Myers-Briggs personality types -- and quiz

[Shadow Dweller]

The INTP side, yeah.

[J.P.]

More on the P side according to this, but somewhere else I saw Ps are people having a plan.

Me and a plan?  Although people tend to see me this way. Organized and on a mission.

 

The outbursts of emotions - just experienced it yesterday. It's like something attacked you from inside. And the thick, thick walls. Maybe the feeling of a dark hidden Padded Cell is a result of the inability to handle emotions. I think I might be on something here...

[Van Buren Supernova]

Normally someone who seems patient, hardly show anger, tends to be explosive once it snaps. Always thought because all those 'patience' is actually holding in emotions.

 

Witness couple of friends/acquantainces like this.

[sittything]

Normally someone who seems patient, hardly show anger, tends to be explosive once it snaps. Always thought because all those 'patience' is actually holding in emotions.

 

Witness couple of friends/acquantainces like this.

 

OMG, yes.  I'm such a bottler of emotions.  I can keep it all under wraps and maintain a pleasant facade until I just run out of capacity.  And then I crack and crack big time.

[J.P.]

Oh, God, yes.

But there were exceptions, and then there is no delay. God have mercy if someone gets into my territory without permission. Once I was charging like a raging bull towards some poor kids who happened to trow a ball into my mom's garden and tried to retrieve it. Luckily, they were able to explain before I got them. And once I gave hell to a stupid woman who verbally attacked my mother. Which is freaking scary, because in my normal state I'm such a chicken that it makes me sick.

[Shadow Dweller]

Between natural inclination to bottle up emotions and a social strategy, could you pick the difference in other people?

[SherlockedCAMPer]

More on the P side according to this, but somewhere else I saw Ps are people having a plan.

Me and a plan?  Although people tend to see me this way. Organized and on a mission.

 

The outbursts of emotions - just experienced it yesterday. It's like something attacked you from inside. And the thick, thick walls. Maybe the feeling of a dark hidden Padded Cell is a result of the inability to handle emotions. I think I might be on something here...

 

I'm the type of person who plans and then doesn't follow it.  I'm a total abstract random with strong bouts of concrete analytical.

 

Normally someone who seems patient, hardly show anger, tends to be explosive once it snaps. Always thought because all those 'patience' is actually holding in emotions.

 

Witness couple of friends/acquantainces like this.

 

 

 

Normally someone who seems patient, hardly show anger, tends to be explosive once it snaps. Always thought because all those 'patience' is actually holding in emotions.

 

Witness couple of friends/acquantainces like this.

 

OMG, yes.  I'm such a bottler of emotions.  I can keep it all under wraps and maintain a pleasant facade until I just run out of capacity.  And then I crack and crack big time.

 

 

As for emotions, I totally bottle them and when I explode, be out of my way (many times I have been by myself when I have exploded...Sorry Blackie for being around to hear my rants).  That is the 1 time you are likely to hear me swear out loud with several expletives.

[Shadow Dweller]

socionicsdemystified.com/2007/09/13/courtship-a-special-problem-for-the-analyst-intj/

 

Read the comment section, it would give you lots of giggles :D I agree with most female commenter there though, number six is wrong. Trying to talk about emotions and feelings early is more likely to get him an 'unsuitable and likely only bring troubles later' label. :p

[jesskayding]

 

I'm an INTP too!

Welcome to my world....

 

Umm, I suspect I had it first!  :P

 

Just noticed that we are all introverts here... that's interesting! 

 

Nope, Jess says she's an ENFP.

 

 

I just took the test again per I feel that I've been kind of closed off to the world lately... Still an ENFP... I guess even though I've been a bit depressed, that is part of my personality when I get overwhelmed with life. Which has been unexpectedly hard lately... Which apparently is due to my free spirit way of life that seems to only represent 7% of the total population? How can anyone or group or organization possibly know that???

[Shadow Dweller]

So you are the sole extrovert among those who bothered to take the test. How is it feel to be surrounded by introverts? Mind you, not all of us are Molly Hooper's long lost twins. ;)

[SherlockedCAMPer]

johnspec is also an E (I forget the rest of his letters).  So we have 2 semi-active extroverts on here and the rest of us are I's to varying degrees.

[Shadow Dweller]

annhoy.com/tag/sensory-overload/

Ten myths about introverts, number two is most often believed even by introverts themselves.

Edited October 20, 2015 by Carol the Dabbler
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[Van Buren Supernova]

Ten myths about introverts

Fixed the link for you..

There are a lot of myths there that I believe myself. XD So it's an eye opening.

 

The one I disagree is the explanation of number 9 though. I am quite a thrill seeker and andrenalin junkie to some extent, but the activities that I choose are introvertish, away from noise, sounds, crowd, and people.

[Shadow Dweller]

-,- Sorry about that, no option to create a linked text in mobile and most of the time I am too in hurry to dash to the next thing.

 

 

Ha! Switch Sherlock with Mycroft then it would be more believable. :p Mrs. Hudson is a spot on though *instantly wary* No wonder I get a wrongwrongwrong vibe around her character despite the outward niceness...

[Van Buren Supernova]

No prob at all, just happen to remember the code. XD

 

Oh you think Sherlock is INTP and Mycroft is INTJ?

