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4. • ABOUT ISTJS
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Thorough and responsible administrators
Strongly linked to the Compulsive personality
Somewhat linked to the Schizoid personality
More common in men than in women
Repress their Extroverted Intuition function, meaning they
sometimes resist change and view ingenuity with skepticism
ISTJ FUNCTIONS
Joseph Ratzinger
- ISTJ
Ratzinger: "[I am not] one of
those thoughtless people
who always uncritically
accept what is new as
necessarily better."
Ratzinger: "Belief [is] the risky
enterprise of accepting what
cannot be seen as the truly
real."
5. ABOUT ISFJS
Proper and loyal nurturers
Strongly linked to the Dependent personality
Somewhat linked to the Compulsive personality
More common in women than in men
Repress their Extroverted Intuition function, meaning
they sometimes have a hard time 'letting loose' and
doing things in novel and unconventional ways
ISFJ FUNCTIONS
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Mother Teresa
Catholic nun and
charity worker - ISFJ
Mother Teresa: "Love begins at home, and
it is not how much we do, but how much
love we put in the action that we do."
[Asked what we can do to promote world
peace:]
Mother Teresa: "Go home and love your
family."
Mother Teresa: "The family that prays
together stays together, and if we stay
together we love each other as God loves
each one of us."
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ABOUT INFJS
Holistic visionaries, oriented towards contemplation
Amongst the types with the highest average IQ
Strongly linked to the Dependent personality
Somewhat linked to the Depressive and Narcissistic personalities
More common in women than in men
Repress their Extroverted Sensing function, meaning they may forgo
living life to its fullest
INFJ FUNCTIONS
Mahatma Gandhi
Campaigner for the
independence of India INFJ
Gandhi: "My life is an indivisible whole,
and all my activities run into one
another; and they all have their rise in
my insatiable love of mankind."
Gandhi: "I pride myself on my yielding
nature in non-vital matters."
Gandhi: "I am indeed a practical
dreamer. ... I want to convert my dreams
into realities as far as possible."
7. ABOUT INTJS
Tenacious visionaries, oriented towards action
Amongst the types with the highest average IQ
Strongly linked to the Narcissistic personality
Somewhat linked to the Schizotypal personality
More common in men than in women
Repress their Extroverted Sensing function, which means
they may lose touch with factual realities and fail to
adapt their opinions accordingly
INTJ FUNCTIONS
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Mark Zuckerberg
CEO of Facebook INTJ
Zuckerberg: "We're going to change
the world."
Zuckerberg: "I think that the next five
years are going to be characterized by
widespread acknowledgment [of
Facebook's] way."
[Asked about the users who were
dissatisfied with Facebook's privacy
settings:]
Zuckerberg: "Having two identities for
yourself [is] a lack of integrity."
8. ABOUT ISTPS
Cool, self-contained problem-solvers
Strongly linked to the Negativistic personality
Somewhat linked to the Antisocial personality
More common in men than in women
Repress their Extroverted Feeling function, meaning they
may find themselves unintentionally giving offense
• Amongst the types least likely to believe in a deity
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ISTP FUNCTIONS
Steve Jobs
Founder of Apple along
with Steve Wozniak ISTP
Jobs: "One of my mantras focus and simplicity."
Jobs: "I say when something
sucks rather than sugarcoat it."
Guy Kawasaki: "If you're a
Steve fan, you say: 'He knew
how to cut through all the
bullshit.' If you're not a Steve
fan, [you say]: 'He lacked
social graces.'"
9. ABOUT ISFPS
Unassuming yet passionate aesthetes
Strongly linked to the Dependent personality
Somewhat linked to the Histrionic and Avoidant
personalities
• More common in women than in men
• Repress their Extroverted Thinking function, meaning
they sometimes fail to draw logical conclusions about
their situation and act on them
ISFP FUNCTIONS
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Beyoncé
Singer, married to
Jay-Z - ISFP
Beyoncé: "There's definitely a dangerous
feeling when you're in love - it's giving
your heart to someone else and knowing
that they have control over your
feelings."
Beyoncé: "The second I [get] on the
stage, I just [open] up and I [become]
this other person."
Beyoncé: "I'm not a competitive person
that ... thinks about other people and
how I can compete with them."
10. TWO MORE ISFP
RIHANNA - SINGER
• [On cutting her hair short:]
Rihanna: "The label didn't want me
to do this look. I don't care who
likes it - this is me."
