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To: Grainne who wrote (15412)	1/16/1998 9:17:00 AM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Christine: Here's the info. . . RATIONAL NTs, being ABSTRACT in communicating and UTILITARIAN in implementing goals, can become highly skilled in STRATEGIC ANALYSIS. Thus their most practiced and developed intelligent operations tend to be marshalling and planning (NTJ organizing), or inventing and configuring (NTP engineering). And they would if they could be wizards in one of these forms of rational operation. They are proud of themselves in the degree they are competent in action, respect themselves in the degree they are autonomous, and feel confident of themselves in the degree they are strong willed. Ever in search of knowledge, this is the "Knowledge Seeking Personality" -- trusting in reason and hungering for achievement. They are usually pragmatic about the present, skeptical about the future, solipsistic about the past, and their preferred time and place are the interval and the intersection. Educationally they go for the sciences, avocationally for technology, and vocationally for systems work. Rationals tend to be individualizing as parents, mindmates as spouses, and learning oriented as children. Rationals are very infrequent, comprising as few as 5% and no more than 7% of the population. The Portrait of the Inventor (eNTp) Copyrighted c 1996 Prometheus Nemesis Book Company. Of the four aspects of strategic analysis and definition it is the functional engineering or inventive role that reaches the highest development in eNTps. It is so natural for these individuals to practice devising gadgets and mechanisms, that they start doing it even as young children. And they get such a kick out of it that they really never stop exercising their inventive bent. Of course as this kind of activity is practiced some structural engineering inevitably happens, so that the next kind of skill to develop in the ENTP is that of designing. Now planning contingencies and marshalling forces, though practiced in some degree in the course of engineering activity, develop more slowly and are soon left behind by the burgeoning of talent in engineering. However, any kind of strategic exercise tends to bring added strength to both engineering and organizing skills. As the eNTps' engineering capabilities increase so does their desire to let others know about whatever has come of their engineering efforts. So they tend to take up an informative role in their social exchanges. On the other hand they have less and less desire, if they ever had any, to direct the activities of others, doing so only when forced to by circumstances. As engineers of function eNTps wish to exercise their competence in the world of people and things, and thus they deal imaginatively with social systems as well as physical and technological systems. They are very alert to what is apt to occur next-under certain conditions, if certain criteria are met-and they are always sensitive to possibilities. Found in two percent (at most) of the population, Inventors are good at functional analysis, and have both a tolerance for and enjoyment of complex problems. Outgoing and intensely curious, eNTps are apt to express interest in finding out about everything they come into contact with, and this can be a source of inspiration to others, who find themselves admiring the eNTp's insatiable hunger for knowledge. eNTps are also endlessly inventive, and are the most reluctant of all the types to do things in a particular manner just because that is the way things have always been done. They characteristically have an eye out for a better way, always on the lookout for new projects, new activities, new procedures. eNTps are confident in the value of their interests and display a charming capacity to ignore the standard, the traditional, and the authoritative. As a result of this innovative attitude, they often bring fresh, new approaches to their work and their lives. WELL KNOWN PERSONALITIES RATIONALS : NT (PROMETHEAN) Arts & Entertainment/Sports/Journalism/Literature Steve Allen William F. Buckley Ayn Rand Politics/Government/Military Thomas Jefferson (INTJ) Abraham Lincoln Dwight D. Eisenhower Douglas MacArthur (ENTJ) Peter the Great (INTJ) Margaret Thatcher (ENTJ) Fredrick Douglass Napoleon Bonaparte (ENTJ) William Tecumsah Sherman (ENTJ) Business/Industry/Finance Bill Gates (ENTJ) Steve Jobs (ENTP) Buckminster Fuller (ENTP) Science/Education/Humanities/Philosophy/Religion Albert Einstein (INTP) Richard Feynman (ENTP) Ludwig Boltzmann Nikola Tesla (ENTP) Charles Darwin David Hume Friedrich Nietzsche Adam Smith Marie Curie Booker T. Washington Father Terrence