Hmm.. I thought Sherl and Mike's XD are quite fitting up there. A bit skeptical that Moriarty is E thought, suspect they just try to fit in every big character into different segment.

[Shadow Dweller]

There's an interesting argument by a fan. Wait a sec.

sherlockcharacteranalysis.tumblr.com/post/30450091304/sherlock-is-not-an-intj

Here, a more delicious thread where people who talk about functions are trying to convince each other about which type is Sherlock's and which one is Mycroft's ^_______^

www.typologycentral.com/forums/popular-culture-and-type/61582-sherlock-holmes-watsons-mbti-types.html

To me, the glaring evidence is Sherlock's obsession with puzzles. It means deconstructing something, not taking a bunch of data then trying to rearrange them into a framework that is make sense to him. He is much more concerned with the minutiae than the big picture, he failed to see how Moriarty had primed him since from the beginning even after given the obvious clue by Jeff the taxi driver. He's too lost in the magic of the puzzle to notice the obvious pattern. Which one of INTPs here who can truthfully said that you noticed the stages of preparation, the subtle ways Moriarty prepared Sherlock for the final showdown? I don't see a proof of it in the threads here.

INTJs are directive, their aim is to create something out of nothing. INTPs tends to be informative, they are the lantern-bringer that enlighten other people about what is there, means things that already exist but shrouded by the dark before. Now, which scenario is closer with what a freelance Detective does and which one is more like what is necessary, living and breathing it in order to function as 'The British Government'?

Edited October 13, 2015 by Arcadia
fixed links

[Van Buren Supernova]

I notice the first link was written before season 3.

 

Actually I have a lot of ideas defending Sherlock as INTJ, but quite a late comer, it might had been done to death already earlier in the thread? Heh heh..

 

(It's an excuse, I probably need hours to type those, which I don't have now)

 

Anyway, it seems like there is nobody else here. Can I anyhow say anything about any member and no one would catch us??? Yes? Yipeeee....Nyah nyah nyah!!!

[T.o.b.y]

annhoy.com/tag/sensory-overload/

 

Ten myths about introverts, number two is most often believed even by introverts themselves.

Love this. I didn't expect much, but it's totally true, in my case at least. Finally someone who understands... :-)

[Shadow Dweller]

Do it, VBS. At least we know that CAMPer & the whole host of Moderators are paying attention here. Sherlock would love to gather data about the outcome. ;)

[Van Buren Supernova]

Oh if they pay attention I'd play sweet heh heh heh..

 

Anyway sorry it takes me very long, and I still haven't write my own analysis.

But found This.

It's coincidence (I was just trying to read INTJ/INTP difference) that Sherlock is INTJ there.

 

Some of the points that I think suit Sherlock about INTJ:

- Tendency to soliloquy

- Do/execute their plans instead of talking about them

- Don't really recognize other's emotion/have less emphaty than INTP

- Know details of their surrouding (If something moves, wrong, missing)

- Believe his life has specific purpose

 

Needless to say, some INTP traits fit him as well, could he be 58% INTJ and 38% INTP and 4% East Wind.

[Shadow Dweller]

Is that how Sherlock is supposedly similar with how you function every day?

[Van Buren Supernova]

Is that how Sherlock is supposedly similar with how you function every day?

- Talk to myself sometimes, but not a lot XD

- This one is yes, for example I submit my resignation letter at work just like that, that is when my colleagues found out. Most of the rest would talk about quitting every single day. Some still stay in the company until now four years later.

- I actually recognize other's emotion, but the other point very true, I still don't have enough empathy.

- Sometimes I notice a lot of details, other times I don't even remember where I am and what I am doing. XD I don't know why.

Similar with sometimes I arrange my stuffs in OCD way, perpendicular, 90 degree, something like that, the other time I could have a shipwreck-lookalike workplace/room.

- Specific purpose? Not sure, I tend to live for today. Normally don't even know where I would be next week. This method doesn't really work well because I have commitments, however, if I am really on my own I probably just go everywhere, any time.

 

What about you, fellow INTJ? INTP? Or others?

[Shadow Dweller]

- Very rarely

- Definitely if I want to achieve something. Outside that, bouncing ideas with other people is possible (form of relaxation).

- Nope. I have functioning eyes and ears therefore I can pick up emotional clues from others. However, those clues will be translated into possibilities as one of the must-be-counted parameters, then the plans of actions that formed will be rated and prioritized according to the feasibility of implementation.

- Not really, only when those details are necessary to whatever project that I have on hand.

- Yeah, having fun :p

[Shadow Dweller]

personalitygrowth.com/intp-vs-intj/ For those who want to differentiate between two of the most often confused with each other's types. ^^

[Carol the Dabbler]

annhoy.com/tag/sensory-overload/

 

Ten myths about introverts, number two is most often believed even by introverts themselves.

 

Very interesting!  I've often wondered how I could be an introvert (even though tests nearly always peg me that way) if I'm talkative and enjoy (the right kind of) parties (meaning one consisting mostly of conversation, rather than music, dancing, games, and other "noise").  After reading that, I am comfortable calling myself an introvert.  Thanks for posting it!