Rationals: they tend to be much more self-confident than the rest, having, for obscure reasons, developed a very strong will. They are rather rare, comprising no more than, say, one percent of the population. Being very judicious, decisions come naturally to them; indeed, they can hardly rest until they have things settled, decided, and set. They are the people who are able to formulate coherent and comprehensive contingency plans, hence contingency organizers or "entailers."

Masterminds will adopt ideas only if they are useful, which is to say if they work efficiently toward accomplishing the Mastermind's well-defined goals. Natural leaders, Masterminds are not at all eager to take command of projects or groups, preferring to stay in the background until others demonstrate their inability to lead. Once in charge, however, Masterminds are the supreme pragmatists, seeing reality as a crucible for refining their strategies for goal-directed action. In a sense, Masterminds approach reality as they would a giant chess board, always seeking strategies that have a high payoff, and always devising contingency plans in case of error or adversity. To the Mastermind, organizational structure and operational procedures are never arbitrary, never set in concrete, but are quite malleable and can be changed, improved, streamlined. In their drive for efficient action, Masterminds are the most open-minded of all the types. No idea is too far-fetched to be entertained-if it is useful. Masterminds are natural brainstormers, always open to new concepts and, in fact, aggressively seeking them. They are also alert to the consequences of applying new ideas or positions. Theories which cannot be made to work are quickly discarded by the Masterminds. On the other hand, Masterminds can be quite ruthless in implementing effective ideas, seldom counting personal cost in terms of time and energy.

---

Mmm, sounds so robotic, pretty accurate though.

I'm a TKDer (WTF).

Your Type is
INFJ
Introverted Intuitive Feeling Judging
Strength of the preferences %
33 50 12 22

Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:
moderately expressed introvert
moderately expressed intuitive personality
slightly expressed feeling personality
slightly expressed judging personality

I study Dean Moo Kwan (TKD)

I think Cord copied my answers, I'm telling!!!

I just wish I knew what this all meant...off to follow the links...

INFJ

Chung do Kwan

If you guys want this to be REALLY precise, the key is to have your friends take the test about you.... Have 2-3 friends fill out this test with your personality in mind, and you'll be amazed at how close they'll come to each other... Even though it might not be as close to your own profile of yourself, it is usually a much more accurate assessment.

If y'all really liked this, go to www.similarminds.com; there are MUCH better personality assessment exams out there than Jung, most of which are present on this site .

Interestingly enough, I bet with a little observation of the members here we could predict which personality types often come into conflict. Anybody got a few dozen hours on their hands?

Your Type is
INTJ
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
11 62 12 67

You are:

* slightly expressed introvert
* distinctively expressed intuitive personality
* slightly expressed thinking personality
* distinctively expressed judging personality

I've done this test (not the exact same one) 3 times before and got this same result each time.

I`m a Champion Idealist (eNFp) ... always thought so

Your Type is
ENTP
Extroverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
11 75 38 33

You are:
slightly expressed extrovert

distinctively expressed intuitive personality

moderately expressed thinking personality

moderately expressed perceiving personality


I am a rational inventor, with a charming contempt for authority!

Moderators can kiss it!

I also do wing chun

Your Type is
ESFJ
Extroverted Sensing Feeling Judging
11 38 38 1

Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:
slightly expressed extrovert

moderately expressed sensing personality

moderately expressed feeling personality

slightly expressed judging personality

ah sorry forgot the what style bit,

I train in okinawan matsubayashi shorin ryu

The last time I took the MBTI (a few years ago) it was INTJ. How's that for consistency?

Introverted=56%
Intuitive=50%
Thinking=25%
Judging=33%

* moderately expressed introvert
* moderately expressed intuitive personality
* moderately expressed thinking personality
* moderately expressed judging personality

Hmmmmm.... should I be doing aikido?

Has anyone here read Lawrence Kane's book "Martial Arts Instruction - Applying Educational Theory and Communication Techniques in the Dojo"?

Chapter 2 of the book deals with using the MBTI to accommodate students predilections and preferred learning modalities.

Interesting stuff. Unfortunately I have no patience for this rubbish. World domination awaits..... BWAHHAAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!

I find it interesting that there are so many INTJs...considering that they are supposed to be about 1% of the general population. Anyone tally the results yet? I know, small sample...but kinda interesting.

