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Unit 3: Personality
ISTJ - “The Inspectors” Notes
ESFJ - “The Providers”
ISFJ - “The Protectors”
SP – “The Artisans”
Keirsey describes the SP group’s primary objective as “Sensation Seeking”. The SP grouping
includes the types:
ESTP - “The Promoters”
ISTP - “The Crafters”
ESFP - “The Performers”
ISFP - “The Composers”
NT – “The Rationals”
Keirsey describes the NT group’s primary objective as “Knowledge Seeking”. The NT grouping
includes the types:
ENTJ - “The Fieldmarshals”
INTJ - “The Masterminds”
ENTP - “The Inventors”
INTP - “The Architects”
NF – “The Idealists”
Keirsey describes the NF group’s primary objective as “Identity Seeking”. The NF grouping
includes the types:
ENFJ - “The Teachers”
INFJ - “The Counselors”
ENFP - “The Champions”
INFP - “The Healers”
A Five-Man Band specializes by role to the team. Someone leads, someone disagrees, someone
is tough, someone is smart, and someone ensures that none of the above kill each other.
Unfortunately, when writing within context of a certain profession, goal, or genre, some of
these roles are useless, and especially when characters are in groups that are supposed to be
specialized, it doesn’t make sense to have some of these roles; in a group of scientific researchers,
wouldn’t all of them be smart? In a group of politicians, wouldn’t all of them lead and disagree?
Don’t astronauts have to be well-rounded and exceptional in many ways?
But there is a way to make a group of people diverse without giving them specialized roles in a
form of a group that would probably best be specialized for questing. One way is through
personality, in this case based off of wacky ancient pseudoscience.
The four temperaments (also called the “four humors”) was a theory that behavior was caused
by concentrations of body fluids — the “humours” of Classical medicine: namely blood, yellow
bile, black bile, and phlegm. Each of these would affect a person’s personality differently, and
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