Introduction
INTP
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Introduction
The Myers-Briggs personality type indicator (MBTI) has
its beginnings in the ideas of Carl G. Jung, a Swiss-born
psychiatrist. He believed that human behavior is predictible
and cleasifiable ... not a random phenomenon.
According to him, our personality is a direct result
of our behavioral preferences.
After the English version of Jung's works appeared in
1923, two women — Katharine Briggs and her daughter,
Isabel Briggs Myers — embarked on an exhaustive study
of human behavior.
With the hope of putting together a test that would
explain personality differences according to Jung's Theory
of Personality Preferences, they created the Myers-Briggs
Type Indicator (MBTI) test.
INTP Personality Traits
If you want to know something about me, the easiest
way is to look over the personality characteristics of
my Myers-Briggs personality type — an INTP. I see
myself in nearly every sentence of the description.
Famous INTPs
Famous INTPs most likely include:
- Linus, of Peanuts comic strip
fame, who brings rationality to the contemplation of
the theological implications of absolutely everything
in the world. And, in the process, thoroughly intimidates
everyone with the universal questions he continually
raises.
- Carl G. Jung, whose revolutionary
and complex theories of personality were comprehended
by so few ... even though his original intent was simply
to raise a few questions for all to explore.
- Albert Einstein, an intellectual Goliath,
who devoted his entire life to exploration and questioning
... and yet was known to have shown up at a dinner party,
having forgotten to wear his pants.
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