Tritypes

So tritype. Somehow it’s garnered this reputation of being super complex and “extra”. 

- complete with the occasional oldschool purists chiming in & presuming various ad hominem-type things like “You just want to be more special”, “You’re just box-checking type stereotypes“ or “You’re substituting this for deeper spiritual study of your core type” 

It’s not. 

First of all - You don’t really need an ulterior motive to want to refine or specify a tool, isn’t completeness sake enough? It’s not like you either determine your tritype (a finite process) OR work on core-type related issues; 

I’d even agree that the core type strongly predominates but, like, if more info exists, why not have it (or check out if it exists, if you call that in question), besides, it enables you to identify yet more possible problems & understand ppl’s reaction patterns in a more dynamic fashion (ie, relative to different situation)- I’d agree that ppl of the same tritype can have more in common that ppl of the same core type but with wildly different fixes.

It’s actually not a complicated thing at all, there’s a very simple basic logic to it, so simple that it seems almost No-Big-Deal inevitable.

Let me elucidate:

INFP

ENFP

INFJ

ENFJ

INTP

ENTP

INTJ

ENTJ

ISFP

ESFP

ISFJ

ESFJ

ISTP

ESTP

ISTJ

ESTJ

INTP: “I am the one thing in life I can control

I am inimitable I am an original”

ESFP: “Look around, Look around

At how lucky we are to be alive right now”

ISFJ: “Everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree

And no one shall make them afraid.”

ENFJ: “I will send a fully armed battalion

to remind you of my love!”

ISFP: “We hold these truths to be self-evident

That all men are created equal”

ENTJ: “Why do you assume you’re the smartest in the room

Why do you fight like you’re running out of time?”

ESTJ: “When you got skin in the game, you stay in the game

But you don’t get a win unless you play in the game”

INTJ: “Rise up!

When you’re living on your knees, you rise up”

ENFP: “I’m passionately smashin’ every expectation

Every action’s an act of creation!”

ESFJ: “And even now I lie awake

Knowing history has its eyes on me”

INFP: “You and your words flooded my senses

Your sentences left me defenseless

You built me palaces out of paragraphs”

ENTP: “Don’t modulate the key then not debate with me!”

ISTP: “Can I be real a second?

For just a millisecond?

Let down my guard and tell the people how I feel a second?”

ISTJ: “And I realize

Three fundamental truths at the exact same time…”

ESTP: “I wrote my way out of hell

I wrote my way to revolution

I was louder than the crack in the bell”

INFJ: “We push away what we can never understand