A number of great coaches are Myers-Briggs INTJ

[RecoveringCowboy]

I have a list of several - great minds think alike, or at least do it the same way.

Myers-Briggs has 16 personality types - this is about INTJ (Kersey calls it the "Mastermind")

Descriptors of an INTJ:

• Tenacious
• Private
• Deep
• Intellectual
• Future-focused
• Independent
• Driven
• Intense
• Reserved
• Direct

UC @Berkley determined that the INTJ personality type was the most conducive to success in football and basketball

People who make decisions based on facts and influence factors and not on emotions dominate football and basketball. And when emotions could be involved - for instance in a situation where the coach has to send a player to the bench and the player disagrees - they cannot play a factor in the coach’s decision making process because he needs to do what is best for the team and the team goal and not for the individual. Therefore the coach’s job involves a lot of decisions where his ability of independent, rational and abstract decision making is tested. Therefore he cannot be a feeler as such. He also needs to be able to withstand possible emotional manipulations of certain players who maybe try to be better friends with the coach in order to get more floor time, because it is expected of him to treat all players equally and strategically place them like gaming pieces on the field so that the team vision of winning a certain championship can come closer. In addition to these criteria, the coach also cannot be as strong of an extrovert as the players because he needs to subtly exude authority in order for them to still feel like a flat hierarchy. There is one particular MBTI type who fulfills all these criteria: the INTJ

Lombardi and Parcells were definitely not INTJs but here are some INTJ coaches:

• Phil Jackson
• Urban Meyer
• Nick Saban
• "We're focused on Miami"

 

[Wordsmyth]

We INTJs rule!

 

[RecoveringCowboy]

As an ISTJ, I can relate to an INTJ's focus, no-nonsense approach.

 

[ALP]

The most surprising aspect of this to me is the introvert/extrovert portion

You gotta be very comfortable being vocal and heard as a coach, kinda surprised a good one is t extroverted

Coming from an ENTP

 

[DarrylS]

As an ISTJ, I can relate to an INTJ's focus, no-nonsense approach.

What a coincidence, would much rather deal with facts than what might be or what the guy says..

Logic rules the day..

 

[SHOWTIME15]

JFK was an INTJ, i believe.

 

[BTTA]

We INTJs rule!

Yes, but we don't need to broadcast it to the masses, lest they figure out what's going on and give us more resistance than they have been.

 

[Nunchucks]

We INTJs can be vocal if we determine it is necessary to get what we want done.

 

[Nunchucks]

I have taken the test 4 times, each at a different point in my life. Have always gotten the same result. The key is to answer honestly.

As for the second point. Myers Briggs is a personality test. Democrat or Republican is political affiliation...and introvert is a personality trait. Apples and bananas

 

[Froob]

I have taken the test 4 times, each at a different point in my life. Have always gotten the same result. The key is to answer honestly.

As for the second point. Myers Briggs is a personality test. Democrat or Republican is political affiliation...and introvert is a personality trait. Apples and bananas

I'm just saying to try to say there's only like ten personality types is kinda silly in my opinion. It's too absolute.

 

[Deus Irae]

Myers-Briggs is kinda bs

Yes

 

[RecoveringCowboy]

Myers-Briggs has been out awhile, so this could definitely be tweaked up. It does help us understand our personality and that of others. There are good and bad versions of a given personality. For example, while BB is an INTJ, so is Ted Kaczynski.

 

[jah]

Meyers-Briggs is pseudoscience, no doubt. But there's definitely a lot to think about in relation to it. I think INTJ makes a lot of sense for both coaches and GMs.

Generally, people who aren't "N" types are completely unwilling to adapt or accept new information. These are the people who worship tradition as time leaves them behind--Jeff Fisher.

Obviously, you want to be a Thinker rather than a Feeler as a coach. J vs P is a matter of organization, and introverts probably have more time to spend honing their craft, so the other parts of it check out as well.

It's not like astrology where you can read any result and figure how it applies to you. It can certainly work that way if you approach it stupidly without understanding the meaning of each trait, but otherwise, it's a cool way of categorizing the way people think, even if it's not scientfic.

Since we're all saying our types: INFJ

 

[RecoveringCowboy]

I'm just saying to try to say there's only like ten personality types is kinda silly in my opinion. It's too absolute.

MB has 16, and I'm sure Meyers and Briggs would concede there are more than that.

 

[BradyFTW!]

I'm an INTP (or INTJ, I've probably taken the test 4-5 times over the years and P/J tends to flip since it's pretty borderline to begin with). I think it's important when discussing this to bring up the simple fact that there's no scientific basis for believing in the legitimacy of any of this. It's pure pseudoscience, and while some of it may have elements of correctness (maybe), as a whole it's not a framework that I'd ascribe very much value to.

Having said that, I remember reading that Danny Ainge takes MBTI very seriously, to the point that it has a role in his decisionmaking as the Celtics' GM. Not sure what to make of that. The results are hard to argue, though, so I file it away alongside avocado ice cream as "maybe it's not actually helping, but a really successful guy values it so I'm not going to suggest he should stop".

 

[Le Numéro Douze]

Thing with MB is that not introverts are I to the same degree. When you take the test, they also give you a number.

I am ENTJ with my E being 90% E/10% I. My J is like 51% which is very weak.

 

[RecoveringCowboy]

Thing with MB is that not introverts are I to the same degree. When you take the test, they also give you a number.

I am ENTJ with my E being 90% E/10% I. My J is like 51% which is very weak.

So is Pete Carroll - pretty good company.

 

[Froob]

Meyers-Briggs is pseudoscience, no doubt. But there's definitely a lot to think about in relation to it. I think INTJ makes a lot of sense for both coaches and GMs.

Generally, people who aren't "N" types are completely unwilling to adapt or accept new information. These are the people who worship tradition as time leaves them behind--Jeff Fisher.

Obviously, you want to be a Thinker rather than a Feeler as a coach. J vs P is a matter of organization, and introverts probably have more time to spend honing their craft, so the other parts of it check out as well.

It's not like astrology where you can read any result and figure how it applies to you. It can certainly work that way if you approach it stupidly without understanding the meaning of each trait, but otherwise, it's a cool way of categorizing the way people think, even if it's not scientfic.

Since we're all saying our types: INFJ

That astrology **** on Facebook drives me crazy, Picses: Hates Mondays "OMG THAT'S SO ME!!!"

 

[jimnance]

I have taken the test 4 times, each at a different point in my life. Have always gotten the same result. The key is to answer honestly.

As for the second point. Myers Briggs is a personality test. Democrat or Republican is political affiliation...and introvert is a personality trait. Apples and bananas

Totally disagree...more like peaches and watermelons.

 

[jah]

That astrology **** on Facebook drives me crazy, Picses: Hates Mondays "OMG THAT'S SO ME!!!"

Yeah. I just finished up at a college that requires high grades and test scores to get in, so you have to be "smart" to some tangible extent, but ALL of them treat astrology like it's real. And a lot of them are smarter than me in some other aspects. Makes no sense to me. I think I might be autistic or something lol.