Thanks for running with the idea Harlan. Alot of "I's" online. The "E's" are all talking on cell phones.

Last time I took this test (about 1.5 years ago) I came up an INTP, now I'm INFJ with this one. I wonder if I've changed or they just got me on a bad day. It could genuinely be that I have changed, in fact, I know that I have changed some, but I'm not really sure if either of the test was all that accurate (72 questions=accuracy?), maybe I'll pay up and take the long, boring test

Does anybody else feel conflicted on some of these yes/no answers? I don't know if I should answer with what I would like to be like, what I am feeling right now, how I usually feel. Heck, get me on two different days and you can probably get two completely different responses.

I don't know...

Agreed joel, also many of the questions cover the same subject, but word it differently. Usually these sort of things are geared towards an intuitive response, so thats what I went with. Probably contradicted myself on a couple of the variations, but hey ho, thems the breaks

I put no faith in these tests. Our company has a similar test filled out when hiring people. I've also done some from other companies. I have been able to change my response depending on how I needed it to be.

INFJ
Introverted Intuitive Feeling Judging
Strength of the preferences %
11 75 50 33

slightly expressed introvert
distinctively expressed intuitive personality
moderately expressed feeling personality
moderately expressed judging personality

Counselor idealist

It's for fun! Geez! Go kill a rock if you want to be serious!

Makes me wonder why there's so much sarcasm going around on here with all these rational masterminds. Maybe we're bored cuz we can't all take over the world.

INTP

very expressed introvert
distinctively expressed intuitive personality
distinctively expressed thinking personality
moderately expressed perceiving personality

I laughed out-loud when my wife told me that INTP also spells GEEK; She has a masters in psychology. It is a good thing that I like these tests, I see a lot of them.

Harlan mentioned the unexpected high numbers of INT*'S on the board. While researching computer security several years ago, I found this:

"In the 1970s, many hackers admired martial arts disciplines from a distance, sensing a compatible ideal in their exaltation of skill through rigorous self-discipline and concentration. As martial arts became increasingly mainstreamed in the U.S. and other western countries, hackers moved from admiring to doing in large numbers.Today (2000), martial arts seems to have become firmly established as the hacker exercise form of choice. The martial-arts culture combining skill-centered elitism with a willingness to let anybody join seems a stronger parallel to hacker behavior than ever."

Hacker in this context means "computer geek", not Cracker or Criminal Hacker. (paraphrased from the Jargon File)

Since martial arts is the geek sport of choice, we shouldn't be surprised to see many similar personality types attracted to it.

Yes, I'm a geek.

-CoO

Your Type is
ISTJ
Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
56 1 75 44


moderately expressed introvert

slightly expressed sensing personality

distinctively expressed thinking personality

moderately expressed judging personality


YAY me. I think.

I'm so glad to see another INTP. I thought I was going to be the only one.
I was worried that it might mean I'm a prime candidate to be a serial killer or something.

Speak for yourself, my plan is allready in place and coming close to fruition.

You will rue the day you abrogated my plans....well, go on, start ruing!!!!!!

eNFj

I study whatever I can at any given time.

I think I'm the monkey wrench in the whole equation.

Mine came back:
I
D
I
O
T
Couldn't find the profile on the list though. Funny thing, it's too long by one letter and one of them is a repeat. I'm confused. Any ideas?

* slightly expressed extrovert
* moderately expressed intuitive personality
* moderately expressed feeling personality
* slightly expressed judging personality

Extroverted 1
Intuitive 38
Feeling 38
Judging 22

I took the "test" a few times, to see if I would get the same results, and I also took the one that Christie posted. I got a mix of ENTP and ENTJ... though I think I lean towards the ENTP side. This fits me well:

"ENTPs tend to become extremely petulant about small setbacks and inconveniences. (Major setbacks they tend to regard as challenges, and tackle with determin- ation.) ENTPs have little patience with those they consider wrongheaded or unintelligent, and show little restraint in demonstrating this. However, they do tend to be extremely genial, if not charming, when not being harassed by life in general."

My fiancee says I have no patience for the stupid, and I'm VERY blunt and to the point about it.
This was fun stuff, and I learned that I am perhaps, a bit of an a$$hole and actually enjoy arguing.

