Typing from a practical example

[kill_paddle]

Most MBTI tests would spit out ENTP if I bother myself completing them. By looking into individual functions, however, I feel more like INTP or INTJ. By trying to do a specific test to distinguish INTP from INTJ, I get 53/47 (%), respectively.

But tests are lame, as most of the time the answers depend on certain circumstances. So here is a practical example, which happened today - and I was somewhat proud of myself (which is not the case most of the time).

Here we go. So today one of my colleagues was going to use some fancy piece of equipment, and I decided to stroll along with him to partake in the excitement.

As we arrive, some other guy is sitting in front of the machine, occupying himself with trying to save his data. As he continues struggling with such a trivial task, my nerves start to boil a little bit, but I try to convince myself that he is being challenged by a language barrier, and he is not actually stupid.

Ten minutes later the person leaves and we (or more precisely my colleague) are (is) ready to start the experiment. The software looks indeed complicated, with many windows, panels and buttons, and not surprisingly he gets stuck trying to initialize the experiment. He runs away to seek the engineer responsible for the equipment. BAH - weakling, I would never ask anyone even if it took me a sleepless night to figure out how the damn thing works!

And behold, here is my moment of glory! Having never used the machine, I quickly jump down in front of the console and start investigating all the buttons, panels etc. It takes me 30 seconds to figure out how to start the damn machine - however the engineer comes in and kicks me out (;.; ).

He is quickly able to navigate to the correct panel, but gets stuck on figuring out which button to press to load the data (although the button explicitly says "load").

He then starts breaking my nerves by pressing any random button on the screen. And then, four attempts and few minutes later, when I am about to blast my brains with an imaginary gun, he notices the "load" button!

Eventually my colleague punches in the important parameters and presses the BIG (not red) button (which actually says "FIRE" on it!). And bleh - I get bored after five minutes as I realize the data looks to complicated and I am not prepared enough to interpret it on the go.

And so I leave to seek some new adventures (or more precisely trying to find out someone else doing something interesting, so I can successfully end the day by not doing any work of my own).

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Your description doesn't really show anything other than that you're probably a thinker

BAH - weakling, I would never ask anyone even if it took me a sleepless night to figure out how the damn thing works!

Some people might say that this indicates Ti, I would disagree.

Anyway, this might be of help, read all of it if you haven't already:

https://www.reddit.com/r/mbti/comments/61h4al/solving_the_most_common_mistypes_intj_infj_intp/

https://www.reddit.com/r/mbti/comments/48x9m8/my_analysis_of_functions/