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[deelaundry]

I've been thinking about Keirsey (Myers-Briggs) personality typing again.

Wilson and I are fellow Guardians, which goes quite some way to explaining why I'm so cross when he's dismissed and belittled.

House is over in the Rational group. Check out these quotes from some of his fellow Rationals! Awesome.


"I have taken all of knowledge for my province."
Francis Bacon

"Ideas do not have to be correct in order to be good; it's only necessary that, if they do fail, they do so in an interesting way."
Robert Rosen

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
Rene Descartes (Mastermind Rational)

"Never express yourself more clearly than you think."
Neils Bohr (Mastermind Rational)

"What I cannot create, I cannot understand."
Richard Feynman (Inventor Rational)

"The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike."
Jacob Bronowski

"... and asking me what profit it was to have stripped myself of the hopes and consolations of the mass of mankind? To which my only reply was and is -- Oh devil! truth is better than much profit."
Thomas Henry Huxley (Mastermind Rational)

And one that speaks to me so much, I'm likely to put it on my profile:

"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
Thomas Jefferson (Architect Rational)

[And this quote explains why I'm OK with people who don't like Wilson, if they don't like him because of his actual annoying qualities.]

Comments

[blackmare.livejournal.com]

Dee! Hi there!

No time to take that test for me today, but I'd lay $20 on it that I'd come up as an Artisan (kind of a big DUH there, right?).

Except, today I'm being all Responsible and non-Artisany, at least for now, because laundry and dishes must be done before anything else.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

I'd bet you're an Artisan-Composer (ISFP): http://www.keirsey.com/handler.aspx?s=keirsey&f=fourtemps&tab=4&c=Composer. Another site's page for the ISFP type is here (http://www.personalitypage.com/ISFP.html).

One quote from that second page: "Life is not likely to be extremely easy for the ISFP, because they take life so seriously, but they have the tools to make their lives and the lives of those close to them richly rewarding experiences." So true! ♥ ♥ ♥

I'm a Guardian-Inspector (ISTJ) - although I sometimes test as a Rational. Wilson, I am convinced, is deliberately written as a Guardian-Provider (http://www.keirsey.com/handler.aspx?s=keirsey&f=fourtemps&tab=2&c=provider) (ESFJ). (Another page on ESFJ, which includes an explanation of why an ESFJ's moral compass can sometimes be wonky is here (http://www.personalitypage.com/ESFJ.html).)

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

PS. Congratulations on being all Responsible! I know it stresses you out, but you actually do a better job of it than I do, most days. : )

[blackmare.livejournal.com]

Darling, I don't have Little Mares to take care of.

Drop a couple of those and a Real Job into the equation and then see how Responsible I manage to be.

Or ... let's not, shall we? For the sake of the hypothetical kids, if nothing else.

[inlaterdays.livejournal.com]

I am absurdly chuffed that I have the same Myers-Briggs type as Thomas Jefferson.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Jefferson was quite the dude! You should be chuffed!

[hibernia1.livejournal.com]

I'm a Guardian, apparently.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Good company! *high five*

[hibernia1.livejournal.com]

Really? *high five back*

[anoel.livejournal.com]

Well I still think Wilson is an NF (I may be biased) but House is as NT as you can possibly get. Which is why I love him. I love those quotes!

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

House ain't nothing but an NT, baby. I personally think he's INTP, although some peg him as INTJ.

What brand of NF do you see Wilson as? I think he's an ESFJ, which has a lot of similarities with NFs. The description on this site (http://www.personalitypage.com/ESFJ.html) matches how I see Wilson incredibly closely, even down to describing his faults.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I'm one of those people who's convinced House is an INTJ.
I'm an ENXP (X being the designation for people whose T and F sides are very evenly matched).

[moose-mcmoose.livejournal.com]

I'm also a Guardian :D I'm pleased with that.

[hibernia1.livejournal.com]

Yay so am I!! How cool is that?

[moose-mcmoose.livejournal.com]

In the words of Bill and Ted....totally righteous dude!!

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

*high five*

[moose-mcmoose.livejournal.com]

*high fives back with glee*

[poeia.livejournal.com]

[And this quote explains why I'm OK with people who don't like Wilson, if they don't like him because of his actual annoying qualities.]
Wait a minute. Did you just say that Wilson has some annoying qualities? That he's not perfect?

