INT you say? Considering that I have not yet shared any real personal information, is that your intuition speaking? But I do think my type might lie somewhere in that area, I wouldn't say you are completely off.
hehe, sweet. yeah, something about the way you phrased it sounded INT to me - now that i look at it, it seems INTJ to be specific... it was quick, clear, polite, slightly removed, and fairly eloquent given the short amount of words (which suggests J over P, Ps usually like to ramble a bit). not that i really thought about that at the time of course
I am an originator of ideas and when working in groups I am the one people turn to when trying to figure out how to proceed. I usually already know how I want results to look like, and how I am going to get there. I have no trouble taking charge of the team, and I will if I feel that the project is going nowhere.
this sounds a LOT like Ni combined with an extroverted Judging (Te, Fe) function. you're right about people having a lot of different definitions of the functions, but to boil them down to one or two words Ne is more like "connections, possibilities", while Ni is more like "envisioning, foresight". it's much more of a Ni thing to see one good, clear path to where you want to go, while Ne conjures up about 500 different paths but is less clear about which ones are the good ones.
I can be talkative and social, I am confident and have no trouble approaching anyone. But at the end of the day I long for solitude. Sometimes, even in the middle of conversation, it is like one of my flips are switched and suddenly all the socializing and people are overwhelming and I just wish to be somewhere else. I suspect I'm more of an introvert, but not socially awkward like many introverts describe themselves as. Also having people around tend to be blocking my ability to do "deep thinking", wich I do alot when I'm alone.
yeah, it's cool, you can be a socially suave introvert. i personally used to be - and still am to an extent - a socially uncomfortable extravert
it may help to understand that the attitudes of the functions (whether they are introverted or extraverted) applies to the functions themselves - in other words, extraverted Feeling is extraverted because it is Feeling applied to external people/objects/concepts. introverted Feeling applies to internal things - both internal to yourself and internal to someone or something else. introverted Perceiving functions (Ni, Si) look inwards at internal information, while extraverted Perceiving functions (Ne, Se) look outwards at internal information. introverted Judging functions (Fi, Ti) act inwardly to build and change one's own structure of thinking about things and assess information on the basis of what its internal significance is. extraverted Judging functions (Fe, Te) act outwardly to change one's environment and assess information on the basis of cause-and-effect between external things.
and then extraversion or introversion in terms of your 4-letter code depends
only on what your first cognitive preference is - the attitude of your dominant function - and not whether you like huge parties or not, which so many internet tests like to go by, lol.
I see myself as both rational and emotional. I always rely on logic in my reasoning, arguments and decision making. I'm not easily intimated or particularly sensitive, but like I said, I'm an emotional one. Emotional but not emotionally expressive except for anger or rage, prone to outbursts since I'm impatient and speak my mind if I feel there is something wrong. But as much as I am in touch with my own feelings, I don't resonate well with others'. If I hear someone tell me about their problems wich caused them great pain I can do nothing more but to offer advice. I'm empathic but not sympathic and absolutely not a consoler. The exception is if it is someone I share a certain bond with and deeply care for, like a partner or a family member.
this sounds like Fi more than Fe, which also corresponds with INTJ, but you may want to check out that type's profiles and then the surrounding types (INTP, INFJ, ENTJ, ENTP) and see what you think.
i know what you mean about not wanting to type yourself, though. it's hard to escape your own paradigm... i didn't know i was an E, not an I, until about 10 people on these threads poured into my "Type Me" thread saying they seriously doubted i was an introvert. upon learning the functions, i discovered that they were very right.
more fun to make people guess anyway, lol