INTJ

Who you are

You calculate where something leads before dealing with where it is. Inefficiency is glaring to you, and when a better structure occurs to you, you quietly redesign. Convincing yourself matters more than being approved of.

Where you're strong

• ·Designs the big picture
• ·Strips away the excess
• ·Carries it alone if needed

At work

Give you a messy process and you start sketching a better one, ideally alone and with a long horizon. Being asked to follow a process you know is broken frustrates you. You are at your best with a few months to build something and nobody checking in every day.

With people

Understated, but once you let someone in it holds. You fold them seriously into your plans.

In love

You take dating seriously and would rather skip small talk. At the start you may weigh compatibility the way you weigh a project, asking whether your long-term goals fit. That can look cold from the other side of the table. Once you trust someone, you can be surprisingly playful in private, a side most people never meet.

Under stress

When someone else's last-minute change wrecks a plan you built with care, you stop answering messages. Sleep gets short, because you lie awake working out a backup plan. Coworkers may read the silence as anger. You come round after a weekend of reading books that have nothing to do with work.

Watch out for

Logic can be right while people move differently. Skip the persuading and you end up out ahead by yourself.