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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for
Logician
tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop INTP-T
Romantic Relationships
questioning. ! Analyst
Friendships " Constant Improvement
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Parenthood
8% 92%
Career Paths The Logician personality type is fairly rare, making up EXTRAVERTED INTROVERTED

Workplace Habits only three percent of the population, which is 70% 30%
INTUITIVE OBSERVANT
Conclusion de!nitely a good thing for them, as there’s nothing
75% 25%
Premium Pro!le they’d be more unhappy about than being
THINKING FEELING

“common”. Logicians pride themselves on their

42% 58%

inventiveness and creativity, their unique perspective JUDGING PROSPECTING

and vigorous intellect. Usually known as the 8% 92%

ASSERTIVE TURBULENT
philosopher, the architect, or the dreamy professor,

Logicians have been responsible for many scienti!c

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discoveries throughout history.

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The Unexamined Life Is Not LOG OUT

Worth Living

Logicians are known for their brilliant

Insight of the Day
theories and unrelenting logic – in fact, they
Logicians are the least likely
are considered the most logically precise of personality type to trust anyone
completely.
all the personality types.

Source: Relying on Others survey,

9921 respondents.
They love patterns, and spotting discrepancies

between statements could almost be described as a

hobby, making it a bad idea to lie to a Logician. This

makes it ironic that Logicians’ word should always be

taken with a grain of salt – it’s not that they are

dishonest, but people with the Logician personality

type tend to share thoughts that are not fully

developed, using others as a sounding board for

ideas and theories in a debate against themselves

rather than as actual conversation partners.

This may make them appear unreliable, but in reality

no one is more enthusiastic and capable of spotting

a problem, drilling through the endless factors and

details that encompass the issue and developing a
unique and viable solution than Logicians – just don’t

expect punctual progress reports. People who share

the Logician personality type aren’t interested in
practical, day-to-day activities and maintenance, but

when they !nd an environment where their creative

genius and potential can be expressed, there is no
limit to the time and energy Logicians will expend in

developing an insightful and unbiased solution.

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Wisdom Begins in Wonder

They may appear to drift about in an unending

daydream, but Logicians’ thought process is
unceasing, and their minds buzz with ideas from the

moment they wake up. This constant thinking can

have the e"ect of making them look pensive and

detached, as they are often conducting full-#edged

debates in their own heads, but really Logicians are
quite relaxed and friendly when they are with people

they know, or who share their interests. However,

this can be replaced by overwhelming shyness when
Logician personalities are among unfamiliar faces,

and friendly banter can quickly become combative if

they believe their logical conclusions or theories are
being criticized.

When Logicians are particularly excited, the

conversation can border on incoherence as they try

to explain the daisy-chain of logical conclusions that
led to the formation of their latest idea. Oftentimes,

Logicians will opt to simply move on from a topic

before it’s ever understood what they were trying to

say, rather than try to lay things out in plain terms.

The reverse can also be true when people explain

their thought processes to Logicians in terms of

subjectivity and feeling. Imagine an immensely

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complicated clockwork, taking in every fact and idea

possible, processing them with a heavy dose of
creative reasoning and returning the most logically
sound results available – this is how the Logician

mind works, and this type has little tolerance for an

emotional monkey-wrench jamming their machines.

Let Those Who Would Move

the World First Move
Themselves

Further, Logicians are unlikely to understand

emotional complaints at all, and their friends won’t

!nd a bedrock of emotional support in them. People

with the Logician personality type would much
rather make a series of logical suggestions for how
to resolve the underlying issue, a perspective that is
not always welcomed by their more sensitive

companions. This will likely extend to most social

conventions and goals as well, like planning dinners
and getting married, as Logicians are far more
concerned with originality and e$cient results.

The one thing that really holds Logicians back is their

restless and pervasive fear of failure. Logician
personalities are so prone to reassessing their own

thoughts and theories, worrying that they’ve missed

some critical piece of the puzzle, that they can
stagnate, lost in an intangible world where their
thoughts are never truly applied. Overcoming this
self-doubt stands as the greatest challenge Logicians

are likely to face, but the intellectual gifts – big and

small – bestowed on the world when they do makes

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it worth the !ght.

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Magda Dziczek
Damn, this is weirdly
accurate to me.
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Alisdair Smith
Yup. Still me.
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Christopher Power
Describes me to the dot
now if only I can find
some friends like me.
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Peter Chalker
This is me, I am this.
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Alvin Huffman
Yes this test knows me
better than I do. it's
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Iiae Esjay
"fear of failure"
Yes yes yes yes
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Sarah Pinero
I answered all the
questions 100% honest
and this was personality
type I got..
And it couldn't describe
me more .. Almost like it
was written just for me .
It's crazy
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Bruno Boschiero
very accurate
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Andrew Croft
I laughed a few times
reading this... like 'Damn,
I do do that don't I'....
Everything written here is
like exactly me, it's crazy
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Star Garner
Wow! I've never even
heard of this personality
type before but it
describes me to the t
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