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"He [Van Helsing] stepped over and sat down beside me, and went on, "You are a clever man, friend John. You reason well, and your wit is bold, but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are, that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplated by men's eyes, because they know, or think they know, some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all, and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. But yet we see around us every day the growth of new beliefs, which think themselves new, and which are yet but the old, which pretend to be young, like the fine ladies at the opera. I suppose now you do not believe in corporeal transference. No? Nor in materialization. No? Nor in astral bodies. No? Nor in the reading of thought. No? Nor in hypnotism…" • Self determined; disregarded opinions of others (NT) "Van Helsing had a way of going on his own road, no matter who remonstrated." • Was a specialist in obscure diseases rather than a general practitioner (Favors NT) • Iron self control; capable of totally restraining even the wildest emotional reactions (NT self mastery) • Tended to speak in long, convoluted sentences with multisyllabic words (NT) • Unintentionally forgetful of others' delicate feelings. He mentioned that he was sure that Dracula wouldn't be coming back on that particular night. When asked why, he explained that Dracula had already had a big meal. The traumatized victim who provided said meal was in the room. (NT) "Van Helsing had not intended to recall her frightful experience. He had simply lost sight of her and her part in the affair in his intellectual effort. When it struck him what he said, he was horrified at his thoughtlessness and tried to comfort her." • Said things like, "Do not ever fear to think." (This should be the NT motto.) • Liking for puns and double meanings (NT) 136 "When that fail he [Dracula] make straight for his last resource, his last earth-work I might say did I wish double entente." 137, 138 • Knew many languages (Favors INT) • Willing to accept knowledge from anyone, not just experts (NT) "Perhaps I may gain more knowledge out of the folly of this madman than I shall from the teaching of the most wise. Who knows?" • Extremely self confident (NTJ favored among Rationals) • Future oriented and planful (INTJ future orientation, Judging) "As usual Van Helsing had thought ahead of everyone else, and was prepared with an exact ordering of our work." --- "We should have ready some plan of attack, so that we may throw away no chance." • Tended to give imperatives rather than offer suggestions (NTJ communication style favored over NTP) 139 136 Keirsey, 1998 137 Moody, 1988 138 Ehrman, 2008 139 Keirsey, 1987
• Was leader of the vampire hunting group (TJ leadership favored) • Few friendships (INTJs favored most, alas) 140 "My life is a barren and lonely one, and so full of work that I have not had much time for friendships, but since I have been summoned to here by my friend John Seward I have known so many good people and seen such nobility that I feel more than ever, and it has grown with my advancing years, the loneliness of my life." • An observer commented on Van Helsing's style of speech, "His reply was in a way characteristic of him, for it was logical (T favored over F) and forceful (NTJ favored over NTP) and mysterious (I favored over E)." (This description fits INTJ best.) • Described as solemn, grave, stern, grim (INTJ favored) 141 Van Helsing was one of the "soft" INTJs, and like Hercule Poirot (a detective who we will meet later), he had a knack for drawing people out. For instance, one young woman was worried about her husband's vampire-horror-induced mental problems, but was initially reluctant to confide them to Van Helsing. She quickly changed her mind, however: "But he was so sweet and kind, and he had promised to help, and I trusted him." She also recalled about him, "I feel from having seen him that he is good and kind and of a noble nature." At other points in the book, Van Helsing was described as tender, earnest, pitying and gentle. One might be tempted to explain these traits by suggesting that he was a Feeler. However, as we have noted, Van Helsing fits many Rational traits and was metaphorically compared on various occasions to marble, iron and ice—frozen, hard, and unyielding substances. No, Van Helsing is no Feeler, but rather a nice Thinker. This sort of thing tends to fly in the face of the INTJ stereotype that floats around on the web, but it is fairly typical. Vampire Hunting Style Van Helsing unique INTJ traits made him well suited to killing vampires. His specialized knowledge and open-mindedness made him the first person to recognize the symptoms of vampiric feeding; he also equipped, organized, and directed the team effort to kill Dracula. Let's look at some of the skills that INTJs bring to the projects they take part in, as applied to the context of vampire hunting. First to Believe the Impossible One distinctive trait that characterized Van Helsing was open mindedness. He did not shrink from entertaining unlikely hypotheses just because they were widely considered impossible. Rationals have an instinctive understanding that just because everyone agrees unanimously on a fact doesn't make it true. However, this NT skepticism usually takes the form of refusing to buy into mass superstitions. This was reversed in Van Helsing's case; he refused to buy into the scientific community's unanimous insistence that if something couldn't be positively proved—such as a superstition—then it must not be true at all. We cannot prove that either aliens or God exist, but neither can we prove they don't; Van Helsing reasoned that vampires might exist for much the same reasons. He explained his position as follows, "I heard once of an American who so defined faith, 'that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.' For one, I follow that man. He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a little bit of truth check the rush of the big truth, like a small rock does a railway truck. We get the small truth first. Good! We keep him, and we value him, but all the same we must not let him think himself all the truth in the universe." This is more of an INTP position than an INTJ position, but there are plenty of INTJ agnostics. 140 Myers, McCaulley, Quenk & Hammer, 1998 141 Thorne & Gough, 1991
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The Secret Lives of INTJs by Anna M
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Table of Contents A Dark Confession
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Mate Selection.....................