I've studied shotokan karate for over 23 years (since I was 5 years old) and picked up several things along the way like aikijustu and tjimande/silat. I've been very dedicated in training in jujitsu/grappling for the past 3 years now, but still consider myself a shotokan stylist.

Your type is INTP.

Strength of the preferences %
78
12
1
78

Qualitative analysis of your type formula
You are:

very expressed introvert
slightly expressed intuitive personality
slightly expressed thinking personality
very expressed perceiving personality

so, what does all this mean?

Come and sit on my couch and talk to me about your father and pets

interesting. another aspect of MA attractive to the loner geek is that (for the most part) it is non-team oriented.
I remember in H.S. having a throwing arm from outfield to home plate with no bounce, yet not wanting to be on the team or involved with the social political drama...not to mention dealing with the macho jock BS.
I managed getting dates by growing facial hair and hanging out part-time with the aspiring musicians (not HS Band) posing as a hack drummer. I'm still not sure how I'm suppossed to take being voted 'person most likely to make you laugh' AKA 'class clown' informally: "Smart-Ass". I know, I know...your saying 'what!!? you?!? that doesn't make sense kintama!'
I ramble, but have a point. It seems that introverts are more likely able to laugh at themselves...I think we need a sense of humor about ourselves in MA especially when we first start and move like we are host aliens testing our new bipedal body...and then we are told to look in the huge mirrors apparently to look past how ridiculous we are and concentrate on technique. many people starting MA don't make it over that hump.
Thats one more theory as to why there are many i-verts in MA.

Introversion:
1. the act of directing one's attention toward or getting gratification from one's own interests, thoughts, and feelings
2. the state or tendency toward being wholly or predominantly concerned with and interested in one's own mental life

There is absolutely nothing wrong with being totally Self-absorbed (especially if it involves plans for World Domination!). We introverts draw strength from our inner-Self - unlike our Extroverted brethren (I'm married to one) who insist on sucking the energy out of everyone else to make themselves feel good.

Quote:

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unlike our Extroverted brethren (I'm married to one) who insist on sucking the energy out of everyone else to make themselves feel good.

---

Bloody vampires they are those people!!

Besides, according to your definition of introvert extrover. Introverts make better martial artists, and extroverts better UFC fighters!

*MAGr ducks to avoid flying flame balls!*

So when someone asks about energy vampires in the Energy Arts forum, we'll all know they're really talking about Extroverts....

*dodges flame ball for MAGr to catch*
(hot potato, hot potato)

Extroverted: 11
Intuitive: 25
Thinking: 1
Judging: 56

The rest I missed when I clicked off the page.....
Kills time, so that's good.

INTJ

Introverted: 44
Intuitive: 88
Thinking: 25
Judging: 44

-moderately expressed introvert
-very expressed intuitive personality
-moderately expressed thinking personality
-moderately expressed judging personality

I'm a mastermind >=]
1% of pop!

Thinker, laid back.

My result was:

Your Type is
INFJ
Introverted 67
Intuitive 50
Feeling 62
Judging 1

You are:
distinctively expressed introvert
moderately expressed intuitive personality
distinctively expressed feeling personality
slightly expressed judging personality

And I practice aikido.

Join the club, it's getting kinda crowded in here...Cord, oldman, me, now you.

Your Type is
ENTJ
Extroverted: 1
Intuitive: 75
Thinking: 88
Judging: 22

I guess I think a lot. In fact, I am thinking right now. I guess that means that "I am" in the eyes of Socrates (it was him right?).

ESTP

Will this make me the antiJoel?

what would you think about 1kg prozac and a cute white vest?

Bump for the new folks!

Type A and lovin' every minute of it! At least I would if I wasn't trying to keep my life in order all of the time.

Honestly, as long as 9 of the 10 voices tell me not to shoot, we're all good.

You are:
distinctively expressed introvert

moderately expressed intuitive personality

slightly expressed feeling personality

slightly expressed perceiving personality



Your Type is
INFP
Introverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
67 50 12 11

I WAS INFP before, then I was Enfp. Now it appears I am INFJ.

Tomorrow I will be ESTJ....


-John

Your Type is
INTP
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
56 38 12 11

Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:
moderately expressed introvert

moderately expressed intuitive personality

slightly expressed thinking personality

slightly expressed perceiving personality



I took one of these before and ended up with the same results. It always takes me forever to finish one of these tests... I guess thats part of the INTP profile.

