While deleting mail from my inbox at work yesterday, I came across a link from someone to a personality test. Since I was at work, I was bored and decided to give it a shot. I am such a sucker for crap like this. I especially enjoy the vague descriptions of the various personality types listed. Here’s me:

Your Type is
INTJ
11% Introverted
12% Intuitive
50% Thinking
11% Judging

Qualitative analysis of your type formula
You are:
* slightly expressed introvert
* slightly expressed intuitive personality
* moderately expressed thinking personality
* slightly expressed judging personality

So I am moderately disposed to think and not much else. Awesome.

Oh, but that’s not all. There were links to other descriptions to my personality type. First, there was the INTJ type description by D.Keirsey in which I am considered a mastermind! Sounds much better than the above description. In this description, I learned that Ulyses S. Grant was an INTJ. Cool, it took a mastermind to win the Civil War. An alcoholic one at that! Imagine who he could have beaten if he were sober!

Following that descriiption was the INTJ type description by J. Butt and M.M. Heiss (huhuh, his last name is ‘Butt’) in which I found that my people, while being masterminds which is very cool, have some issues. Romantic relationships can be a problem. We don’t get ‘small talk’ and ‘flirting’. We expect people to make sense. Based on this, I would expect a woman to interpret my saying, “My, you have nice breasts.” as the compliment that it is rather than the typical crass, low-brow attempt to get laid.

Because of this we also expect directness from our partners. None of this passive-aggressive, beating around the bush B.S. No, we expect folks to say what they mean without the sugar-coating. Conversely, we’re private people and not likely to share our own opinions with just anyone. That particular dichotomy makes sense to us because if we don’t know you, we don’t care what you have to say and thus don’t expect you to be direct or make sense, but rather just keep your pie hole shut.

I also found a very long list of other INTJ that made me feel good about myself. Of course, I don’t suppose any of the personality traits list Josef Stalin as a type. In description, they listed “Famous INTJs”. Perhaps they could add an “Infamous INTJs”. Imagine looking at the profile thinking, “Oh wow, look at all the INTJs… JFK, Lance Armstrong, Augustus Caesar, Hannibal (the military leader, not the fictional serial killer), Clarice Starling (oddly enough, the fictional FBI agent who worked with said fictional serial killer), Peter Jennings, Idi Amin… wait Idi Amin!? Torquemada!? What the hell!? Pol Pot??? Oh my God!”

Wouldn’t, that would be fun?

Interesting side note. The folks in the mastermind pic above had a reunion recently. I remember my parents owned this game, and I remember that picture on the box. Kind of cool to read about who those people were and the particulars of the photoshoot. Alright, maybe ‘cool’ isn’t the right word, but it’s something good and not at all lame. Right?