Amethyst
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I consider the MBTI to be twaddle. What type does that make me?
Amethyst
Amethyst
I consider the MBTI to be twaddle. What type does that make me?
Amethyst
INTJ here. From what I've read, INTJs need a lot of space and independence. They are the most independent of all the types and have a strong need for autonomy. Generally, they prefer to work alone. INTJs dislike rules and artificial limitations. Additionally, they are decisive, organized, and good planners and long-range thinkers. They are more focused on the future than on the present.
Please don't call it the BM test ! Lets think of another shortcut.
Some 40 years ago. my (then) wife and I lived in a highrise apartment building in Toronto...........one Sunday there were buzzes on the intercom from the lobby......since we weren't expecting anyone we chose to ignore them.The DW and I both hate it when people drop over unexpectedly.
Some 40 years ago. my (then) wife and I lived in a highrise apartment building in Toronto...........one Sunday there were buzzes on the intercom from the lobby......since we weren't expecting anyone we chose to ignore them.
Next day I ran into an acquaintance with whom I was quite 'friendly........he said that he and his girlfriend, (whom I'd never met), "Dropped over to your place yesterday".
I replied "Oh, was that you?".
Things were never the same.
My late wife, (not the one in the previous story), told me that when/after she and her ex first got married, (at a young age), they were always surrounded by people........then she realized that they really had nothing in common.I admire people who welcome drop ins. I have a friend who lives for drop-ins.
Twaddle-Dee or Twaddle-Dum?
I am considered an extrovert ... Then the daughter (thirteen at the time) needed help coming out of her shell ... we enrolled her in the Barbizon School of Modeling ... Money well spent. You can be changed.
INTJ: Outside Contradictor - Are often baffled by the strange and incomprehensible recreational rituals of other people, such as going to parties, watching television, and having sex. Instead, they prefer to spend their leisure time installing twin missile launchers in their cars to deter tailgaters.
This paper assesses the effects of personality traits on economic preparation for retirement, wealth accumulation, and consumption, among persons 66 to 69 years of age. Among the five chief personality traits of neuroticism, extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness, we focus most on conscientiousness. We find levels of adequate economic preparation for retirement ranging from 29 percent to 90 percent and that conscientiousness positively affects the proportion of persons adequately prepared for retirement, while neuroticism negatively affects it. Both consumption and wealth increase with conscientiousness but wealth increases faster, indicating that more conscientious persons save more out of retirement resources.
extroversion negatively affects preparation for retirement among single males
Are there any introverts that enjoy this kind of stuff?
I somewhat agree with you, that's why I quoted your word. I liked it. But I think there is *something* to the idea. I guess my ISTJ came out and I researched this whole thing after reading the thread. Most researchers have taken the concept and further refined it with complex refinements. Do the math and you'll get a near infinite variety instead of 16.Twaddle - as in a lot of solemn nonsense.
I just don't cotton to the notion of boiling people down to "types." There are at leat 7 billion types of people, and the fact that we all possess traits is hardly news.
Nobody should be surprised.Specifically regarding the subject of introversion/extroversion, the paper reports:
extroversion negatively affects preparation for retirement among single males
How many of people here have gone to a bar and "bought a round of drinks for EVERYONE" in the bar? Heck, how many people here have even been to a bar or had one drink? (See other thread.)
I am an introvert, but people tend to think I am an extravert, so they don't get it when I don't show up for company-wide functions (outside of business hours). It's not like I don't like people. It's just that being social tires me after a very short time, plus I get kind of bored. I do have a small circle of very good friends and that's it.
I think any self-proclaimed introvert with more than about 10 posts on this forum is not an introvert.
That's the attitude I's have to deal with all the time -- the assumption that there's something wrong with being an introvert that needs to be "changed" to conform with what in the U.S. most consider the cultural norm.
Maybe that is your assumption, but when two extroverts have a daughter that has no self confidence, cannot carry on a conversation with two or more people (in person), is a wallflower at all gatherings, never started a conversation, etc..., it was our opinion that she needed be more outgoing.
Right or wrong, this method worked for us.
I had never given any more thought about introverts vs extroverts until this thread surfaced. The percentage of members that are introverts is amazing. Now I can see why it's easier to be members of forums such as this. The introvert never has to address the posters face to face and it's easier to take stands on issues that they would never do with someone in person. I'm not saying this is bad, it's just something I never thought about.
I would like to now from some of you introverts if I'm correct in my assumption. Is this why introverts join forums such as this?
I had never given any more thought about introverts vs extroverts until this thread surfaced. The percentage of members that are introverts is amazing. Now I can see why it's easier to be members of forums such as this. The introvert never has to address the posters face to face and it's easier to take stands on issues that they would never do with someone in person. I'm not saying this is bad, it's just something I never thought about.
I would like to now from some of you introverts if I'm correct in my assumption. Is this why introverts join forums such as this?
The reason I joined this forum is that it's really the only place to interact with other FIRE types, since they are so few and far between in our society. And we all have something in common with each other. Also, as an introvert, I have difficulty making "small talk" in social gatherings where I don't have a lot of common interests with the others, but I really open up in groups where I know everybody (some of my friends might even characterize me as obnoxious) or when I meet somebody who has the same interests as I do.
I wonder what the actual ratio of Is to Es is for ERs in society as a whole? It's highly skewed toward Is in this forum, but the other factor at work is that Is are more drawn to forums like this than are Es.