Personality Test
Type:
INTJ
Introverted: 22%
Intuitive: 62%
Thinking: 25%
Judging: 1%
Slightly expressed introvert
Distinctively expressed intuitive personality
Moderately expressed judging personality
Slightly expressed thinking personality
Description
All Rationals are good at planning operations, but Masterminds are head and shoulders above all the rest in contingency planning. Complex operations involve many steps or stages, one following another in a necessary progression, and Masterminds are naturally able to grasp how each one leads to the next, and to prepare alternatives for difficulties that are likely to arise any step of the way. Trying to anticipate every contingency, Masterminds never set off on their current project without a Plan A firmly in mind, but they are always prepared to switch to Plan B or C or D if need be.
Masterminds are rare, comprising no more than one to two percent of the population, and they are rarely encountered outside their office, factory, school, or laboratory. Although they are highly capable leaders, Masterminds are not at all eager to take command, preferring to stay in the background until others demonstrate their inability to lead. Once they take charge, however, they are thoroughgoing pragmatists. Masterminds are certain that efficiency is indispensable in a well-run organization, and if they encounter inefficiency -- any waste of human and material resources -- they are quick to realign operations and reassign personnel. Masterminds do not feel bound by established rules and procedures, and traditional authority does not impress them, nor do slogans or catchwords. Only ideas that make sense to them are adopted; those that don't, aren't, no matter who thought of them. Remember, their aim is always maximum efficiency.
In their careers, Masterminds usually rise to positions of responsibility, for they work long and hard and are dedicated in their pursuit of goals, sparing neither their own time and effort nor that of their colleagues and employees. Problem-solving is highly stimulating to Masterminds, who love responding to tangled systems that require careful sorting out. Ordinarily, they verbalize the positive and avoid comments of a negative nature; they are more interested in moving an organization forward than dwelling on mistakes of the past.
Masterminds tend to be much more definite and self-confident than other Rationals, having usually developed a very strong will. Decisions come easily to them; in fact, they can hardly rest until they have things settled and decided. But before they decide anything, they must do the research. Masterminds are highly theoretical, but they insist on looking at all available data before they embrace an idea, and they are suspicious of any statement that is based on shoddy research, or that is not checked against reality.
Criticism
No matter how much Slothrop narrates to the story for the readers, he still remains mysterious by the end of the book. Even Slothrop’s last words are perplexing and would raise many questions such as, “What the heck happened to him?” “Did he die?” “Did his mind somewhat malfunctioned and he became disabled?” The third one is close to what actually happened to Slothrop by the end of the novel. The personality test did not actually hit Slothrop’s character just right. Although he is thinking perceptively and keen during his quest, most of the time he would be in his own world “thinking mode”. The percentage of this test is precise, however, Slothrop is distinctively introvert which should have been around 15% expressed introvert for the test percentage. This is proven from the start of Slothrop’s quest for the 00000 rocket, where his schizophrenia also began to worse (Part 1: Beyond the Zero, Episode 10). From then on, Slothrop’s countless hallucination may connect to the storylines and aid him on his quest, but some are also unrelated to the whole story. His hallucinations have also affected his personality, specifically to the way he always questions his own authority and the unknown conspiracy he mentions throughout his quest. This would change the “moderately expressed thinking personality” into a rather faintly expressed thinking. Although Slothrop is an introverted type of person, it is amusing to say that he had more than ten sexual contacts throughout the story which were then revealed by the people behind his shadow to be the V-2 Rockets attack sites. His distinctively expressed intuitive mind is the reason why he had earned his lieutenant occupation in the US ARMY, and the reason why he attended Harvard University (even though his dad gave little Tyrone to the ARMY for conditioning experiments) (Part 1, Episode 15). What I like about Slothrop’s intuitive mind is that he is able to switch on different plans and make fast decisions as events in his life unravel. As seen in Part 1’s ending of the novel, Slothrop is suddenly sent to a newly recovered rummage site left by the German forces, and was able to quickly adapt to his surrounding and carry on his mission. What turned against Slothrop himself in the end is his own “mastermind” which turned him into “mind mastered”. His situation of not being able to express his disorder to anyone have also build upon him and turned him into a person hypnotized by their own mind as can be seen sixty-pages prior to the ending of the novel. The last thing about Slothrop is his thoughts about racism and judgments. Although his own ethnicity is unrevealed, many dictions pertaining to Africans, niggers, and black appeared throughout his thoughts which would make Pynchon’s reader imply that Tyrone Slothrop is of a black ethnic background. No significant bias thoughts appeared within Slothrop’s mind, only the distinction that he is able to make relation to the racial issues still occurring “back home [US]”, different from the way black ethnicities live in Europe.
