Famous INTJs in history

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11 true lives that follow the INTJ pattern. On this site it’s called The Observatory.

“You build the whole model before you speak, then defend it like it cost you something. It did.”

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Lise MeitnerShe fled Nazi Berlin with a borrowed diamond, worked out fission on a snowy walk, then missed the Nobel.Read her story
Roald AmundsenHe planned every step to the South Pole, and cut his most experienced man for criticizing the plan.Read his story
Queen NjingaShe took a Portuguese governor's name at her baptism, then used it against Portugal for over thirty years.Read her story
Benjamin BannekerAt 59 he sent Thomas Jefferson a year of the sky in his own handwriting, to answer a doubt.Read his story
Hetty GreenThe press mocked her as a miser. In the panic of 1907, she lent New York City cash.Read her story
Émilie du ChâteletDays before a birth she feared would kill her, she asked a librarian to number her Newton.Read her story
Frances Oldham KelseyHanded the easy file a month into her job, she kept saying not yet for eighteen months.Read her story
VaubanFrance's greatest fortress builder printed a plan to fix the king's taxes. The police came for it.Read his story
Lady Anne CliffordHer husband said yes to the king. She said never, and waited twenty-six years for the land.Read her story
Andrés BelloAt 45 he feared leaving his children beggary. Then he wrote a nation's law of inheritance.Read his story
Inō TadatakaA retired brewer became a younger man's pupil, then paced Japan's coasts for seventeen years.Read his story

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