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Have many HN'ers done the Myers-Briggs personality type test? According to this test, I'm an INTJ.I tend to set very high standards for myself, many times they'

Have many HN'ers done the Myers-Briggs personality type test? According to this test, I'm an INTJ.I tend to set very high standards for myself, many times they're impossibly high. When I fail to achieve them, I feel horribly depressed and disappointed in myself. Worse yet, I tend to have very high expectations for the people around me. I'm that guy who joins your project and reformats your code for consistency, and who relentless refactors your code into something readable and DRY. I've spent a great deal of time learning how to set manageable goals for myself on a near daily basis. I'm also learning how to let my expectations for others be set by others (versus me setting very high standards for them). So, I can see a bit of myself in this article. I often wish I cared a little less. It seems like an easier life.

mr_luc 17y ago
I took that test once when I was 14, at a party, and I was INTJ as well. But the reaction I got from other people was a little weird. I sense they may have been judging me because of the J. Which stands for Judging. So the successive times I've taken that test, I've been overly aware of my responses, and I'll consciously skew them to produce a result that represents a more outgoing, easygoing, emotional person. Is that wrong?
- embeddedradical 17y ago
  why not just clarify? the 'judging' doesn't mean you judge other people -- it means you prefer action over learning. that's the real difference between J/P -- action v learning preference.
embeddedradical 17y ago
INTP. I found that understanding that helped me out a lot. I recommend to everyone to look into their MTBI type (easy free online test at http://mypersonality.info http://mypersonality.info; not as thorough as the actual MTBI test but good enough).
pasbesoin 17y ago
Coincidentally, I happened across this older HN poll for Myers-Briggs types on the /best view, yesterday. Referencing for whatever interest it may be. It looked to me to be a rather interesting thread; I mean to go through it in more detail, as time/energy allows: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=204240 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=204240

mr_luc 17y ago

I took that test once when I was 14, at a party, and I was INTJ as well. But the reaction I got from other people was a little weird. I sense they may have been judging me because of the J. Which stands for Judging. So the successive times I've taken that test, I've been overly aware of my responses, and I'll consciously skew them to produce a result that represents a more outgoing, easygoing, emotional person. Is that wrong?

embeddedradical 17y ago
why not just clarify? the 'judging' doesn't mean you judge other people -- it means you prefer action over learning. that's the real difference between J/P -- action v learning preference.

embeddedradical 17y ago

INTP. I found that understanding that helped me out a lot. I recommend to everyone to look into their MTBI type (easy free online test at http://mypersonality.info http://mypersonality.info; not as thorough as the actual MTBI test but good enough).

pasbesoin 17y ago

Coincidentally, I happened across this older HN poll for Myers-Briggs types on the /best view, yesterday. Referencing for whatever interest it may be. It looked to me to be a rather interesting thread; I mean to go through it in more detail, as time/energy allows: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=204240 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=204240