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1. INTPs are rational, curious, theoretical, and
abstract, preferring to organize ideas rather
than situations or people.
The enjoy working alone with ample
autonomy for their own ideas and methods.
Introverted Thinking
with Intuition
INTP

2. Are strategists’ strategists – masters of
complexity
Develop models and theories
Provide independent, critical, and logical
analysis of traditions or new thoughts and
systems
Find the errors of logic and the long-term
consequences of plans or strategies
General Strengths
INTP

3. INTP

4. Brief Description of INTP
• Autonomous
• Cognitive
• Detached
• Independent
• Logical
• Original
• Precise
• Self-determined
• Skeptical
• Speculative
• Spontaneous
• Theoretical

5. INTP
• The Thinker
• Architect
• Creative Logician
• Builder of Theories
• Life’s Problem Solvers
• Insightful Analyzers
• Incubate Ideas

6. Personality Portraits
Introverted
Thinkers
INTP

7. POTENTIAL STRENGTHS
• Analytical skills
• Problem solving at a systems level
• Technical knowledge and expertise
• Adaptability
• Conceptual design.
INTP

8. INTP
• Seek to develop logical explanations for everything that
interests them.
• Theoretical and abstract, interested more in ideas than in
social interaction.
• Quiet, contained, flexible, and adaptable.
• Have unusual ability to focus in depth to solve problems in
their area of interest.
• Skeptical, sometimes critical, always analytical.
• A love problem solving
• In love it’s the mind that matters

9. Motivation
Blueprinter of ideas
Bringing clarity and intellectual
understanding to the principles
underlying problems or issues,
knowing that truth aids any process
INTP

10. Type Dynamics
Applying logic
INTPs Looking at larger picture
T
S
N
F
Considering people
Looking at facts
Solve a problem by

11. CAREER DEVELOPMENT
INTP

12. CAREER TRENDS
• Many occupations attractive to INTPs are in
scientific to technical fields.
• Tasks that require long-term or strategic planning
conceptualization, or design are also attractive.
• Many careers attractive to INTPs require prolonged
periods of solitary concentration and tough minded
analysis of problems.
INTP

13. MOST ATTRACTIVE OCCUPATIONS
• Computer Professional
• Social Scientist
• Writer or Editor
• Architect
• Manager: Executive
• Research Assistant
• Fine Artist
• Surveyor
• Photographer
INTP

14. FAMOUS INTPs

15. INTP
Albert Einstein

16. INTP
Sir Charles Darwin
“The Origin of
Species”

17. C. G. Jung
INTP

18. Philosopher-Socrates
INTP

19. Sir Isaac Newton
INTP

20. INTP
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, philosopher
and inventor

21. INTP
René Descartes
French mathematician, philosopher, and
scientist
who is considered the father of analytic
geometry, founder of modern rationalism,
father of modern science and father of
modern philosophy

22. INTP
William James
American psychologist and philosopher. A
founder of pragmatism and functionalism,
he developed an approach to intellectual
issues that greatly influenced American
thought. His works include The Principles
of Psychology (1890) and The Varieties
of Religious Experience (1902).

23. INTP
• Socrates
Rene Descartes
Blaise Pascal
Sir Isaac Newton
James Madison
John Quincy Adams
John Tyler
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gerald Ford
William Harvey
Ashley and Mary Kate
Olsen
• C. G. Jung
William James
Albert Einstein
Rep. Tom Foley
Henri Mancini
Bob Newhart
Sen. Jeff Bingaman
Rick Moranis
Meryl Streep
Brent Spiner
Midori Ito