The 16 MBTI Personality Types

Classic descriptions of personality characteristics and vocational tendencies from foundational MBTI texts.

A curated collection of selected excerpts from influential MBTI works by Isabel Briggs Myers, David Keirsey, and Dario Nardi, presenting how each of the sixteen personality types has been described in the original literature, with a focus on core characteristics and careers.

Creative work is shaped as much by temperament as by talent; this article explores how personality has been described in the foundational literature.

This article is intended as a reference piece rather than a guide. Readers are encouraged to dip into their own type or compare descriptions across types, rather than read sequentially from start to finish.

INFP

INFP Themes and Characteristics

“Idealistic, loyal to their values and to people who are important to them. Want an external life that is congruent with their values. Curious, quick to see possibilities, can be catalysts for implementing ideas. Seek to understand people and to help them fulfill their potential. Adaptable, flexible, and accepting unless a value is threatened.”

Introduction To Type
Isabel Briggs Myers

“Going with the flow. Knowing what is behind what is said. Uncovering mysteries. Exploring moral questions. Talent for facilitative listening. Relate through stories and metaphors. Balancing opposites. Getting re-acquainted with themselves. Have a way of knowing what is believable. Struggling with structure and getting their lives in order.”

Neuroscience of Personality: Brain-Savvy Insights for All Types of People
Dario Nardi

INFP Careers

“INFPs excel in fields that deal with possibilities for people, such as counseling, teaching, literature, art, science, research, and psychology.”

Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
Isabel Briggs Myers & Peter B. Myers

“The INFPs’ career choices should tend toward the ministry, missionary work, social work, library research, tutoring, child counseling, college teaching in the humanities-and away from business.”

Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence: 2
David Keirsey

“Occupational trends identified: counseling, writing, arts.”

MBTI Manual
Isabel Briggs Myers

“Those careers that involve human service are the ultimate home of the INFP: psychology, teaching, family medicine, and church work.”

Type Talk
Otto Kroeger, Janet M. Thuesen

INFJ

INFJ Themes and Characteristics

“Seek meaning and connection in ideas, relationships, and material possessions. Want to understand what motivates people and are insightful about others. Conscientious and committed to their firm values. Develop a clear vision about how best to serve the common good. Organized and decisive in implementing their vision.”

Introduction To Type
Isabel Briggs Myers

“Personal growth. Sustain the vision. Honoring the gifts of others. Taking a creative approach to life. Talent for foreseeing. Exploring issues. Bridging differences and connecting people. Practical problem solving. Living with a sense of purpose. Living an idealistic life often presents them with a great deal of stress and a need to withdraw.”

Neuroscience of Personality: Brain-Savvy Insights for All Types of People
Dario Nardi

INFJ Careers

“The visions of the INFJs tend to concern human welfare.”

Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
Isabel Briggs Myers & Peter B. Myers

“INFJ’s thrive in occupations which involve interacting with people, nurturing their personal development, especially on a one-to-one basis. Teaching and the ministry hold attraction, although INFJs must develop an expressive attitude in both professions, which for them requires a great deal of energy. More suited to them is the general practice of medicine, or therapeutic counseling.”

Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence: 2
David Keirsey

“Occupational trends identified: religion, counseling, teaching, arts.”

MBTI Manual
Isabel Briggs Myers

“They are at their best in situations that encourage personal enhancement.”

Type Talk
Otto Kroeger, Janet M. Thuesen

INTJ

INTJ Themes and Characteristics

“Have original minds and great drive for implementing their ideas and achieving their goals. Quickly see patterns in external events and develop long-range explanatory perspectives. When committed, organize a job and carry it through. Skeptical and independent, have high standards of competence and performance— for themselves and others.”

Introduction To Type
Isabel Briggs Myers

“Maximizing achievements. Drive for self-mastery. Build a vision. Very long-range strategizing. Realizing progress toward goals. Systems thinking. Talent for seeing the reasons behind things. Being on the leading edge. Maintaining independence. Find it difficult to let go in interacting with others.”

