[ISTP] ISTP Description

[JustDave]

Here's a good ISTP description: Career Services Office

 

[6sticks]

That's a good description.

 

[JustDave]

Thanks. I like the fact that it balances the stereotype of a thrill seeking daredevil with that of a person who can be both skillful and intelligent.

 

[alicia91]

Thanks Dave - very good description. I found the ISFP description good too (just not sure it's ME).

Since when are you ISTP - I must have missed that development?

 

[JustDave]

Thanks Dave - very good description. I found the ISFP description good too (just not sure it's ME).

Since when are you ISTP - I must have missed that development?

Eh, it happens

Although I can Fe like a mad man doing so drains my energy and makes me cranky. --> I

I often come up with crazy ideas which would indicate a preference for Ne. However, I am not absent minded and I notice everything (new haircuts, shoes, etc.) --> Se

I realized through discussion with the NTs on this forum that I am not the same as them as I am not as "deep" as they are. Intelligent and rational for certain but my interests lie in tangible things such as: computers, cars, boats, planes, go-karts,etc. probably --> Ti

Also, although I'm quite organized I recently remembered that I wasn't always this way. Also, I am a master at procrastination and fun diversions. --> p

 

[millerm277]

I liked the description a lot, first one I've seen that mentions weapons....I have a strange fascination with them, and it hadn't occured to me before now that my ability/accuracy with them could be related to the love of and skill with hands on/mechanical things. I'm a very good shot, with pretty much anything I've ever used.

No amount of cajoling, rewarding, punishing, or threat will get them to do their school work.

That is certainly the truth (my parents slowly have realized that). For certain things, you could offer me a million bucks, or threaten to take away all privileges/things, and I still won't do it.

Unless it is actually useful, I have no interest in spending my time doing it, and generally won't do it. The solution I've come up with this year (I've gotten okay grades the past few years, mostly B's from getting 0's on homework), is doing as much as possible during class. When my options are zoning out/listening to the teacher explain something, or doing some pointless work, the work becomes the more interesting option, and actually gets done.

 

[JustDave]

I liked the description a lot, first one I've seen that mentions weapons....I have a strange fascination with them, and it hadn't occured to me before now that my ability/accuracy with them could be related to the love of and skill with hands on/mechanical things. I'm a very good shot, with pretty much anything I've ever used.



That is certainly the truth (my parents slowly have realized that). For certain things, you could offer me a million bucks, or threaten to take away all privileges/things, and I still won't do it.

Unless it is actually useful, I have no interest in spending my time doing it, and generally won't do it. The solution I've come up with this year (I've gotten okay grades the past few years, mostly B's from getting 0's on homework), is doing as much as possible during class. When my options are zoning out/listening to the teacher explain something, or doing some pointless work, the work becomes the more interesting option, and actually gets done.

My brother loves weapons. I'm more of a tools and vehicles type of guy. Nevertheless I've always liked the bow and arrow, and throwing-knives.

As for school work, I've always did relatively well but it was on my terms. During High School and as a college undergraduate I clashed with some of my teachers but ultimately (thankfully) I always scored high on exams.

 

[6sticks]

Unless it is actually useful, I have no interest in spending my time doing it, and generally won't do it. The solution I've come up with this year (I've gotten okay grades the past few years, mostly B's from getting 0's on homework), is doing as much as possible during class. When my options are zoning out/listening to the teacher explain something, or doing some pointless work, the work becomes the more interesting option, and actually gets done.

Back in high school I would only do my homework in class. I think the teachers just assumed I was taking notes. If I didn't finish, I'd just do it during lunch or right before it was due. If it still wasn't done, I didn't really care. I don't think I ever even studied once. Didn't matter, cause I went to college a year earlier anyway.

I remember once my parents threatened to take away my computer because I had low grades and was just playing video games. I said that was fine, but if they did that I wouldn't do any school work until I failed the class. I wasn't bluffing. They backed down. I passed the class.

And they say we have bad people skills.

 

[millerm277]

My brother loves weapons. I'm more of a tools and vehicles type of guy. Nevertheless I've always liked the bow and arrow, and throwing-knives.

I pretty much enjoy all of those things, if I ever move out of New Jersey, I'd like to get a rifle of some sort for target practice.

Back in high school I would only do my homework in class. I think the teachers just assumed I was taking notes. If I didn't finish, I'd just do it during lunch or right before it was due. If it still wasn't done, I didn't really care. I don't think I ever even studied once. Didn't matter, cause I went to college a year earlier anyway.

That's pretty much what I do. It works well, and keeps me from being completely bored in classes.

 

[alicia91]

Also, although I'm quite organized I recently remembered that I wasn't always this way. Also, I am a master at procrastination and fun diversions. --> p

heh heh - I completely understand!

 

[mcmartinez84]

ISTPs will stare coldly into the eyes of the teacher and not even say no. No amount of cajoling, bribing, rewarding, punishing, or threat will get them to do their school work. School work, quite apart from being irrelevant, is after all mere preparation for something the ISTPs figure they’re never going to do anyway.

That's what's most like me in there. I have issues with the whole education system :-/

 

[SahlainAnteth]

I liked the description a lot, first one I've seen that mentions weapons....I have a strange fascination with them, and it hadn't occured to me before now that my ability/accuracy with them could be related to the love of and skill with hands on/mechanical things.

Yeah, I've always had a fascination with weapons too. which led to me choreographing theatrical stage combat and being secretary in a fencing club.

"Commitments"--NOOOooooooo!! That one's gonna be the death of me.

 

[The Ü™]

Interesting how the ISTPs enjoy the same description that's from Please Understand Me. Or are you all just talking about the top half?

 

[JustDave]

What?

 

[JustDave]

I have a good example of what might be considered stereotypical artisan behavior.

I'm currently taking a graduate course online. How the course works is the course material is covered in seven, two week periods. At the end of each period we have to take a quiz and the grade from the quiz is our grade for the period.

The period that I just finished required a ton of reading (which I hate as tech. books are very dry) so I decided to skip the reading and take the quiz, figuring that I have some knowledge of the subject matter and could dig up any answers I didn't know if I had to.

So I took the test and got a 92, and saved myself about a days worth of reading.

 

[The Ü™]

What?

The type summary at the bottom was from Please Understand Me. Curiously, everyone here seems to be agreeing with it.

 

[JustDave]

Sorry about that.

It must be an accurate description. Either that or we have a bunch of poseur posting to this thread. I'm going to assume it's the former.

 

[The Ü™]

Well, although this ISTP description says that they're impulsive, fearless, and dyslexic, it at least acknowledges their interest in weapons and tools...

 

["?"]

Interesting how the ISTPs enjoy the same description that's from Please Understand Me. Or are you all just talking about the top half?

Which is one reason that I have not responded to this thread till now. I knew the first example was the Tiegers which I find accurate. However for some reason I thought the latter description was from Otto Kroeger. I don't like Keirsey's descriptions and along with Kroeger's book, each time I refer back to it, I want to burn the book after reading it.

Keirsey does give a better depiction of the ISTP at the Lifexplore website. The latter description of the Realist belongs to him. As I have told INTJMom, I actually prefer the bullet type of descriptions over the narratives. A good one for me is this one from Teamtechnology, which has made me wonder why you cannot locate Meyers-Briggs' actual descriptions from her book "Gifts Differing".

 

[The Ü™]

Yes, I like the Team Technology descriptions. I must say that I identify with the INTJ description under stress. I'm the kind of person that blows up in rage when I'm insecure or angry. I tend to curse people out even though I have nothing against them personally, but because I have something to vent on. And the times of stress is when I become concerned with status and even materialistic.