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pompeii -> RE: Myers-Briggs personality types (2/1/2010 4:35:15 AM)
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ORIGINAL: afuturecaptive
INTJ submissive here... :)
It fascinates me that, overwhelmingly, so many kinksters who posted in this forum are INTJs (which is the exact opposite of my ESTP). INTJs apparently comprise one of the smallest percentages of personality types in the USA (see this chart) ... while ESTPs occur only about twice as often as INTJs in the general US population.
For most of the posters here, the rare INTJ, the inner N & T shows how most people who posted here tend to gather data and make decisions, what interests me most are the outside I & J values, which show how most in this thread energize and prefer their world to be around them (I's tend to need time out to reflect in order to rebuild energy and Js like to "have matters settled.").
By way of contrast, E's tend to act first, think later (they draw energy from action: they act, then reflect, then act further). Since I'm a very strong E, I tend to act w/o thinking and then think about the act (ESTPs are called "The Doer".) It always amazed me that other folks contemplated jumping across the water before doing it! I jump first, and then think about whether I should have done it or not based on how wet I get my feet.
Most interesting of all is that I would expect this group of posters to be strong Ps (which is what I am). Ps The difference is that P's tend to prefer to leave decisions open in total contrast to Js who lean toward having matters settled.
Note: All INTJ & ESTP type statements in this post are consistent with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator
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