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In this episode of the Personality Hacker podcast, Joel and Antonia explore the 4 work styles that influence INTP careers.
Discover more about subtypes in Dr. Dario Nardi’s “The 64 Subtypes in Depth”
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In this podcast you’ll find:
- Why are Joel and Antonia discussing careers for each of the personality types?
- What are some popular career choices for INTPs?
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Introducing the INTP subtypes by Dr. Dario Nardi.
- How to approach the concept of the four subtypes.
- Check out our previous podcast episode where Dario introduces the four subtypes of each personality type.
- The energy and flavor of the four subtypes.
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The four INTP subtypes:
- Dominant subtype – what type of leadership roles do these INTPs prefer?
- Creative subtype – how these INTPs serve as idea generators and catalysts.
- Normalizing subtype – how these INTPs use problem solving in a more linear style.
- Harmonizing subtype – how these INTPs focus on methodologies and helping others
- What makes some INTPs more likely to adopt the Harmonizing subtype?
- How knowing your subtype can help with your career.
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Started as an INTP and my career path initially started out as Normalizing: Navy Nuke, super-introverted and nerdy, only left the house to play D&D, intense focus on my small areas of study (programming and electrical engineering). When I was about 30, however, I let myself be bitten by the sales bug after hearing from some sales reps at my company making well over 300k by, in my opinion, basically doing nothing but rizzing up the client.
So, I went into B2B sales, working from the bottom as a 100 cold calls a day sales development rep with my value-add being an understanding of what was actually going on in the customer’s workspace besides brochures. I got fired at my first couple of jobs for not making quota, but I told myself that I probably didn’t like the job because I hadn’t tasted success yet, so I kept with it. Getting much more comfortable with confrontation and talking to strangers but also forcing myself to get better at social cues and conversation and listening. I took a very ‘Ti’ approach to my sales calls, such as ‘okay, what information or ask do I want, and what am I offering in exchange’. And at my most recent job, which required project manager and estimator skills in addition to salesmanship… I made a huge sale and got a gigantic commission check and realized that I didn’t like sales.
Currently I am back to being an electrical engineer, but both my family and peers have noticed that I am a lot more energetic and conversational than I was as a kid. My spectrum of interests is much wider in my late 30s than it was in my 20s, and not just with ‘childish’ hobbies (though I have plenty of those), but also with psychology, bioenergetics, history (especially the 1860s – 1920s in both the USA and Eurasia), anthropology, astronomy, and artificial intelligence.
I guess the advice I have to the creative subtype or wannabe creative subtype is this: don’t stop learning weird crap. It’s definitely good to have a skill that pays the bills, but you will learn much faster and more deeply cross-connecting domains of knowledge than just hyper-fixating on one skill. For instance, I didn’t really understand even the basics of linear algebra until I just spent some understanding how mode 7 on the SNES worked. Websites like Brilliant.org are, well, brilliant.
I really relate to the Harmonizing subtype I have wanted to be a Clinical Psychologist since High School it just clicks !
Thanks for this episode (and many other ones)! I found a lot of recognition here and it cleared up some uncertainties for me. At one point, I laughed out loud for describing me so accurately. I felt a bit caught. Like “oops, that’s not normal behavior?”
Super interesting! I’m a designer and relate most to Creative/Harmonizing. I studied Architecture, briefly entertained switching to psychology, and then ended up in Industrial Design. I always told people I chose Architecture because it was the perfect blend of my interests in Art, Math, and Psychology. As a kid, I was somewhere between Normalizing (probably a defense mechanism to fit in) and more naturally leaned Harmonizing. It was initially expressed via my tendency to befriend classmates by partnering up and helping them with schoolwork. I enjoyed the reward of their appreciation and also enjoyed being able to connect with others over something that was somewhat tangible and bypassed the need for small talk. The friendships could form naturally over time with the schoolwork as the icebreaker. In college, I would often lose myself in the creative problem-solving of others’ designs only to have to rush and pull mine off at the last minute ;)
After college, my INTJ husband and I started our own design studio, and I definitely tapped into a more dominant style there while having to work under tighter timelines, balance finances, and manage employees. We sold the studio after 10 years. It was definitely a good experience, but admittedly not my comfort-zone. So here I am in the soul-searching mode again, as expected :)
I am fairly new to the Meyers Briggs system of personality typing. Formerly it’ was used by women principals on incoming teachers to determine who would fit in with their view of how things should work in their little fiefdoms. I always gave false answers to indicate I was a dutiful extrovert gushing with emotions. I recently took a test, gave true answers and came up with INTP. What a revelation. There is nothing broken, bent or deficient about me. There are others like me and we are not warped.
I am learning what I can from books on typography and trying to study my friends and those I meet. I am doing volunteer work with my local crisis intervention organization to put my masters degree in counseling psychology to work. If I can find a course online I will likely take one, but I am not able to travel at this time.