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MBTI Guide: INTJ - Mastermind

Do you see the world in systems and enjoy strategic planning? Discover the INTJ personality, 'The Mastermind.
 A mastermind is an analytical person who can read others, is determined, and is a natural leader. Being reserved, she prefers to stay in the background, away from the forefront, from which she leads others. The mastermind can plan strategically and is often very knowledgeable and able to adapt to the circumstances he is experiencing. It is the personality characterized by the ability to transform ideas from theories into reality that can be applied.


Mastermind expect perfection in himself, as well as from others. He does not mind others assuming responsibility for his leadership as long as the other is competent. The mastermind can be described as having a decisive personality, open-mindedness, judgment, practice, and theoretical. Personal tendencies: introverted, intuitive, rational, and strict. He is one of the rationalists according to Cressey's theory of temperaments. The percentage of mastermind personality types, according to a study conducted on a sample of the American population, ranges between 2-4%.


Mastermind personality overview:

In dealing with the outside world, the mastermind has two states. The first case is internal, where the hero uses his intuition to take a position on things around him. The other situation is external, through which the mastermind deals with situations according to what his mind and logic dictate to him. The mastermind lives in the world of ideas and strategic planning, and highly values intelligence, knowledge, and efficiency. He often has a high level of those things that he tries to reach and achieve. As well as is the case when viewed expect from others.


The mastermind's introversion and intuition help him notice what is happening in the world around him, and he constantly tries to focus his energy on generating ideas and possibilities. His mind constantly collects information and tries to connect it and deduce relationships between them. He is quick-witted and can understand any new theory that comes across very quickly. But often his desire is not to understand the theory or idea but rather to find a logical and practical application of it.


His nature and need for organization, to find order in work, as well as his insight, help him put ideas into a simplified and useful form for society. It is not easy to understand his thoughts and perceptions, but the mastermind by nature tries to put them in a simplified form. This is often done by transforming his ideas into a simplified system or application that can be explained more easily than if he tried to explain the theory on which this system was built. The mastermind does not believe in explaining his ideas directly and finds it difficult to explain them, especially since they are often complex. But his appreciation for science may make him go beyond that and explain his theories to some people if he sees in them the passion and ability to learn.


The mastermind is a leader by nature, but he prefers to hide and stay behind until the need arises for him to assume leadership. At that time, he assumes leadership and excels at it. This is helped by his ability to view the situation objectively, as well as his ability to change processes that are performed incorrectly. He is a strategic planner with very high capabilities, with the ability to compare current ideas and operations and alternative ideas and choose the best one or develop a plan in emergencies.


The mastermind spends most of his time inside his mind, and may not pay any attention to people's thoughts and feelings. If a mastermind does not develop his emotional side, he may not be able to meet the needs of the people around him. If he does not develop his sensory side, he may ignore some important details to complete his projects and ideas. What matters to him in his dealings with the world is his decision-making, his judgments, and his placement of everything he encounters in a precise and understandable system. The scientist often has very accurate intuition, but he may have trouble putting his views into a form that is understandable to others, and when the mastermind fails to communicate his ideas, he often blames the other party's lack of understanding rather than the fact that he did not put his ideas in a form that others can. Who understood it? This may eventually lead him to become ignorant of the opinions of others and thus become arrogant in the eyes of others.


A mastermind is an ambitious, self-confident, dependable, and long-term thinker. He often goes to work in the field of pure science or engineering, and in some cases, he goes to administrative work in the areas of organization and strategic planning. He hates chaos, inefficiency, and unclear things or processes. The mastermind values clarity in work and efficiency, and therefore you find him spending a lot of time and effort in planning, organizing, and establishing his rules in his work environment.


Others may see the mastermind as someone mysterious and reserved and may find it difficult to understand him or her. This is true, as he does not prefer to express his opinions to the people around him, and he does not see the need to give positive comments. His reserve and isolation do not mean that he does not want to listen to the opinions of those around him. On the contrary, his need and constant search for the best ways to perform work means that he is always open to the opinions of others and their suggestions about new methods and ideas.


When he is under pressure, he often becomes obsessed with repetition and blind attempts, or addiction to work or other things. He may also tend to look into the details and details of matters that may have nothing to do with the project he is working on. A mastermind must always remember to express his feelings and take the time to express himself so that others can understand him. If his communication abilities are not developed, he may become isolated and cut off from society.


