Introvert-Intuitive-Thinking-Perceptual

• highly analytical
• interested in underlying principles (not just facts)
• often scholars, theorists & abstract thinkers
• tend to be profound thinkers (possess intellectual curiosity, quickness of understanding, ingenuity)
• love problem solving

• may typify the "absent-minded professor"
• open to getting caught up in the sometimes paradoxical goal of making a coherent whole out of an end- lessly proliferating amount of data (wants to fit all the pieces together logically but constantly receiving new information requires constant review & change)
• like an intellectual challenge from their relationships (social deftness may take 2nd place to expanding, clarifying, arguing, rethinking)
• turn all projects into mental tasks

• grade school may be difficult but flourish in institutes of higher education
• work that does not involve the intellect & the opportunity for mastery soon may become drudgery
• life theme is designing, not just in the artistic sense but in terms of precise arrangements of all elements necessary for objective understanding
• as a manager, often visionary
• can be team players if that is what it takes to get the job done
• dislike redundancy and stating the obvious
• can be impatient with errors, snarled messes and inefficiency
• value the theoretical
• precise in thought & language

• trust logical reasoning
• tend to be skeptical
• skilled at seeing distinctions and developing categories
• high need for achievement
• devoted to accuracy, logic, justice and coherence

• may overlook the human element in the quest for objective truth & understanding (example: dislike small talk)
• find bureaucracy frustrating
• expect conflict to be resolved rationally & logically
• fear of failure may be own worst enemy
• want the person in charge to be knowledgeable & competent; authority is not granted by position