Neuroscience of Personality: Brain-Savvy Insights for All Types of People
Dario Nardi

INTJ Careers

“Are motivated by inspiration, which they value above everything else and use confidently for their best achievements in any field they choose – science, engineering, invention, political or industrial empire-building, social reform, teaching, writing, psychology, philosophy, or religion.”

Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
Isabel Briggs Myers & Peter B. Myers

“Difficulties are highly stimulating to INTJs, who love responding to a problem that requires a creative solution. These traits of character lead them to occupations where theoretical models can be translated into actuality. They build data and human systems wherever they work, if given the slightest opportunity. They can be outstanding in scientific research and as executives in businesses.”

Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence: 2
David Keirsey

“Occupational trends identified: scientific or technical fields, computers, law.”

MBTI Manual
Isabel Briggs Myers

“Careers particularly appealing to INTJs include those that provide mental challenge (teaching, especially college and research) and inventiveness in both business and science (program analysts and architects).”

Type Talk
Otto Kroeger, Janet M. Thuesen

INTP

INTP Themes and Characteristics

“Seek to develop logical explanations for everything that interests them. Theoretical and abstract, interested more in ideas than in social interaction. Quiet, contained, flexible, and adaptable. Have unusual ability to focus in depth to solve problems in their area of interest. Skeptical, sometimes critical, always analytical.”

Introduction To Type
Isabel Briggs Myers

“Becoming an expert. Seeing new patterns and elegant connections. Talent for design and re-design. Crossing the artificial boundaries of thought. Activate the imagination. Clarifying and defining. Making discoveries. Reflect on the process of thinking itself. Detach to analyze. Struggle with attending to the physical world.”

Neuroscience of Personality: Brain-Savvy Insights for All Types of People
Dario Nardi

INTP Careers

“INTPs make scholars, theorists, and abstract thinkers in fields such as science, mathematics, economics, and philosophy.”

Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
Isabel Briggs Myers & Peter B. Myers

“The INTP is the logician, the mathematician, the technologist, the scientist-that person given to any pursuit that requires architectonics, systems analysis, or structural design.”

Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence: 2
David Keirsey

“Occupational trends identified: scientific/technical fields.”

MBTI Manual
Isabel Briggs Myers

“Work that does not involve intellect and the opportunity for mastery soon becomes drudgery for INTPs.”

Type Talk
Otto Kroeger, Janet M. Thuesen

ISFJ

ISFJ Themes and Characteristics

“Quiet, friendly, responsible, and conscientious. Committed and steady in meeting their obligations. Thorough, painstaking, and accurate. Loyal, considerate, notice and remember specifics about people who are important to them, concerned with how others feel. Strive to create an orderly and harmonious environment at work and at home.”

Introduction To Type
Isabel Briggs Myers

“Noticing what’s needed and what’s valuable. Talent for careful and supportive organization. Know the ins and outs. Enjoy traditions. Work to protect the future. Listening and remembering. Being nice and agreeable. Unselfish willingness to volunteer. Feeling a sense of accomplishment. Exasperated when people ignore rules and don’t get along.”

Neuroscience of Personality: Brain-Savvy Insights for All Types of People
Dario Nardi

ISFJ Careers

“ISFJs emphasize loyalty, consideration, and the common welfare. This is a fine type for a family doctor or for the nurses.”

Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
Isabel Briggs Myers & Peter B. Myers

“With their extraordinary sense of safety and responsibility, and with their unusual talent for executing routines, Protectors do well as curators, private secretaries, librarians, middle-management personnel, and especially as general medical practitioners and nurses.”

Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence: 2
David Keirsey

“Occupational trends identified: education, health care, religious settings.”

MBTI Manual
Isabel Briggs Myers

ISFP

ISFP Themes and Characteristics

“Quiet, friendly, sensitive, and kind. Enjoy the present moment, what’s going on around them. Like to have their own space and to work within their own time frame. Loyal and committed to their values and to people who are important to them. Dislike disagreements and conflicts, do not force their opinions or values on others.”

Introduction To Type
Isabel Briggs Myers

“Taking advantage of opportunities. Stick with what’s important. Talent for pulling together what is just right. Creative problem solving. Building relationships. Attracting the loyalties of others. Being their own true self. Have their own personal style. Play against expectations. Struggle with nurturing their own self-esteem.”