INTJ
Introverted: 22%
Intuitive: 62%
Thinking: 25%
Judging: 1%
Slightly expressed introvert
Distinctively expressed intuitive personality
Moderately expressed judging personality
Slightly expressed thinking personality
Description
All Rationals are good at planning operations, but Masterminds are head and shoulders above all the rest in contingency planning. Complex operations involve many steps or stages, one following another in a necessary progression, and Masterminds are naturally able to grasp how each one leads to the next, and to prepare alternatives for difficulties that are likely to arise any step of the way. Trying to anticipate every contingency, Masterminds never set off on their current project without a Plan A firmly in mind, but they are always prepared to switch to Plan B or C or D if need be.
Masterminds are rare, comprising no more than one to two percent of the population, and they are rarely encountered outside their office, factory, school, or laboratory. Although they are highly capable leaders, Masterminds are not at all eager to take command, preferring to stay in the background until others demonstrate their inability to lead. Once they take charge, however, they are thoroughgoing pragmatists. Masterminds are certain that efficiency is indispensable in a well-run organization, and if they encounter inefficiency -- any waste of human and material resources -- they are quick to realign operations and reassign personnel. Masterminds do not feel bound by established rules and procedures, and traditional authority does not impress them, nor do slogans or catchwords. Only ideas that make sense to them are adopted; those that don't, aren't, no matter who thought of them. Remember, their aim is always maximum efficiency.
In their careers, Masterminds usually rise to positions of responsibility, for they work long and hard and are dedicated in their pursuit of goals, sparing neither their own time and effort nor that of their colleagues and employees. Problem-solving is highly stimulating to Masterminds, who love responding to tangled systems that require careful sorting out. Ordinarily, they verbalize the positive and avoid comments of a negative nature; they are more interested in moving an organization forward than dwelling on mistakes of the past.
Masterminds tend to be much more definite and self-confident than other Rationals, having usually developed a very strong will. Decisions come easily to them; in fact, they can hardly rest until they have things settled and decided. But before they decide anything, they must do the research. Masterminds are highly theoretical, but they insist on looking at all available data before they embrace an idea, and they are suspicious of any statement that is based on shoddy research, or that is not checked against reality.
Criticism
No matter how much Slothrop narrates to the story for the readers, he still remains mysterious by the end of the book. Even Slothrop’s last words are perplexing and would raise many questions such as, “What the heck happened to him?” “Did he die?” “Did his mind somewhat malfunctioned and he became disabled?” The third one is close to what actually happened to Slothrop by the end of the novel. The personality test did not actually hit Slothrop’s character just right. Although he is thinking perceptively and keen during his quest, most of the time he would be in his own world “thinking mode”. The percentage of this test is precise, however, Slothrop is distinctively introvert which should have been around 15% expressed introvert for the test percentage. This is proven from the start of Slothrop’s quest for the 00000 rocket, where his schizophrenia also began to worse (Part 1: Beyond the Zero, Episode 10). From then on, Slothrop’s countless hallucination may connect to the storylines and aid him on his quest, but some are also unrelated to the whole story. His hallucinations have also affected his personality, specifically to the way he always questions his own authority and the unknown conspiracy he mentions throughout his quest. This would change the “moderately expressed thinking personality” into a rather faintly expressed thinking. Although Slothrop is an introverted type of person, it is amusing to say that he had more than ten sexual contacts throughout the story which were then revealed by the people behind his shadow to be the V-2 Rockets attack sites. His distinctively expressed intuitive mind is the reason why he had earned his lieutenant occupation in the US ARMY, and the reason why he attended Harvard University (even though his dad gave little Tyrone to the ARMY for conditioning experiments) (Part 1, Episode 15). What I like about Slothrop’s intuitive mind is that he is able to switch on different plans and make fast decisions as events in his life unravel. As seen in Part 1’s ending of the novel, Slothrop is suddenly sent to a newly recovered rummage site left by the German forces, and was able to quickly adapt to his surrounding and carry on his mission. What turned against Slothrop himself in the end is his own “mastermind” which turned him into “mind mastered”. His situation of not being able to express his disorder to anyone have also build upon him and turned him into a person hypnotized by their own mind as can be seen sixty-pages prior to the ending of the novel. The last thing about Slothrop is his thoughts about racism and judgments. Although his own ethnicity is unrevealed, many dictions pertaining to Africans, niggers, and black appeared throughout his thoughts which would make Pynchon’s reader imply that Tyrone Slothrop is of a black ethnic background. No significant bias thoughts appeared within Slothrop’s mind, only the distinction that he is able to make relation to the racial issues still occurring “back home [US]”, different from the way black ethnicities live in Europe.