I study Matsubayashi-ryu.

-Jeff

Can anyone translate this one in plain english for me? Me no speak good english, me be foreigner. Me English sucks.

Your Type is
ESTJ

Extroverted Sensing Thinking Judging
44 25 1 22

You are:
moderately expressed extrovert
moderately expressed sensing personality
slightly expressed thinking personality
slightly expressed judging personality


Is it saying I don't think?!?!

What an insult. Why not just say "you're stupid".

-Taison out

ISTJ

56- 1- 62- 78

You are:
moderately expressed introvert
slightly expressed sensing personality
distinctively expressed thinking personality
very expressed judging personality

MA background in profile.

I am between INFP, ENFJ and INFJ. I'm a combination.
I'm almost all Feeler and intuitive almsot to a fault. But I'm balanced in the other areas.

Your Type is
INFP

Introverted-Intuitive-Feeling-Perceiving

......56..........38.........25.........44.....


Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:
moderately expressed introvert

moderately expressed intuitive personality

moderately expressed feeling personality

moderately expressed perceiving personality


INFP type description by D.Keirsey
The Portrait of the Healer Idealist (INFP)

Healer Idealists are abstract in thought and speech, cooperative in striving for their ends, and informative and introverted in their interpersonal relations. Healer present a seemingly tranquil, and noticiably pleasant face to the world, and though to all appearances they might seem reserved, and even shy, on the inside they are anything but reserved, having a capacity for caring not always found in other types. They care deeply-indeed, passionately-about a few special persons or a favorite cause, and their fervent aim is to bring peace and integrity to their loved ones and the world.

Healers have a profound sense of idealism derived from a strong personal morality, and they conceive of the world as an ethical, honorable place. Indeed, to understand Healers, we must understand their idealism as almost boundless and selfless, inspiring them to make extraordinary sacrifices for someone or something they believe in. The Healer is the Prince or Princess of fairytale, the King's Champion or Defender of the Faith, like Sir Galahad or Joan of Arc. Healers are found in only 1 percent of the general population, although, at times, their idealism leaves them feeling even more isolated from the rest of humanity.

Healers seek unity in their lives, unity of body and mind, emotions and intellect, perhaps because they are likely to have a sense of inner division threaded through their lives, which comes from their often unhappy childhood. Healers live a fantasy-filled childhood, which, unfortunately, is discouraged or even punished by many parents. In a practical-minded family, required by their parents to be sociable and industrious in concrete ways, and also given down-to-earth siblings who conform to these parental expectations, Healers come to see themselves as ugly ducklings. Other types usually shrug off parental expectations that do not fit them, but not the Healers. Wishing to please their parents and siblings, but not knowing quite how to do it, they try to hide their differences, believing they are bad to be so fanciful, so unlike their more solid brothers and sisters. They wonder, some of them for the rest of their lives, whether they are OK. They are quite OK, just different from the rest of their family-swans reared in a family of ducks. Even so, to realize and really believe this is not easy for them. Deeply committed to the positive and the good, yet taught to believe there is evil in them, Healers can come to develop a certain fascination with the problem of good and evil, sacred and profane. Healers are drawn toward purity, but can become engrossed with the profane, continuously on the lookout for the wickedness that lurks within them. Then, when Healers believe thay have yielded to an impure temptation, they may be given to acts of self-sacrifice in atonement. Others seldom detect this inner turmoil, however, for the struggle between good and evil is within the Healer, who does not feel compelled to make the issue public.


Introverted intuitive Feeling Perceiving
by Joe Butt
Profile: INFP
Revision: 3.0
Date of Revision: 26 Feb 2005


"I remember the first albatross I ever saw..... At intervals, it arched forth its vast archangel wings, as if to embrace some holy ark. Wondrous flutterings and throbbings shook it. Though bodily unharmed, it uttered cries, as some king's ghost in super natural distress. Through its inexpressible, strange eyes, methought I peeped to secrets not below the heavens. As Abraham before the angels, I bowed myself..." --(Herman Melville, Moby Dik)
INFPs never seem to lose their sense of wonder. One might say they see life through rose-colored glasses. It's as though they live at the edge of a looking-glass world where mundane objects come to life, where flora and fauna take on near-human qualities.

