Tai Lung MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Tai Lung? Tai Lung is an ISTP personality type in MBTI, 3w4 - sp/sx - 386 in Enneagram, SLUEN in Big 5, SLE in Socionics.
i choose ISTP with E3 because: • ennatype 3: While men with a hysterical personality may be differentiated from those with histrionic personality also in terms of the more restricted field of lability and impulsiveness ("while maintaining the capacity for differentiated behavior under ordinary social circumstances"), and they are also characterized "by a pseudo hypermasculine quality, a histrionic accentuation of culturally accepted masculine patterns, usually a stress on independence and superiority over women, combined with childlike sulkiness when such aspirations cannot be fulfilled."⁹ I do not find the ennea-type III characterological pattern among Jung's descriptions of psychological types, although it is unquestionably an extroverted type with well developed sensing and thinking.¹⁰ Examining the description of test profiles I find the pattern in the portrait of an ISTP (an extroverted sensing, with predominance of thinking over feeling, and perception over judgment). Keirsey and bates ¹¹ describe them as men and women of action: "When someone of this personality is present, things begin to happen. The lights come on, the music plays, the game begins ... If only one adjective could be used to describe ISTPs, resourceful would be an apt choice. "Their attractive, friendly style has a theatrical flourish which makes even the most routine, mundane event seem exciting. ISTPs usually know the location of the best restaurants, and head waiters are likely to call them by name. "They carry on amusing repartee, and laughter surrounds them as they recount from their endless supply of clever jokes and stories. "The ISTP's mate may in time come to feel like an object -the female a chattel, and the male a negotiable commodity. Relationships usually are conditional, and the condition is the consideration of what the ISTP is to gain in the relationship. "...They are masters at using these observations to 'sell' the 'client' The eye of the ISTP is ever on the eye of the beholder, and all actions are directed towards this audience. "ISTPs are ruthless pragmatists and often offer the ends as justification for whatever means they see as necessary ... "ISTPs are outstanding as initiators of enterprises that bring people together to negotiate. They make invaluable itinerant administrators who can pull troubled companies or institutions out of the red very quickly, and with style! They can III sell an idea or project in a way no other type can ...." It seems appropriate that the brilliant and active ennea- type personality be associated in homeopathy with Phosphorus. 12 Anyone who has been by the ocean at night has seen the flecks of sparkling Phosphorus dancing in the foam or gleaming in the swells. This restless element captures the attention, and the Phosphorus individual has a similar eye-catching impact. He attracts by his sparkling appealing manner and his bright intelligent face." Catherine R. Coulter describes Phosphorus individuals, both men and women, as neat, graceful, and refined, with clear skin sometimes porcelain-like or translucent: "Emotionally, Phosphorus is sympathetic, responsive, and sensitive to another's wavelength. The whole manner betrays a readiness to establish warm communication with his interlocutor, and he immediately senses how best to establish rapport. Finely intuitive in his dealings with people, he predisposes others toward himself by little verbal kindnesses, warm praise, or touching consideration, and at times by almost undue generosity. When assistance is required, he will drop whatever he is doing and be the first to arrive ....
Biography
The Big Bad of the first film. One of Master Shifu's earlier students and adopted son, Tai Lung is an arrogant Snow Leopard who turned evil and went on a rampage. For that, he was imprisoned for twenty years. It is the prophecy of his escape that sets the events of the series into motion and his defeat at the hands of Po that affirms Po as the Dragon Warrior.
