personality

Myers Briggs type indicator of celebrities

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

• The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a widely-used personality inventory, or test, employed in vocational, educational, and psychotherapy settings to evaluate personality type or The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.

16 types

Joseph Ratzinger -

ISTJ

• ABOUT ISTJS• 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

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."

Mother TeresaCatholic nun and charity

worker - ISFJ

• 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

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."

Mahatma GandhiCampaigner for the

independence of India - INFJ

• 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

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."

Mark Zuckerberg

CEO of Facebook - INTJ

• 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

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."

Steve JobsFounder of Apple along with Steve Wozniak - ISTP

• 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

ISTP FUNCTIONS

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.'"

BeyoncéSinger, married to Jay-Z - ISFP

• 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

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."

TWO MORE ISFPPRINCESS 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."

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."

William ShakespearePlaywright -

INFP

• 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

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.

Albert Einstein

Physicist - INTP

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: "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."

Taylor SwiftSinger-songwriter,

dated Harry Styles - ISTP

• 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

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."

Katy PerrySinger-songwriter

- ESFP

• 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

ESFP FUNCTIONS

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."

Ellen DeGeneresTalk show host –

ENFP

• 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

ENFP FUNCTIONS

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."

Barack ObamaU.S. President (D),

married to Michelle Obama -

ENTP

• 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

ENTP FUNCTIONS

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."

Michelle ObamaU.S. First Lady,

married to Barack Obama - ESTJ

• 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

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."

Whitney Houston

Singer - ESFJ

• 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

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."

Nelson MandelaPresident of South Africa and civil rights activist -

ENFJ

• 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

ENFJ Functions

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 ... genuine brotherhood and

peace [is] more precious than

diamonds or silver or gold."

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."

Bill GatesFounder of Microsoft

along with Paul Allen - ENTJ

• 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

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."

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