ISTP - 'Engineers and Anti-Heroes'

A discussion on ISTPs and common archetypes associated with the type.
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[RawGameplay]

Im an istp and one of my greatest interests is psychology. The way people think and why they make certain actions has always interested me. I'm working on restoring an old BMX bike and I play football and basketball for fun. I also like to read books.

[RRRsimracing]

As much as ISTP's appreciate existing under the radar, we also appreciate standing out every once in a while, but thankfully we're not as popular as the INFJ... 😬😏

[Hijazi]

I think the ability to Ti things without hands on approach gets so overlooked

[CyanydeKiss]

Female ISTP here, very accurate description. Our tertiary and inferior functions are basically unfamiliar to us and very uncomfortable until we peak maturity, then it all comes together as we begin to become more comfortable with our intuition and feelings. Putting my thoughts into words has been a challenge in the past, but it has become easier. A sense of balance is formed with every individual as we become more comfortable with cycling through our function stack. I spent much of my younger years thinking, researching, troubleshooting, taking things apart and putting them back together, problem solving, and putting that knowledge into action. So street smarts, yes indeed, as my first career involved much of that.😁👍

[traditionalgirl]

Great job! I like how you explained the fact that ISTP does appreciate Fe, even though he/she is comfortable operating independent of it. (ISTP)

[Laura-Yu]

Thank you for mentioning physics as an ISTP in experimental condensed matter physics🙈 I’m so tired of the stereotype that ISTPs are “not interested in science” or not as analytical as xNTx’s.

[Binyamin.Tsadik]

Cool breakdown,
Actually George Lucas is an ISTP so you'll see that nearly half of his characters and the StarWars universe itself sheds a lot of light into how ISTPs like myself view things.
Yoda is also an ISTP.
The Emperor and Obi-wan are both some kind of Ni dom.

I used to like his other movie, Willow, as a kid. Also a very ISTP outlook.

[cagal]

Yeah. I particularly hate rules/ traditions which are counterproductive or wasteful. If it's stupid I'll just skip it so I get things done.
Doc Brown (Back to the Future) with the plutonium is a great example. He doesn't plan to hurt anyone so the rules are just in the way.

Also, going to all the trouble to build the huge ice maker just for his tea - so ISTP 😂

[johnnyscocktaeil]

Funny how it's basically
ENFJ=The protagonist and
ISTP=(can be antagonist)

I'm an ISTP and I sure do have dark thoughts sometimes and I hate stereotypical main characters. Maybe the reason why The Purge and other horror movies are my taste when it comes to movies.

Edit: After a year fuck this sounds so edgy but it's true, fuckin true. Stereotypical protagonists irritate me, I prefer realism when it comes to movies, with real life application, story that makes sense that will expand my perspective and leave me some new knowledge.

[cutepanda]

love your videos keep on the good work

[someguy]

I've always thought the protagonist in "The Rising of the Shield Hero" would be an ISTP. He could use a short video all by himself.

[AmericanDrinker]

You're good a talking into a camera. Keep it up 👍

[baaf]

OK, I guess my ISTP brother and me are both Se-Ti stereotypes then, because as kids we loved to take apart things and study the parts to learn how they worked. We both have a Master in Engineering. Fun-fact: many of my ISTP friends gravitated towards Electrical Engineering or Computer Science while most of my ESTP friends preferred Mechanical Engineering.

[kevinfukthezetamale]

ISTPs pioneered the philosophy of Cynicism, Diogenes happens to be fall in this category.

[michaelkrull]

The title character of the Mad Max films is also a good fit for both archetypes. Focused in the moment, ingenuous, clever, and seemingly amoral, but will do the right thing in the end.

[yurizafurizaki]

Based on your description, I would fit more in the ISTP type, I used to take things apart because I was curious how they worked, light bulbs, audio set, whatever I could take apart, even animals (my dorm had a microscope that I often used to see the specimens of the small animals I took apart).

However, according to two practitioners, I am an INTP, and I do relate more to NeSi than SeNi. I didn't take the results they gave at face value, I did research on cognitive functions for years to see if they're correct. I am not a hands on person, and I am more into theories than practical knowledge, but it's more about biology and physics (and these things would be more ISTP-ish than INTP-ish according to this video, because I did experiment with real animals), religions (I did comparative studies on religions), now psychology. I am also an avid debater and I debate about anything basically. According to Linda Berens, Ne is similar to Se in that both are "here and now" functions, except Ne is abstract, it takes in concrete information and turns it into abstraction, and both are also about "possibilities", the Ne about what could be possible, the Se is about what is possible, so Se is not imaginative like Ne.

As young as 12-13 years old I already enjoyed debating with adults, about religions and other topics. My uncle being the person I often discussed and debated with.

I write essays about all the things I study, religions, psychology, physics, biology. I'm into math too btw.
And I am more into the future and the past than thè current events.

It's not possible to have Ne and Se but I think I also learn like Se folks, jump right in into it and experiment and figure things out as I do it, this would be more learning kinesthetically (wait a minute, is this the same as being hands on? Because I have a different interpretation for "hands on", I'm not the type of person that is interested to do things with my hands, I'd rather have someone do it for me, but I'd lay out the ideas/methods/instructions, whatever). Vèry very rarely do I depend on manuals or tutorials.

Ok, now I am confused again.

[RobertJohnson_Zeppo]

You might want to add Rorschach, from Watchmen, to your list...
Objectively speaking, reluctant warriors, all... May the Flow be with you.

[jessenoreligionno]

I got session typed as ISTP however, the more I look into the type, the more sure I am that it's not mine.

[NoNamedNobody]

SHADOW FUNCTIONS ASURA!!!

Would like to hear your perspective personally on your own type’s use of the bottom 4 functions of a type’s function stack.

Ex) INTJ’s Shadow Functions:
[aka ENTP-Unconscious/Shadow]

5) Ne- Nemesis/Opposing Role
6) Ti- Critic/Critical Parent
7) Fe- Trickster
8) Si- Demon

Until then however, keep up the great work! Thanks!

[-epistemus]

Will you possibly do the INTJ archetype?