Tag: not a typing post

“I guess mostly I’m curious as to why you’d find it surprising?” Mostly interesting. You yourself said you notice a trend in musicians being SP’s. It’s even more interesting to me when a type chooses a career in contrast to what they would seem to like, for example an ISFP who becomes famous for doing standup. Or an INFJ actor. But then I thought why are certain types attracted to specific professions in the first place? What makes that perception? I find it interesting but you don’t have to.

(Ok, to clarify re: SP musicians, I don’t remember saying anything about a trend (could have, though) although there are plenty.  Music is one of those things that draws people in irregardless of type, and there are plenty of musicians of all types who achieve a professional standard.)

Re: the rest of your comment, I guess I do find people being innately good at things less interesting, at least from a typing perspective?  I mean, I can easily find you a couple hundred ES actors or athletes, but it’s hard to pin down exactly what draws them in, and it would get a little boring watching and posting the same types doing the same things (Variety!  Spice of life!).  I would say generally, some combo of initial ease, having encouragement and resources, and having the mental strength (or desperation!) to prevail through the hard parts. 

Also, if you wanted to conclusively know what specific physical/brain things are making a type good at a specific task or activity, you’d probably want to have some scanning equipment.  I’m assuming that an activity that draws a lot of the same type also caters physiologically to the way that type’s brain/body works.  I can only really speculate about environmental factors (culture, upbringing, etc), which tend to be a little different for each person.

Likewise, it is more interesting for me to type the people in unexpected places, because if they’re the only one of their type in a field, you can pretty much pin their reasons for being where they are on environment.  The ones in similarly unusual occupations have often been influenced, encouraged and promoted by the the same types of people.

Why are there so many ENTx comedians? Now I know there’s ENTx’s who aren’t and there are a lot of ESTP, ESTJ and ESFJ who are also comedians. But there sure are a lot of ENTP and ENTJ ones also.

I would imagine it’s because people find them funny!   But also, a captive audience? 
Crowd validation?   Performance related adrenaline rush? 
Getting to sharpen your wit on hecklers?  Having an outlet to deal with whatever ridiculous nonsense is happening around you? 

I don’t know!  I don’t know their life choices!

… I guess mostly I’m curious as to why you’d find it surprising?