INFP children often exhibit this in a 'Calvin and Hobbes' fashion, switching from reality to fantasy and back again. With few exceptions, it is the NF child who readily develops imaginary playmates (as with Anne of Green Gables's "bookcase girlfriend"--her own reflection) and whose stuffed animals come to life like the Velveteen Rabbit and the Skin Horse:

"...Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand..." (the Skin Horse)
INFPs have the ability to see good in almost anyone or anything. Even for the most unlovable the INFP is wont to have pity.

Rest you, my enemy,
Slain without fault,
Life smacks but tastelessly
Lacking your salt!
Stuck in a bog whence naught
May catapult me,
Come from the grave, long-sought,
Come and insult me!
--(Steven Vincent Benet, Elegy for an Enemy)
Their extreme depth of feeling is often hidden, even from themselves, until circumstances evoke an impassioned response:

"I say, Queequeg! Why don't you speak? It's I--Ishmael." But all remained still as before. ... Something must have happened. Apoplexy!
... And running up after me, she caught me as I was again trying to force open the door. ... "Have to burst it open," said I, and was running down the entry a little, for a good start, when the landlady caught me, again vowing I should not break down her premises; but I tore from her, and with a sudden bodily rush dashed myself full against the mark. --(Melville, Moby Dik)
Of course, not all of life is rosy, and INFPs are not exempt from the same disappointments and frustrations common to humanity. As INTPs tend to have a sense of failed competence, INFPs struggle with the issue of their own ethical perfection, e.g., perfo rmance of duty for the greater cause. An INFP friend describes the inner conflict as not good versus bad, but on a grand scale, Good vs. Evil. Luke Skywalker in Star Wars depicts this conflict in his struggle between the two sides of "The Force." Although the dark side must be reckoned with, the INFP believes that good ultimately triumphs.

Some INFPs have a gift for taking technical information and putting it into layman's terms. Brendan Kehoe's Zen and the Art of the Internet is one example of this "de-jargoning" talent in action.

Functional Analysis:

Introverted Feeling
INFPs live primarily in a rich inner world of introverted Feeling. Being inward-turning, the natural attraction is away from world and toward essence and ideal. This introversion of dominant Feeling, receiving its data from extraverted intuition, must be the source of the quixotic nature of these usually gentle beings. Feeling is caught in the approach- avoidance bind between concern both for people and for All Creatures Great and Small, and a psycho-magnetic repulsion from the same. The "object," be it homo sapiens or a mere representation of an organism, is valued only to the degree that the object contains some measure of the inner Essence or greater Good. Doing a good deed, for example, may provide intrinsic satisfaction which is only secondary to the greater good of striking a blow against Man's Inhumanity to Mankind.

Extraverted iNtuition
Extraverted intuition faces outward, greeting the world on behalf of Feeling. What the observer usually sees is creativity with implied good will. Intuition spawns this type's philosophical bent and strengthens pattern perception. It combines as auxiliary with introverted Feeling and gives rise to unusual skill in both character development and fluency with language--a sound basis for the development of literary facility. If INTPs aspire to word mechanics, INFPs would be verbal artists.

Introverted Sensing
Sensing is introverted and often invisible. This stealth function in the third position gives INFPs a natural inclination toward absent- mindedness and other-worldliness, however, Feeling's strong people awareness provides a balancing, mitigating effect. This introverted Sensing is somewhat categorical, a subdued version of SJ sensing. In the third position, however, it is easily overridden by the stronger functions.

extraverted Thinking
The INFP may turn to inferior extraverted Thinking for help in focusing on externals and for closure. INFPs can even masquerade in their ESTJ business suit, but not without expending considerable energy. The inferior, problematic nature of Extraverted Thinking is its lack of context and proportion. Single impersonal facts may loom large or attain higher priority than more salient principles which are all but overlooked.

