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 chance,
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 comicstrip 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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