INTJ - The "Strategist" Jungian Personality Types (Free Test)
INTJs are introspective, analytical, determined persons with natural leadership ability. Being reserved, they prefer to stay in the background while leading. Strategic, knowledgable and adaptable, INTJs are talented in bringing ideas from conception to reality. They expect perfection from themselves as well as others and are comfortable with the leadership of another so long as they are competent. INTJs can also be described as decisive, open-minded, self-confident, attentive, theoretical and pragmatic.
About the INTJ Expert Quotes & Links
"...approach reality as they would a giant chess board, always seeking strategies that have a high payoff, and always devising contingency plans in case of error or adversity."
- The Portrait of the Mastermind Rational (iNTj) (Keirsey)
"...observer, values solitude, perfectionist, detached, private... does not talk about feelings, hard to impress, analytical, likes esoteric things..."
- Jung Type Descriptions (INTJ) (similarminds.com)
"To outsiders, INTJs may appear to project an aura of "definiteness", of self-confidence. This self-confidence, sometimes mistaken for simple arrogance by the less decisive, is actually of a very specific rather than a general nature; its source lies in the specialized knowledge systems that most INTJs start building at an early age. When it comes to their own areas of expertise -- and INTJs can have several -- they will be able to tell you almost immediately whether or not they can help you, and if so, how."
- INTJ Profile (TypeLogic) "At work, INTJs use their conceptual strengths to analyze situations and then develop models to understand and anticipate through relentlessly to reach their goals. They will continue on with their plans, even in the face of adversity and data that might suggest to other more practical types that their goals are no longer feasible. By nature, INTJs are independent individualists."
- INTJ - The Free-Thinker (Lifexplore)
"INTJs are natural leaders, although they usually choose to remain in the background until they see a real need to take over the lead. When they are in leadership roles, they are quite effective, because they are able to objectively see the reality of a situation, and are adaptable enough to change things which aren't working well. They are the supreme strategists - always scanning available ideas and concepts and weighing them against their current strategy, to plan for every conceivable contingency. "
- Portrait of an INTJ (The Personality Page)
Famous INTJs
Real INTJ People
Angela Lansbury - actress (Murder, She Wrote)
Arnold Schwarzenegger - actor, Governor of California
Arthur Ashe - tennis champion
Augustus Caesar - Roman Emperor
C. Everett Koop - former U.S. Surgeon General
C. S. Lewis - apologist, author (The Chronicles of Narnia)
Calvin Coolidge - American President
Charles Rangel - politician, decorated war veteran
Chester A. Arthur - lawyer, American President
Chevy Chase - actor, comedian
Dan Akroyd - actor, comedian, musician
Donald Rumsfeld - former U.S. Secretary of Defense
Dwight D. Eisenhower - American President
Edwin Moses - olympic gold medalist
General Colin Powell - former U.S. Secretary of State
Greg Gumbel - TV sportscaster
Hannibal Barca - Military Commander
Ivan Lendl - tennis champion
James K. Polk - American President
Jane Austen - author (Pride and Prejudice)
Joan Lunden - Journalist
Josephine Tey - English author
Katie Couric - journalist
Lance Armstrong - cyclist (seven Tour De France wins)
Maria Shriver - journalist, wife to Arnold Schwarzenegger
Martina Navratilova - tennis champion
Michael Dukakis - former Governor of Massachusetts
Orel Hershiser - baseball player (pitcher)
Pernell Roberts - actor, activist
Peter Jennings - journalist
Raymond Burr - actor (Perry Mason), vintner
Rudy Giuliani - former New York City mayor
Sir Isaac Newton - Astronomer
Susan B. Anthony - civil rights leader
Thomas Jefferson - American President
Veronica Hamel - actress
William F. Buckley, Jr. - journalist
William J. Bennett - politician
Woodrow Wilson - American President
Fictional INTJs (Characters)
Clarice Starling - Silence of the Lambs
Dr. Jonathan Crane - Batman Begins
Ellen Ripley - Alien
Ensign Ro Laren - Star Trek: The Next Generation
Ernst Stavro Blofeld - James Bond
Gandalf - Lord of The Rings, The Hobbit
George Smiley - John Le Carr� character
Hannibal Lecter - Silence of the Lambs
Marsellus Wallace - Pulp Fiction
Michael Corleone - Godfather
Mr. Burns - The Simpsons
Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice
O-Ren Ishii - Kill Bill Vol. 1
Professor Moriarty - Sherlock Holmes antagonist
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - Hamlet
Stewie Griffin - Family Guy
Tom Hagen - Godfather
Vicious - Cowboy Bebop
Vito Corleone - Godfather
