Myers-Briggs and Gamers
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There's also one bump upwards from the generally low stats for SP's and SJ's. That's for ISTP's.
That makes sense for two reasons:
- SP's are more likely than average to serve in the military, and a lot of people pick up gaming in the military. ISTP's tend to be into speed and hardware and not good at traditional education, so the best fighter pilots, tank drivers, snipers, etc. are likely to be ISTP's.
- IxTP people don't much care what other people think (Introvert, Thinking, and non-conformist). If they like something, they will do it, regardless of whether others think it's cool or not. An SJ is much more likely to worry about whether it's right (does it lead to Satanism?) and an ESPx is more likely to worry if the cool kids are doing it or not.
ISTP's are often my favorite "S" folks . . . it's interesting that historically, there's a lot of military pairings of ENTJ's and ISTP's who shared a mutual respect and let each other do their thing. The main example I'm thinking of is Eisenhower and Patton, but I believe there was a similar pair in the Civil War, probably Grant and Sherman. Big picture strategy of the Field Marshall personality type, combined small picture excellence and drive of the true warrior.
That makes sense for two reasons:
- SP's are more likely than average to serve in the military, and a lot of people pick up gaming in the military. ISTP's tend to be into speed and hardware and not good at traditional education, so the best fighter pilots, tank drivers, snipers, etc. are likely to be ISTP's.
- IxTP people don't much care what other people think (Introvert, Thinking, and non-conformist). If they like something, they will do it, regardless of whether others think it's cool or not. An SJ is much more likely to worry about whether it's right (does it lead to Satanism?) and an ESPx is more likely to worry if the cool kids are doing it or not.
ISTP's are often my favorite "S" folks . . . it's interesting that historically, there's a lot of military pairings of ENTJ's and ISTP's who shared a mutual respect and let each other do their thing. The main example I'm thinking of is Eisenhower and Patton, but I believe there was a similar pair in the Civil War, probably Grant and Sherman. Big picture strategy of the Field Marshall personality type, combined small picture excellence and drive of the true warrior.
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