I have been diagnosed as having an INTP personality type.??
Question: Anyone else?
If so, what kind of jobs do you have?
I need a job, and I dont know what will fit me best.
Answers: INTP-the driving force in your life is to understand whatever phenomenon is the focus of your attention. You want to make sense of the world-as a concept---and you often enjoy opportunities to be creative. INTPs are logical, analytical, and detached in their approach to the world; they naturally question and critique ideas and events as they strive for understanding.INTPs usually have little need to control the outer world, or to bring order to it,and they often appear very flexible and adaptable in their lifestyle.
go to www.capt.org
INTP is not a diagnosis . Also, Myers-Briggs is, at best, controversial both in the traits it identifies and in the ability to measure those traits if they do indeed exist.
Also, there doesn't seem to be much internal or external validity to the test. People who take the test and then retake months or years later, test differently and the findings don't predict anything. For example, MB testing predicts nothing about how likely you are to have one job vs another.
Contrast that with a REAL trait driven test. IQ. IQ is a dramatic predictor of certain occupations and of income. Also, people self-stratify based on IQ. People who marry, overwhelmingly choose a spouse with a similar IQ. People of similar IQ live together in the same neighborhoods, hang out in the same social circles....go to school together and work together. IQ is stable over time. If you test someone's IQ years later, it is very close to being the same. If someone sustains a head injury and their tested IQ drops, that is a reliable sign of brain injury.
There are such things as traits. They can be measured and they are useful. Meyers Briggs however, doesn't work. It's not valid.
For one thing, the INTP personality is not exactly a common one. Like INFPs ( myself ) they make up only 1% of the population.....if I remember correctly. Think of this in terms of.....meeting 100 people before you have a 50/50 chance of meeting another INTP.
The funny thing is...dispite the odds...it's pretty likely that you *already* know some other INTPs.....simply because that's who you click with.
As far as the job thing goes, I would certainly get that book Please Understand Me by...Kersey. And get the first edition rather than the second. It's the book that most people seem to use when they want to know more about the various aspects of the different personality types.
It does list the sorts of jobs that you would find most rewarding. I know for myself, when I checked it out, the things that it listed for jobs.....were just exactly the sorts of things I was already attracted to. So it really helped me become more confident that I was headed in the right direction.
One other thing worth knowing. If you ever choose to do carrer counselling......be certain that they will do a *lot* of psychological testing. For the same reason. To see what sort of things your personality is cut out to both do well at, and to feel rewarded by.
Bob J.
If so, what kind of jobs do you have?
I need a job, and I dont know what will fit me best.
Answers: INTP-the driving force in your life is to understand whatever phenomenon is the focus of your attention. You want to make sense of the world-as a concept---and you often enjoy opportunities to be creative. INTPs are logical, analytical, and detached in their approach to the world; they naturally question and critique ideas and events as they strive for understanding.INTPs usually have little need to control the outer world, or to bring order to it,and they often appear very flexible and adaptable in their lifestyle.
go to www.capt.org
INTP is not a diagnosis . Also, Myers-Briggs is, at best, controversial both in the traits it identifies and in the ability to measure those traits if they do indeed exist.
Also, there doesn't seem to be much internal or external validity to the test. People who take the test and then retake months or years later, test differently and the findings don't predict anything. For example, MB testing predicts nothing about how likely you are to have one job vs another.
Contrast that with a REAL trait driven test. IQ. IQ is a dramatic predictor of certain occupations and of income. Also, people self-stratify based on IQ. People who marry, overwhelmingly choose a spouse with a similar IQ. People of similar IQ live together in the same neighborhoods, hang out in the same social circles....go to school together and work together. IQ is stable over time. If you test someone's IQ years later, it is very close to being the same. If someone sustains a head injury and their tested IQ drops, that is a reliable sign of brain injury.
There are such things as traits. They can be measured and they are useful. Meyers Briggs however, doesn't work. It's not valid.
For one thing, the INTP personality is not exactly a common one. Like INFPs ( myself ) they make up only 1% of the population.....if I remember correctly. Think of this in terms of.....meeting 100 people before you have a 50/50 chance of meeting another INTP.
The funny thing is...dispite the odds...it's pretty likely that you *already* know some other INTPs.....simply because that's who you click with.
As far as the job thing goes, I would certainly get that book Please Understand Me by...Kersey. And get the first edition rather than the second. It's the book that most people seem to use when they want to know more about the various aspects of the different personality types.
It does list the sorts of jobs that you would find most rewarding. I know for myself, when I checked it out, the things that it listed for jobs.....were just exactly the sorts of things I was already attracted to. So it really helped me become more confident that I was headed in the right direction.
One other thing worth knowing. If you ever choose to do carrer counselling......be certain that they will do a *lot* of psychological testing. For the same reason. To see what sort of things your personality is cut out to both do well at, and to feel rewarded by.
Bob J.
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