INTJ: “The Mastermind”

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INTJ = Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking Judger

Nickname of INTJ: “The Free-Thinker or Strategist or Mastermind”

Mastermind Hat hat

Main Qualites of the INTJ

  • Skeptical
  • Independent
  • Demanding
  • Original
  • Goal-Oriented
  • Long-Term Thinking

Short List of  Good INTJ Careers: (click here for The Top 100 INTJ Careers and here for the Myers Briggs Career Personality Tests)

  • Strategic Planner
  • Treasurer
  • Analyst
  • Systems or Network or Database Administrator
  • Software Developer
  • Graphic Designer
  • Editor

FAMOUS INTJs & Fictional INTJs

  • Steve Jobs (Check out Which Personality Type Is Steve Jobs?)
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Lance Armstrong
  • Arthur Ashe, tennis champion
  • Augustus Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus)
  • Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
  • Dan Aykroyd (The Blues Brothers)
  • William J. Bennett, “drug czar”
  • William F. Buckley, Jr.
  • Raymond Burr (Perry Mason, Ironsides)
  • Chevy Chase (Cornelius Crane) (Fletch)
  • Katie Couric
  • Phil Donahue
  • Michael Dukakis, governor of Mass., 1988 U.S. Dem. pres. candidate
  • Richard Gere (Pretty Woman)
  • Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor
  • Greg Gumbel, television sportscaster
  • Hannibal, Carthaginian military leader
  • Veronica Hamel (Hill Street Blues)
  • Angela Lansbury (Murder, She Wrote)
  • Orel Leonard Hershiser, IV
  • Peter Jennings
  • Charles Everett Koop
  • Ivan Lendl
  • C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)
  • Joan Lunden
  • Edwin Moses, U.S. olympian (hurdles)
  • Martina Navratilova
  • Michelle Obama
  • General Colin Powell, US Secretary of State
  • Charles Rangel, U. S. Representative, D-N.Y.
  • Pernell Roberts (Bonanza)
  • Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California
  • Josephine Tey (Elizabeth Mackintosh), mystery writer (Brat Farrar)
  • U.S. Presidents:  Chester A. Arthur,   Calvin Coolidge,   Thomas Jefferson,   John F. Kennedy,   James K. Polk,
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Cassius (Julius Caesar)
  • Mr. Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)
  • Gandalf the Grey (J. R. R. Tolkein’s Middle Earth books)
  • Hannibal Lecter (Silence of the Lambs)
  • Professor Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes’ nemesis
  • Ensign Ro (Star Trek–the Next Generation)
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Hamlet)
  • George Smiley, John le Carre’s master spy
  • Clarice Starling (Silence of the Lambs)
  • Stewie Griffin- Family Guy
  • Tom Hagen- Godfather
  • Ernst Stavro Blofield- james Bond
  • James Hartfield
  • Jerry O’Connell
  • Cuba Gooding Jr.
  • Maria Bello
  • George Lucas
  • Jill Hennessy
  • Carrie-Ann Moss

These Web site were helpful for this article:

KnowYourType, TypeLogic, MyPersonality and SimilarMinds

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If you are enjoying the 16 Carl Jung Types, you may also enjoy The 9 Enneagram Personality Types.

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18 Responses to INTJ: “The Mastermind”

Mrsjenniferbrown7 says: September 15, 2011 at 2:06 am

I recently read that obama is a ENFJ. My husband is a ENFJ and I am a INTJ so… kinda like i am Michell and he is like obama?

Tailgatrz says: July 28, 2010 at 5:09 pm

Very funny, made me laugh, thanks.
A mastermind is not an “Evil” term. It is referenced about a Thinker, strategist, Chess player. I do not know about you, I have never met an “Evil” Chess champ. Chess by day, Hitler by night. Not to say it can't happen. Just not common.
INTJ's like to bring things together, if you are taking a language that may be useful in the corp world you might be of asset to be a business strategic liaison. INTJ's are a “Jacks of all Trades” and a Master of what they want to be. You will probably find you are good at almost everything but not excellent at anything until you find that one or a few things that fits you and you fit it. There is no Definite Type for an evil person, for example Hitler was believed to be an ENFJ, But so is Andy Griffith. Hitler was an artist and architect, he was not good enough to make a career out of it though. What would the world be like now if he had? People might stand around a gallery saying its an Adolph original.(his work is famous now, but not for a good reason) Wow, he was a great man, a vegetarian artist that wanted everyone to be in good health and thinks everyone should be equal. If you forget it is Hitler, a lot of people would agree. Not me, I think everyone should be free to live the way and how they want. If you want to be fit, fine, want to be round and jolly, fine.

Jean Gerber says: July 26, 2010 at 5:34 pm

Well said mate. INTJ completely sums it up for me. I can't believe how accurate it is…I'm glad to see that SOME people have figured us out.

Jean Gerber says: July 26, 2010 at 11:34 am

Well said mate. INTJ completely sums it up for me. I can't believe how accurate it is … I'm glad to see that SOME people have figured us out

brittany says: July 20, 2010 at 11:01 pm

i keep taking these quizzes and i get intj which pretty well fits me, except when it came down to s/n one time, i got 50%/50% , leaving me confused on which one was me, but every other time i got intj. i've known what i wanted to be [mathematician] ever since i was 11 [now 16] and am still wanting to become one. 😉 hopefully, i wont become insane or anything.

Anson Ivan says: July 4, 2010 at 5:32 am

Hi Elena ,
i took the same test and being a Recruitment specialist and student the scores kind of astonished myself. Like you have said mastermind sounds quite like some good big budget movie coming soon…

May be we have very long plans which we are ourselves are still exploring.

Elena says: March 22, 2010 at 11:39 am

i took the personality test, and after reading my result, i definitely agree…but 'mastermind' sounds a wee bit evil…i noticed that many of these people are political/scientific…but i'm a foriegn language major! O well…i suppose even language studies could use a mastermind…mwahahahaaaaaaaa

mtRoamer says: March 5, 2010 at 8:19 pm

INTJ's aren't “antisocial” we just work better by ourselves because other people can't follow us down and through all the rabbit holes we cruise back and forth in. but when it comes down to it we are fully capable of orating our plans and ideas..

Rob Kelly says: January 5, 2010 at 2:44 pm

Hey Jessie,

Interesting point about Michelle. Some of us introverts do a good job disguising ourselves as extroverts. My best friend swears I’m an extrovert but I know deep down that I get my energy from myself (not others).

Michelle is in the spotlight so much that she has the appearance of an extrovert when really she likely favors being alone or just with a close friend or two.

Rob Kelly says: November 17, 2009 at 8:29 pm

Thanks, Paul. I’m going to have to review those suggestions and see if they indeed look like INTJs.

Paul says: October 6, 2009 at 5:12 pm

I would think you could include Cardinal Richelieu, Talleyrand, Merlin, Lenin, Eisenhower, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, and perhaps even Moshe Dayan as well.

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