INTJ-style types in a group

INTJ-style types in a group

The INTJ-style lens reads your cast through 16 four-letter types, like INTJ or ESFP. Where the Enneagram looks at what a character fears and wants, INTJ-style looks at how they think, decide and act under pressure, and who they clash or click with.

This page is about how the types behave in a group. To give your characters types, see Give the app your cast’s types.

The four temperaments

Every INTJ-style type belongs to one of four temperaments. Each one needs something different, so a cast that covers all four has built-in conflict.

• Rationals (NT types) need Mastery & Logic. The Architect: strategic and analytical; they see the world as a system to master or re-engineer.
• Idealists (NF types) need Meaning & Identity. The Soul: driven by values, vision or empathy; they fight for justice, love or personal truth.
• Guardians (SJ types) need Duty & Stability. The Anchor: loyal and rule-following; they protect the status quo and keep things running.
• Artisans (SP types) need Freedom & Action. The Catalysts: impulsive and adaptable; they live in the moment and come alive in a crisis.

Group Psychology lists the temperaments in your cast and flags any that are Missing, with what the ensemble loses without them.

Which temperaments clash and which grow

• Growth and conflict: Idealist with Rational, and Artisan with Guardian. They share a focus (big ideas, or getting things done) but go about it in opposite ways. They clash, and they also admire what the other has and push each other to grow.
• Conflict: every other mix of two different temperaments. The Pairings view explains each clash, with a dramatic and a comedic example.
• Same temperament: two characters who need the same thing.

Two special pairings are marked Growth, whatever their temperaments:

• Dual: two types with nothing in common on the surface whose strengths cover each other’s blind spots. They start with friction and become each other’s missing half.
• Mirror: two types with the same traits in a flipped order, such as INFJ and ENFP. They see the world through the same lens; one processes inward, the other outward.

Quadras: what the group values

Each type also belongs to one of four Quadras, groups that share values:

• The Alphas (ESFJ, ISFJ, ENTP, INTP): the Harmonizers.
• The Betas (ENFJ, INFJ, ESTP, ISTP): the Ideologues.
• The Gammas (ENTJ, INTJ, ESFP, ISFP): the Pragmatists.
• The Deltas (ENFP, INFP, ESTJ, ISTJ): the Individualists.

A team inside one Quadra agrees on what matters, so its conflict has to come from outside. A team spread across Quadras disagrees about what matters, not just how to get it.

Interaction styles

Group Psychology also names the interaction style most of your cast shares: the “In Charge” group (Commanders), the “Chart the Course” group (Strategists), the “Get Things Going” group (Energizers) or the “Behind the Scenes” group (Observers).

Introverts and extraverts

On a saved team, Group Analysis counts the introverts (I) and extraverts (E). Extraverts drive scenes and speak first; introverts hold back and decide later. A team with only one kind has a built-in weakness.

Blind spots

A balanced cast has someone to generate ideas (N), someone to ground them in reality (S), someone to judge them coolly (T) and someone to weigh the human cost (F). If nobody in your cast prefers one of these, Group Psychology flags it as a blind spot.

The 16 types

Where to see it

• Ensemble Wheel: with the INTJ-style lens, your cast placed on a ring of 8 type pairs.
• Pairings: every pair, marked conflict, growth and conflict, growth, or same temperament.
• Team patterns: the Four Temperaments, Quadras, and introverts and extraverts on a saved team.