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Personality Thing
Jul. 1st, 2004 04:30 pmINTP (Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiver)
Of the four aspects of strategic analysis and definition, it is the structural engineering role -- architechtonics -- that reaches the highest development in INTPs, and it is for this reason they are aptly called the "architects." Their major interest is in figuring out structure, build, configuration -- the spatiality of things.
As the engineering capabilities the Architects increase so does their desire to let others know about whatever has come of their engineering efforts. So they tend to take up an informative role in their social exchanges. On the other hand they have less and less desire, if they ever had any, to direct the activities of others. Only when forced to by circumstance do they allow themselves to take charge of activities, and they exit the role as soon as they can without injuring the enterprise.
The Architects' distant goal is always to rearrange the environment somehow, to shape, to construct, to devise, whether it be buildings, institutions, enterprises, or theories. They look upon the world -- natural and civil -- as little more than raw material to be reshaped according to their design, as a formless stone for their hammer and chisel.
Ayn Rand, master of the Rational character, describes this characteristic in the architect Howard Roark, her protagonist in The Fountainhead:
He was looking at the granite. He did not laugh as his eyes stopped in awareness of the earth around him. His face was like a law of nature-a thing one could not question, alter or implore. It had high cheekbones over gaunt, hollow cheeks; gray eyes, cold and steady; a contemptuous mouth, shut tight, the mouth of an executioner or a saint. He looked at the granite. To be cut, he thought, and made into walls. He looked at a tree. To be split and made into rafters. He looked at a streak of rust on the stone and thought of iron ore under the ground. To be melted and to emerge as girders against the sky. These rocks, he thought, are here for me; waiting for the drill, the dynamite and my voice; waiting to be split, ripped, pounded, reborn, waiting for the shape my hands will give to them. [The Fountainhead, pp 15-16]
Many regard this attitude as arrogant, and Architects are likely, especially in their later years, after finding out that most others are faking an understanding of the laws of nature, to think of themselves as the prime movers who must pit themselves against nature and society in an endless struggle to define ends clearly and adopt whatever means that promise success. If this is arrogance, then at least it is not vanity, and without question it has driven the design engineers to take the lead in molding the structure of civilization.
According to the site, that pretty much makes me a Ravenclaw, but I do take into account that Slytherin are also known for ends justifying the means, which tends to be closer to what I think. I'd either be the "Good" Slytherin or the "Evil" Ravenclaw. I want the ends to be socially beneficial, and I *really* hate for the means to be sloppy. (A good example is that I supported the idea of getting Saddam out of power, however I don't and never really did support the war. If *I* had been in charge, Saddam and his sons would have died quietly in their sleep. Or if war was the only answer, I would not have ever lied to the american public. Sloppy, evil, and messy. )
You have to "register" to take the test. The link is in the upper left hand corner. A blue button. They only give you half of your results and want you to pay for the rest, but you can look at the various 16 types, 4 of which will have your ending, and decide if you are introverted, or extraverted, and if you are a sensation hound, or a thinker.
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Of the four aspects of strategic analysis and definition, it is the structural engineering role -- architechtonics -- that reaches the highest development in INTPs, and it is for this reason they are aptly called the "architects." Their major interest is in figuring out structure, build, configuration -- the spatiality of things.
As the engineering capabilities the Architects increase so does their desire to let others know about whatever has come of their engineering efforts. So they tend to take up an informative role in their social exchanges. On the other hand they have less and less desire, if they ever had any, to direct the activities of others. Only when forced to by circumstance do they allow themselves to take charge of activities, and they exit the role as soon as they can without injuring the enterprise.
The Architects' distant goal is always to rearrange the environment somehow, to shape, to construct, to devise, whether it be buildings, institutions, enterprises, or theories. They look upon the world -- natural and civil -- as little more than raw material to be reshaped according to their design, as a formless stone for their hammer and chisel.
Ayn Rand, master of the Rational character, describes this characteristic in the architect Howard Roark, her protagonist in The Fountainhead:
He was looking at the granite. He did not laugh as his eyes stopped in awareness of the earth around him. His face was like a law of nature-a thing one could not question, alter or implore. It had high cheekbones over gaunt, hollow cheeks; gray eyes, cold and steady; a contemptuous mouth, shut tight, the mouth of an executioner or a saint. He looked at the granite. To be cut, he thought, and made into walls. He looked at a tree. To be split and made into rafters. He looked at a streak of rust on the stone and thought of iron ore under the ground. To be melted and to emerge as girders against the sky. These rocks, he thought, are here for me; waiting for the drill, the dynamite and my voice; waiting to be split, ripped, pounded, reborn, waiting for the shape my hands will give to them. [The Fountainhead, pp 15-16]
Many regard this attitude as arrogant, and Architects are likely, especially in their later years, after finding out that most others are faking an understanding of the laws of nature, to think of themselves as the prime movers who must pit themselves against nature and society in an endless struggle to define ends clearly and adopt whatever means that promise success. If this is arrogance, then at least it is not vanity, and without question it has driven the design engineers to take the lead in molding the structure of civilization.
According to the site, that pretty much makes me a Ravenclaw, but I do take into account that Slytherin are also known for ends justifying the means, which tends to be closer to what I think. I'd either be the "Good" Slytherin or the "Evil" Ravenclaw. I want the ends to be socially beneficial, and I *really* hate for the means to be sloppy. (A good example is that I supported the idea of getting Saddam out of power, however I don't and never really did support the war. If *I* had been in charge, Saddam and his sons would have died quietly in their sleep. Or if war was the only answer, I would not have ever lied to the american public. Sloppy, evil, and messy. )
You have to "register" to take the test. The link is in the upper left hand corner. A blue button. They only give you half of your results and want you to pay for the rest, but you can look at the various 16 types, 4 of which will have your ending, and decide if you are introverted, or extraverted, and if you are a sensation hound, or a thinker.
Keirsey Main Page
