Nassim Nicholas Taleb MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Nassim Nicholas Taleb? Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an INTJ personality type in MBTI, 5w6 - sx/sp - 548 in Enneagram, RCOEI in Big 5, ILI in Socionics.
For people who are in doubt between INTP and INTJ... Actually Nassim Taleb said during this interview with Robert Shiller that his view is formed by what worked objectively on the reality. And when I mean "objectively", I mean the same as Carl Jung wrote inside the Psychological Types book: 1. The Objective Reality 2. The Data 3. The Facts 4. The Empirical Material These items should explain the logic by themselves (Te). Nassim Taleb looks what works objectively on the stock market during crisis through empirical material (Te) and he formed his single vision based on this (Ni). He didn't create a new deductive logic framework that explains everything in a logical manner with all the pieces connected (Ti), he just observed by an inductive process what works objectively on the stock market during crisis (Te) and intuitively formed his vision upon it (NiTe). Nassim Taleb also said during an interview that he talked with a Taxi-Driver to know what he is thinking (Te > Ti) and he said that the Taxi-Driver is correct, because the Taxi-Driver knows what works on practice more than the economists, because that Taxi-Driver is dealing with the Stock Market and capturing empirical evidences everyday instead of studying economics theories. It is Te > Ti. Ti users aligns his logic into his authenticity and does not care to validate his logic by comparing with other people's logic like that. Ti users doesn't care so much about external evidences that supports his theory, because they are more worried in finding the essence of logic instead of worried about making his logic into practice on the real world through results like Te wants to do. In general, Ti is oriented to the process, Te is oriented to the result. To finalize, this quote from Nassim Taleb: "So removing economists from the planet would improve the planet!!! It is not a crazy proposal, the world is crazy. Look what they drove us into and how many people. Look at Greenspan, Bernanke, all these methods they used... linear regression don't work!" Can be explained perfectly by this paragraph of Extraverted Thinking (Carl Jung ~ Psychological Types) "Because this formula seems to correspond with the meaning of the world, it also becomes a world-law whose realization must be achieved at all times and seasons, both individually and collectively. Just as the extraverted thinking type subordinates himself to his formula, so, for its own good, must his entourage also obey it, since the man who refuses to obey is wrong -- he is resisting the world-law, and is, therefore, unreasonable, immoral, and without a conscience. His moral code forbids him to tolerate exceptions; his ideal must, under all circumstances, be realized; for in his eyes it is the purest conceivable formulation of objective reality, and, therefore, must also be generally valid truth, quite indispensable for the salvation of man. This is not from any great love for his neighbour, but from a higher standpoint of justice and truth. Everything in his own nature that appears to invalidate this formula is mere imperfection, an accidental miss-fire, something to be eliminated on the next occasion, or, in the event of further failure, then clearly a sickness." References 🌐 1. Carl Jung - Psychological Types: https://www.amazon.com/Psychological-Types-C-G-Jung/dp/1614279705 2. Nassim Taleb's interview: https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/nassim-n-taleb-and-robert-shiller
Biography
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, and former trader and risk analyst, whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. His 2007 book The Black Swan has been described by The Sunday Times as one of the twelve most influential books since World War II.
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