THE RATIONALS

ENGINEERS
COORDINATORS
Albert Einstein     Marie Curie
[Albert Einstein INTP Architect][Marie Curie INTP Architect]
THE "ARCHITECTS" (iNTp)
Dwight D. Eisenhower      Ayn Rand
[Dwight D. Eisenhower INTJ Mastermind] [Ayn Rand INTJ Mastermind] 
THE "MASTERMINDS" (iNTj)
Walt Disney           Catherine II
[Walt Disney Inventor ENTP][Catherine the Great ENTP Inventor]
THE "INVENTORS" (eNTp)
Bill Gates             Margaret Thatcher
[Bill Gates FieldMarshal ENTJ] [Margaret Thatcher ENTJ FieldMarshal]
THE "FIELDMARSHALS" (eNTj)
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RATIONAL NTs, being ABSTRACT in communicating and UTILITARIAN in implementing goals, can become highly skilled in STRATEGIC ANALYSIS. Thus their most practiced and developed intelligent operations tend to be marshalling and planning (NTJ organizing), or inventing and configuring (NTP engineering). And they would if they could be wizards in one of these forms of rational operation. They are proud of themselves in the degree they are competent in action, respect themselves in the degree they are autonomous, and feel confident of themselves in the degree they are strong willed. Ever in search of knowledge, this is the "Knowledge Seeking Personality" -- trusting in reason and hungering for achievement. They are usually pragmatic about the present, skeptical about the future, solipsistic about the past, and their preferred time and place are the interval and the intersection. Educationally they go for the sciences, avocationally for technology, and vocationally for systems work. Rationals tend to be individualizing as parents, mindmates as spouses, and learning oriented as children. Rationals are very infrequent, comprising as few as 5% and no more than 7% of the population.

A full description of the Rational is in Please Understand Me or Please Understand Me II

Albert Einstein is an iconic example of a Rational.

A List of Famous Rationals

NT Quotes

The Rational Presidents

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