So, like I said last week, this week I'll be focusing on...
Doubtlessly, some of you are quite curious as to what I mean by the "INTJ Mystique." Basically, this post is all about why INTJ's are so damn cool. Sure, we could break down the letters and talk about introversion and intuition, but that doesn't really explain what an INTJ is. It doesn't give an idea of how the letters I, N, T, and J come together and affect each other. So, let me tell you all about INTJ's.
An INTJ is one of the most difficult things to understand. It is a mass of complexes and sometimes paradoxes. They're cold on the outside, but are driven by the hottest of fires on the inside. They live for logic, but possess a strong intuition capable of knowing something without actually knowing anything about it. We hate irrationality and bad grammar, but we also hate feeling like we're being boxed in or that we're bound by rules that don't need to exist.
We abhor the simple, mundane world seeking instead occult knowledge, looking for something someone may have missed. We even take already well-known knowledge and subject it to our scrutiny just to make sure it is solid. And then, rather than throwing that knowledge away, we store it in our minds and find another use for it, or we uncover how it connects to something else.
INTJ's are outsiders. We're outsiders to the systems that other people live in; systems for how they live, act, work, love or believe. We can see them at work and how they work. We can predict how they affect people and how to use the system to affect people. People don't understand why we don't, can't, or won't live within their systems, but that is precisely why we are needed by society because only we know how to alter the systems or even control the people within them.
INTJ's are unlimited in their abilities. Some will accuse us of being socially awkward and being clueless in love, but this isn't true. Social and romantic interactions can be studied and predicted. And if it can be studied, INTJ's can master it. There are no limits to what we can learn and how to utilize our knowledge. Plus, it would be a great waste of our intuition, the otherworldly quality that grants us a priori knowledge, if we didn't try to master friendships, relationships, and religion. This is what our intuition was designed for. If we can master the ethereal, then we can master the physical.
By being unlimited, we allow ourselves the room to pursue perfection and to always be better than we were. It's why we have immutable principles and ethics, it's why we're so loyal as friends, and it's why we make the best spouses. INTJ's are determined, powerful prodigies. The universe is one big puzzle for us to solve and we will solve it, or die trying. But even that type of death is more rewarding than a life lived chasing the Joneses. "A story is only as epic as you allow it to be." The same is true for INTJ's; we are epic because we allow ourselves to be. We are a whole gaggle of Neo's from The Matrix allowing ourselves to live beyond the rules of what normal humans think is possible.
This is the INTJ Mystique. We are the greatest personality type in MBTI. You won't hear us roar, and you may pass us out on the street and not realize it, but in a subtle, metaphysical way, we will affect you in the greatest way possible.
Well, there's definitely more I can say about the INTJ Mystique, but I will end it there. In fact, I think I will turn this into a book and go into more detail about why we're so damn awesome. For next week, I'm not sure what I will do yet. Maybe I'll expound on how INTJ's can be the greatest friends, lovers, and actors. Or, I'll go into five more ways I buck the INTJ stereotype. But, until next week...
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