I believe it’s more on realizing the importance of the subject, I realized that the squares and cubes of X will hold low utility for me. Again, highlighting the fact that we know our own limitations, and though I was a fairly “Well Known” guy in school, never really got along with people.

For a large part of my life I would’ve described myself as an extrovert, I get along with people (have a high level of tolerance and highly developed auto pilot mode now I realize ) and always offered solutions to the problems. But recently I started to realize that my social life and relationships were limited and strained at most times, thereby, drawing me into concluding that extroversion was not something that I really practiced.

I found out that I was an INTJ very recently, when after my 14 year old dog died and I felt little remorse, I instinctively used the INTJ way of finding answers, RESEARCH and took the MBIT and found out that I am an INTJ with more than 50% on all parameters and 100% on intuition, I feel now at ease to know that I am not as “HEARTLESS” as people imply that I am.

As for the question of Moral obligation I would agree with @Mikethe2nd, at the age of 10 he had deduced and said what we would be a little ashamed of admitting now, that the inefficient and slow people of the world should be at best, left alone to be at the bottom where they can not hurt the efficiency of the system. We are all born equals (barring birth defects) and take our own course of action and we should have the courage to live by our own choices. If you find yourself drawing the short end of the stick, it’s largely your fault, having played a game of chance not considering the consequences and results of the actions.

PS: Even though we don’t like long posts and don’t like many words, I have realized that we have the ability to speak endlessly, and jump from thought to thought without any overtly coherent link as can be seen from my post and that of my fellow INTJS.

Let’s not over generalize what is or isn’t the makeup of an INTJ. It is a broad spectrum and not to be pinned down. But here I go anyway…I’ll just describe myself
ONE:
I am a loner but I don’t really want to be. Making and keeping LONG term friendships where they don’t betray, lie or make illogical arguments…that is my dream. Really want those that aren’t needy.
TWO:
I always watch from the outside until I really see an issue that I would love to correct. Until I have all the facts…I just can’t/wont’ move on a strong statement. I research to the degree of almost standing still…You should see my bookmarks.
THREE:
If you are an authority on something…I might listen if it makes sense. I can’t read right through you if you are full of it and just looking for attention.

Now, if needed, please fire at will.

After reading the running list of postings, I started to think about my observations of my Shiba Inu dog. He is my second one in 15 years, and I can tell you from years of observations, and interactions (that is when they deemed it desirable) Shiba’s are the INTJ’s of the Animal World. Overall they tend to be reclusive and aloof, but highly intelligent and extremely sensitive. They only interact with you when they decide that it is necessary or desirable from their perspective. They can appear from nowhere in front of you, or from the side almost unseen, intently taking you in, half out of the room, half in as if “I am here, maybe…maybe not”. If you try to pet them at this time, they are usually indignant that you miss read them or tried to project your interpretation of what you thought they were doing. They also can be extremely playful and attentive out of the blue. Just get used to the fact that it can end as quickly as it started, and their mind and attention is elsewhere in a blink of an eye as if the previous playfulness hadn’t even happened.
They spend a great deal of time by themselves out of sight. They choose a room in the house that is “their” room that they retreat to. Only coming out now and then to abstractly view the terrain in a seemingly disinterested casual way. They have no interest in coming when you call them from their retreat regardless of how often you entreat them to show themselves. My first Shiba, Sebastian, would spend every morning in the same exact spot outside looking up into the trees for a half hour to 40 minutes, not moving at all, totally unaware, couldn’t be bothered by other animals around him or anything else, looking to be deep in thought or introspection, oblivious of where he was or time itself. My other Shiba, Tomma, goes into trances standing up with head slightly lowered, standing in the exact same spot for 20 minutes or more. Then, all at once looks up and comes back to the present moment.
They show quick affection when you come home, but just as quickly disappear when they realized they have to moderate the affection they show you, less you get the wrong idea of what to expect from them. At the same time they are extremely sensitive and have a strong attachment to you but take great efforts to hide their feelings and dependence on you. I could go on and on, but the fact is i have concluded that they are the perfect dog for an INTJ because they operate in a similar universe, don’t have to be constantly reassured that you love them and their interaction with other dogs is so much like an INTJ that it is comical to watch them interact/not interact, in the dog world. The final thought is to look at the dog world of personalities in total to see if the other personality types exist in the rest of the dog breeds. OK, well, that was just one of my tangents of thoughts that took off after reading this blog.

How refreshing to read that others think similar to myself. I used to feel terrible when someone would incessantly yap and that familiar irritation of wanting to do anything to shut them up would surface within me. Seriously, listening to someone compulsively talk about nothing of importance and seeing my own intolerance had me doubting myself terribly. Wasn’t until I requested some testing did I find out that these traits were a gift and by working with them rather than against them would improve my quality of life immensely. So, that said, once I changed course and achieved the balance of alone time, research (my sons tell me I am a collector of “topics of interests”….bang on if you ask me.), minimal socialization (obligatory visits & necessary events) & healthy eating (I am a serious health geek and have a library on various health subjects.) my happiness meter went up significantly. Those around me still consider me an odd duck and some do find me too blunt, however I prefer to think I’m just cutting through all the layers of a topic to get to the nitty gritty. All the fluff is simply not necessary for me.

Does anyone have any websites or books to suggest on INTJ personalities?

Happy researching, fellow INTJ’s.

@Red It annoys me too, mainly because no one fucking asked them to, LOL. But probably also because them talking about themselves = they think they have something to say = they think what they have to say is important —> but really they’re just saying the same old bs everyone else says. Unless you tell me a story about you fucking riding a cow into outer space or something ridiculous like that, or you used to have 16 arms but you lost them in a fight with 17 samurai, then no matter what you say, is probably not that interesting. And it’s kind of annoying having to listen to someone talk about things that are so dull……… i.e. “normal” lol. Jmo though, there could be another reason but that would be mine.