Excerpt from YOU: Being More Effective in Your MBTI Type
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ISTP
Basic Habits of Mind
Introverted Thinking leads ISTPs to be decisive, concerned with precision and exactness. It further pulls them toward being reflective, skeptical, and analytical. Aided by Extraverted Sensing, which provides an acute awareness of the present situation, their thinking is adaptable as long as logical order can be made out of the situation.
Extraverted Intuiting and Extraverted Feeling also aid ISTPs. External Intuiting leads to scanning the environment, and the external direction of Feeling means they communicate intensity. In fact, the “mission” for this type is for precision and analytical elegance in hands-on problem solving. This can also come off as condescending, aloof, and unforgiving.
Stress Related Behavior
· ISTPs might be surprised to know that they are sometimes seens as blunt, detached, guarded, impersonal, and low on demonstrated empathy.
· While they think of themselves as able to competently maneuver social settings, their social behavior often fails to make the impression they imagined was true. For example, they selectively include others and engage animatedly on selected topics. They talk about these topics whether anyone else is interested of not. They can get distant if the conversation gets out of their area of expertise.
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