Strength Based Leadership

I think that this week's topic was very revealing. The Myers Briggs test pinpointed me perfectly. I am an IFNJ. I started typing this as "INFJs are" but decided to change it to "I am" because it describes me so prfectly and makes me feel good to know that at least on paper I can make some sort of sense. I am a "quiet, private individual," "very independent," and "intensely interested in the well-being of others." I am both sensitive and complex and I comprehend and am "driven to resolve" complicated issues and differences with creative solutions. I am very hesitant to share my inner life with others and don't often express my own feelings. Though I do not share my emotions well, I am adept to understanding and sympathizing with others' feelings. I am easily hurt but you wouldn't know it unless you are one of my few closest friends because I tend to bury it. I withdraw rather than expressing my pain. I have an order to the would but, it is one that only I can make sense of and understand. Sometimes my own complexity confounds and puzzles myself. My world is full of hidden meanings and possibilities. I live in my own world rather than the "real world." I have a "natural affinity for art" and am easily inspired.
My favorite part of all the INFJ explanations that I found is this: "As an INFJ, [my] primary mode of living is focused internally, where [I] take things in primarily via intuition...INFJs are gentile, caring, complex and highly intuitive individuals. Artistic and creative, [I] live in a world of hidden meanings and possibilities. Only one person of the population has an INFJ personality type, making it the mast rare of all the types."
I have always felt that there was no one that thought the way I did or understood things as I did. I felt like the weird teenager who would rather stay home and read or talk with my mom rather than go out and have "fun." Now I know that it is because I am only one percent of the population. I often would be the one that friends would come to for help with their problems or to think things through. I absolutely adore art. I want to be an art teacher. I always think of the "what ifs" and love books, shows, and movies with other worlds than my own. I can meet many people and have a connection with them but, there are few people that I would call my true friends and those are the people I have known intimately for years like my family and friends since kindergarten. I am easily offended but smile though it. I usually do not speak out even when I have strong opinions or ideas. I prefer working in the background or being alone as opposed to being out in the crowd. I have often thought that I am weird and don't make any sense, that I am not a normal person because I don't think the way others do.
This was way cool to learn about myself. I think that if I can better understand myself I can know how to lead better. I know what my strength and weaknesses are so I know I need to lean on others for their strengths and be aware of their weaknesses also so that things will work out for the best.