Note: If you want to read about all personality types, please go to The 16 Personality Types. If you want to learn your personality type, please go to take the Personality Type Test or one of these more sophisticated Myers Briggs Career Personality Tests.
ISTP = Introverted, Sensing, Thinking Perceiver
Nickname of ISTP: “The Realist”
Main Qualites of ISTP:
- Patient
- Data-Oriented
- Logical
- Efficient
- Compromising
- Tolerant
Good ISTP Careers:
- Software Developer
- Systems Analyst
- Securities Analyst
- Purchasing Agent
- Computer Repair Person
- Banker
- Pharmaceutical Sales
- Firefighter
Famous ISTPs & Fictional ISTPs
- U.S. Presidents: Zachary Taylor
- Charles Bronson
- Tom Cruise
- James Dean
- Clint Eastwood
- Robin Cook
- Burt Reynolds
- Keith Richards
- Charlie Yeager
- Frank Zappa
- John Malkovich
- Katharine Hepburn
- Michael Jordan
- Archibald “Harry” Tuttle – Brazil movie
- Blondie – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Boba Fett – Star Wars
- Brett – Alien
- Butch Coolidge – Pulp Fiction
- Elvira Hancock – Scarface
- Han Solo – Star Wars
- Hedda Gabler – Hedda Gabler play (Ibsen)
- John Milner – American Grafitti
- Wolverine, X Men
- Maggie Fitzgerald – Million Dollar Baby
- Verna – Miller’s Crossing
These Web site were helpful for this article:
KnowYourType, TypeLogic, MyPersonality and SimilarMinds
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If you are enjoying the 16 Myers-Briggs Personality Types, you may also enjoy The 9 Enneagram Personality Types.
