IS(T) MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is IS(T)? IS(T) is an ISTJ personality type in MBTI, 9w8 - sp/sx - 954 in Enneagram, RCUEN in Big 5, SLI in Socionics.
(Source credits by EmergentMind) IS(T) (1/3) Whiner, finds reasons to feel bored, does not rejoice often, complains of losses, does not feel gratitude, gloomy and preoccupied, greed, jealous suspicions. He is more aggressive in words than in actions. Secretly collects additional information. Owner. Always dissatisfied. There is no open aggression. Not enough activity: encountering opposition he retreats. Makes an impression of dissatisfied, joyless grumbler. Quarrels with relatives. Systematic, carries responsibility especially well, matter-of-fact, excellent adaptation to routine, absorbs and enjoys using a number of evidences, sources and realistic, pragmatic data. He bases his idea on a deep, solid abstraction, aesthetic accumulation, “painting”, of its own sense of realism. Stores impressions and artistic metaphors, practical and efficient. Extreme stability; they know how to concentrate and relax, they understand their senses and how reality works, he trusts his own sensations, but protects himself from the exaggerated stimuli the world gives. They lend stability and harmony to everything they work with, all connected points of space are areas of comfort. Habitually relates one impression to another, one sense to the other, developing a network of sensory links; synesthesia. Emphasizes logic, analysis, procedures, correct and efficient work, useful investments, decisiveness, certainty. Some manifestations are morally righteous, carrying a sense of law and justice based on the rules of society and common sense; the collective’s ideals and knowledge. Lawyers and accountants. Would give any amount of help if they can see that it is needed, but their logic rebels against requirements or expectations to do things that lack logical sense. A distinguishing trait of this type - is concern for and a striving to create material well-being and comfort in their lives. They are discerning in art and design, and typically have a good sense taste. The type is often able to organize profitable businesses in commerce or production. Experiences difficulties in expressing his feelings and emotions. Being secretly afraid of being misunderstood, he will prefer to hide his real attitudes towards other people, and won't show them at all. However if he is humiliated or made fun of in public, he can burst into tears, lose their temper and start shouting at the offender. Representatives of this type remember the smallest offenses, and after serious quarrels they are capable of breaking relations forever. Has a desire to plan their affairs in advance. This is also the root of their excessive conservatism and caution. He will never make a final decision without a thorough analysis of all aspects of the situation.
Biography
With the admixture of thinking, such people tend to produce or to believe in categories. However, these principles are acquired on the basis of inadequate empirical material, for their thinking only functions following sensation. For the same reason they are much given to deduction; that is, they arc prepared to explain the individual case by deducing from general laws. Although their theories have an anthropomorphic or mythological touch, they often produce unusual and original ideas. A case that springs to mind is Paracelsus. Then there is the amusing example of Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807-1887), who founded a serious aesthetic movement, only to make fun of it in a novel. In the novel, for example, he allocates the Greek antas temple to the “mixture of catarrh and chilblain styles.” and the Peripteros to the ”purely catarrh style.” His fascination with the “pitfalls of the object” can also be understood in this way. Source: "Personality" by Carl Alfred Meier
