INTJ Strengths and Weaknesses

Your strengths and weaknesses may become more apparent when you interact with other personality types, as the differences are contrasted.

Ambitious

INTJs love self-improvement. They will set very high goals for themselves and their willingness to learn and improve will drive them on to achieve such goals.

INTJs are usually very innovative and possess the ability to think about things in new ways. From understanding whatever problems exist, an INTJ is very effective at thinking up ideas to solve them.

INTJs are very self-motivated and able to strike out and act on their own. INTJs do not need much advice from others before being able to handle situations, and will often happily do things their own way.

INTJs are very effective at seeing the bigger picture with ideas. INTJs can analyze all the complicated parts of different plans, including any pitfalls, to find effective strategies to solve any problems.

INTJs have many strengths that center around their intelligence and self-confidence. This can lead to INTJs appearing over-confident or arrogant to others, especially when frustrated by other people's inability to understand certain concepts and ideas.

INTJs often find it hard to express their emotions in an authentic manner. INTJs are thinkers and tend to focus on logic and facts over emotions. This can lead to INTJs seeming cold or distant when it comes to engaging emotionally with others.

We talked about INTJs being ambitious and setting high standards for themselves, however this can lead to INTJs being too critical of those around them when they fall short of the standards an INTJ has placed on them. This criticism is often unwarranted and over the top.

INTJs, like most introverts, will naturally gravitate away from large gatherings. As introspective thinkers, INTJs don't find the trivial chit-chat of many social events of interest to them and will much prefer socializing with a small number of close friends.