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      Aikido is one of the least effective martial arts in practice today.

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        If you read the essay, the author addresses that view. In short, assigning practicality to it is irrelevant as that is not the point.

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            SLT/INTJ- I always find it interesting how many programmers seem to be INTJ

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              MBTI is not the end-all be-all, but the NTJ ability to see the forest and the trees simultaneously is immensely helpful in programming. You’re constantly moving between differently-sized contexts.

              I doubt this is exclusive to NTJ, but there is a reason they are dubbed systems-builders.

              Also, an internal survey was conducted at a fairly well known thinktank that found that 95% of surveyed programmers were INTJ. Selection bias and all that, but, wow.

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                If 95% of surveyed programmers are INTJ, then what about the INTP’s? What do they do?