The mastermind has tremendous capabilities to achieve tremendous things. He has a keen eye for the big picture, and his personality type drives him to put ideas and theories into simple, practical applications. By nature, he loves competition, so he will have no problem achieving his academic or professional dreams. At the level of public relations, the mastermind who can develop his sensual and emotional side will be able to create successful relationships, and his mental and personal abilities will help him to have a successful and distinguished life.


Mastermind as husband/wife:

The mastermind lives most of his life inside his mind, searching his surroundings for ideas and theories to create organized plans and structures from them. Sometimes, what he imagines is more pure and ideal than the reality of his marital relationships. In addition, the mastermind sometimes faces a problem in distinguishing between what he imagines and reality.


He is usually not in tune with his feelings or the feelings of those around him. He also often tends to believe that he is always right. His excessive confidence in himself and the strength of his personality may attract some people to him, but his lack or lack of sensitivity to his husband’s feelings may cause problems and hurt the husband’s feelings. If this is a problem for the mastermind, he must always remember to be kind and try to be lenient, allow his spouse to be right sometimes, and be aware of the impact of words on his spouse's feelings. Also, in cases of conflict and disagreements, he must try to answer in a way that meets his husband’s emotional needs and not what his mind or logic inclines him to do.


He is an intelligent person, and the best thing that distinguishes him in the aspect of married life is his ability to think about things more than they do them. The aspect that poses difficulty for him is his distinction between what is reality and what is imagination. When he is in a relationship, this is evidence that it is a strong and healthy relationship, because he will leave it if it is the opposite, unless he is forced to continue it.


Although any relationship between people of the 16 classifications may be successful, the natural partner or spouse of a mastermind is the hero (ENFP) or the inventor (ENTP).


The mastermind as a parent:

The mastermind seeks to raise his children to be smart and independent. He wants his children to think, to make their own decisions, and often gives them room to grow and evaluate their ideas and opinions throughout their lives.


It is not normal for a mastermind to be an encouraging or overly emotional parent, because his need to express his emotions is often low. He may not see the need to support and motivate his children, and even if he notices this need, he will not support it or encourage his children to develop it. This may create a gap between him and his children. Therefore, he must remember to meet his children's emotional needs.


Mastermind as a friend:

A mastermind is a difficult person to understand, and also difficult to get close to. People who succeed in getting close to him often appreciate him for his knowledge and knowledge. Although he is known to be strict and serious most of the time, he is lenient in his affairs and tries to enjoy his time if his friends invite him to do so, and the mastermind may also have a good ability to tell jokes.


A mastermind is unlikely to be inclined to spend time with people who have nothing to offer him. He tends to spend time with rational or sensual intuitive. These personalities like to theorize or speculate about things, and they like to analyze ideas.


The mastermind tends to always be right. Sometimes what it supports may be obvious, and other times it cannot be discovered by others. In these cases, people may not accept him and see his behavior as a kind of arrogance. This does not mean that the mastermind is arrogant, but some people may see something in his character that suggests this. In addition, some may not see the need to pursue theories and discover conclusions, unlike the mastermind.


Strengths in social life:

  • Criticism or disagreements do not pose a threat to him.
  • He is often self-confident.
  • He takes his relationships and obligations seriously.
  • He is often intelligent and able to perform his tasks.
  • He can leave relationships that appear to him to have failed, but they may remain in his mind for some time.
  • A good listener.
  • Trying to have his relationships the best.


Weakness in social life:

  • Often not in tune with other people's feelings. Insensitive it has been seen in some cases.
  • In case of disagreements, he may tend to use reason and logic instead of emotional support.
  • He is not good at expressing his emotions and feelings.
  • He tends to believe that he is always right.
  • Most of the time, he does not accept or accept blame or be held responsible for mistakes.
  • His desire to improve everything around him may sometimes be at the expense of his relationships.
  • Tends to disrupt and hide part of his personality from others.


Traits of a mastermind at work:

  • He can comprehend complex theories and ideas.
  • Tends to establish a system and arrangement of abstract theories.
  • A distinctive strategic plan.
  • He has a future outlook.
  • Look at the big picture.
  • A very strong intuition and sense, which he often trusts.
  • He values his own opinions more than the opinions of others.
  • He loves difficult theoretical challenges.
  • He quickly gets bored with dealing with routine work.
  • Values knowledge and efficiency at work.
  • Low patience, lack of efficiency, and lack of clarity.
  • He has very high values and expectations in business, which he also applies to himself.
  • Reserved and distant from others.
  • Calm and analytical.
  • Very logical and rational.
  • Unique and independent in itself.
  • A natural leader, but he will follow those who can support and help him.
  • Creative and inventor.
  • He prefers to work alone and will produce better if he works alone.


