Personality Type

Personality Inventory
INTROVERTED INTUITIVE TYPES
INTJ and INFJ

Summary
The introverted intuitives are the great innovators in the field of ideas. They trust their intuitive insights as to the relationships and meanings of things regardless of established authority or popular beliefs. They trust their vision of the possibilities, regardless of universal skepticism. They want to see their ideas worked out in practice, accepted, and applied.
Consequently, they have to deal firmly with the cuter world, which they do by means of their preferred kind of judgment, either TRUE or FALSE. Thus, they back up their original insight with the determination, perseverance, and enduring purpose of the judging types. When they are driving to turn an inspiration into a reality, problems stimulate rather than discourage them. The impossible takes a little longer — but net much.
Certain dangers arise from their single-minded concentration They see their goal so clearly that they may not even look for the other things they need to see — the things that conflict with their goal. They may not take the trouble to learn the details of the situation they propose to change Since sensing is their least developed process, they can easily overlook relevant facts and the limitations those facts impose.
They may not consider the opposition they will meet, its strength or source or probable grounds. They may not consider the possibility that something is wrong with their idea In scientific research or engineering design, a trial of their boldly ingenious ideas will visibly succeed — or fail and show where the idea has to be revised. They need to be particularly alert for flaws in their ideas in those fields where their insights cannot be tested so clearly.
Their auxiliary process, if adequately developed, can supply needed criticism of their ideas. Judgment can be used to foresee difficulties and decide what needs to be done about them. Most original inspirations need to be modified in the light of facts. Ideas need to be worked out and perfected to lessen objections. The best ideas still need to be presented to the world in terms understandable to other types.
If (repeat, if) their judgment is not developed, they cannot criticize their own inner vision, and they tend to reject all judgments from outside. As a result, they cannot shape their inspirations into effective action. Their ideas will go to waste, and they may be regard only as visionaries or cranks.

Inventory Descriptors

INTJ
With thinking as auxiliary INFJ
With feeling as an auxiliary

Most individualistic and most independent of all the types

Resemble extraverted thinkers in organizing ability and a tendency to ignore the views and feelings of those who don’t agree with them

Logical, critical, decisive, determined, often stubborn

Tend to drive others almost as hard as they drive themselves

Apt to be effective, relentless reorganizers. Can be effective executives, rich in ideas.

Less obviously individualistic, more apt to win cooperation than to demand it

Resemble extraverted feeling types in their sympathetic handling of people and in a tendency to ignore harsh and uncongenial facts

May apply their ingenuity to problems of human welfare on there own and in their own way

Can be successful executives, especially where affairs can be conducted on a personal basis

Category Discriminants

I You prefer to focus on the inner world of ideas and impressions

N You tend to focus on the future, with a view toward patterns and possibilities

T/F You tend to base your decisions on logic and on objective analysis of cause and effect/You tend to base your decisions primarily on values and on subjective evaluation of person-centered concerns

J You like a planned and organized approach to life and prefer to have things settled

Type Discriminants

INFJ Succeed by perseverance, originality, and desire to do whatever is needed or wanted. Put their best efforts into their work. Quietly forceful, conscientious, concerned for others. Respected for their firm principles. Likely to be honored and followed for their clear convictions as to how best to serve the common good.

INTJ Usually have original minds and great drive for their own ideas and purposes. In fields that appeal to them, they have a fine power to organize a job and carry it through with or without help. Skeptical, critical, independent, determined, sometimes stubborn. Must learn to yield less important points in order to win the most important.

I	You prefer to focus on the inner world of ideas and impressions
N	You tend to focus on the future, with a view toward patterns and possibilities
T/F	You tend to base your decisions on logic and on objective analysis of cause and effect/You tend to base your decisions primarily on values and on subjective evaluation of person-centered concerns
J	You like a planned and organized approach to life and prefer to have things settled

INFJ	Succeed by perseverance, originality, and desire to do whatever is needed or wanted. Put their best efforts into their work. Quietly forceful, conscientious, concerned for others. Respected for their firm principles. Likely to be honored and followed for their clear convictions as to how best to serve the common good.
INTJ	Usually have original minds and great drive for their own ideas and purposes. In fields that appeal to them, they have a fine power to organize a job and carry it through with or without help. Skeptical, critical, independent, determined, sometimes stubborn. Must learn to yield less important points in order to win the most important.