Quote Originally Posted by Rocky
It takes you a long time to accept a new idea (like your type) because you're worried that if by any chance you got it wrong and belived in the new thing or idea it would be painful for you to change you're idea. You don't want to totally believe yet that your type is ISTJ because something that you believe in you like to keep as a belief. If your type turned out to be something other than ISTJ you would find it hard to rediscover your type and figure it out again. You'd perfer to get it right, without a doubt, the first time so you don't have to refigure what to believe in.
I think that describes me, or my attitude, really well.

I suppose that, ironically, my scepticism about my type being ISTj is further evidence of me being an ISTj because an ISTj, with his hidden agenda, would naturally doubt his type quite often!