The sixteen types

ISTP

The Craftsman

You understand things by taking them apart. You are calm in a crisis, good with your hands, and dislike being closely managed.

Strengths

  • Outstanding troubleshooter
  • Calm under pressure
  • Learns by doing very fast
  • Practical, with no performance

Watch out for

  • Shares little of what you feel
  • Tires of long commitments
  • Overlooks long-term consequences
  • Chafes at rules with no reason behind them

Work

Engineering, mechanics, technology, emergency services, sport, security, skilled trades.

Relationships

You show care by fixing what is broken. Your partner may also need the words — try them.

Where to grow

Say one thing you are feeling, once a week. You do not have to be good at it, only to do it.

A note on trademarks and use: MBTI® is a registered trademark of The Myers & Briggs Foundation. The test here is not the official MBTI® instrument — it is built on the four dichotomies in Carl Jung's typology, with questions we wrote ourselves. Treat the result as a prompt for your own reflection rather than a diagnostic, and do not use it to select or screen anyone at work.

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