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School.............................
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Preface & Caveat Lector A Dark Conf
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General When an INTJs gets excited
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A survey of type and American polit
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name I can no longer recall was sho
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Leisure Favorite Pastimes Believe i
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following the principles the INTJ h
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observed that the Rational temperam
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One further note on giving. I suspe
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were seen as not being "facially an
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answer—the test subjects were muc
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2. North Carolina 3. Georgia 4. Uta
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As it so happens, I have an INTJ fr
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How to Tell INTJs Apart From INTPs
Page 36 and 37: • INTJs generally believe that th
Page 38 and 39: • INTJs enjoy exercise more than
Page 40 and 41: Fictional INTJs Why study fictional
Page 42 and 43: It is better to rely on information
Page 44 and 45: Archetypes If you've ever spent tim
Page 46 and 47: INTJs in Love Problems with Studyin
Page 48 and 49: • Rationals were 65% satisfied wi
Page 50 and 51: 4. Similar parenting styles 5. Spen
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Page 54 and 55: "sentimental" presents. Rationals d
Page 56 and 57: neither party will retreat from the
Page 58 and 59: Least Important Values The research
Page 60 and 61: Guardians like giving and receiving
Page 62 and 63: scientists, who named a mouse phero
Page 64 and 65: "...there was a mixture of sweetnes
Page 66 and 67: Rational, I have very high standard
Page 68 and 69: "Then," observed Elizabeth, "you mu
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Page 74 and 75: emarried than average, and also had
Page 76 and 77: The finished contract will look som
Page 78 and 79: You’re sort of like a journal in
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Page 82 and 83: one of bettering their race—of ca
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Page 90 and 91: good at planning trips. • Secrecy
Page 92 and 93: This probably argues against ENTJ.)
Page 94 and 95: INTJs in Charge Keirsey (1987) call
Page 96 and 97: Nathaniel Bowditch Occupation: Math
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Page 100 and 101: jumping swiftly to "the wild hilari
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Page 114 and 115: initiation of the disastrous War of
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Page 118 and 119: INTJs like reading and working on t
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Page 124 and 125: you know about this" rather than "W
Page 126 and 127: The rock belonged to your neighbor
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Page 130 and 131: minutes for the task, and an additi
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So he defined three different ways
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Work Related Miscellanea E-mail Int
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doesn't make him "smart" by our Ein
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creativity often takes the form of
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ESTP 0.49 ISFJ 0.40 ESTJ 0.26 ESFJ
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Child C - IQ Unmeasurable (As teste
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"antagonistic" trait that they deci
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teachers later noted, "My only crit
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his assistants, he could not bear t
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Rationals seldom confuse the means
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& his Head scarcely comb'd.” It t
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used external coercion effectively
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undertaken, and prosecuted with ard
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said so" or "Because I gave birth t
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INTJ Children Lack of Role Models O
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Some of the things that INTJs enjoy
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Computer Games Like adults of the t
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try anything. 228 Others claim that
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Fitting In Many youthful INTJs find
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wished to improve and ennoble you.
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punishments are threatened. Or, if
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learning what they are supposed to
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School Will Socialize You INTJ chil
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Engineering A survey of ASEE (Ameri
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MBA A 1997 study 254 of 1,925 worki
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Intelligence Studies Intelligence S
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Science INTJs were the most highly
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Mental Health and Rehabilitation Oc
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INTJs and the Changing Face of Educ
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INTJs and Asperger's Syndrome In IN
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The symptoms he assessed were as fo
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INTJ Detectives and Personality Dis
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person can be 10% OCPD, 30% OCPD, 5
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saddled with innumerable compulsion
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school she attended. Besides this,
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Hercule Poirot and His Little Grey
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square fireplace in the square room
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• Often gave direct commands (NTJ
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simulator) and roleplay as a hard b
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Prison, Criminal Masterminds, and t
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something...reading, writing or doi
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here), so the stereotypes may very
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himself into an INTJ. Maybe INTs ar
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Could this be an isolated finding?
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memorandum-book in which he had scr
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A Brief Note About Holmes I've seen
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Appendix 1: Why Didn't You Include
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and unprovable. Ni was, in fact, th
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the lower-case non-preferences will
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the bigot's personal life "proving"
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Bibliography Ackroyd, P. (2006). Ne
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of Psychological Type. Kanai, C., I
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expression of geographic variation
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