Neuroscience of Personality: Brain-Savvy Insights for All Types of People
Dario Nardi

ISFP Careers

“ISFP is one of the only types who strongly prefer general medical practice… They may also find a satisfactory outlet in fields that value taste, discrimination, and a sense of beauty and proportion. They excel in craftsmanship. They seem to have a special love of nature and sympathy for animals.”

Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
Isabel Briggs Myers & Peter B. Myers

“ISFPs do quite well in business, particularly in decorative design (from automobiles to book covers) and purchasing (selecting a line of clothing, home furnishings, or gift shop items). With their kindness, they make wonderful nurses, and they can satisfy their love of nature by working in forestry, in landscape design and gardening, and even in veterinary medicine. Composers also make excellent teachers, especially of a school’s arts curriculum, subjects such as drawing, music, drama, photography, and so on.”

Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence: 2
David Keirsey

“Occupational trends identified: health care, business, law enforcement.”

MBTI Manual
Isabel Briggs Myers

“ISFPs find that their four preferences give them a natural edge to excel in a variety of vocations, including psychology, veterinary medicine, botany, and theology.”

Type Talk
Otto Kroeger, Janet M. Thuesen

ISTJ

ISTJ Themes and Characteristics

“Quiet, serious, earn success by thoroughness and dependability. Practical, matter-of-fact, realistic, and responsible. Decide logically what should be done and work toward it steadily, regardless of distractions. Take pleasure in making everything orderly and organized—their work, their home, their life. Value traditions and loyalty.”

Introduction To Type
Isabel Briggs Myers

“Drawing up plans and being prepared. Take responsibility. Getting work done first. Being active in the community. Loyalty to their roles. Cultivating good qualities. Doing the right thing. Bear life’s burdens and overcome adversity. Talented at planning, sequencing, and noticing what’s missing. Having to learn so much in hindsight is painful at times.”

Neuroscience of Personality: Brain-Savvy Insights for All Types of People
Dario Nardi

ISTJ Careers

“This is a fine type for accountants. It also appears to be ideal for dictating-machine transcribers.”

Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
Isabel Briggs Myers & Peter B. Myers

“They make excellent bank examiners, auditors, accountants, or tax attorneys.

They make good librarians, dentists, optometrists, legal secretaries, and law researchers. High school teachers of business, home economics, physical education, civics, and history tend to be ISTJs.”

Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence: 2
David Keirsey

“Occupational trends identified: management, administration, law enforcement, accounting.”

MBTI Manual
Isabel Briggs Myers

ISTP

ISTP Themes and Characteristics

“Tolerant and flexible, quiet observers until a problem appears, then act quickly to find workable solutions. Analyze what makes things work and readily get through large amounts of data to isolate the core of practical problems. Interested in cause and effect, organize facts using logical principles, value efficiency.”

Introduction To Type
Isabel Briggs Myers

“Actively solving problems. Observing how things work. Talent for using tools for the best approach. Need to be independent. Act on their hunches or intuitions. Understanding a situation. Taking things apart. Making discoveries. Sharing those discoveries. Unsettled by powerful emotional experiences.”

Neuroscience of Personality: Brain-Savvy Insights for All Types of People
Dario Nardi

ISTP Careers

“ISTPs have a vested interest in practical and applied science, especially in the field of mechanics.

The capacity to absorb fact and detail can be very useful to ISTPs who work in the field of economics, as securities analysts, or as market and sales analysts in business and industry.”

Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
Isabel Briggs Myers & Peter B. Myers

“Gifted with their hands and eyes, ISTPs make wonderful tradespeople, carpenters, mechanics, plumbers, furniture makers, weavers, jewelry smiths, and so on. They are the very best pilots of all manner of vehicles, trucks, trains, planes, boats, and they also make incomparable surgeons, artists, athletes, musicians-and warriors.”

Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence: 2
David Keirsey

“Occupational trends identified: skilled trades, technical fields, agriculture, law enforcement, military.”

MBTI Manual
Isabel Briggs Myers

ENFJ

ENFJ Themes and Characteristics

“Warm, empathetic, responsive, and responsible. Highly attuned to the emotions, needs, and motivations of others. Find potential in everyone, want to help others fulfill their potential. May act as catalysts for individual and group growth. Loyal, responsive to praise and criticism. Sociable, facilitate others in a group, and provide inspiring leadership.”

