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• Adrian Monk – Owned a closet of identical brown suits that he kept in absolutely perfect
condition. No glasses. (Good)
I was surprised to find a couple INTJs who wore painfully bright outfits.
• Nero Wolfe – Dressed in various colors, but always with a yellow undershirt. He also wore
yellow pajamas to bed. If he got a spot on his tie, he would remove it rather than continue
to wear it. No glasses. (Good)
• Otto Octavius, aka "Doctor Octopus" – Supervillain who wore a ghastly green and orange
costume (I suppose it comes with the genre). Later he replaced this monstrosity with a
spotless white suit and black tie. He always wore black sunglasses due to an eye problem.
(Evil)
There seemed to be no differences in clothing styles or color usage for good and evil INTJs.
Religion
It is a well known fact that INTJs are "the most atheistic type." However, this is something of a
misnomer, since the majority (64.4%) of INTJs in a 3,036 person study indicated that they did in
fact believe in a higher spiritual power. 14 This is only 27 percentage points below the ENFJs, who
were the most likely of all types (91.4%) to believe in a higher spiritual power. It would thus be
inappropriate to conclude that INTJs are not religious; the majority of them are. Whether that
religion takes the form of a mainstream belief system or a modern day version of Deism is a
different story. Only 23.1% of the INTJs were atheistic, and 12.5% were agnostic. INTJs are even
fairly well represented among pastors, comprising about 4% of clergy members. 15 The TJ
preference becomes particularly pronounced at higher ecclesiastical levels; the majority of bishops
are TJs. 16
The MBTI has actually become fairly popular in Christian circles; this makes it easier to determine
the type compositions of religious groups. In one study, 256 men and 380 women took a variety of
courses dealing with the application of type to the Christian life (read here). 17 The group was given
the MBTI and it turned out that there were 3.68 times as many male INTJs as would have been
expected in comparison to general male norms, and 8.54 times as many female INTJs as would
have been expected. Why the high density of INTJs? One suspects that these INTJ Christians may
have been attracted to the courses themselves—i.e. the chance to build their knowledge and thus to
grow their faith. In some religious circles, INTJs may actually be quite common—the seminary,
particularly, attracts them because of its focus on rigorous higher education. 18
So what are religious INTJs like?
The spiritual disciplines favored by introverts include prayer, meditation, study, and reading. 19 One
suspects that INTJs are also attracted to remote hermitages and monasteries with a rule of silence.
Introverts additionally prefer individual prayer over communal prayer and favor the quieter early
morning or evening service over a more crowded late morning service.
INTJs want logical consistency in their spiritual life as everywhere else, and Keirsey (1998) has
14 Myers, McCaulley, Quenk & Hammer, 1998
15 Oswald & Kroeger, 1988
16 Kroeger & Thuesen, 1988
17 Craig, Francis, & Barwick, 2010
18 Oswald & Kroeger, 1988
19 Oswald & Kroeger, 1988