INTJ Personality: How to Change the World (with resourcefulness and rebellion!)

The INTJ Myers-Briggs personality type is known for being goal-oriented, imaginative, innovative, well-read, and kind of a perfectionist. Famous likely INTJ changemakers include people like Susan B. Anthony, Samantha Power, and Nikola Tesla. Are you an INTJ or think you might be? In this video, we will explore ways that you can change the world. My name is Amber Melanie Smith, and I am a nonprofit founder and executive director and speaker on all things social impact, nonprofits, making a difference, and more. I make these YouTube videos once a week to help aspiring changemakers with tips and strategies to help you change the world and live a life of meaning and impact. INTJs are inquisitive, analytical, perfectionists who believe that anything is possible with innovation and hard work, and they really love to challenge the status quo. If you're not sure yet what your Myers-Briggs personality type is, I am leaving some links in the description below where you can take an assessment and figure it out and come back and tell us. Also, if you like this topic and are just interested in how you can change the world and make an impact in your community and around the globe, please give this video a like and subscribe to my channel because I am making videos along these topics every week and have covered multiple other personality types in the past and hope to cover the rest soon. Before I get into exactly how INTJs can change the world, let's just review quickly their personality traits. INTJs are extremely rare, making up just about 2% of the population. INTJs absorb knowledge like a sponge and really pride themselves on being well read on a number of different topics. INTJs love to use their knowledge to design effective solutions to problems and don't really like listening to authority when they're told, that can't be done. I think I like you INTJs. So when others are not really on board with their innovative ideas, they have no problem taking them and running with them on their own. INTJ weaknesses, however, include coming across as a little arrogant and being intolerant of those who can't keep up with them. INTJs tend to overanalyze things and struggle to respond appropriately to other people's emotions. INTJs really need to work on tasks that are both intellectually stimulating and help lift others up through their own hard work. Okay, so let's get into some of the numerous ways that INTJs can make a difference in the world. INTJs, kind of like their INTP counterparts, like to pull problems apart and really understand what is the reason behind these problems at their root cause. This could make them super effective at analyzing large, complicated social issues that have a lot of moving parts. They do prefer to work alone, but they really like to have someone who will listen to their creative and innovative ideas and understand them. Fairness, honesty, integrity, and hard work are must-have values in any change-making path that an INTJ could undertake. So whether working in the for-profit or private or government or non-profit or social enterprise realm or even as a volunteer helping a cause they care about, here are some ways that INTJs could make an impact on the world around them. Similar to their INTP counterparts in business or the private sector, INTJs really hate bureaucratic large organizations and much prefer to work independently to follow their own creative vision. With their emphasis on questioning the old ways and honesty and fairness and transparency, I could really see INTJs doing well and creating a big impact, creating big sweeping policies for either businesses or government or society in order to improve the lives of those that could be impacted by those policies. Strategy development is a huge strength for INTJs. So any opportunity where an INTJ could be designing a program or project and then working on it from behind the scenes, so they don't like to be up front working with a lot of people, but from behind the scenes where they can kind of see it lay out and assess and evaluate it from there, might be really satisfactory to an INTJ. So in the non-profit or social enterprise world, since INTJs are really inclined to prefer to work either on their own or in small groups, they might actually be really well suited to working with a small organization or even a scrappy startup non-profit or social enterprise where they can design a program or an effective solution from the ground up. INTJs might make really effective founders of organizations using a lot of data and statistics and well-researched information to design smart solutions to complex issues. They might especially like to work on causes that oppose tyranny or oppression or combating fake news or anything that will help a person lift themselves up out of a bad situation by equipping them with the tools to do it themselves. Roles like project managers or campaign managers or researchers or even executive directors or CEOs of these types of organizations might suit INTJs really well. INTJs can really make a big difference by helping out as a volunteer also. Again, as a big believer in hard work and resourcefulness, any kind of volunteer role that will allow you to equip someone else to lift themselves up out of a bad situation is appealing to you. Examples might include volunteering your time to create toolkits or content or programs that can teach financial literacy or help improve the odds of someone getting a job or even empowering other people to become entrepreneurs. Because you so highly value truth and rebel against authority or institutions that might suppress truth, causes like open source development or openly sharing knowledge or honest journalism might also be really appealing to you. From your point of view, promoting these causes will allow society to share its resources and knowledge and allow people to make their own informed decisions, not just listen to an authority figure. Along these same lines, you might find satisfaction volunteering as a writer who's exposing truths or the dark side of institutions or even developing an app that can help a cause like this or fundraising to promote open source projects. You're probably more likely to take on one-on-one volunteering activities as opposed to working in a group to achieve a goal. Examples might include helping someone practice their job interview skills or maybe even being a mentor through an organization like Big Brother Big Sister. So I want to hear from you. Are you an INTJ or do you know one? What are some of the ways that you are out there making an impact on the world around you? Let us know in the comments and let's start a discussion about it. I hope you liked this video. Once again, please don't forget to subscribe because I make videos on social change, social impact, non-profits, and more on this YouTube channel once a week. And my name is Amber Melanie Smith. And if you are on Facebook, don't forget to check out my Facebook group, Change the World or Bust, where myself and other change makers like you are having great conversations about how to make an impact and helping each other out in the process. Thanks again for watching. Hope to see you next time.