INTJS and the “Popular Crowd”
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Kevin Price Editor at Large for USA Business Radio and Host of the Price of Business Show, has recently become hooked on Quora. In addition to daily hosting the Price of Business, Kevin has numerous writing obligations on this and other sites for which he serves as an editor and with his syndicated column, so we decided that if he’s going to write at Quora, he is going to share that content on this website. If you are on Quora, make sure to follow Kevin. You can check out his page here.
Kevin’s hot topics on Quora are history, free market economics, philosophy, and Myers Briggs typology, and many others. The following is one of his recent answers to the question in the title.
In our culture today there is a quirky tendency to celebrate the “odd” or “different”. They are cool, but not like others. It is a celebration of their differences, and few are more different than the “alien” INTJ (I know, I am one).
Most “cool kids” are sensors. These types are the most challenging for the INTJ to connect with. In fact, INTJs have no desire to connect with them. “Being cool” is not an INTJ driver.
I had popular friends while growing up, but we were not close. They liked to have me around because I would observe things they didn’t. I saw things, they would quickly note, they “would never see.” If a problem would come up, they would call me. But I was always on the peripheral of such relationships, which is what I want too as an introverted intuitive (a trait only shared by the INTJ and INFJ).
I’m different and I hate to fit in. The great thing about the “loss” of never being a “cool kid,” is that… (READ MORE)
