I've previously mentioned a personality typing system thing before called the 'Four Temperaments', which I've been fond of for years.
The main 'competitor' to this concept was the 'Myers-Briggs Type Indicator', or whatever it's called, which it seems that every intellectual teenager worth their salt knows about.
I've been reading about it recently, finding out my type and all that, and it's been quite interesting!
It turns out that my type is most likely INTJ... which happens to be the second rarest type.
The descriptions of this type fits nicely for me: I'm the Systems-Builder who prefers drawing connections between abstract principles to getting his hands dirty sifting through messy reality, who can't remember things, often doesn't even notice them, until he understands a theory about what they are and how they work, but is able to understand them in depth once he has some intellectual handles with which to grasp them. And who, once he understands how they work, looks for ways to make them work better. This is hardwired into my mind at a very deep level - I can't really imagine how I would go about changing it, or what it would be like to approach the world in any other way.
I'm curious about whether anyone else knows their Myers-Briggs type thing! I imagine that at least some of you will. There are loads of websites that describe them individually in some detail, for example:
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Tests:
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