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Carl Jung, The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious

"For a man who wants to make a profession of good in all regards must come to ruin among so many who are not good. Hence it is necessary to a prince, if he wants to maintain himself, to learn to be able not to be good, and to use this and not use it according to necessity." Niccolo Machiavelli

As I've developed I've learned to become less altruistic and more selfish, but other types would more quickly call this self-preservation. But also, where my altruism might have been a simple function of empathy in the past (heart-strings that are easily tugged), my understanding of it now is...

Every personality type has bad managers, looks like you encountered one that happened to be INFJ.