My Keirsey Profile

According to Keirsey, I'm an ENTP: The Inventor. II. NT, the RATIONALIST (6% of population) GENERAL DESCRIPTION:

• Technology-oriented / Motto: Knowledge is power
• Strategists: Designers and executers of a plan
• NTs are task oriented; they determine how things get done
• Curious yet skeptical; “Why?” drives their actions
• Objective, logical, and analytical
• Detached
• Focus on things; ideas
• NTs eat, sleep, and breathe answers to a single question
• Uncompromising quest for competence, excellence, to be at the top - not near the top)
• Worst thing for NTs: to be normal
• Set extremely high standards / high bar
• Also interested in making you competent; has little tolerance for incompetence; you are no longer of any value to them; probably a large number of people are placed in the non-value category
• Seek to lift up the level of the environment / the organization
• Strong need for predictability
• Visionary – constantly brainstorming about taking things to the next level of competence/excellence
• There is always something wrong with today – NTs are self-correcting either mentally or through maneuvers
• Perceive that they are teetering on the brink of disaster
• Fear of not succeeding is greater than the fear of failing
• They have the gift to get people to see where they are today and where they are going

DOWNSIDE:

• Encoded is an unreasonable bar of excellence
• Great facility with words
• Plagued with the fear of being found out: there may be a crack in the armor
• NTs may never discover that the earlier tapes played in their heads (one’s value as a human being is determined by one’s level of excellence) are not the truth.
• They have this internal competency check list that is, all too often, uncompromising.
• By failing the internal competency checklist … bad things will happen. Likely that there are a large number of people who question: are you competent by my criteria / very few people will fit into their inner core of close and acceptable associates
• Always upping the bar
• They go to jobs that they know they will be good at
• Theoretically, they don’t finish anything; it’s always in a state of improvement, modification, expanding
• If they conceptualize something beyond their perceived capacity, they disengage or / they will focus on ways to get their arms around it to make it manageable
• NTs won’t lie; they will word-smith the truth

Needs a Sensing Type to ...

• bring up pertinent facts
• apply experience to problems
• read the fine print in a contract
• notice what needs attention now
• have patience
• keep track of essential details
• face difficulties with realism
• remind them that the joys in the present are important

Needs a Feeling Type to...

• persuade
• conciliate
• forecast how others will feel
• arouse enthusiasm
• teach
• sell
• advertise
• appreciate the thinker

CAREERS: Leans toward science and technology; systems analysts, research and development INTELLIGENCE: Strategic intelligence; everything must be analyzed in terms of its how and why RULES: Challenge all rules and dismiss any that do not make sense SEARCHES FOR TWO THINGS: To be a part of a team yet maintain a level of detachment / autonomy