Are INTPs considered to have strong leadership qualities, though? (I'm an INTP and have none at all, but that doesn't prove anything.)
*cough* Well, um, see, I, um--basically made everything up. I mean, I really haven't the vaguest idea. It's what I learned in graduate school--how to learn enough to be dangerous, or at least convincing. *g* I really don't know whether INTPs have leadership qualities or not, and I would have made John an INTJ except one of the betas said he was much more of a P, and I looked it up and yes, it seemed much more John-like.
About the second part of your question--Am I right in thinking that the evaluating psych had it right and Rodney had it wrong?--I think that's right, or rather, I think that they're BOTH wrong, Rodney and the shrink, because in my interpretation (which is no better than anyone else's, my authorship aside) they both mistake something circumstantial for something innate. John-as I tried to show--is not only teachable, but give him something to hang on to, and he'll hang on to it. I think John was more a creature of his deprived habits than genuinely pathological, but the sign of his essential health is that when he sees a better option: he takes it!
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Date: 2006-03-09 05:16 pm (UTC)*cough* Well, um, see, I, um--basically made everything up. I mean, I really haven't the vaguest idea. It's what I learned in graduate school--how to learn enough to be dangerous, or at least convincing. *g* I really don't know whether INTPs have leadership qualities or not, and I would have made John an INTJ except one of the betas said he was much more of a P, and I looked it up and yes, it seemed much more John-like.
About the second part of your question--Am I right in thinking that the evaluating psych had it right and Rodney had it wrong?--I think that's right, or rather, I think that they're BOTH wrong, Rodney and the shrink, because in my interpretation (which is no better than anyone else's, my authorship aside) they both mistake something circumstantial for something innate. John-as I tried to show--is not only teachable, but give him something to hang on to, and he'll hang on to it. I think John was more a creature of his deprived habits than genuinely pathological, but the sign of his essential health is that when he sees a better option: he takes it!
Great comment--thank you!