Introduction To Type
Isabel Briggs Myers

“Communicate and share values. Succeeding at relationships. Realizing dreams—their own and others. Seek opportunities to grow together. Heeding the call to a life work or mission. Enjoying the creative process. Intuitive intellect. Reconcile the past and the future. Talent for seeing potential in others. Often find living in the present difficult.”

Neuroscience of Personality: Brain-Savvy Insights for All Types of People
Dario Nardi

ENFJ Careers

“ENFJs do well in many fields, for example, as teachers, clergy, career and personal counselors, and psychiatrists.”

Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
Isabel Briggs Myers & Peter B. Myers

“The media and the ministry are populated with talented ENFJs, and they make excellent therapists, educators, and primary care physicians. They should avoid occupations that do not make use of their interpersonal talents (accounting, law practice, the military); otherwise, almost any activity where sustained personal contact is involved suits their diplomatic skills.”

Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence: 2
David Keirsey

“Occupational trends identified: religion, arts.”

MBTI Manual
Isabel Briggs Myers

“ENFJs are drawn to careers that serve others with minimal potential for interpersonal conflict. Work that involves too many specific details, an abundance of paperwork, or too much time alone will be boring if not stressful to ENFJs. They are especially drawn to religious organisations, academia, and psychological services.”

Type Talk
Otto Kroeger, Janet M. Thuesen

ENFP

ENFP Themes and Characteristics

“Warmly enthusiastic and imaginative. See life as full of possibilities. Make connections between events and information very quickly, and confidently proceed based on the patterns they see. Want a lot of affirmation from others, and readily give appreciation and support. Spontaneous and flexible, often rely on their ability to improvise and their verbal fluency.”

Introduction To Type
Isabel Briggs Myers

“Inspiring and facilitating others. Exploring perceptions. Talent for seeing what’s not being said and voicing unspoken meanings. Seek to have ideal relationships. Recognize happiness. Living out stories. Want to authentically live with themselves. Respond to insights in the creative process. Finding the magical situation. Restless hunger for discovering their direction.”

Neuroscience of Personality: Brain-Savvy Insights for All Types of People
Dario Nardi

ENFP Careers

“ENFPs are drawn to counseling, where each new person presents a fresh problem to be solved and fresh possibilities to be communicated. They may be inspiring teachers, scientists, artists, advertising or salespeople.”

Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
Isabel Briggs Myers & Peter B. Myers

“People-to-people work is essential for ENFPs. They make excellent teachers, ministers, and in general are attracted to the communicative arts, making talented journalists, orators, novelists, screen writers, and playwrights.

In occupational choice, ENFPs quickly become restless if the choice involves painstaking detail and follow-through over a period of time. Variety in day-to-day operations and interactions best suits their talents, since they need quite a bit of freedom in which to exercise their creativity.”

Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence: 2
David Keirsey

“Occupational trends identified: counseling, teaching, religion, arts.”

MBTI Manual
Isabel Briggs Myers

“They generally find more satisfaction and greater rewards in careers that involve human services, such as family medicine, psychology, teaching, and theology, than in such fields as engineering or accounting.”

Type Talk
Otto Kroeger, Janet M. Thuesen

ENTJ

ENTJ Themes and Characteristics

“Frank, decisive, assume leadership readily. Quickly see illogical and inefficient procedures and policies, develop and implement comprehensive systems to solve organizational problems. Enjoy long-term planning and goal setting. Usually well informed, well read, enjoy expanding their knowledge and passing it on to others. Forceful in presenting their ideas.”

Introduction To Type
Isabel Briggs Myers

“Being a leader. Maximize talents. Marshal resources toward progress. Intuitive explorations. Forging partnerships. Mentoring and empowering. Talent for coordinating multiple projects. Balance peace and conflict. Demonstrates predictive creativity. Often overwhelmed by managing all the details of time and resources.”

Neuroscience of Personality: Brain-Savvy Insights for All Types of People
Dario Nardi

ENTJ Careers

“May be executive, legal, technical, or interested in reform.”

Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
Isabel Briggs Myers & Peter B. Myers

“Bound to lead others, and from early on they can be observed taking command of groups. When in charge of an organization, whether in the military, business, education, or government, ENTJs desire and have the ability to visualize where the organization is going, and they seem unusually able to communicate that vision to others.”

Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence: 2
David Keirsey

“Occupational trends identified: management, leadership.”

MBTI Manual
Isabel Briggs Myers

“With their natural leadership and systems-planning abilities, ENTJs often rise to upper levels of management fairly quickly.”

Type Talk
Otto Kroeger, Janet M. Thuesen

ENTP

ENTP Themes and Characteristics

“Quick, ingenious, stimulating, alert, and outspoken. Resourceful in solving new and challenging problems. Adept at generating conceptual possibilities and then analyzing them strategically. Good at reading other people. Bored by routine, will seldom do the same thing the same way, apt to turn to one new interest after another.”

Introduction To Type
Isabel Briggs Myers

“Being inventive. Talented at building prototypes and getting projects launched. Enjoys lifelong learning. Enjoy the creative process. Share their insights about life’s possibilities. Strategically formulate success. An inviting host. Like the drama of the give and take. Trying to be diplomatic. Surprised when their strategizing of relationships becomes problematic.”

Neuroscience of Personality: Brain-Savvy Insights for All Types of People
Dario Nardi

ENTP Careers

“They may be inventors, scientists, trouble-shooters, or promoters.”

Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
Isabel Briggs Myers & Peter B. Myers

“ENTPs can succeed in a variety of occupations, as long as the job does not involve too much humdrum routine, at which point they become restless. They are usually outstanding teachers, continuously devising new and intriguing ways to get their students involved in learning. They make good leaders on innovative projects that test their ingenuity.”

Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence: 2
David Keirsey

“Occupational trends identified: science, management, technology, arts.”

MBTI Manual
Isabel Briggs Myers

“Computer science, financial investment counseling, college teaching, and other theoretical pursuits are highly attractive to ENTPs.”

Type Talk
Otto Kroeger, Janet M. Thuesen

ESFJ

ESFJ Themes and Characteristics

“Warmhearted, conscientious, and cooperative. Want harmony in their environment, work with determination to establish it. Like to work with others to complete tasks accurately and on time. Loyal, follow through even in small matters. Notice what others need in their day-by-day lives and try to provide it. Want to be appreciated for who they are and for what they contribute.”

Introduction To Type
Isabel Briggs Myers

“Accepting and helping others. Managing people. Hearing people out. Voicing concerns and accommodating needs. Admire the success of others. Remember what’s important. Talented at providing others with what they need. Keep things pleasant. Maintaining a sense of continuity. Accounting for the costs. Often disappointed by entrepreneurial projects.”

Neuroscience of Personality: Brain-Savvy Insights for All Types of People
Dario Nardi

ESFJ Careers

“ESFJs were the one type that chose ‘an opportunity to be of service to others’ as the most important feature of a job.

Their compassion and concern for physical conditions often take them into health professions, particularly nursing.

They may not care too much what kind of work they do, but they want to be able to talk while they do it, and they want to work in a friendly atmosphere.”

Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
Isabel Briggs Myers & Peter B. Myers

“In their choice of careers, ESFJs may lean toward service occupations.

Good in many people-to-people jobs, as teachers, clergy, coaches, and so on.”

Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence: 2
David Keirsey

“Occupational trends identified: education, health care, religion”

MBTI Manual
Isabel Briggs Myers

“ESFJs careers often lean toward those that serve humanity: nursing, public school teaching, clergy, and psychology. Sales and other public service-orientated jobs also have particular appeal.”

Type Talk
Otto Kroeger, Janet M. Thuesen

ESFP

ESFP Themes and Characteristics

“Outgoing, friendly, and accepting. Exuberant lovers of life, people, and material comforts. Enjoy working with others to make things happen. Bring common sense and a realistic approach to their work, and make work fun. Flexible and spontaneous, adapt readily to new people and environments. Learn best by trying a new skill with other people.”

