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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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I would say I am more of a Creative INTP. I think there can be a bit of the Dominant INTP as well, but that tends to come out when it is needed. Generally though if working in a group I want to have someone I know is knowledgeable and able to lead well. I want that person to lead the group so I don’t have that responsibility but can still provide ideas. But if that person is not present in the group and I know this task needs to get done I will take charge and try to get things moving. I don’t prefer to do this but I will if I need to and can do well at it. I think primarily I just don’t want the responsibility of things not going well. I work as a GIS Analyst currently but am in the middle of transitioning to a Civil Engineering role in Stormwater and Flood Mitigation. I have enjoyed my GIS role because I get to blend coming up with creative processes and tool to solve a spatial problem and then get to work on visualizing my findings by developing maps that effectively and aesthetically present that to others. But recently with a couple new hire of people with more experience and skill than myself, I have gotten more of the grunt work of filling out data tables and documenting many many points of data manually. I’m not always doing this but it does drive me crazy. But then when a project comes along that requires me to really think and solve a problem or get to create a new set of figures for a client or project the day goes by way faster! I am pursuing this new role because I think it will provide more of an ability to problem solve and because I have always loved water, I love topography, and I enjoy mitigating damage. My co-workers think it is super weird, but I will sometimes pull up google earth and follow powerline all over the place to try to see where each goes and how it is all interconnected. I also do this with rivers and such trying to see where it ends up flowing and how the streams all come together. I have spent hours at a time doing this. This also applies for roads. I love figuring out where various roads go and this makes me an excellent navigator and good with directions.
Also I wanted to add that I have found your resources and podcasts super helpful. I have gone extensively through the owners manual and have listened to pretty much every podcast about the INTP. It has been pivotal in helping me understand myself. For so long I felt like a social chameleon not really having an identity of my own but being whatever would help me to blend in. But with these resources I have been able to see who I am, what my tendencies are, and to become okay with that. I’ve become so much more comfortable in my own skin and feel a new sense of life. I hope to be able to show others around me how much this stuff, the cognitive functions in particular, can help them! But often times I get the feedback of “stop trying to put people in a box” or “that is just junk science.” But I feel like if I can understand myself well enough and demonstrate how it has helped me and can learn how to effectively communicate these things to other types then they too could see the power of it.
That was much longer than I though it would get, probably another typical INTP trait there. Are INTP’s generally keyboard warriors? Haha!
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 :)