Famous INFPs:
Homer
Virgil
Mary, mother of Jesus
St. John, the beloved disciple
St. Luke; physician, disciple, author
William Shakespeare, bard of Avon
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Evangeline)
A. A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie)
Helen Keller, deaf and blind author
Carl Rogers, reflective psychologist, counselor
Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood)
[censored] Clark (American Bandstand)
Donna Reed, actor (It's a Wonderful Life)
Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis
Neil Diamond, vocalist
Tom Brokaw, news anchor
James Herriot (All Creatures Great and Small)
Annie Dillard (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)
James Taylor, vocalist
Julia Roberts, actor (Conspiracy Theory, Pretty Woman)
Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap)
Terri Gross (PBS's "Fresh Air")
Amy Tan (author of The Joy-Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife)
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Lisa Kudrow ("Phoebe" of Friends)
Fred Savage ("The Wonder Years")

I'd say that's fairly accurate aside from from few things...

dcm

how about this: find an online picture that captures your personality.

here's mine:
http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/pomegranate_1924_127904324

# very expressed introvert
# distinctively expressed intuitive personality
# moderately expressed thinking personality
# slightly expressed judging personality

INTJ

Says I'm a master mind

Your Type is
ENTJ
Extroverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
44 38 25 11

ENTJ type description by D.Keirsey
ENTJ type description by J. Butt


Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:

* moderately expressed extrovert
* moderately expressed intuitive personality
* moderately expressed thinking personality
* slightly expressed judging personality

I have no idea what all that means, but it probably means im really cool.

Oh of course Crabby! You know it!

Ok I finally took the test. My results......
ENFJ
Extroverted 11
Intuitive 12
Feeling 25
Judging 78

You are
Slightly expressed extrovert
Slightly expressed intuitive personality
Moderately expressed feeling personality
Very expressed judging personality

My MA style is TKD and I've dabbled in a few other arts through the years.

Casey

God I hate being all feeler. Damn genetics!!!

I took the full test (B-M personality analysis test) in grad school several years ago as part of a class project and really nothing has changed. I'm still a INTJ (89% Judging); I don't remember what the percentages were back then, but I remember that I was heavily a judging person, the most in the entire class.

I will sit back and judge everyone now.

You are:
very expressed introvert

slightly expressed intuitive personality

moderately expressed feeling personality

slightly expressed judging personality

I just found this thread. Some pretty funny personality's up there ..

I'm pretty sure I've taken this test a few times before various places but apparently scoring an ENTJ ( 1(!!!!?)% extroverted, 62% intuitive, 25% thinking and 44% judging) I appear to've contracted Autism .. where I can't look at something without seeing what's wrong with it or how to improve it ...but with only 1% desire of actually tellling anyone what the fault is ( gotto love an evil side )..
really. totally involuntary would you believe?? ..
hahahahahhmmm:/.

Hey at least if youre all taking over the world.. guess who you're hiring to hold onto it . I could do pretty well playing both sides . lol. hey . awesome way to keep myself busy! ( ooh the irony)


kidding. I think I'd just rather find someone to train kungfu with;) . ..

Blooming Tianshi Lotus.

I'm lazy, fat ugly and old
,I'm grouchy , mean old man

Your Type is
INFP
Introverted: 22%
Intuitive: 25%
Feeling: 62%
Perceiving: 78%

Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:
slightly expressed introvert
moderately expressed intuitive personality
distinctively expressed feeling personality
very expressed perceiving personality

Martial Arts style: B o x i n g

Hello
I just want to say that I love doing these tests.
I'm INTJ - Mastermind Rational
Introverted 33%
Intuitive 75%
Thinking 1%
Judging 11%
You are:
· moderately expressed introvert
· distinctively expressed intuitive personality
· slightly expressed thinking personality
· slightly expressed judging personality

The styles the I pratices are Goju Ryu and Tai Chi Chun

Meh, i didn't take the test, but i guess you could say i'm quiet but not shy. I listen to different music to everyone where i live..and in a humerous way, i can be crazy without thinking about what funny thing i will do next.

My results...

Extraverted 67
Intuitive 88
Feeling 38
Judging 44

I'm not sure if these scores are good, but then again it is personality, not the SATs.

slightly expressed extravert

distinctively expressed intuitive personality

slightly expressed feeling personality

slightly expressed judging personality

The percentages are:
Extraverted 22
Intuitive 75
Feeling 12
Judging 22

Whatever that means... (not sure if the test worked all right)

So, that we are two "teacher type" in this forum makes me doubt about this statistic...

Ah!, I forgot: MA- TKD

I was 40-65 on all four. Guess I'm your run of the mill, average guy (Ha! ha ha!) Go figure.

