Sun Tzu MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Sun Tzu? Sun Tzu is an INTJ personality type in MBTI, 5w6 - sp/so - 583 in Enneagram, RCOEI in Big 5, LSI in Socionics.
"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.” “Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions” "Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.” “Water shapes it’s course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.” One of Sun Tzu’s central points is the idea of dynamic combat, and adapting to the conditions of warfare. Exploiting enemy weaknesses, using new conditions as they arise, moving to ideal terrain, acting unexpectedly simply so to confuse your enemy, etc. He is a dynamic > static thinker in this sense. This also shows his dialectical-algorithmic thinking, he believes warfare is a conflict of oppositions and contradicting forces over the course of time which gives way to new conditions, that create new oppositions. He very commonly refers to combat like water, in its formlessness and constant flow/adaptability through time. He is also declaring > asking, and clearly uses essential logic (or black logic) over relational logic (or white logic). He very specifically states the conditions for warfare, doesn’t leave any open ends or variables that can be substituted since he knows how precise conditions must be. He directly addresses the mechanics of the objects or processes in question and not how they relate to each other or abstractly can be formed. Sun Tzu is likely an ILI-Te-D.
Biography
Sun Tzu (also rendered as Sun Zi; Chinese: 孫子) was a Chinese general, military strategist, writer, and philosopher who lived in the Eastern Zhou period of ancient China. Sun Tzu is traditionally credited as the author of The Art of War, a widely influential work of military strategy that has affected both Western and East Asian philosophy and military thinking. Aside from his legacy as the author of The Art of War, Sun Tzu is revered in Chinese and East Asian culture as a legendary historical and military figure.
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