The Grey Badger
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- INTP
What an interesting discussion this has turned out to be! I am quite pleased - after a day I thought nobody would care.
I have one question for all of you:
If I remember correctly, the following types have been attributed to Mr. Gore in this thread: ENTJ, ESTJ, INTJ, INTP, INFP, INFJ. This is interesting. The man was Vice President of the US, ran for presidency once, and is obviously one of the most famous persons in the world. All of you know him and have heard him speak (maybe more often than some of you would like to). So, why is it possible that a forum of MBTI afficionados comes to such contrasting views? I think there could be hardly more difference than that between ENTJ and INFJ, or ESTJ and INTP, if you think of it. What does that tell us about our everyday use of MBTI ? What does it mean for discussions in this forum where people say "may friend who is an INFJ....does this and this.." ?
Any thoughts ?
I have one. The Al Gore we saw who ran for President and lost seemed stiff, wooden, and so rational he was teased for being a robot. The Al Gore who emerged after that had a beard, was playful, and altogether was a changed man. Having a public face and a private face is probably more SJ than NT.
One thing I read - forgotten where - indicated his entire career up to that point had been an attempt to live up to his father's expectations and to do what his father would approve of. That brought me down firmly on the SJ side of the fence.
The Gore we're seeing now is more himself, but still seems to have slipped back into the manners and bearing he was reared to believe was expected of a public figure. I'm going to come down on the SJ side.