How would you explain your INTJ personality to someone who’s never met one before?
Strangely enough, I’m only going to touch lightly on the cognitive functions of an INTJ in my response. Whilst the theory is extremely important and will help you understand how an INTJ ‘works’, it likely will not help you quite as much if you have never actually met one.
At their best, INTJs are insightful, imaginative and abstract. They relish complex conversations over theory or philosophy and strive to find underlying meanings. INTJs are drawn to the abstract, often seeming to pull ideas out of thin air (epiphany moments). However, they can sometimes just ‘zone out’- retreating into their own minds to energise or simply to escape.
INTJs are also fiercely logical. They trust fact over feeling and value efficiency. They are practical, goal-oriented and natural problem solvers. This can often lead them to seeming ‘cold’ or ‘unfeeling’, but in fact they highly value individuality and can be quite good at understanding other people’s motives and thoughts, just not dealing weith their emotions.
At their worst, INTJs can be stand-offish, irritable and arrogant, adopting a cynical attitude towards the motives, willpower or even intelligence of others. They can think of social conventions as ‘fake’ and ‘constraining’ and often isolate themselves from the people around them.
Like always, this answer is a generalisation and obviously not true to 100% of INTJs.
Hope this helped.