I've decided this INTJ is a "Supercharged Cadbury Egg."
However, we are here to discuss the dark side, so...
pffft, I don't know, being utilitarian with people? Maintaining distance, not allowing discussion and development of their personal motives and yet expecting to be allowed still to direct and receive benefit? If you see it, walk away from it. If you don't see it, if you find its influence after the fact, or if you're bound to that INTJ through employment or circumstance, I dunno, say it out loud to the person and stand back.
The proper dark side of the INTJ lies in the ability to store visions away for future consequence. A personal vision seen through a lens of mixed personal motivation but nonetheless kept as meaningful and used to determine future actions and reactions to actions. So you, the non-INTJ, do one thing wrong, and the INTJ sees something in it for himself, and he keeps that vision with him for you later and for other people in other circumstances. It's rarely articulated, indeed if it is articulated it is often defused, but meanwhile it stays and informs. And since INTJs aren't actually that blind, this vision will be subtle in its application and development. But it still will inform.
That's it, in a nutshell. It's like semi-paranoid foresight.
thank you both. helps enormously.
It does? *looks shifty*
Being solved like a puzzle is hardly an interesting or even remotely pleasing event. But if someone works out what I'm doing and makes some choice about joining in with it as I've prepared it (or has the sense to back off and get out of the way), that's hot.
maybe uninteresting to you. definitely pleasing for others.
once you figure out the rules of the game, yeah: join in or bow out. but that's where the fun begins because the playing field just got much much more level.
Don't rule out the aspirational Se. Along with the very obvious Te it actually does mean that understanding leads to action. Or is meant to. An INTJ being fully himself will actually eventually expect to *do something*. More importantly, do something of his own design.
Actually, I'd go with a no, there. One can fairly easily figure out some puzzle. It's a whole 'nother story as to whether one would actually not be grossed out at even thinking of supporting the completion of that puzzle. Or worse, merely bored.
^ the ENFP-INTJ fail point.
Don't rule out the aspirational Se. Along with the very obvious Te it actually does mean that understanding leads to action. Or is meant to. An INTJ being fully himself will actually eventually expect to *do something*. More importantly, do something of his own design.
*holds onto his tin foil*
Stopped reading a while back to stew on this walls nonsense, et voila, it's time to generalise.
As we all know, INTJs have walls to protect their gooey inner core. And these walls are easy to see through. (*cough* spits on the ground, doesn't say "retards" just yet.)
You are of course all aware of what this means for other types, right? Let's say, ENFPs. The general point about INTJ walls is the real person is located in the tertiary area. So... ENFPs.... you guys have intensity and authenticity. That's to say, an overemphasis on the importance of highly personalised reaction. You use it to protect and justify your real identity, that of squealing truth demander.
INTJs see through your sensitivity. We recognise your attempts order the world. The charm lies in just how gauche the rules of politeness and attempts at adequacy become.
Because I mean, realy, who ever does anything good with their auxiliary function, right? Frankly, who ever does anything with their dominant function. If we truly laid out what INTJs and ENFPs see in one another, what would it look like?
INTJ: Ni (Wut?) over Te (LOL, walls!) over Fi (D'aww) over Se (that's disgusting).
vs
ENFP: Ne (God, really?) over Fi (Yes, lets be all inner world and insular) over Te (and smack people if they don't) over Si (wut, it has to be this way, again?)
The entire purpose of Jungian typology is to understand that other people are different. They aren't just like you but not as good.