• Rihanna: "The hardest thing for me
is to say no."
PRINCESS DIANA - U.K. ROYAL, WAS MARRIED
TO PRINCE CHARLES, MOTHER OF WILLIAM
AND HARRY
• Diana: "I lead from the heart, not the
head."
• Diana: "I don't go by a rule book."
• Prince William: "She loved dancing so
much. It was a real way that she got
through life - by dancing. ... It was a big
release for her."
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ABOUT INFPS
Idiosyncratic dreamers with strong imaginations
Strongly linked to the Avoidant personality
Somewhat linked to the Dependent, Histrionic and
Negativistic personalities
• More common in women than in men
• Repress their Extroverted Thinking function,
meaning they sometimes preserve their own
opinion in the face of facts and evidence to the
contrary
INFP FUNCTIONS
William
Shakespeare
Playwright - INFP
Shakespeare: "To thine own self be
true."
David Hume: "[Shakespeare] hits
upon a striking peculiarity of
sentiment, adapted uniquely [to
each] character ... as if by
inspiration."
Vladimir Nabokov: "The verbal
poetical texture of Shakespeare is
the greatest the world has known.
12. ABOUT INTPS
• Abstract-minded systems analysts
• Amongst the types with the highest average IQ
• Strongly linked to the Schizotypal personality
• Somewhat linked to the Schizoid personality
• More common amongst men than amongst women
• Repress their Extroverted Feeling function, meaning
that they may have difficulty emoting and figuring out
what others need from them emotionally
INTP FUNCTIONS
Einstein
Physicist INTP
Einstein: "To punish me for my
contempt for authority, Fate made
me an authority myself."
Einstein: "It is my inner conviction
that the development of science
seeks in the main to satisfy the
longing for pure knowledge."
Robert Oppenheimer: "There was
always with him a wonderful purity
at once childlike and profoundly
stubborn."
13. • ABOUT ESTPS
• Entrepreneurial smooth operators
• Strongly linked to the Antisocial personality
• Somewhat linked to the Narcissistic and Hypomaniac
personalities
• More common in men than in women
• Repress their Introverted Intuition function, meaning
they may overestimate the scope of their proposed
solutions
ESTP FUNCTIONS
Taylor Swift
Singer-songwriter,
dated Harry Styles ISTP
Swift: "I don't live by ... rigid ... rules that make
me feel all fenced in. I just live the way that I feel
like, and that makes me feel very free."
Swift: "[Things are] more fun when you have
something to prove."
Swift: "I'm intimidated by the fear of being
average."
Selena Gomez: "She's so tough! ... Sometimes
she'll tell me: 'You should be a little mean
sometimes.'"
The Hollywood Reporter: "She's racked up award
after award. And every time [she] looks
dumbfounded that she won an award. ... She
should also win an Oscar."
14. ABOUT ESFPS
Free-spirited and fun-loving people persons
Strongly linked to the Histrionic personality
Somewhat linked to the Hypomaniac personality
Jung said that there was a majority of men among all ESPs,
though ESFPs are in fact more common among women than
among men
• Repress their Introverted Intuition function, meaning they
sometimes experience paranoid thoughts which they are
convinced are true
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Katy Perry
Singer-songwriter ESFP
PERRY: "I'm a jokester prankster I'm an open book. And my boobs
are real!"
PERRY: "I know I have sex appeal in
my deck of cards."
PERRY: "I never want to be boring,
so therefore I aspire to always be
interesting, experimental and
entertaining."
Perry: "People overthink things."
15. ABOUT ENFPS
Quirky and verbally fluid people persons
Strongly linked to the Histrionic personality
Somewhat linked to the Narcissistic, Hypomaniac
and Borderline personalities
• More common in women than in men
• Repress their Introverted Sensing function, meaning
they sometimes experience flighty and inconsistent
cognitive states and neglect to reflect on their past
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Ellen DeGeneres
Talk show host –
ENFP
Ellen: "There's nothing I know for sure,
because I know for sure that things
change."
Ellen: "I like to try new things because I
get bored so easily."
Ellen: "I want people to like me - but
not at my expense."
Ellen: "You're not supposed to shove
your feelings under the rug."
Ellen: "I care passionately about equal
rights [and] animal rights."
