Rick Riordan MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Rick Riordan? Rick Riordan is an ENFP personality type in MBTI, 6w7 - so/sx - 648 in Enneagram, SCOAI in Big 5, IEE in Socionics.
Rick Riordan quotes time. “I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.” (Ne) “It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.” I feel like this sort of assigning sentimental value to things that clearly do not exist is usually associated with Fi "The most important thing whenever we're connecting kids to books, is that we try to match the book to the kid and make sure that reading is a fun, rewarding experience outside the classroom.” On one hand this might just be good sense, but on the other hand, there's a focus on respecting each kid's individual needs and preferences (Fi) rather then having a more universalising idea of what each kid *should* be reading. “I like to remind teachers that even though they're all overwhelmed and overloaded, and it's easy to get burned out, it really is about the kids. It only takes one good teacher to change a life - one time, and one book. That's what happened when I was a kid. I had one good teacher that came in at the right time and turned me into a writer. So never lose sight - you could be that teacher.” This belief that one's personal experience + subjective judgements on that personal experience is universal for everyone reminds me of Michael Pierce's description of the xNFP/xSTJ temperament as one that believes in looking inward and using the self as representative of the entirety of the human race (Ne-Si universal perceptions assumes that everyone else has the same perceptions, while Fi-Te creates a focus on one's own feelings etc. rather than everyone's as a whole). "I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading." and “I think I write for reluctant readers. Of course I want everyone to enjoy my books, but if the kids in the back row who normally don't pick up a book are engaged with what I'm writing, along with the kids who are big readers anyway, then I really feel like I've done my job.” Rick Riordan sides with reluctant readers (siding with the underdog is lowkey classic Fi but that may be somewhat stereotypical) due to his own personal experience causing him to value certain types of readers over others. It's Fi attaching personal value to certain individuals although they are objectively the same. “As an author, I don't really think too much about being a celebrity. It's not like being a movie star or a TV star. It's not as if people recognize me when I walk down the street. That hardly ever happens, and it's just as well. But it is great when people know my books, when I walk through an airport and see them in the bookstore, or when I see someone reading a book on a plane or on a train, and it's something I've written. That's a wonderful feeling.” How other people see him as an author and honestly IMO a pretty major public figure (Fe) is not really something that occurs to him too much. It's just incidental for him. "There are days when I'll write for 15 minutes and have to give up and move around, and I'll write another paragraph and give up again. On other days I get intensely - focused on the process, sit down at 8 A.M. and won't get up until 8 P.M." The virgin irregular Ne work ethic vs the chad Si schedule. "The older I get, the less I obsess about material stuff. In fact, stuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it than I have storage in my house!" Si inferior vibe. Imagine hating the material world! "When I was in college, my parents' house burned down, and took a lot of the possessions I'd grown up with. That's probably one thing that made me realize material stuff is not really that important.” King legitimately giving a very "**** Si" vibe here? The way he didn't seem to care at all. I feel like half of my arguments may be faulty perhaps but as a whole there's sufficient evidence for ENFP Rick Riordan here. Also if we look at his protagonists and trust the users of PDB to type properly (I know that's a big ask but hear me out here), we have ESFP Percy, ESFP Sadie (my girl ngl), ISTJ Carter, INTP Magnus (hmm), ESFP Lester, ENFP Ana. I don't think it's a stretch to say that many authors write characters in a way that would follow their own cognitive biases -- after all, it's difficult to put yourself in the shoes of someone with an entirely different type of cognition. *If* we follow those two assumptions, I think it's very reasonable to say that Riordan is likely to have a preference for the Fi-Te axis, particularly high Fi. Additionally, from what I've seen, the ESFJ arguments are actually what happens when there's Fi and Si together. What's of special value to me (Fi) as shaped by my own experiences (Si)?
Biography
Richard Russell Riordan Jr. (born June 5, 1964), is an American author. He is known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, about a twelve-year-old boy who discovers he is a son of Poseidon. His books have been translated into 42 languages and sold more than 30 million copies in the US. 20th Century Fox has adapted the first two books of his Percy Jackson series as part of a series of films.
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