I'm a Rationalist

On a lighter note, I just took this personality test that I saw on Trisna's.
I feel most of them are true. Even to the liking 'weird news' part.

Here is the link to the test.

My results:

Temperament	Score
Idealist	11
Rationalist	13
Traditionalist	3
Hedonist	3

Your temperament type is Rationalist.

The Rationalist (choleric) Temperament

The Anesthetic Idealized Image

"Rationals pride themselves on being ingenious, independent, and strong willed" (AdvisorTeam.com).

Motivations

The Rationalist type prefers power and disprefers weakness. The Rationalist prefers:

• Power.
• Control.
• Status.
• Recognition.
• Science.
• Authoritativeness.
• Eloquence.
• Energy.
• Governance.
• Greatness.
• Influence.
• Means.
• Personage.
• Potency.
• Prerogative.
• Privilege.
• Strength.
• Supremacy.
• Talent.
• Will power.
  

David Keirsey reconfigured the typology created by Isabel Briggs Myers to a scheme of four groups of four types that corresponds to the classic four temperaments. In Please Understand Me (1984), he defined one group as the Rational temperament, which I call the Rationalist:

Rationalists want to understand and gain power over nature, to understand, control, predict, and explain realities, to be seen as competent, to have, most of all, competencies, capabilities, abilities, capacities, skills, and ingenuity, to be able to do things well under varying circumstances, to constantly improve, to be free from errors, to increase their store of knowledge, to learn as much as they can, to rearrange the environment, either through constructing physical edifices or building institutional systems, to speculate about the possible motivations and thoughts of those they are with, trying to fit their experiences into some system (Keirsey, 1984, pp. 47-57; cf., Heineman (NT)).

The pathological representation of the Rationalist temperament type is the Anesthetic Personality.

Areas of interest

Architecture Classics Communications Computers & Internet Computer Games Strategy Engineering Information Technology Inventions Management Science Mathematics Mental Health Military History

Modernity, Modernism Paranormal Phenomena Philosophy Politics Political Science Psychology Rationalism Research Papers Science Science Fiction Weird News

Many of these additional topics originated in ideas expressed by David Keirsey in Please Understand Me and Please Understand Me II.

abstract art, abstract thinking, acquiring intelligence, acquisition of knowledge, acquisition of skill, all-work-no-play, alternate lifestyles, aphorisms, authoritativeness, autonomy, behaviorism, biologists, books, bringer of fire, building institutional systems, building systems, calmness, cardiology, categories, causality, circular causality, circular processes, clarity of vision, coherence, collecting information, compact communication, competence, competencies, competency, complex systems, complicated subjects, comprehension, compulsion to improve, constructing edifices, control, controlling, criminology, critical experimentation, curiosity, cybernetics,

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Attributes* Positive attributes: action-oriented, adventurous, ambitious, analyzing, assertive, autocratic, autonomous, bold, calm, capable, chief, collected, competent, competitive, conceptual, confident, cool, courageous, daring, decisive, demanding, determined, direct, dominant, driver, efficient, forceful, generative, global, identifier, independent, ingenious, inventive, leader, logical, mover, objective, opinionated, outspoken, persuasive, positive, powerful, pragmatic, proactive, productive, progressive, resourceful, responsible, results-oriented, ruler, self-assured, self-directed, self-reliant, serene, skilled, strong-willed, succinct, sure, task-oriented, tenacious, tranquil. Negative attributes: aggressive, always right, angry, argumentative, arrogant, bossy, calculating, cold, crafty, critical of others, demanding, distracted, dominating, domineering, doubting, frank, harsh, headstrong, impatient, impulsive, insensitive, intolerant, lord over others, manipulative, merciless, nervy, power-oriented, preoccupied, proud, pushy, rash, resistant, sadistic, self-serving, severe, short-tempered, skeptical, solipsistic, stubborn, tactless, tough, tyrannical, unaffectionate, unsympathetic, workaholic.

Noteworthy Examples Bella Abzug, Muhammad Ali, Idi Amin, Hannah Arendt, "Arthur Fonzerelli," Isaac Asimov, Charles Baudelaire, Bruno Bettelheim, Napoleon Bonaparte, Leonid Brezhnev, Julius Caesar, Al Capone, Truman Capote, Jimmy Carter, Carlos Castaneda, Fidel Castro, Dick Cavett, Elvis Costello, Tom Cruise, Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Darwin, Bette Davis, Rene Descartes, Helene Deutsch, "Don Vito Corleone," Michael Douglas, Albert Einstein, Erik Erikson, M. C. Escher, Hans Eysenck, William Faulkner, Bobbie Fischer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Michael J. Fox, Sigmund Freud, Betty Friedan, Indira Gandhi, Bill Gates, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Gere, Mikhail Gorbachev, Glenn Gould, Andrew S. Grove, George Gurdjieff, "Harry Potter," Stephen Hawking, Alfred Hitchcock, Saddam Hussein, John Huston, Lee Iacocca, "Jay Gatsby," Julian Jaynes, Lyndon Johnson, Jim Jones, James Joyce, Theodore Kaczynski, Franz Kafka, George A. Kelly, Martin Luther King Jr., Stephen King, Henry Kissinger, Kurt Kobain, Stanley Kubrick, k. d. lang, John Lennon, Doris Lessing, Courtney Love, David Lynch, Douglas MacArthur, James Madison, Madonna, Norman Mailer, Mao Zedong, Ferdinand Marcos, Christopher Marlowe, Karl Marx, W. Somerset Maugham, Golda Meir, Iris Murdoch, Isaac Newton, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georgia O'Keefe, Aristotle Onassis, Cynthia Ozick, H. Ross Perot, Pablo Picasso, Edgar Allan Poe, Ezra Pound, Mario Puzo, Muammar Qaddafi, Dan Quayle, Ayn Rand, J.K. Rowling, Jean Paul Sartre, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Frank Sinatra, B. F. Skinner, Mickey Spillane, Baruch Spinoza, Joseph Stalin, Sting, Meryl Streep, Barbara Streisand, "Tom Sawyer," Harry S. Truman, Mark Twain, Mike Wallace, Barbara Walters, Andy Warhol, James Watson, Simone Weil, Edward O. Wilson, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tom Wolfe. Index of noteworthy examples

Types

Aggressive

Idiosyncratic

Inventive

Solitary