Businesses that suit a mastermind:

  • world.
  • Engineer.
  • A teacher or teacher.
  • doctor.
  • Corporate strategic plan.
  • Business manager, or an administrator.
  • Commander.
  • Lawyer, or public prosecutor.
  • a judge.
  • Computer programmer, systems analyst, or a computer specialist to me.


Famos masterminds:

  • Isaac Newton (British physicist and mathematician).
  • Karl Marx (German philosopher and politician, founder of the idea of Marxism and modern communism).
  • Friedrich Nietzsche (German philosopher and poet).
  • Mark Zuckerberg (founder of Facebook).
  • Paul Krugman (Nobel Prize-winning American economist).
  • Steve Hawking (British physicist).
  • Jean-Paul Sartre (French philosopher).
  • Georg Hegel (German philosopher).
  • James Cameron (Canadian director).
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger (American actor and politician).
  • Anders Rasmussen (Danish politician and NATO Secretary).


Enhancing mastermind strengths:

Your personality is superior to other personalities in several aspects. Knowing these points, focusing on them, and developing them, will help you stand out and excel over your peers. Masterminds will notice these qualities in themselves, which they should focus on and nurture:


  • Your mind is naturally equipped with a high and organized ability to analyze information from many angles and different contexts, and to reject or reserve information that proves important to you. Therefore, it is natural for you to be creative in your studies or in any field that requires analytical thinking.

  • You have insight and can see things that may not be clear to others. Your ability to see things in this way and patterns helps you do many things throughout your life.
  • When you are given a goal or a framework within which to work, you can generate many possibilities. You can see the problem from several angles and come up with a solution that suits the situation you face.
  • You do not take criticism personally, and your personality is open to accepting new opinions when it becomes clear to you that they are correct or that they will help you perform what is required of you better.
  • Your personality is characterized by a commitment to goals. When you are determined to achieve something, you persevere in working on it until it is achieved.
  • People with your personality are often characterized by sharp intelligence and the ability to concentrate. Thus, you can understand the most difficult theoretical ideas and concepts.
  • A mastermind who develops the social-rational aspect of himself will obtain the following:
  • Your intuition will enable you to build ingenious systems to achieve goals or develop action steps to achieve them. Which will make you a distinguished scientist, a brilliant doctor, or a strategic planner for your business.
  • Your deep understanding of reality, your abilities for logical analysis, and your persistence will enable you to invent new things that no one has ever done before.
  • Your decisive thinking will enable you to understand ideas that go beyond the limits of reason and natural intelligence.
  • If you can add wisdom and life knowledge, you will become a seasoned politician.


Expected problems for the mastermind:

Most of the problems that a mastermind is expected to have stemmed from the dominance of his introverted intuition over the rest of his personality characteristics. Consequently, all of his personality traits are transformed into serving this aspect of his personality, and some of these traits may appear in him:

  • He may not realize or care about how he behaves towards others.
  • He may not care about the opinions of others and dismiss them as soon as he hears them.
  • He may act strictly with others instead of being strict with himself.
  • Because of his ability to see things from different angles, it may appear to him that others are always wrong and are the cause of the problems they face in their lives.
  • He may consider the opinions and suggestions of others for no other reason than to find errors in them.
  • He may show pride in his ability to analyze others and see errors in them and their ideas.
  • His expectations of others may be unreasonable.
  • He may not be tolerant of the weaknesses of others.
  • He may tend to believe that he is always right.
  • He may be sarcastic in a way that hurts others.
  • He may be characterized by a lack of patience and quick anger.
  • He may be characterized by holding grudges and having difficulty forgetting them.
  • He may find it difficult to communicate his thoughts and feelings to others.
  • His ability to see many relationships between things may lead to his being distracted and unable to see the big picture of things.

To overcome these points, you must focus on not dismissing ideas as soon as you hear them, but rather analyzing them through your intuition and adding them to your stock of information. Then, start applying your rigorous logic to the idea after you've fully understood it. So you may need to give your intuition and mind enough time to understand it from all angles. The mastermind must focus on applying its rigor to support its intuition, not on dismissing ideas that come from outside it.

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