INTJs and Performing
For the most part, I'm heavily I-- any E tendencies I normally have are minimal. Socializing exhausts me, I don't party, I prefer much smaller groups and quieter settings when I do socialize, and I can be a bit on the shy side. Because of this, people who've known me for a while (and perhaps for not so long) tend to be absolutely shocked when they see me performing on stage.
I love performing for crowds. I've am currently/have been involved with variety shows, plays, musicals, cheerleading, and dance teams. I'm vastly different when I'm on stage-- particularly with the less regulated forms of performing (variety shows, singing, more freestyle dance). I'm a sucker for crowd involvement, and I'm always singing to someone/staring the audience in the face/trying to work the crowd.
Last year, after the finale of a show, a music teacher of mine (and a co-director of the show) came up to me and told me that she was so surprised when she saw me on stage-- that I was "almost a different person out there."
Outside of the stage, though, I'm introverted once again. Even in practices and rehearsals-- while I'm constantly called on to help out and teach others, I'm not nearly the extraverted maniac I am on stage. It's back to my normally reserved self.
If anything, I guess I'd attribute all to my T side-- the clear-cut, logical rationalization that this is how I act on stage, this is how I am when I'm off stage. My "performing" behavior seems almost like a secondary personality that I can summon up only in the appropriate context.
So I couldn't help but wonder-- are any other INTJs here like this, or experience something similar?
I love performing for crowds. I've am currently/have been involved with variety shows, plays, musicals, cheerleading, and dance teams. I'm vastly different when I'm on stage-- particularly with the less regulated forms of performing (variety shows, singing, more freestyle dance). I'm a sucker for crowd involvement, and I'm always singing to someone/staring the audience in the face/trying to work the crowd.
Last year, after the finale of a show, a music teacher of mine (and a co-director of the show) came up to me and told me that she was so surprised when she saw me on stage-- that I was "almost a different person out there."
Outside of the stage, though, I'm introverted once again. Even in practices and rehearsals-- while I'm constantly called on to help out and teach others, I'm not nearly the extraverted maniac I am on stage. It's back to my normally reserved self.
If anything, I guess I'd attribute all to my T side-- the clear-cut, logical rationalization that this is how I act on stage, this is how I am when I'm off stage. My "performing" behavior seems almost like a secondary personality that I can summon up only in the appropriate context.
So I couldn't help but wonder-- are any other INTJs here like this, or experience something similar?