Henri Poincaré MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Henri Poincaré? Henri Poincaré is an INFJ personality type in MBTI, 5w4 - sp/so - 514 in Enneagram, RCOEI in Big 5, ILI in Socionics.
POST 1/2: (2/2 is posted as a reply) Evidence for Ni: • Poincaré: "It is certain that the combinations which present themselves to the mind in a kind of sudden illumination after a somewhat prolonged period of unconscious work are generally useful and fruitful combinations. ... All the combinations are formed as a result of the automatic action of the subliminal ego, but those only which are interesting find their way into the field of consciousness. ... A few only are harmonious, and consequently at once useful and beautiful..." >>> (IDRLabs: "Introverted Intuition submerges previously assimilated insights from consciousness only to suddenly have them resurface as ingenious, creative (and perhaps slightly crazy) new syntheses.") • André Belliver: "Accustomed to neglecting details and to looking only at mountain tops, he went from one peak to another with surprising rapidity, and the facts he discovered, clustering around their center, were instantly and automatically pigeonholed in his memory." >>> (The tendency to neglect immediate details while centralizing insight around a few locus points, or "peaks", is a characteristic of Ni, which tends toward convergence where Ne tends toward divergence.) • Poincaré: "If all the parts of the universe are interchained in a certain measure, any one phenomenon will not be the effect of a single cause, but the resultant of causes infinitely numerous; it is, one often says, the consequence of the state of the universe the moment before." >>> (This is the same idea of perceptive convergence, amplified to an extreme degree, i.e. all points affecting one point.) • Poincare: "Logic teaches us that on such and such a road we are sure of not meeting an obstacle; it does not tell us which is the road that leads to the desired end. For this, it is necessary to see the end from afar, and the faculty which teaches us to see is intuition." >>> (Ni is often associated with linear prediction. It cannot bring about a result, but it can see the path leading to a result.) (continued below)
Biography
Jules Henri Poincaré (29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as "The Last Universalist," since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime.
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