'I’m direct and straightforward to the point of being blunt     I will simply state facts without any opinion but people can get offended or misinterpret my intentions. I’m just giving...|||People assume I have nothing to say because I don’t talk much    Ask me a general question and you’ll get a general answer. Ask me something specific and I will give you a lot of detail. Ask me...|||You like painstaking, meticulous work that no-one else does like counting the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle or five cent coins, doing a mail-out for 200 people (fold, envelope, address, stamp X200) and...|||I guess this topic has come up in my mind because I love watching sport- get so into it but I'd never play it. I think it's cos I'm not competitive. I look at the tennis players and just think if I...|||Just wondering if there was an MBTI type (and enneagram type) that was the most competitive and if you could rank them?  As an ISTJ I'm not competitive but I really could be. What stops me is that...|||Yes, I so do this too. Yep, red skittles- I try to save them for last but they're too good. Often I'll just eat the red ones and give the rest away. Actually I do that with most mixed lolly bags....|||Well I arrange everything on my plate in a certain way. I call it the circle. For example, meat on the left at the top, then going clockwise, potato next to that, then carrots, then corn, then onion,...|||You open a packet of chips, tip them all out and arrange them from smallest to largest then proceed to eat them in that order, saving the best ones to last with the wish chips at the very end. I must...|||Yep, I'm not a physical touch person- hate it. Boundaries people! They exist! I feel like the touch is still there after the contact and wait till the person is gone before I subtly wipe the spot...|||Victoria- Yay!   Melbourne- Yay!   The G- Yay!   Any footy fans here? Come on Eagles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  What?  Yes I know, blame a dad and brother who went for an interstate...|||I have to admit when I first came across MBTI and my profile name, my heart sank a little. How boring!   But then I read the profile and I was like, This is me to a T and I understood that the...|||Awesome posts, I'm a bit of an advocate of the love languages. It really helps you understand yourself and others' needs. Eg. You don't get offended when someone doesn't express love the way you want...|||This is a place to treasure those ones.|||Okay, just want to say, if you're going to say the compliment, there's no need to say first, I'm not good with compliments, the limelight, etc. I totally get it.  The whole point of this thread...|||Thanks for this- I find the same thing. Most compliments I simply ignore, they don't mean anything to me. Some of them though make me see something in myself that I didn't see before or makes me see...|||We're not boasting here, simpy stating a fact, something that is true.   When self-worth can take a battering, it can be good to remember the good things people see in you (and the things that are...|||http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/lawrence/Images/lawrence4-5-15.jpg   Augustus Schenck- Anguish  This is a massive painting on the wall of the Melbourne Art Gallery and I just stand...|||I know an INTJ Christian and he is actually the smartest person I know. He always has a reasoned answer for everything and just makes me feel dumb sometimes, not that that's his intention- he just...|||My sister says 'catalyst' would be the word she'd choose since people at her work say that about her.  My brother-in-law would choose the inifinity symbol because he's into physics and maths.  I...|||All cultures are valid (or else they wouldn't exist)- there are good and bad things in a culture. Not one culture is right or wrong, they're just different.  Same goes for personality types. ...|||That was really fun! Pretty accurate for me- I highlighted the ones that were so me or that really helped clarify things for me.  Seeker- 92% curious  100% introvert  glass half full  0/10...|||This is one of mine too actually- I just have this fundamental idea that no matter what everything will be okay (even if it's a long time coming). So I see both good and bad happening, and often more...|||Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth. - Mark Twain  I always say this quote...|||It doesn't have to be true of everyone but what do you live by? (I'm not talking about what you think life should be about or the ideal, simply how you live- what is life about for you?)  For me,...|||Thanks so much for your post- I found it very helpful.   I wasn't expecting any answers because of the length of my post and the fact that each question could have a thread of its own. I think I...|||Thank-you.   Yep, I still do feel guilty for losing a friend but I realized that I wasn't enjoying the friendship and they weren't the type of friend I needed who always made me feel bad when I was...|||Haha, love this! I don't blame you, you're normal.   It was when I was a kid and the first time I'd ever been asked to put clothes in the dryer. I don't think I would have known how to turn it on...|||For some reason I really don't like it when people say, It's doing my head in.  Yet I will say, It drives me nuts or It drives me mental which isn't really that different.  I just don't...|||I feel like I should apologize for posting most of my thoughts/questions in the ISTJ forum. But aside from being so excited that there are others like me, I really think you should understand your...|||That makes me so happy.  Seriously, I am actually baffled at all these ISTJ's on here who like the same things I do and think he way I do and get annoyed at the same things I do. I can hardly...|||Mood: Tired  Reason: I went to bed at 1am, because I'm a night person but then woke up at 4am and couldn't get back to sleep till about 7:30am because my mind would not turn off. I was defining...|||Just wondering how closely you fit to this suggestion of type and one of the four temperaments.  I'm ISTJ and am melancholic. Phleg is the second closest. The other two hardly even even register so...|||Oh cool, will check it out. Thanks!|||Just want to say how great it is to read posts that I can relate to- there are people who think like me.  Seriously, there are no ISTJ's in my network and sometimes I feel like a freak. People...|||Yes, I should do that.   You know yoou're an introvert when you wish you never set up voicemail because you never listen to the messages and have a pile up of voicemail on your mobile.|||That's awesome- I fully encourage you to write them down! And if work hard (talent= hard work or a lot of hard work), who knows what you could do with it.|||I've kept journals most of my life to do the same- to record thoughts and feelings and totallly get what you mean- I get bored reading my own journals and it would be gruelling, the repitition,...|||Wait, are you serious? Can't tell with this writing medium. If you are that's fantastic.   I have lost friends for being an introvert. One person always got so offended whenever I said I didn't...|||Absolutely- my friends always worry about me when we're being social together, they wonder if I'm okay, if Im comfortable because they know I'm an introvert. I don't know how many times I've had to...|||I find that if you get confused, it generally means you're somewhere in the middle- I hear it's a contiunuum so I'm 80% introvert but others can only be 51% introvert or anywhere in between on the...|||The goal- for people to understand what an introvert is and that there's nothing wrong with us.   (I wrote a blog post on this but thought I'd put the main difference between introverts and...|||Totally get this, it's one of the bane's of my existence when I strive so hard to understand people and people just can't understand this side of me.  You know you're an introvert when no-one...|||When you need to spend long amounts of time hibernating to feel normal again after socializing.  When you turn off your mobile all the time so you don't have to speak to anyone.|||I love these types of things too- questions, love them!  1. If you could anthropomorphize yourself into an animal, would animal would represent you? Seal- So graceful and elegant, I love swimming...|||I don't know generally if ISTJ's are imaginative but I think now which is why it is so confusing when I am so imaginative. I have to watch out that I don't live too much in my stories or creations of...|||Okay done a bit of research- I think it's not necessarily ISTJ's who are writers but introverts in geneal. And indeed Intuitive types tend to be common for writers.|||Just wondering if ISTJ's tend to be writer's or if writer's tend to be ISTJ's?  Or does this hobby/job/form of expression come from somewhere other than personality?  As an introvert I think I...|||Yep, loud things- vacuum cleaners, power tools, microphones, etc.  Forgetfullness- I don't like it in others but I am furious when I forget something.  When people are late.  When people look...|||I just started a blog and a lot of my posts were about the inner workings of my mind which got me back into personality types and reading up on it on the net- which is how I found this site. I have...'