ENFP
Extraverted 78
Intuitive 12
Feeling 12
Perceiving 22

My career choice is correct too ;-) fitness and nutrition 4th on the careers list!

slightly expressed extravert

moderately expressed intuitive personality

distinctively expressed feeling personality

moderately expressed perceiving personality


i am currently focusing on iaido

Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging
by Marina Margaret Heiss
Profile: INTJ
Revision: 3.0
Date of Revision: 27 Feb 2005


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To outsiders, INTJs may appear to project an aura of "definiteness", of self-confidence. This self-confidence, sometimes mistaken for simple arrogance by the less decisive, is actually of a very specific rather than a general nature; its source lies in the specialized knowledge systems that most INTJs start building at an early age. When it comes to their own areas of expertise -- and INTJs can have several -- they will be able to tell you almost immediately whether or not they can help you, and if so, how. INTJs know what they know, and perhaps still more importantly, they know what they don't know.

INTJs are perfectionists, with a seemingly endless capacity for improving upon anything that takes their interest. What prevents them from becoming chronically bogged down in this pursuit of perfection is the pragmatism so characteristic of the type: INTJs apply (often ruthlessly) the criterion "Does it work?" to everything from their own research efforts to the prevailing social norms. This in turn produces an unusual independence of mind, freeing the INTJ from the constraints of authority, convention, or sentiment for its own sake.

INTJs are known as the "Systems Builders" of the types, perhaps in part because they possess the unusual trait combination of imagination and reliability. Whatever system an INTJ happens to be working on is for them the equivalent of a moral cause to an INFJ; both perfectionism and disregard for authority may come into play, as INTJs can be unsparing of both themselves and the others on the project. Anyone considered to be "slacking," including superiors, will lose their respect -- and will generally be made aware of this; INTJs have also been known to take it upon themselves to implement critical decisions without consulting their supervisors or co-workers. On the other hand, they do tend to be scrupulous and even-handed about recognizing the individual contributions that have gone into a project, and have a gift for seizing opportunities which others might not even notice.

In the broadest terms, what INTJs "do" tends to be what they "know". Typical INTJ career choices are in the sciences and engineering, but they can be found wherever a combination of intellect and incisiveness are required (e.g., law, some areas of academia). INTJs can rise to management positions when they are willing to invest time in marketing their abilities as well as enhancing them, and (whether for the sake of ambition or the desire for privacy) many also find it useful to learn to simulate some degree of surface conformism in order to mask their inherent unconventionality.

Personal relationships, particularly romantic ones, can be the INTJ's Achilles heel. While they are capable of caring deeply for others (usually a select few), and are willing to spend a great deal of time and effort on a relationship, the knowledge and self-confidence that make them so successful in other areas can suddenly abandon or mislead them in interpersonal situations.

This happens in part because many INTJs do not readily grasp the social rituals; for instance, they tend to have little patience and less understanding of such things as small talk and flirtation (which most types consider half the fun of a relationship). To complicate matters, INTJs are usually extremely private people, and can often be naturally impassive as well, which makes them easy to misread and misunderstand. Perhaps the most fundamental problem, however, is that INTJs really want people to make sense. :-) This sometimes results in a peculiar naivete', paralleling that of many Fs -- only instead of expecting inexhaustible affection and empathy from a romantic relationship, the INTJ will expect inexhaustible reasonability and directness.

Probably the strongest INTJ assets in the interpersonal area are their intuitive abilities and their willingness to "work at" a relationship. Although as Ts they do not always have the kind of natural empathy that many Fs do, the Intuitive function can often act as a good substitute by synthesizing the probable meanings behind such things as tone of voice, turn of phrase, and facial expression. This ability can then be honed and directed by consistent, repeated efforts to understand and support those they care about, and those relationships which ultimately do become established with an INTJ tend to be characterized by their robustness, stability, and good communications.

INTJ

33, 24, 50, 11

I can't say I'm really surprised at the results. I did a similar test that the results page links too and got the same result on that test. I'm not surprised at the general forum results either. Forums as a whole = geeks, but make it a martial arts forum too? One thing I will say, I was made to take this test as part of a college class. The teacher asked our results, and only 3 people in the class of around 100 got the reasoning type, so the statistics may actually be true.

