Shaquille “Shaq” O'Neal MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Shaquille “Shaq” O'Neal? Shaquille “Shaq” O'Neal is an ESFP personality type in MBTI, 3w4 - so/sx - 378 in Enneagram, SLUEN in Big 5, SEE in Socionics.
Se Dom is clear but he get's his feelings hurt way too easily & frequently to be aux Ti: Almost every episode of Inside The NBA he gets upset over a joke or comment someone made that he feels crossed his Fi boundary. Not to mention how BIG of a reaction he has whenever an NBA player responds to him bashing them. A perfect example is his beef with Javel McGee; Shaq roasted him weekly for years & when McGee finally fired back at Shaq for it, Shaq responded with so much intensity that Shaq's own mom had to step in to calm him down. There's also Shaq's 1 sided beef with Dwight Howard (to the point of continuing to hate on him even after both have left the NBA), because Dwight had the audacity to wear a superman shirt (1 of Shaq's 15 nicknames for himself) during a dunk contest a decade ago & said "multiple people can have the same nickname". These situations got way too personal, way too quickly to be Ti-Fe. He has "can dish it but can't take it" energy which is more often an Fi thing than a Ti thing, as high Ti users are more likely to enjoy the back & forth so will usually just laugh it off while trying to roast you back. Compare him to his co-host Charles Barkley & you can see the difference between how Fi-Te & Ti-Fe deals with these situations. Shaq is also incredibly famous in athlete circles for his business acumen (a very common trait amongst Te users). He has equity (ownership) in every brand he endorses & has been called "the best businessman I know" by all 3 of the other hosts of Inside The NBA. Kenny Smith said in this interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DulXdbTuHz4) that Shaq doesn't even watch NBA games, he just does 30 million dollar deals while off camera. When asked why he's so business focused, Shaq's response was "you never know what the future will hold, so you have to seize the opportunities as they're presented to you". This statement is the embodiment of Se-Te. Also 7w8 >>>>> 3w4 as he was infamous for coasting by on the bare minimum effort due to his insane innate gifts. He was always more focused on goofing off & enjoying his celebrity status, than on being the greatest NBA player he could be. A 3 core would have become a better free throw shooter & stayed in MUCH better shape because then he might've been the GOAT. Also Shaq stayed in the NBA LOOOOONG after he stopped dominating, just collecting checks & having fun because he could, which a 3 core wouldn't have done because it hurt his career averages (which is talked about more than career totals) making him seem less dominant overall. Kobe was the 3w4 in their iconic duo & that's why he saw Shaq as "wasted potential" & came into conflict with him. Kobe often said "If Shaq took the game **half** as serious as I did, I would have 10 championships instead of 5" & the entire world was like "yeah he's right". That's NOT how people talk about 3s lol. Add in that shaq clearly isn't driven by protecting his image & the heart triad as a whole makes no sense for his core type. Continued In Comments
Biography
Superman. The Big Aristotle. The Man of Steel. Shaq-Fu. The Big Shamrock. Shaq Daddy. The Big Galactus. The Big Shaqtus. And last, but not least: Shaq Diesel. Those are just a fraction of the many nicknames given to Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal (March 6, 1972), a former NBA player, and one of the biggest and heaviest to ever play in the league, standing at 7'1", and weighing 325 pounds in his prime. While mainly known for his 19-year career in the NBA, particularly his seven seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers as a teammate of the late Kobe Bryant, Shaq is a man of many hats. In addition to being a businessman off the court, he's released several RIAA-certified rap albums, starred in multiple movies, video games, and TV shows, dabbled in mixed martial arts and professional wrestling, and is even an electronic music DJ and producer. When not busy touring or doing entrepreneurial gigs, Shaq is a basketball analyst on TNT's Inside The NBA.
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