To Be or Not To Be

A little kingdom I possess,
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find
Of governing it well.
~ Louisa May Alcott

...that more or less describes my situation!

~A Wise Man Said~

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~ Aristotle
Wednesday, September 02, 2020
 
I have been meaning to write about this for a while now but somehow keep getting side-lined into other things. I had checked my MBTI personality profile (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) quite many years ago and never thought about it much then. I did it again last year or so because it came up in one of the workshops. This time my curiosity was piqued. I discovered that the INTJ (Introverted Intuition, Thinking, and Judging) type which I am happens to be among the least common of the 16 personality types and the female INTJ is the rarest type among all! Needless to say this aroused my interest as well as my ego ;)

I joined a Facebook group dedicated to discussing the attributes or quirks of this type with the intention to learn more. I have to admit that since joining this group I have embraced my personality more fully and started understanding the disparate pieces that make me ‘me’ in a more unified sense. Things that seemed weird to me about myself or me just being me now seem to have some sort of underlying principle. The fact that my type is so rare does account for why I have always felt like an odd one out. For instance I always thought that I had a man’s brain in a woman’s body but now it appears it’s an INTJ thing. It creates an overriding dominance of Thinking/logic as opposed to Feeling in my personality. Not that I think men are logical and women are not but I would say I never fitted into the concept of how women are generally expected to think or be. Instead of an abnormal odd I now feel like an out of the ordinary odd...if you know what I mean. I also find it therapeutic in a sense to find others who think or operate the same way even if online…

I was keen to share this piece of info about my MBTI type or my “INTJness” as I call it because a lot of my reflections on this blog go back to who I am or how I am and I tend to connect this in my head to “how I function” or my INTJ functions… I intend to reflect on these connections in my future posts…

posted by Sylvia D'souza at 4:17 am 0 comments
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