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Scott Fischer MBTI Personality Type

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Personality

What personality type is Scott Fischer? Scott Fischer is an ESFP personality type in MBTI, 9w8 - - in Enneagram, in Big 5, in Socionics.

Ok, just read "Into Thin Air", based on his description in it: MBTI-wise, Se dom makes sense, stereotypical for someone doing outdoor stuff maybe but he seems to be very energetic and fully involved in the immediacy of life and not so much caring about the Ni implications of danger. "Raw and emotional, disinclined towards introspection, he had the kind of gregarious, magnetic personality that instantly won him friends for life" Seems more like Se-Fi than Ti, being passionate about your individual emotions rather than the more detached style of ESTP where the emotions they express are more those shared by society as a whole rather than your personal ones. SEE in Socionics, Se base is clear from how he constantly pushed and challenged himself to excel despite pain and danger, ignoring the "comfort" aspect of life. Also demonstrative Fe shown in him being an expressive type of person with creative Fi value of personal bonds as opposed to logical systems or hierarchies. Not sure why he's voted 9, 9s can definitely be apparently taking action while still exhibiting sloth mentally but it's hard for me to see a 9 being motivated by such a drive to excel and throw themselves into danger, that's way too intense for anything that can be reasonably considered "doing mindless activity in order to not really evaluate yourself". 8 makes more sense, though he really only has the lust for intensity and not the antisocial/justice/revenge aspects as far as I can tell, though an 8 fix seems reasonable. I feel like 3 would fit the best - both 3 and 8 can be intense and driven in accomplishing their goals while pushing past discomfort and pain, and both can have ambitions to "be the greatest", 3 because they feel they are only worthwhile in the paradigm of being successful and 8 because they enjoy the challenge and feeling of power and success. Some of the quotes in Into Thin Air really seem to suggest 3 to me. "Recognition was important to Scott. He ached for it. He had a vulnerable side that most people didn't see, it really bothered him that he wasn't more widely respected as a butt-kicking climber. He felt slighted, and it hurt." "The money didn't seem terribly important to Fischer. He cared little for material things but he hungered for respect and he was acutely aware that in the culture in which he lived, money was the prevailing gauge of success". This shows the difference between 3 and 8 more - 8 has a lust for winning material gains for their own sake, 3 only cares about them in so much as they are a symbol and image of success in the eyes of society. "

Biography

Scott Eugene Fischer (December 24, 1955 – May 11, 1996) was an American mountaineer and mountain guide. He was renowned for his ascents of the world's highest mountains made without the use of supplemental oxygen. Fischer and Wally Berg were the first Americans to summit Lhotse (27,940 feet / 8516 m), the world's fourth highest peak.[1] Fischer, Charley Mace, and Ed Viesturs summitted K2 (28,251 feet/ 8611m) without supplemental oxygen.[2] Fischer first climbed Mount Everest (29,032 feet / 8,848.86 m) in 1994 and later died during the 1996 blizzard on Everest while descending from the peak.

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