Archetypes: Find Your Archetype & Discover Yourself. Portrait of an INTP. As an INTP, your primary mode of living is focused internally, where you deal with things rationally and logically.
Your secondary mode is external, where you take things in primarily via your intuition. INTPs live in the world of theoretical possibilities. They see everything in terms of how it could be improved, or what it could be turned into. They live primarily inside their own minds, having the ability to analyze difficult problems, identify patterns, and come up with logical explanations. Recognizing the Inferior Function in INTP. Below is an excerpt from Naomi Quenk's book "Was That Really Me?
" which deals with how we act when we are in the grip of our inferior function. This isn't the whole book, and not even the entire chapter. The book itself goes into much more detail and gives more examples that I've edited out for the sake of brevity. But this should give a good indication of whether or not you can identify with Inferior Fe or not.If there is any type that struggles to be properly categorized into a type it is INTP. INTPs are often mistyped or confused for INFP, ISTP, INFJ, INTJ, and ENTP.
An INTP Profile. By Paul James Original version: April 5, 1999 revised and published on the web: March 12, 2000 INTP is one of the 16 personality types defined in the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).
I will assume that visitors to this page already have a basic knowledge of the MBTI system for I wish to concentrate on describing the INTP type as best I can. The descriptions below are based on personal experience combined with knowledge derived from other MBTI sources and I hope that other INTPs and non-INTPs alike may find some of this material illuminating. This page may be updated and expanded when appropriate. For a general introduction and overview of MBTI temperament analysis, visit Robert Winer's excellent resource at Gesher. INTPs are about 1% of the general population, making this one of the rarest of types. The consequences of the orientation and rank of each of the four functions for the INTP type is described in turn below. Primary Axis: Introverted Thinking - Extraverted Intuition.
Portrait of the Rational Architect (INTP) Architects need not be thought of as only interested in drawing blueprints for buildings or roads or bridges.
They are the master designers of all kinds of theoretical systems, including school curricula, corporate strategies, and new technologies. For Architects, the world exists primarily to be analyzed, understood, explained - and re-designed. External reality in itself is unimportant, little more than raw material to be organized into structural models. What is important for Architects is that they grasp fundamental principles and natural laws, and that their designs are elegant, that is, efficient and coherent. Architects are rare - maybe one percent of the population - and show the greatest precision in thought and speech of all the types. Ruthless pragmatists about ideas, and insatiably curious, Architects are driven to find the most efficient means to their ends, and they will learn in any manner and degree they can. Architects often seem difficult to know. INTP personality: TheMindBehind.Net. Type-Coach.com.
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Logic-Driven ... Analytical ... Original Unconventional ... Independent ... Quiet, curious, and deep, INTPs tend to spend a great deal of their day inside their own heads. INTPs are the world’s “big picture” problem solvers, especially problems that involve systems. INTPs are natural skeptics and one of the types most likely to initially challenge the underlying principles of personality type. INTPs are convinced only by logic. INTPs tend to work in bursts of inspiration when they are fully engaged – but tasks they find boring can be a real challenge. Oddly Developed Types. INTJ vs. INTP: Type Differences. By Dr.
A.J. Drenth Despite having no functions in common, the INTJ and INTP personality types often arrive at surprisingly similar worldviews. The INTP Architect Reference Guide. Most type guides only present the nice, vague, boring facts...
But they won't tell you that INTPs are one of the introverted types most likely to get married. (And more than once, too.) Or that INTPs are the type predicted to do best on I.Q. tests. A More Honest Look into MBTI Descriptions: The INTP. If your type was this classy it would be all black-and-white as well.
Keirsey Description: “The Architect” Honest Description: “The Übermensch” INTP - Designer Theorizers. The following is adapted from Linda V.
Berens and Dario Nardi, The 16 Personality Types: Descriptions for Self-Discovery (Telos Publications, 1999) *Used with permission. What's it like to be you? I want to know the truth and get down to the bottom of things. It's an internal life, living in the head, theorizing constantly about how things work. I can link many thoughts and shoot off in multiple directions at once in an attempt to clarify and explain things really well or to try to represent the fullness of who I am and all the different things I can do and can't do.
I am very knowledge and big picture oriented. Central for me is honesty and integrity, especially intellectual integrity. I can be seen as too unfeeling, too quick to start into work with not enough basis laid out for the day, and I'm not much for the personal amenities or socializing.