VagrantFarce
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Einstein: ESFJ
Edison: ISFP
I'm just considering possibilities!
Edison: ISFP
I'm just considering possibilities!
Einstein: ESFJ
Edison: ISFP
I'm just considering possibilities!
Trying to come up with a "theory of everything" is total, unadulterated Ti.
enneagram 5 more than Ti. the desire to KNOW.
I think that Einstein was a Feeler.
He spent the last years of his life trying to come up with a comprehensive "theory of everything" because he was very upset by the idea that the world doesn't function in a perfectly precise way, which in his opinion would mean that there is a God or that God is totally different from what he thought. Would a thinker really become so obsessed with a vague idea of some kind of God? Plus, Einstein also wrote about pshycis very lovingly. "God doesn't throw dice." What kind of a thinker would become so poetic about science? That's delusional. For thinkers, it has to be hard logic, not furry, fuzzy, blurry emotions.
An Einstein quote: "The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth." What kind of thinker would really blurt out stuff life that, especially an INTP with virtually no sense of Fi? Einstein seems to be very idealistic, very Fi-driven. I say he's an INFP.
Not just "know", but to understand - to seek a "theory of everything" is to assume that everything (not just some things, but EVERYTHING) can be understood on a fundamentally logical level - a model of the universe that leaves no stone unturned. That's Dominant-Ti right there.
It's the central fallacy of the ITP - that it's only a matter of time before you're absorbed enough information that you'll be able to understand, in advance, the fundamental mechanics of everything. That way you won't have to bother stepping outside of your own shell, because why bother anymore? There's nothing new to find!
Einstein: ENTP 5w4 So/Sp
not sure about Edison