By Donna Dunning

In my MBTI® Certification workshops participants respond to the instruction -“Describe your type using words, phrases, or pictures.” I find these visual representations of type preferences help illustrate individual differences.

Here is a photo of a response from a group of people who have either INTJ or INFJ preferences. Both groups share a dominant function of Introverted Intuition (Ni).

The description starts with commonalities and then highlights some of the differences between those who prefer INTJ and INFJ. The conceptual, big picture, idea-focused orientation often associated with having a dominant function of Introverted Intuition is demonstrated in the top part of the poster.

It is interesting how the INTJs mention their interest in “depth and breadth – knowledge for knowledge sake” while the INFJs also agree with the idea of depth, but add “driven by values and people”.

For more illustrations of type from INTJs and INFJs, you may want to look at the first INTJ illustration, the second INTJ illustration, and the third INTJ illustration.

You may also want to look at the first INFJ illustration, second INFJ illustration, third INFJ illustration, fourth INFJ/INTJ illustration and fifth INFJ illustration.

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