The INTP, Engineer Rational, Designer Theorizer, or Architect, has a distant goal of rearranging the environment somehow, to shape, to construct, to devise, whether it be buildings, institutions, enterprises, or theories. They look upon the world — natural and civil — as little more than raw material to be reshaped according to their design, as a formless stone for their hammer and chisel.
They prefer to direct your energy to deal with ideas, information, explanations, or beliefs. They prefer to deal with ideas, look into the unknown, to generate new possibilities or to anticipate what isn’t obvious. They prefer to decide on the basis of objective logic, using an analytic and detached approach. They prefer to go with the flow, to maintain flexibility and respond to things as they arise.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator says that they live rich worlds inside their minds, which are full of imagination and excitement. Consequently, they sometimes find the external world pales in comparison.
Making up only about 1-3% of the general population, they make great scientists, biologists, physicists, chemists, consultants, computer specialists, philosophers, economists, historian, teachers … and assassins.
Based on the Jung – Myers-Briggs typological approach to personality, a major concern for Architects is the haunting sense of impending failure. They spend considerable time second-guessing themselves, even when taking the Personality Test.
Many regard this attitude as arrogant, and Architects are likely, especially in their later years, after finding out that most others are faking an understanding of the laws of nature, to think of themselves as the prime movers who must pit themselves against nature and society in an endless struggle to define ends clearly and adopt whatever means that promise success.
Some Architects include Socrates, Descartes, Pascal, Sir Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein.
INTP, Engineer Rational, Designer Theorizer, Architect, Myers-Briggs
