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Almost all presentation bloggers are introverts

January 1, 2009 · by Jan Schultink
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A little fun on January 1. I ran the typealyzer test on a number of presentation, speaking and communication blogs tonight.

In case you are unfamiliar with Myers Brigs personality types, you can catch up here, and do a test here.

ISTP - “Mechanics”

Me (!!!) [a bit different from my test results]

Slide:ology

Speaking about presenting

Breaking Murphy’s Law

Speak Schmeak

ISTJ - “Duty fullfillers”

David Padani

Xplane

INTP - “Thinkers”

Presentation Zen

Bert Decker

Guy Kawasaki

Mike Pulsifer

INTJ - “Scientists”

Seth Godin

PowerPoint Ninja

All of these great communicators are introverts? And now for the only extrovert in the pack:

ENTP - “Visionaires”

Empoweryourpoint

It is great to have so many excellent presentation blogs around. I am looking forward to exchanging ideas with you in the new year.

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5 comments

Personality Types2010-10-31 04:40:14
INTJ and very into personality types, including having a Personality Types page I put up years ago. I found it pretty funny that when I tried my INTJ page on Typealyzer, it didn't give INTJ haha.
Jan Schultink2009-01-06 09:11:00
I think the "T" comes in because:
1) The tool does not capture images
2) Lots of attention is given to the presentation "periphery": projectors, setup, meetings and how to set up/structure a presentation. All not very "F"
Christophe Harrer2009-01-06 21:35:00
Thank you Jan for including EYP in this test! I have never been actually tested, but I think it is working quite well : with EYP I try to show that presentations are more & more important, and that there are a lot of innovations in this field; so I might be a little bit visionnaire.

Happy new year 2009!
Christophe
Rowan Manahan2009-01-29 08:57:00
Hmmmmm,

I've consistently found introverts to be more effective presenters, they tend to be more interested in their audience, their feelings and their reactions than full-on extroverts.

Rowan (INTJ)
Louise2009-01-02 10:07:00
I wonder why they're all T's, and what that means...

(Unfortunately, the typealizer doesn't work for Dutch yet)

Louise (INFJ -