INTA – Inventing

Like great theoreticians with analytical genius, INTAs have the ability to pursue a goal single-mindedly, avoiding distractions and sidestepping obstacles. In any group of people that share the hallmarks of originality, insight and creativity, INTAs will find a number of kindred souls. You have great intellectual curiosity, speed of understanding, ingenuity, and a wealth of ideas for dealing with problems.

Absorbed by the inner world of thoughts and ideas, you use your rational abilities in an adept, objective, and impersonal manner. Your friends and associates are likely to describe you as subtle, imaginative, ingenious, and a bit shy. Your greatest personal strength lies in your ability to patiently and thoroughly work out the principles of a system, operation, or problem. In fact, as an INTA you tend to happily lose
yourself in your world of thoughts. Moving from one intuitive understanding to another is usually effortless for you. Before you communicate and contribute your thoughts, you will always first make sure you have them clearly organized internally. As a result, you may sometimes be seen as reserved and withdrawn.

Because of your desire to express your thoughts and concepts correctly, conversations can quickly turn into articulating the exact truth about even the tiniest pieces of the entire puzzle. But INTAs certainly appreciate those who have the patience and attentiveness to keep up with them.

You are in love with learning and fascinated by the concept of intelligence. Always setting high standards, you maintain a mental list of things you ought to learn, accomplish, and master. When working on a project that is important to you, you are such a perfectionist that you don’t always realise you have passed the point when it truly was “good enough.”

You prefer a quiet working environment and can easily work alone. Working long hours on a project without a break is not bothersome to you. You tend to always be scanning the horizon for new or overlooked possibilities in any situation. This characteristic allows you to be an explorer and a visionary.

Overall, as an INTA, you appreciate intelligence, continually seek to increase your knowledge, and can visualize the possibilities.

Source

Boundless Diversity (A/Z): An Introduction to the Golden Personality Type Profiler
Karen A. Deitz, Ph.D. and John P. Golden, Ed.D.