David Foster Wallace MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is David Foster Wallace? David Foster Wallace is an ENTP personality type in MBTI, 5w4 - sx/so - 549 in Enneagram, RLUEI in Big 5, in Socionics.
• His psychology was Socratic, anti-dogmatic, critical, and doubtful. Unlike INxPs who are less opposed to preservation (Si), Wallace on the other hand was. He valued variation to an extreme: – "I start … a whole lot of different things at the same time. … I lack the discipline or fortitude to work for very long on something that feels dead, so [those projects] get abandoned. … It's all rather chaotic." – "In order to be really alive for me, a [project] has got to be different, feel different, than other stuff I've done." – "Religious dogmatists' problem is ... blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up." – "A huge percentage of the stuff that [people] tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded." – New York Times: "A versatile writer of seemingly bottomless energy, Mr. Wallace was a maximalist, exhibiting in his work a huge, even manic curiosity - about the physical world, about the much larger universe of human feelings (similar to David Hume, ENTP) and about the complexity of living in America at the end of the 20th century. He wrote long books, complete with reflective and often hilariously self-conscious footnotes, and he wrote long sentences, with the playfulness of a master punctuater and the inventiveness of a genius grammarian. Critics often noted that he was not only an experimenter and a showoff, but also a God-fearing moralist with a fierce honesty in confronting the existence of contradiction."
Biography
David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American writer and university instructor in the disciplines of English and creative writing. His novel Infinite Jest (1996) was listed by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. His last novel, The Pale King (2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2012.
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