The-Life of INTP
Once I realized I was an INTP my interactions with the world seemed to make a LOT more sense.
The neuroscience of personality has always been intriguing to me. On the life-long quest of seeking truth while remaining true, I stumbled upon this MBTI personality inventory.
"INTP" is one of the SIXTEEN personality types categorized and defined by the Myer Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The essence of the theory is that much seemingly random variation in the behavior is actually quite orderly and consistent, being due to basic differences in the ways individuals prefer to use their perception and judgment.
Perception involves all the ways of becoming aware of things, people, happenings, or ideas. Judgment involves all the ways of coming to conclusions about what has been perceived.
If people differ systematically in what they perceive and in how they reach conclusions, then it is only reasonable for them to differ correspondingly in their interests, reactions, values, motivations, and skills.
The MBTI preferences indicate the differences in people based on the following:
- How they focus their attention or get their energy (extraversion or introversion)
- How they perceive or take in information (sensing or intuition)
- How they prefer to make decisions (thinking or feeling)
- How they orient themselves to the external world (judgment or perception)
INTP
Introversion + Intuition + Thinking + Perceiving
I won't bore you with all the details of dominant and auxillary functions... in a nutshell INTPs are "philosophical innovators, fascinated by logical analysis, systems, and design. They are preoccupied with theory, and search for the universal law behind everything they see. They want to understand the unifying themes of life, in all their complexity".
- INTP is one of the rarest personality types (~3% of the population; 5% of men and 2% of women).
- On personality trait measures, score as Candid, Ingenious, Complicated, Independent, and Rebellious.
- Famous INTP-archetypes include Bill Gates & Albert Einstein.
“It is up to each person to recognize his or her true preferences.”