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I'm a Blue INTJ

What Do These 4 People Have In Common? That's right! We're all INTJs!
What a fun week! Dr. Davies, my Assessments professor, wanted to better manipulate (JK) understand his students by inviting us to take the Hartman color code personality test and the Myers-Briggs type indicator. 

My results: I'm a Dominant Blue, Recessive White,  INTJ. I've taken both tests multiple times over the past 20 years and have consistently arrived at the same outcome (a reliable result).  I'll leave it up to you--family and friends--to confirm the validity of my scores.

Analysis of Results

I'll just share a few personal examples of my BLUE-ness:
  • Blues are motivated by Altruism —I let other people catch up and sometimes win during competitive games, if I sense winning to be important to them. This happens a lot on the tennis court.
  • Blues seek intimacy — Years ago, I posted to this blog 3x/day in an attempt to solicit comments and feedback (validation) from people. I have since identified this as a cry for not only attention, but for connection—a non-physical, intimate connection.  (A much safer alternative than other attention-seeking behaviors I could have experimented with...)
  • Blues crave to be understood — This trait has an especially telling story. I feel like I only speak out-loud about 1% of the thoughts that I have.  This is because I don't want to share my thoughts with people who don't really care. (Pearls before swine, and all that.) This is also the reason why if you were to ask me "how's it going" in passing, I regularly take an extra long time to respond; it's because I'm coming up with a thoughtful response, but then realize that the person, most times, doesn't actually want to know so I volley back a "Fine. How are you?"
  • Blues need to be remembered and appreciated — I regularly write notes of appreciation to others at the end of an event or marked passage of time.  These thank you notes are mostly altruistically motivated, but they are also a window into how I wish people would express their love and appreciation towards me.  (Notes have more value in my mind because they represent forethought, as opposed to coming up with something spontaneously.)
  • Blues are directed by a strong moral conscience — Unlike Reds, I don't have to be right; if I'm convinced to move from the path I'm on, I have no qualms making the necessary adjustments.  This allows me to be adaptable and learn quickly from past mistakes; an invaluable quality in an ever-changing tech industry.  Unlike Yellows, I'm not willing to put off other responsibilities in search of the next adventure.  This caution and level-headed thinking is evidenced by my aversion to extreme sports, even skiing, despite loving the thrill.  Instead, I derive my satisfaction out of serving others (White), and reaping the returns of a well-balanced life of integrity.  Near the end of my mission, I wrote home entreating my mother to remind me to let go of my self-examination and lose myself in the service of others if ever she observed that I was depressed.  Now that I think about it, she did remind me of that at one point.  That's funny because I didn't feel depressed at the time…  Perhaps my mother saw something I didn't.  Or perhaps she just wanted to nip it in the bud.

My Results on the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator

Famous INTJs


Sigmund Freud (father of psychoanalysis)
Charles Darwin (father of evolution)
Augustus Caesar (Roman Emperor, 0 BC)
Simon Cowell (TV Show Creator, American Idol)
Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)
John Nash (Game Theory, Beautiful Mind)
W. H. Bates (Alternative Ophthalmologist)
Ulysses S. Grant (Civil War General)
Maximilien Robespierre (French Rev. Emperor)
Susan B. Anthony (Sewed American Flag)
Lance Armstrong (Cyclist)
Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
William J. Bennett ("Drug czar")
William F. Buckley, Jr. (Political commentator)
Katie Couric (News Anchor)
Phil Donahue (Media personality)
Michael Dukakis (Mass. gov., 1988 pres. candidate)
Richard Gere (Pretty Woman)
Rudy Giuliani (former New York City mayor)
Greg Gumbel (Television sportscaster)
Hannibal (Carthaginian military leader)
Angela Lansbury (Murder, She Wrote)
Peter Jennings (News Anchor)
C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)
Edwin Moses, U.S. Olympian (hurdles)
Michelle Obama (1st Lady)
General Colin Powell (former US Sec. of State)
Charles Rangel (US Representative, D-N.Y.)
Donald Rumsfeld (former US Sec. of Defense)
Hillary Clinton (US Secretary of State)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (Governor of California)

INTJ U.S. Presidents

Chester A. Arthur
Calvin Coolidge
Thomas Jefferson
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
James K. Polk
Woodrow Wilson

Fictional INTJs

Professor Xavier (Marvel Comics, X-men)
Emma Frost (Marvel Comics, X-men)
Dr. Manhattan (DC Comics, Watchmen)
Cassius (Julius Caesar)
Mr. Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)
Gandalf the Grey (J. R. R. Tolkein's Middle Earth)
Hannibal Lecter (Silence of the Lambs)
Clarice Starling (Silence of the Lambs)
Professor Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes' nemesis
Horatio Hornblower (C.S. Forester Protagonist)
Ensign Ro (Star Trek—The Next Generation)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Hamlet)
George Smiley (John le Carre's master spy)
Stewie Griffin (Family Guy)
Bruce Wayne/Batman
Emperor Palpatine (Star Wars)
Severus Snape (Harry Potter)
Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer protagonist)
Doc Ock (Spiderman)
John Galt (Atlas Shrugged)
The Architect (The Matrix)

Sources for INTJ Examples

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