You live in the world of ideas and strategic planning. You value intelligence, knowledge, and competence, and typically have high standards in these regards, which you continuously strive to fulfill. To a somewhat lesser extent, you have similar expectations of others.

You focus your energy on observing the world, and generating ideas and possibilities. Your mind constantly gathers information and makes associations about it. You are tremendously insightful and usually are very quick to understand new ideas.

However, your primary interest is not understanding a concept, but rather applying that concept in a useful way. You do not follow an idea as far as you possibly can, seeking only to understand it fully.

You are driven to come to conclusions about idea. Your need for closure and organization usually requires that you take some action.Your tremendous value and need for systems and organization, combined with your natural insightfulness, makes you an excellent scientist.

You give a gift to society by putting your ideas into a useful form for others to follow. It is not easy for you to express your internal images, insights, and abstractions. Your internal form of thoughts and concepts is highly individualized, and is not readily translatable into a form that others will understand.

However, you are driven to translate your ideas into a plan or system that is usually readily explainable, rather than to do a direct translation of your thoughts. You usually don't see the value of a direct transaction, and will also have difficulty expressing your ideas, which are non-linear.

However, your extreme respect of knowledge and intelligence will motivate you to explain yourself to another person who you feel is deserving of the effort.You are a natural leader, although you usually choose to remain in the background until you see a real need to take over the lead. When you are in a leadership role, you are quite effective, because you are able to objectively see the reality of a situation, and are adaptable enough to change things which aren't working well.

You are a supreme strategists - always scanning available ideas and concepts and weighing them against your current strategy, to plan for every conceivable contingency.You spend a lot of time inside your own mind, and may have little interest in other people's thoughts or feelings.

Unless your emotional side is developed, you may have problems giving other people the level of intimacy that is needed. Unless your perceptional side is developed, you may have a tendency to ignore details which are necessary for implementing your ideas.

Your interest in dealing with the world is to make decisions, express judgments, and put everything that you encounter into an understandable and rational system. Consequently, you are quick to express judgment. You have a very evolved intuition, and are convinced that you are right about things.

Unless you can complement your intuitive understanding with a well-developed ability to express your insights, you may find yourself frequently misunderstood. In these cases, you tend to blame misunderstandings on the limitations of the other party, rather than on your own difficulty in expressing yourself. This tendency may cause you to dismiss others input too quickly, and to become generally arrogant and elitist.

You are ambitious, self-confident, deliberate, a long-range thinker. You may end up in engineering or scientific pursuits, although you may find enough challenge within the business world in areas which involve organizing and strategic planning. You dislike messiness and inefficiency, and anything that is muddled or unclear.

You value clarity and efficiency, and will put enormous amounts of energy and time into consolidating your insights into structured patterns.Other people may have a difficult time understanding you. They may see you as aloof and reserved. Indeed, you are not overly demonstrative of your affections, and are likely to not give as much praise or positive support as others may need or desire.

That doesn't mean that you don't truly have affection or regard for others, you simply do not typically feel the need to express it.Others may falsely perceive you as being rigid and set in your ways. Nothing could be further from the truth, because you are committed to always finding the objective best strategy to implement your ideas and you are usually quite open to hearing an alternative way of doing something.

When under a great deal of stress, the INTJ may become obsessed with mindless repetitive, Sensate activities, such as over-drinking. They may also tend to become absorbed with minutia and details that they would not normally consider important to their overall goal.You need to remember to express yourself sufficiently, so as to avoid difficulties with people misunderstandings. In the absence of properly developing your communication abilities, you may become abrupt and short with people.

You have a tremendous amount of ability to accomplish great things. You have insight into the big picture, and are driven to synthesize your concepts into solid plans of action. Your reasoning skills give you the means to accomplish that. You are most always highly competent people, and will not have a problem meeting your career or educational goals.

You have the capability to make great strides in these arenas. On a personal level, you practices tolerance and put effort into effectively communicating your insights to others and will lead a rich and rewarding life.