[Viktoria]

Everyone here already knows what MBTI has to say about ISTJ's. But how do people interpret them?

You must be 100% honest.
It does not matter if you are right or wrong, and both positive and negative things about them, are indeed encouraged.

As a general rule. I see ISFJ's as very smart individuals, but they never seem to want to say out loud what is going on in that ever-thinking brain of theirs. They are very quiet, and hard to get to know. They also have an off sense of humor that doesn't make a lot of sense to other types. They tense up too much, and are way too perfectionistic. They are hard to manipulate, trick, or fool. They know exactly what they want.

Anyone else have views on ISTJ's that they would like to share?
If so, post them here.




**my opinion is very, very biased, as I used to date one.

[kph5034]

My dad's an ISTJ. Him and I are exact opposites. It's tough for us to enjoy each other's company because we often want to do completely different activities. He's a great dad, always reliable. He takes care of all of the paper work I have to do for college haha. It's nearly impossible for me to get away with anything without him knowing. He should have been a crime scene investigator. He's really good at investigating things.

The big difference he and I have is the fact that I'm emotionally open, and he isn't. I can never get his feeling outa him.

[NARCO]

Everyone here already knows what MBTI has to say about ISTJ's. But how do people interpret them?

You must be 100% honest.
It does not matter if you are right or wrong, and both positive and negative things about them, are indeed encouraged.

As a general rule. I see ISFJ's as very smart individuals, but they never seem to want to say out loud what is going on in that ever-thinking brain of theirs. They are very quiet, and hard to get to know. They also have an off sense of humor that doesn't make a lot of sense to other types. They tense up too much, and are way too perfectionistic. They are hard to manipulate, trick, or fool. They know exactly what they want.

Anyone else have views on ISTJ's that they would like to share?
If so, post them here.


**my opinion is very, very biased, as I used to date one.

Is this for ISFJ's or ISTJ's? You say what you think about ISFJ's but what about ISTJ's?

[Viktoria]

Is this for ISFJ's or ISTJ's? You say what you think about ISFJ's but what about ISTJ's?

ISTJ's.

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[Owldude]

A have a friend who is ISTJ, and I have to say that he can be extremely arrogant and stubborn sometimes. He always thinks that he is right about everything, and tries to convince everyone else how right he is, and ignores that he is wrong at some things just because he has proof of things that he is right at. He also has very high standards, so you have to act very polite when you're around him. And he doesn't really understand how relationships work. Back in elementary school he gave people "nice points" and kept track of who was nice to him and gave a point to nice things towards him, and subtracted points when they were mean. Several months ago he was shunning ex for about a year though she wanted him back as a friend. Then he agreed and then, made a list of rules that she would follow to be his friend, and if she broke any of them he would shun her forever with no forgiveness, since she "didn't deserve it". She obviously said that it was stupid and she got shunned. He wants nothing to do with her, and she also has a lot of beliefs that he doesn't agree with. He's also nice to only his friends, and distances himself from people that disagree with him. One last note is that he his extremely persistent in trying to control people to make things the way he wants things to be.

[MonieJ]

I have been classified as cold, stubburn,too serious, closed off and someothers but those are the ones I hear the most, I could care less what people think, I know who I am and that's all that matters. Yeah somtimes I can be a bit intimidating to some but if your around me enough you might gt lucky and gt a smile outta me

[SoftBoiledLife]

As a general rule. I see ISFJ's as very smart individuals, but they never seem to want to say out loud what is going on in that ever-thinking brain of theirs. They are very quiet, and hard to get to know. They also have an off sense of humor that doesn't make a lot of sense to other types. They tense up too much, and are way too perfectionistic. They are hard to manipulate, trick, or fool. They know exactly what they want.

Anyone else have views on ISTJ's that they would like to share?
If so, post them here.


**my opinion is very, very biased, as I used to date one.

In other words, we ISTJs are all Batmans.


No seriously. There's this sonofagun at my school who's good at hiding the fact that he's a major douche. He only talks to me or my friend when he wants something from us and never on any other occasion. He's always trying to use me or my study group to wring out freebies (e.g. outlines, tips, etc). The few close friends he has don't seem to see this which disappoints me. No surprise as they seem to be mostly ENXXs. They're not the type of people who would pick out symbolisms in a message-heavy film or subtleties in tort law.

But my friend and I reached this conclusion about him independently. It was a real shocker for me when my friend pretty much voiced what was on my mind one day.

I started getting suspicious about him a few weeks into school. Because I'm habitually an optimistic guy who prefers giving people the benefit of the doubt, I kept ignoring the little things I kept seeing in this sonofagun and my gut instincts which told me he's up to no good. It's very strange. The older I get, the better I'm get at picking out fakers.

[j3321]

Standoffish, no emotions, do not understand how relationships work at all, really good at being right about things that matter and also things that don't matter at all...makes no difference ISTJ's are right, self-confident until they have to do something like communicate an idea or make a friend then it all falls apart, wastes time with details and organization, loves to correct people about matters of fact, loves loves LOVES to correct people about matters of fact...

...but interestingly they are not mean, don't like to fight and want to be included.

On the plus side confident in their objectivity and cool composure, sometimes pretty funny if you are smart enough to get it, very hard working, despise excessive stupidity

[jessep28]

A have a friend who is ISTJ, and I have to say that he can be extremely arrogant and stubborn sometimes. He always thinks that he is right about everything, and tries to convince everyone else how right he is, and ignores that he is wrong at some things just because he has proof of things that he is right at. He also has very high standards, so you have to act very polite when you're around him. And he doesn't really understand how relationships work. Back in elementary school he gave people "nice points" and kept track of who was nice to him and gave a point to nice things towards him, and subtracted points when they were mean. Several months ago he was shunning ex for about a year though she wanted him back as a friend. Then he agreed and then, made a list of rules that she would follow to be his friend, and if she broke any of them he would shun her forever with no forgiveness, since she "didn't deserve it". She obviously said that it was stupid and she got shunned. He wants nothing to do with her, and she also has a lot of beliefs that he doesn't agree with. He's also nice to only his friends, and distances himself from people that disagree with him. One last note is that he his extremely persistent in trying to control people to make things the way he wants things to be.

I think we all do that to some degree. There is a concept coined by Steven Covey called an Emotional Bank Account. Whenever someone you know does something positive in your eye, they are making a deposit. When someone takes from you, it is a withdrawal. Depending on the "balance" it dictates to some degree your attitude towards that person.

This individual you mentioned was more objective about it and actually kept a tally.

[SoftBoiledLife]

I think we all do that to some degree. There is a concept coined by Steven Covey called an Emotional Bank Account. Whenever someone you know does something positive in your eye, they are making a deposit. When someone takes from you, it is a withdrawal. Depending on the "balance" it dictates to some degree your attitude towards that person.

This individual you mentioned was more objective about it and actually kept a tally.

@jessep28

More objective? I don't think you read my post correctly. I didn't mention anything that would have allowed you to say whether my friend "actually kept a tally" or not. For all you know, from what little I mentioned of him, he may have just relied on first impressions or psychic abilities! Unless you mixed my friend up with me, I mentioned an example or two in that previous post.

EDIT: Deleted the story because I don't think it contributes.