Introduction To Type
Isabel Briggs Myers

“Stimulating action. Have a sense of style. Talent for presenting things in a useful way. Natural actors—engaging others. Opening up people to possibilities. Respect for freedom. Taking risks. A love of learning, especially about people. Genuine caring. Sometimes misperceive others’ intentions.”

Neuroscience of Personality: Brain-Savvy Insights for All Types of People
Dario Nardi

ESFP Careers

“ESFPs enjoy entertaining people and are thus drawn to the performing arts, thriving on the excitement of being on-stage, in the limelight. But even in less glamorous pursuits, they prefer active people jobs over solitary, technical occupations, and thus they avoid science and engineering and gravitate toward business, where they are apt at selling, particularly at selling tangible goods.

ESFPs love working with people, and are outstanding at public relations, their sociability and adaptability making them easy to get along with and fun to be around. They can be effective teachers, especially at the elementary level, and are also good at working with people in crisis, a talent which often leads them into social work, where they are very sensitive to the pain and suffering of others, particularly small children.”

Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence: 2
David Keirsey

“Occupational trends identified: health care, teaching, coaching, childcare worker, skilled trades.”

MBTI Manual
Isabel Briggs Myers

“Career choices for ESFPs often include service to humanity such as teaching, especially elementary school, or working in the arts or theatre.”

Type Talk
Otto Kroeger, Janet M. Thuesen

ESTJ

ESTJ Themes and Characteristics

“Practical, realistic, matter-of-fact. Decisive, quickly move to implement decisions. Organize projects and people to get things done, focus on getting results in the most efficient way possible. Take care of routine details. Have a clear set of logical standards, systematically follow them and want others to also. Forceful in implementing their plans.”

Introduction To Type
Isabel Briggs Myers

“Talent for bringing order to chaotic situations. Educating themselves. Industrious, work-hard attitude. Balance work with play. Having a philosophy of life. Having the steps to success. Keeping up traditions. Being well-balanced. Connecting their wealth of life experiences. Often disappointed when perfectionistic standards for economy and quality are not met.”

Neuroscience of Personality: Brain-Savvy Insights for All Types of People
Dario Nardi

ESTJ Careers

“They like to work where they can achieve immediate, visible, and tangible results. They have a natural bent for business and industry, production and construction. They enjoy administration and getting things organized and done.”

Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
Isabel Briggs Myers & Peter B. Myers

“This type finds success in many occupations which require a high degree of dedication and discipline: corporate law, politics, police work, military service, and most especially business. The world of business is the ESTJs’ natural habitat.”

Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence: 2
David Keirsey

“Occupational trends identified: management, administration, law enforcement.”

MBTI Manual
Isabel Briggs Myers

“They are life’s administrators. It is as natural and inborn for ESTJs to manage as it is for a fish to swim.”

Type Talk
Otto Kroeger, Janet M. Thuesen

ESTP

ESTP Themes and Characteristics

“Flexible and tolerant, they take a pragmatic approach focused on immediate results. Theories and conceptual explanations bore them—they want to act energetically to solve the problem. Focus on the here-and-now, spontaneous, enjoy each moment that they can be active with others. Enjoy material comforts and style. Learn best through doing.”

Introduction To Type
Isabel Briggs Myers

“Taking charge of situations. Tactical prioritizing. Talent for negotiating. Want a measure of their success. Keep their options open. Enjoy acting as a consultant. Winning people over. Caring for family and friends. Enjoy exhilaration at the edge.Disappointed when others don’t show respect.”

Neuroscience of Personality: Brain-Savvy Insights for All Types of People
Dario Nardi

ESTP Careers

“ESTPs are without peer as deal-makers, sales promoters, arbitrators, and negotiators, just as they make bold defense lawyers, aggressive industrialists and real estate developers, and flamboyant show-business producers.”

Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence: 2
David Keirsey

“Occupational trends identified: marketing, skilled trades, business, law enforcement, applied technology.”

MBTI Manual
Isabel Briggs Myers

“They are adept at entrepreneurial activities, and there are many ESTP small-business owners. Sports, auto racing and repair, maintenance or operation of special equipment has special career appeal.”

Type Talk
Otto Kroeger, Janet M. Thuesen

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