Actually I believe INTJ tend to be very competetive

 

A few weeks ago, I had a friend tell me that I was too competitive. I didn't really consider the comment, but within the next few days, I realized she was right. It isn't that I get really fired up when there is a competition, I just like to compete. It seems that I can turn almost any activity into some kind of contest. I don't think that it's necessarily that I want to win a lot, I just find the idea of competing with someone fun. I'm trying to correct it, as some of my friends have told me that they find my competitiveness, annoying. Even though I have never considered it, it may just be that a large majority of INTJs are naturally competitive.

 

I'm very competitive if I see something as strategically important to win. I tend to rationalize what I am doing things for though, if it's just for fun then it's just for fun. I might still get irritated if I don't win, but it's not a big deal. If I think it is important to win, then I'll become obsessed for awhile and normally win because I'll push myself harder than just about anyone I know.

 

I'm not very competitive at all. Sometime, I look at things as if I'm competing with someone, but that's just to get my lazy butt motivated to do unappealing work. With everything else though, I'm one of the most easy-going people in my town.

 

I'm only competitive with myself. I tend to avoid anything that involves teams. If I'm playing one-on-one, my only measure of success is whether or not I'm enjoying myself. I don't mind if someone tries to be competitive with me as long as they don't get in my face about it. On those occasions I tend to forcefully point out, apparently unlike them, I have a real life with real responsibilities and, perhaps, they should grow up and stop living in their momma's basement.

 

I'm only competitive with myself.

Same. If I'm playing a game of some kind against someone, I really only care if I'm doing better than I did last time or in the last round; I can't even work up the will to care about winning/losing something that just doesn't matter.

 

I have to admit I get competitive in the office when I can outdo someone in another unit at their own job.

 

I can be a really sore, petulant loser, and I dislike myself for it something awful. But it happens so rarely that it always takes me by dreadful surprise, and I haven't yet figured out what the markers of those kinds of incidents are. The confusing thing is that most of the time I'm nothing like that.

I think I hate to be involved in anything where I'm so outclassed my defeat is a completely foregone conclusion and you really do ask yourself what the hell is the point of these two even being in it at all. It's not like I have to win, but I want to at least give a good account of myself. Those situations where I'm so far behind I can't even get my foot in the game are the bad ones. Poker with my son, for some reason, turned out to be something I couldn't play.

I don't compete against people intentionally, or rather personally. It's a bad way to get yourself set up for a fall, because it's just like they say: sooner or later someone is better than you, so don't hang a whole lot off it. And I've also found that you can quite easily get spanked at something you care about by a person you wouldn't cross the street to spit on. So I try not to get too caught up in 'win' versus 'lose'.

 

I'm pretty anti-competitive. I loathe team playing games and people who think I'm competing with them. I do have pretty high standards for myself at times and I can beat myself up quite a bit.

 

I'm a pretty obnoxiously competitive person.

 

I'm not exactly competitive but my standard is high. This is why I hate working with teams. Everytime I work in a group people start getting extremely agitated and want me to do it all from the start. Which would be fine, if I was alone. I reserve competition for games. I can never get baited by anything though, it's quite amusing.

 

I'm not competitive at all. I really dislike watching or playing team sports. I enjoy board games and like it better when I win, but enjoy it almost as much when I lose. I tend to try to do better than I did last time or learn something to make myself better at the game. I care about that more than winning by a long shot. My INTJ husband describes himself as competitive with himself, and he seems to share my attitude regarding competition with others.

 

I am not a competitive person. I have high standards about fairness. The only intention of anything competitive is transforming status quo into inequality. I don't want to be a cheeky winner or a gloomy loser for the sake of temporary exitement.

 

I hate losing more than I love winning.

The "I'm just here to have fun" or "as long as you have fun" gang annoy the hell out of me.

My dad used to be very open about my sucking if I did poorly in sports. Pushed me to become the best player on my team (and then down again hahaha).

 

Anyone competitive with time/themselves?
In general situations:
Telling yourself to get to a point on the sidewalk before an unrelated truck goes by,
telling yourself to finish a test before a certain minute,
etc. etc.

Also looking for a breakdown on what this means. I did it as a kid a lot. Was it just a game?

 

This is how I compete. I view what most people view as a competition as a learning experience. Competition is challenging my self to do stuff faster, better and with less of X. I find myself always competing with the passing car to make it to a certain point.

 

I'm not competitive with other people when playing games. Obviously I prefer to win, but if I don't that's fine too. I guess you could say I competitive with myself. I challenge myself to do better at everything.

 

I'm sort of a sneaky competitive person. I'll say "it's just a game", but it sucks if I lose. I love winning. I love being better at things that others. I see it as a personal imperfection if I don't outdo the competition. I like all sorts of games, sports, mind games, knowledge games, etc. I also am that way with myself, meaning I always seek to be better than I was before.

 

I'm competitive. If I do something I'll go to any means to make sure I / we win (such as when I played soccer). I'm not the type to get in someones face and start screaming though. And when we lost I didn't make a big deal out of it.

 

I'm in it to win it.

 

I'm not competitive... I've left all the others far behind me a long, long time ago (to my own perception of their time-lines, at least a few lifetimes).