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Of the four temperaments, the iNtuitive Thinker is the most independent, or at least demands it. His intuitive personality, with its fixation on the possible, combined with the logically demanding thinking personality, go to form the most ponderous of the temperaments. His deepest and most stressed value is that of knowledge and understanding, not to mention competency as a result of that. He can be viewed as highly arrogant because of this. As a child he plagues his parents with 'why' questions, and is easily entertained by activities that allow him to probe intellectually into the mechanics of it. He loves words, and will develop a large vocabulary, but it will be highly personalized and individualized to his understanding of the world. Because of this, unless he developes his Sensing personality, he will be very challenged when it comes to conveying his deeply-thought inspirations. As a child, the NT can feel very alone, as his strong need for individuality can get in the way of conforming social rituals, especially in the latter adolescent years. His long-range thinking can set him up for always percieving how to improve things, and in the capacity that he is an engineer or a profession that deals with improving, he is well suited; but, in his personal life, he can be highly critical of himself, and drown in worries of how he could have or still can 'do things better.' The NT approaches life in a highly analytic fashion, but this isn't in the cold and dispassionate scientific sense; he has a way of understanding things, and it fits into a system, which may or may-not conform to the accepted form of analysis. Since he is an iNtuitive, and thus much more 'inside himself', these systems can get very tangential and highly personalized, to the point that they are incommunicable to others, at least not without compensating the original idea of the NT. It is with this highly tangential way of thinking that he can come up with the most profound thoughts and catch on to obscure ideas and concepts extremely quick. The over all strengths of the NT are his ability to take a situation and treat it in an objective manner, make the most practical application of his highly iNtuitive speculations, his sense of wonder pushes him to know and understand, and his individuality gives a flavor to society that can be lost in in the 'go with the flow' attitude. His pitfalls are that his individuality can offend people, for he refuses to sell himself out for someone elses principles. His detached nature can also offend people, as he comes across as being unemotional, which is hardly the case, he just is embaressed to express those emotions. His fear of stating the obvious can make him not say what needs to be said, and his over-bearing intellectual perspective can come across as wholly condescending. On the whole, the NT desires to understand his universe and guide others to feel the joy he gets from that understanding. His fierce individuality is not a sign of stubborn arrogance, but of his long and deeply considered convictions. In actuallity, because of his desire to improve, he is probably more open to constructive criticism than any of the other temperaments.