Are you aware that you can get drummed out of the Wilson!mania union for statements like that?

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

P'shaw! No Wilson fanatic that I'm friends with thinks that he's perfect. If he was perfect, he'd be intolerable.

[poeia.livejournal.com]

I don't know about intolerable, but he'd certainly be boring. "Perfect" people always are.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

I am also a Guardian. And Wilson, mistakes and all, is love. &hearts

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

You're love. ♥ And a fine, fine Guardian.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Aw, Dee. *hugs*

[spicyride.livejournal.com]

I'm an Artisan. That sort of surprised me. But then I read Portrait of an ISFP which pretty much describes me perfectly.
I also loved the quotes from the Rationals, awesome indeed.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

You're in good company with the Artisans. ♥

[hwshipper.livejournal.com]

Oooh thank-you for the link, most interesting. I've done Myers-Briggs (quite a few years ago now) but didn't know about this personality typing.

I am a Rational Mastermind! Looks like I'm in good company :)

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

You are a Rational Mastermind! I can see that most definitely! ♥ ♥

[pomegranate-md.livejournal.com]

Ooo...I got Idealist. Nifty.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Quite nifty!

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

I seem to be an Idealist. How interesting.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Healer Idealist? I could see that. Now if Perspi is a Rational, the Collective would have all four quadrants covered. :D

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Healer Idealist looks about right, yes. *g*

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

I never seem to fit inside the system those tests create. I think this has to do with the disappointment of my ideal careers never being mentioned in school literature - nothing on marine biology, herpetology, or writing.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

To tell the truth, I don't fit entirely in the bucket from the test, either. My actions and some of my ideals are Guardian, but a lot of my inspiration is Rational.

Heh, the careers they list with any personality typing are never that helpful. When I took Myers-Briggs early in my career, the choices they listed for my designated personality type (ISTJ) were all so boring! And none of them were leadership roles at all, nothing to strive for. "You would make a good data entry clerk." Well, yes, I would, but does that mean I need to be a clerk my entire career?

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

I'd be happier cleaning out horse stables and cow barns than working in certain white-collar positions or places like McDonald's. There really isn't a major option to cover that mindset.

Come to think of it, where was the link to take the test? I think I missed it on the site.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Give me a problem and a calculator and maybe Excel and I shall SOLVE THE ENTIRE WORLD!

I don't doubt it! ♥

[daisylily.livejournal.com]

I'm a Guardian, and I was thinking probably an ISFJ, then I looked here (http://www.personalitypage.com/ISFJ.html) and it's frighteningly accurate, so I guess I am actually an ISFJ XD

The thing about higher education is particularly interesting, since I've always preferred subjects with absolute answers, or at least answers that are definitely right or wrong, and the subjects I took (IT and computing) fit that.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

I've always preferred subjects with absolute answers, or at least answers that are definitely right or wrong

Me too! I liked how they phrased it that subjects that require abstraction are "likely to be a chore." I was able to do fine in calculus; I just found it annoying and uninteresting. Algebra, on the other hand, I continue to be deeply in love with today.

***

You are such a marvelous person. I'm sorry I haven't been around much lately.

[daisylily.livejournal.com]

I haven't been around much, either (mostly I've been online at work - I've just caught up on my f-list today)

Algebra is excellent stuff :D

[jadesfire.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit slow on the uptake, but have been thinking about this over the last few days. My last Myers-Briggs test was in the summer, and I'm a fairly typical ENTP/Inventor Rational. Luckily for me, I'm married to a Guardian (he's XSTJ, I'm pretty sure), so my life stays in one piece rather than lurching from one unfinished project to the next ;) That ability to Get Things Done is what I really envy about Guardians, and I definitely think Wilson is a classic one.

I did this for the SGA team a while back and had some interesting discussions about it. House and Wilson are easier to type, I think, to which I could add something about consistency of character writing, but I won't...

I really should get caught up on House, shouldn't I? With my other shows either over or unavailable (curse my broken netbook), it'd be a good time to hire the DVDs. Hmmmm...

Fascinating food for thought, thanks :)