![]() ![]() Yeah, so go back to “2 + 2 = 5” Land and listen to your “heart” tell you where to invest your savings. Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah are two prominent Irrationals by their own admission-although they would call it “going with their heart” and accuse me of not having one. Perhaps it would help if I tell you my definition of the alternative to “Rationals,” which I guess would be called “Irrationals.” They are airhead, ignoramus, infantile, annoyances who think emotions are a 100% substitute for facts and logic and that good intentions are a 100% substitute for results. Well, that’s straight out of my debate tactics list and in a constant theme in my various Facebook debates. They seek a logical argument as a basis for action. They rely on objective observations and factual analysis in any given situation. Having that title was not significant but it is an accurate description of what I do in my books on football and baseball coaching. Also, I was in various coordinator jobs in football coaching. Okay, I studied a lot of engineering at West Point and I thought it was great stuff, the best part of the West Point education. ![]() “Rationals” are engineer or coordinator types. Keirsey referred to INTJs as Masterminds, one of the four types belonging to the temperament he called the Rationals. The Keirsey Temperament Sorter, developed by David Keirsey. It is thoroughly described in my book Succeeding. The classic example of that in my life is the Dating System I and a college roommate of mine invented. (What does “early” mean? I make them when they need to be made and sometimes that means early.) They derive a sense of control through predictability, which to perceptive types may seem limiting. ![]() J – Judgment preferred to perception: INTJs tend to plan their activities (I have a detailed binder for each trip we take.) and make decisions early. (More weight!? Screw social considerations! Those are for plays-well-with-others, go-along-to-get-along suck-ups with no character! Is that “T” enough for you?) ) When making decisions they generally give more weight to logic than to social considerations. See my list of honest and dishonest debate tactics. T – Thinking preferred to feeling: INTJs tend to value objective criteria above personal preference or sentiment. (Again, both seem worthy of thought to me.) They focus their attention on the big picture rather than the details (I do both) and on future possibilities rather than immediate realities. I think of abstract and concrete as two languages, both of which I speak fluently. N – Intuition preferred to sensing: Huh? INTJs tend to be more abstract than concrete. They generally prefer interacting with a few close friends rather than a wide circle of acquaintances, (I tend to talk to only a few people at cocktail parties rather than circulate.) and they expend energy in social situations (whereas extroverts gain energy). I was voted “most quiet boy” in my high school class of 388. ![]() I – Introversion preferred to extroversion: INTJs tend to be quiet and reserved. I did not meet all the others, but with all the moving around we all did, it is like a small town and no one ever said, “You’re like so and so whom I was stationed with in 1968.” Rather, the comment I got from the 30-year general was, “Everyone else can’t be out of step, Lieutenant Reed.” I told him they can be and they were. I seemed to be almost the only one of my type in the 2-million man U.S. Well, I can certainly believe whatever type I am is rare. It says this is one of the rarest of the 16 MB personality types-only 1 to 3% of females and 2 to 6% of males. Here is a synopsis of INTJ from Wikipedia with my comments in red: Trying to win the game with another hand that you were not dealt is suicidal per se. Young people mistakenly think, or hope, that they are good at everything.Įveryone has strengths and weaknesses. I am not endorsing the Myers-Briggs test per se, but rather the more general principle of know thyself. I write about it here not because you should have any interest in INTJ’s or me, but to illustrate the basic point that you are one of these sixteen personality types and knowing which one you are is key to figuring out what situations you should put yourself in during your life and which you should avoid. Plus, I am now 67 so I sort of know the answers to what these tests are trying to predict because of having lived a long life. I took most of that stuff and it sounds familiar. That is one of sixteen personality types identified by the Myers-Briggs personality test. A reader who read my article “The ‘your four best friends from high school’ market segment” and a lot of my other web articles says I am an INTJ personality type. ![]()
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