16. ABOUT ENTPS
Versatile pattern-seekers
Strongly linked to the Antisocial personality
Somewhat linked to the Dependent and Hypomaniac
personalities
• Jung called all ENPs "female" personalities, though ENTPs are
in fact more common among men than among women
• Repress their Introverted Sensing function, meaning they
"sweat the small stuff" sometimes with tragi comical results
• Amongst the types least likely to believe in a deity
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Barack Obama
U.S. President (D),
married to Michelle
Obama - ENTP
Obama: "[In my Nobel Peace Prize speech] I wanted
to make an argument that didn't allow either side to
feel too comfortable."
Obama: "[As an adolescent I was] arguing all the
time, usually about me failing to abide by ... petty
and arbitrary rules. I found that I could generally win
these arguments."
Obama: "There are some things about being
president that I still have difficulty doing. For
example, faking emotion. Because I feel it is an insult
to the people I'm dealing with."
Obama: "My wife makes fun of how routinized I've
become. It's not my natural state. ... But at some
point in my life I overcompensated."
17. • ABOUT ESTJS
• No-nonsense, efficient organizers with a flair for
practical logistics
• Strongly linked to the Sadistic personality
• Somewhat linked to the Compulsive personality
• More common in men than in women
• Repress their Introverted Feeling function,
meaning they sometimes have difficulty putting
themselves into another person's shoes
ESTJ FUNCTIONS
Michelle Obama
U.S. First Lady, married
to Barack Obama - ESTJ
OBAMA: "Role modeling what good
families should look like [is important].
And my view is that if you can't run your
own house, you certainly can't run the
White House."
Obama: "What we need right now [is]
leadership; we need people with
judgment; we need decent people,
people with common sense, people
with strong family values."
Obama: "I like to do something. ... I just
don't get into symbolic achievements."
18. • About ESFJs
• Concerned and supportive people persons who
are often able to take the lead in social situations
• Strongly linked to the Compulsive personality
• Somewhat linked to the Narcissistic and
Dependent personalities
• More common in women than in men
• Repress their Introverted Thinking function,
meaning they may over-align with public opinion
ESFJ Functions
Whitney
Houston
Singer - ESFJ
Houston: "When you have a group of
people coming together ... it's a feeling
that's indescribable."
Houston: "I feel I have a responsibility to
everybody. [My] music has a major
impact on people's minds, on the way
they think and the way they feel."
Jordin Sparks: "Whitney's very motherly,
very nurturing, very sweet."
Lady Gaga: "Whitney is the biggest
influence on me. She is the greatest of all
time. Of all time."
19. • About ENFJs
• Charming and compelling communicators
• Strongly linked to the Narcissistic personality
• Somewhat linked to the Histrionic and Avoidant
personalities
• More common in women than in men
• Repress their Introverted Thinking function,
meaning they may be tempted to exaggerate the
truth for effect
ENFJ Functions
Nelson Mandela
President of South Africa and
civil rights activist - ENFJ
Mandela: "Let it never be said by future
generations that indifference, cynicism or
selfishness made us fail to live up to [our]
ideals."
Mandela: "Let the strivings of us all prove
Martin Luther King Jr. ... correct, when he said
that humanity can no longer be tragically
bound to the starless midnight of racism."
Mandela: "[Let] us all [struggle to] prove that ...
ENFJ Functions
genuine brotherhood and peace [is] more
precious than diamonds or silver or gold."
20. MORE ENFJ
• Martin Luther King, Jr. - U.S. civil rights activist
• King: "[Let us create a] society that will help men rise from
the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic
heights of understanding and brotherhood."
• King: "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he
stands at times of challenge and controversy."
• King: "The time is always right to do what is right.“
• Rosa Parks: "[King] was the type of person that people really
gravitated towards and they seemed to like him personally,
as well as his leadership."
21. • ABOUT ENTJS
• No-nonsense, efficient organizers with a flair for
strategic optimization
• Strongly linked to the Compulsive personality
• Somewhat linked to the Sadistic personality
• More common in men than in women
• Repress their Introverted Feeling function,
meaning they sometimes forget what is important
to them
ENTJ FUNCTIONS
Bill Gates
Founder of Microsoft along
with Paul Allen - ENTJ
Gates: "Microsoft has had clear competitors in
the past. It's a good thing we have museums to
document that."
Paul Allen: "It was tough not to back off against
Bill, with his intellect and foot tapping and body
rocking; he came on like a force of nature. The
irony was that Bill liked it when someone
pushed back and drilled down with him to get
to the best solution."
Des Dearlove: "Gates [is] a fierce competitor. In
everything he does, he has been driven to win."