temperaments

Rationals
ENTJ |
INTJ |
ENTP |
INTP
Needs and Values
- The core needs are for mastery of concepts, knowledge, and competence.
- People of this temperament want to understand operating principles of the universe and to learn or even develop theories for everything.
- They value expertise, logical consistency, concepts, and ideas and seek progress.
- They tend toward pragmatic, utilitarian actions with a technology focus.
- They trust logic above all else.
- They tend to be skeptical and highly value precision in language.
- Their learning style is conceptual, and they want to know the underlying principles that generate the details and facts rather than details alone.
Talents
- They prefer using their gifts of strategic analysis to approach all situations.
- They consistently examine the relationship of the means to the overall vision and goal.
- No strangers to complexity, theories, and models, they like to think of all possible contingencies and develop multiple plans for handling them.
- They abstractly analyze a situation and consider previously unthought-of possibilities.
- Researching, analyzing, searching for patterns, and developing hypothesis are quite likely to be their natural modus operandi.