#intpxestj

Certainty of Writer’s type: 80% I self-typed, from reading about the functions. I am only 80% certain because ISTJ is another possibility.

Certainty of his type: 90%. I typed him and he does not know about MBTI at all.

I follow him around for some time. This was sometimes done out of boredom and indifference but mostly because I looked up to him. He could get things done and organize like no other person that I have ever met. He pretty much inspired me to do stuff rather than think all the time.

Following him also gave my plenty of opportunities to observe him in social environments. I picked up more appropriate social reactions from him and that was when I realized how far behind I was for keeping up with ANY entertainment (movies, TV episodes, singers, etc. Books- I was and still am quite up to date :D). It was like I was still at the start line of a race and had no idea that the starting pistol had gone off while others were at the finish line already. Therefore, he knows to keep his randomness at bay (why??) because of my lack of knowledge of entertainment-topics.

I was somewhat taken aback by his commanding nature at first but then I realized that he wanted everything to turn out well in his way. I can tell when he is somewhat unnerved at even the slightest change in schedule because he would have a blank, sometimes uncomfortable expression for a split second then say something like “Okay.” I had originally typed him as another type but I noticed that he communicated with his Si-Ne rather than Ni-Se in informal situations. (For formal/serious situations, it is Te that comes first, always)

We work well together (really well in his OP) but sometimes I would have a million ideas and thoughts when he talked about a project or something like that and I would hold that back because I did not want to overwhelm him and (as he calls it) “mess with his plans”. (Lol) I think he discovered that I was withholding a lot of information because I would have a straight face when he announced one of my predicted outcomes. For example (this is a real conversation):

“You don’t seem so surprised.” -ESTJ

“Why would I be surprised?” -Me

*Looks at me carefully* “Did you know that this and this were going to happen?” -ESTJ

“Yeah.” -Me

“And you didn’t tell me???” -ESTJ (then he gets mad, which is kinda funny, IMO)

I have never  rarely seen this ESTJ do or say anything in anger. He is a brutally honest person, which some people find offensive, but he conveys his words in such a “passing”, joking way that most people are fine with it.

We have fun analyzing movies, books (especially characters) and people, but once the discussion is over, he doesn’t want to go back to it while I want to continue analyzing.

Oooh, and “Why do you have to know how something works if it already works?”