What is the personality type of Norman "Machine" Ellison? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Norman "Machine" Ellison from Fury 2014 and what is the personality traits.
Norman "Machine" Ellison personality type is INFP, which is the rarest personality type of all 16 Myers-Briggs types. (The rarest is Se and Si, and very few people are both Se and Si.) A rare personality type like INFP is more like a genetic mutation or disease than a personality type choice. You either have it or you don't. If you have one, it's an automatic disadvantage to be an Ellison.
Norman "Machine" Ellison has many of the characteristics of an INFP, but he also has many characteristics of an INTP, so maybe that explains his talent at making money with his talent for algorithms.
His obsession with making people rich is actually an inferiority complex which he has projected onto machines.
He's not just obsessed with making money, he's obsessed with making himself rich, which is a characteristic of the INTP. He thinks that money is the ultimate currency, but his motivation is really to make himself rich, not to make other people rich. Some INTPs are obsessed with making other people rich, but most are not.