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Pete Townshend MBTI Personality Type

Pete Townshend MBTI Personality Type

Pete Townshend Personality Type

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What personality type is Pete Townshend? Pete Townshend is an INFJ personality type in MBTI, 4w3 - sx/so - 416 in Enneagram, RLOAI in Big 5, EII in Socionics.

There's really no Ne in him. A lot of of his greatest stuff with The Who is rooted around some big abstract concept that has something to do with his spiritual views. His original vision for the "Lifehouse" project may be the most Ni-Fe thing ever conceived. Plus, with all that windmilling and guitar-smashing, there's no way he doesn't have Se in his stack. When he was younger in particular, he exhibited a lot of the classic Ni delusional optimism. In 1967, he was completely convinced that "I Can See For Miles" was the greatest single ever and that it would sell millions and millions of copies. When it wasn't a number one, he used Ni again to reframe the situation, deciding that the singles market just wasn't on his level and that albums were actually the future (and he was right). I think he's a 4w3, though, rather than a 3w4. He seems very comfortable with being vulnerable (almost to the point of self-flagellation) about his feelings and faults in various interviews as well as his autobiography. His songwriting, while still very Ni-Fe, is also quite confessional in a way that I wouldn't normally associate with somebody whose core enneagram type was in the competency triad. As for his tritype, I think 416 works better than anything with 8 as a gut fix. Pete has always been more of a disillusioned idealist than a true rebel. Also...EII? I really, really can't see him as a Se PoLR in Socionics. Pete was (and is) an extremely assertive and forceful person. And Beta quadra fits him way better than Delta.

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Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (born 19 May 1945) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the lead guitarist, backing vocalist, and principal songwriter for the rock band the Who. His career with the Who spans over 50 years, during which time the band grew to be considered one of the most influential bands of the 20th century.