Took the test, I'm an ENTJ, scoring 1,12,38,56. I apparently possess FieldMarshal Rational Cool eh!!

uuuh i cba to take yet another test.

but basicly im i have no personally disorder, im trusting, not emotional atall and i have a extremly narcastic personality (not a disorder )

Took the Test

A little bit depressing.....

I think there is a bug with the page.
All I saw were the letters:

BASTD. UTTER BASTD.

Extraverted 56%
Intuitive 12%
Feeling 62%
Judging 67%

Apparently I'm:
moderately expressed extravert
slightly expressed intuitive personality
distinctively expressed feeling personality
distinctively expressed judging personality

I did Muay Thai and Capoeira. So what does that all mean?

Apparently, I'm in the right field of work though. The suitable jobs include; Counseling, Psychology, Social work and education. I'm gonna be a social worker!

I'm INTJ

Strength of the preferences %
56 25 12 1

I did these tests when I worked at Olin corporation in Tennessee, and ended up with several differing results. I think they might have "mood swings" because you answer the same questions differently on different days. We took them months apart, so you wouldn't necessarily remember how you answered the question the last time you took it.

My results were ENTJ the first time, INTJ the second time, and ENFP the third... pick one. "Type talk" was an interesting book, but trying to run the world with it makes you crazy. People try to approach you (or situations with you) based on what they think your "type" will do, and if life has taught me one thing, it's that people are inconsistent... Personally, I think there's some degree of everything "type-like" in everybody. Maybe the "concentrations" change with the phases of the moon...

No sense in me even taking the test if there isn't a "generally abrasive" category.

Your Type is
ENTP
Extraverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
22 38 12 56


You are:
slightly expressed extravert

moderately expressed intuitive personality

slightly expressed thinking personality

moderately expressed perceiving personality

Mastermind (INTJ)

Well, it seems my plans for world domination might pull through after all.

I'm born year of the tiger, month of the snake, hour of the dragon.

I'm very grumpy, and I have a very fiery personality type.
I'm extremely emotional and possessive. Discipline is all I require from everyone around me, and I'm not hesitant to give 'discipline' to reinforce my policy.

Anything else?

~Donnie

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delete please

That's an interesting test, I wonder how accurate it is?

ESFP, Kind of scares me though.

Hi,

no shocker here ...

Introvert Intuitive Feeling...career suggestions, one was philosophy...that is my B.A., Psychology...my minor at grad from Univ of Florida 23ish years ago.

Given the other info matches what others say of me I would say, given honest responses this short test is fairly on target.

MA studied-Primarily Hard styles (Shotokan, MT, Boxing) but LOVED Aikido and Qi Gong as well as some Ba Gua.

Thanks, cool site as I am seeking new career, this my guide me.

Karl. Peace.

Knowledge is the key to life.

Actually, that would be wisdom, Knowledge is the hammer, wisdom is the carpenter.

moderately expressed thinking personality
search engine consultant - seo consultant - web designer

Three years and four months later:
INTJ
Introverted 44
Intuitive 6
Thinking 50
Judging 89

I went from an ENFJ to INTJ. From the extrovert to the introvert (gone from my dad's personality to my mom's), feeling to thinking (from my mom to my dad). Wonder what's changed in my life to cause the change? Age? Life busier so my "me time" is more precious? HMMM interesting, I honestly wasn't expecting much of a change.

Casey

I'd say i got a very sunny personality. I am very outgoing .

Took the test and the result wasn't surprising. Guess I knew myself more than I think.

My personality type-
1)Think/reflect first, then Act


2)Regularly require an amount of "private time" to recharge batteries


3) Motivated internally, mind is sometimes so active it is "closed" to outside world


4) Prefer one-to-one communication and relationships

Not exactly the purpose of the exercise, but ok.

Mine is:

My Type is ISTP (Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, Perceiving)
Strength of the preferences % (22, 12, 38, 11)

Qualitative analysis of my type formula. I am:

* slightly expressed introvert
* slightly expressed sensing personality
* moderately expressed thinking personality
* slightly expressed perceiving personality

Nice test. I love it Thanks for sharing...

[censored] I accidently closed it but I was ENJF, a teacher.

I was
1%
12%
12%
1%
Which seems really low compared to anyone elses. Really interesting to do as I've changed a lot lately and would have given completely different answers a while ago. Some I was pleased to say I a YES and not NO like I used to be and vice versa Good find!

asa

I'm happy to be here